Support Characters often don't need to augment their gear as they are tanky enough to survive on their own and don't deal any damage.
Intelligence for Necromancers, Witch Doctors and Wizards.
Q: How do I know which stat to augment on my character?Ī: If you're a DPS, you augment with whatever your main stat is. This gives you more XP per hour, more Blood Shards, more Legendaries, and of course. Q: Which Character should I augment first?Ī: Augment whichever Character you're going to use to speed farm Greater Rifts. Bummer! Keep in mind that jewelry can often be shared amongst multiple classes, so they are a great candidate to augment early on! If we look at it from the opposite side, if you augment your WORST ancient first, the very next ancient version you find will likely be better and you'll have to re-augment it. The reasoning is these pieces are the hardest to replace, making it more likely your augment retains its value. These are the items that have the best affixes & Legendary Power rolls that you're looking for. Q: How do I decide which piece to augment first?Ī: Always augment your best Ancients first. Do not waste the materials augmenting below level 80. We recommend getting them to around 100 for your first set of augments, but if that's too high than you can start as low as 80. Q: What level should I get my main and augment gems to?Ī: You should get them as high as you "comfortably" can, meaning to whatever Greater Rift Tier you can clear in under 5 minutes. From here many Frequently Asked Questions arise on many different augmenting topics. Once you've done that, its time to start blasting up gems for augments. In addition you can quickly level up gems like Boon of the Hoarder and Wreath of Lightning for T16 farming. The first thing to do is level up your Main Gems (aka the gems your character uses for Greater Rifts).
We need to gather as many Regular Gems as possible.
We need to level up many Legendary Gems.
We need Ancient items, or we cannot apply augments to our gear.
This means that every augment level you gain on your items is equivalent to gaining a Paragon level beyond 800, as they also award +5 main stat.Įxample: If you throw an Ancient Bracer into the cube with a level 110 Legendary Gem and 3 Flawless Royal Emerald s, the bracers will gain 110 * 5 = 550 Dexterity permanently (and the Legendary Gem and Flawless Royal Emerald s will be lost).īy reading the recipe we understand 3 critical things to focus on while building our characters:
Flawless Royal Diamond s cannot be augmentedĪfter throwing all of this in the cube, the Legendary Gem is destroyed and it adds it's level * 5 worth of main stat permanently to your item.
Flawless Royal Topaz es augment Intelligence.
Flawless Royal Emerald s augment Dexterity.
Flawless Royal Amethyst s augment Vitality.
3x of whichever gem you'd like to augment.
A leveled up Legendary Gem (more on this under FAQ).
An Ancient (or Primal) version of the item you want to augment.
In Kanai's Cube, the final recipe is called Caldesann's Despair which applies an augment to an item.