1. Diablo 3 Flawless Star Recipe Drop
2. Diablo 3 Convert Gems

There isn't one special place to farm gems AFAIK. Your best bet is probably playing Nephalem Rifts in Adventure mode. You can potentially find goblin packs there and goblins tend to drop a lot of. Gem of Ease is a Legendary Gem in Diablo III.It can only be socketed into weapons and drops from Greater Rift Guardians.This gem was Season Two-exclusive, but once this season ended, it started to drop for normal characters as well. This gem increases experience gained through kills by fixed amount. Upgrading increases the experience bonus. At rank 25, it also reduces character level. This is a very efficient way of farming - you collect legendary items, Rift Keystones, Blood Shards and, what is more, you get a chance to obtain exclusive items that you want from Horadric Caches. Farming while completing tasks. You can also farm legendary items by joining, or creating a game in Adventure Mode. In Diablo III, there are five different types of gems: Amethyst (Life, Life per Hit or Vitality) Emerald (Gold Find, Critical Damage or Dexterity) Ruby (Experience Gain, Damage or Strength).

Experience Pools – The Basics

This is just a quick guide to get help you find experience pools in Diablo 3. Here are some quick facts about experience pools:

• Experience pools give you 25% experience for 10% of your current level
• They stack up to 10 times
• Pools are saved per character, not per account.
• If you die, the pools on that character are removed.
• Experience pools work with the Greater Rift completion hand-in
• Experience pools work inside Regular and Greater rifts while killing monsters
• Shrine Locations, Health Pools, and Experience Pools all spawn in the same set locations randomly.

At the very top end of the game, many groups who are trying to maximize efficiency will use multiple characters, stack 10 pools on each, and quickly rotate between them during a grind session.

With the addition of the armory this season, it makes it very easy to switch between pool-stacked characters, if you’re willing to risk losing all your items to armory bugs 😉

Finally, I would like to point out that while experience pools work in all situations of the game, they are typically only seen as an efficient use of your time somewhere above 800 paragon.

Pool Stacking Tips

If nobody in the group has pools, it’s best to split up and have everyone check locations, but otherwise, have your witch doctor look for pools during single target boss kills. (This is for speeds only, but make sure to save 1 gem up so Urshi doesn’t fly away from the witch doctor who is getting you bonus exp pools.)

Torment Rifts have a good amount of Experience Pools, and many players will try to stack pools while farming keys, making sure not to die on that character.

Alternatively, many groups will take 5-10 minutes before they greater rift to stack 10 pools using the Enchantress Quest “A Sister’s Voice” from Act V Campaign Mode.

After the 3rd quest in Act V this quest line will appear. You can do this yourself or by joining someone else’s game. Be sure to never activeate the sisters inside the rift, or it will be unrepeatable.

Inside the rift, there are 4-6 different shrine spawn locations which all have a chance to be experience pools.

Bovine Bardiche aka “Cow Sticks”

The last tip we’ll go over is Cow Sticks. The reason you hear about this so often in higher groups is because every Bovine Bardiche is a guaranteed 2 Experience Pools.

Simply take your Bovine Bardiche, stick it in Kanai’s Cube, and voila, you’ve opened a red portal (1 per game) to “Not the Cow Level”.

In this rift you will find one of every shrine, except fortune, and 2 experience pools. There is always 2 experience pools.

Finally, if you want to get super efficient with your mats, and share the burden of creating Cow Sticks, you can craft them on a level 1 Crusader, which has the lowest selection of Legendary Polearms, meaning you get a higher % chance to craft a Bovine Bardiche every time you upgrade a rare Polearm.

The Pool Locations

In the list below, I will mark the best locations with red, these are locations that should be checked in every single game, while locations with blue are still great, but not necessarily the most efficient.

Leoric’s Manor Courtyard – 2 Spawns in circle around waypoint, Head out to northern highlands, make a big circle where there are 4 more spawns up top
Cemetery of the Forsaken – 2 Spawns near waypoint, and 1 spawn near entrance of each crypt
Southern Highlands – 1 Spawn below waypoint, Head across bridge left until passed large rock, turn around go up right a bit for 3 spawns (Can also check Cave of Moon Clan for 1 more)
Drowned Temple – Head up left inside temple, a few spawns seen from middle platform
Festering Woods – Warriors rest (Up Left) 1 Spawn & Crypt of the Ancients (Down Right) 1 Spawn

Road to Alcarnus – Check left of wp for 2 spawns, go back inside, there are 2 spawns below, and 2 more up top inside Alcarnus
Howling Plateau – 1 Spawn on wp, head up to caravan, turn right follow path up and loop up into black canyon
Black Canyon – Make a huge circle there are spawns all over
Stinging Winds – Head down, follow right wall to see pools up top and below, go down into black canyon

Tower of the Damned Level 1 – Head up for 1 spawn, and down left for 1 spawn
Tower of the Cursed Level 1 – Head up for 1 spawn, and left for 1 spawn
The Battlefields – Head left from waypoint up both sets of stairscases for 2 spawns
The Bridge of Korsikk – 1 Spawn on the wp, 1 up left of wp, and 1 more down right of wp
Rakkis Crossing – 1 Spawn down left about 2 screens near the pillars
The Ruins of Sescheron – Head backwards to the right through the Eternal Woods portal, 1 Spawn should be near entrance

Hell Rift Level 1 – 1 Spawn on waypoint, very rare, my personal favorite location to trigger SD

Pandemonium Fortress Level 2 – Head up right, you’ll see spawns at junctions, should find 2-4 pretty fast
Ruins of Corvus – 1 Spawn on waypoint or in next room
Passage of Corvus – 1 Spawn on waypoint or in next room
Battlefields of Eternity – 1 Spawn on waypoint
Paths of the Drowned – 1 Spawn near waypoint, sometimes a little off screen
Greyhollow Island – 1 Spawn around waypoint in a circle

This wraps up the guide on how to farm experience pools, if you need more help on rifting in Diablo, make sure to check out our How to Rift Guide, and all the other guides available on Zhanji’s Youtube.

Jewelcrafting in Diablo 3 is all about gems, tons of gems. When you play Diablo 3 you will meet your very own Artisan Jeweler (named Covetous Shen) who you can work with and train to higher levels. Similar to your Blacksmith Artisan. You will level these two Artisans up as you progress through Diablo 3 and they will allow you to craft an expanding assortment of equipment and other bonus items.

Warning: It is currently not possible to make gold combining most gems. You will actually lose gold combining gems (except some high level rubies and other rare ones). If you have 3 Flawless Emeralds and want 1 Perfect Emerald just sell the 3 flawless on the auction house and then buy 1 emerald with the cash you get. You will get paid to do it this way. This is true for the first 8 tiers of gems right now. If you want to make gold, join the Diablo 3 Secrets community forum to find out how people are doing it right now.

The Purpose of Gems

In Diablo 3, just about everyone wants or needs gems to enhance the power of their gear. Gems are inserted into their gear just like in Diablo 2 and in World of Warcraft. Head, chest, wrists, waist, amulets, shields and weapons can be socketed with gems. You can place gems into sockets and even remove them. Removed gems can be traded and sold with other players or even combined with 2 other gems of the same color and quality to make the next tier of quality.

Throughout the game, you will only find up to tier 8 of gems while there are a total of 14 different tiers. This will make the upper tiers extremely rare early in Diablo 3. It is not necessary to level your own Jeweler since you can trade with others on the auction house and in trade chat with friends. There is no ‘bind on equip’ or ‘bind on pickup’ aspect to Diablo 3.

Leveling your Artisan Jeweler

Leveling your artisan Jeweler works differently than leveling your Blacksmith. Your Artisan Jeweler will begin as an Apprentice and work their way to the 10th level: Exalted. The process will require gold and 3 types of reagents: Pages of Jewelcrafting, Tomes of Jewelcrafting and Tomes of Secrets. pages of Jewelcrafting are found throughout Nightmare difficulty. Tomes of Jewelcrafting are found throughout Hell difficulty and Tomes of Secrets are found throughout Inferno difficulty. Tomes of Secrets are also shared with Blacksmiths and are, as you can see, needed in larger quantity than the lower level reagents. These reagents are also needed to combine gems.

Leveling an Apprentice Jeweler to Exalted will be expensive, here is what it will cost:

• 20 Pages of Jewelcrafting
• 20 Tomes of Jewelcrafting
• 40 Tomes of Secrets
• 140,000 gold

Here is what each level will cost you:

Apprentice -> Journeyman (5,000 gold)

Journeyman -> Adept (5,000 gold)

Adept -> Master (10,000 gold and 10 Pages of Jewelcrafting)

Master -> Grandmaster (10,000 gold and 10 Pages of Jewelcrafting)

Grandmaster -> Illustrious (10,000 gold and 10 Tomes of Jewelcrafting)

Illustrious -> Magnificent (10,000 gold and 10 Tomes of Jewelcrafting)

Magnificent -> Resplendent (20,000 gold and 10 Tomes of Secrets)

Resplendent -> Glorious (30,000 gold and 10 Tomes of Secrets)

Glorious -> Exalted (40,000 gold and 20 Tomes of Secrets)

Once you reach Exalted with your Jewel your will be able to combine every type of gem into its next tier. For example, you will be able to combine 3 L1 gems into 1 L2 gems and even 3 L13 gems into 1 L14 gem. More about types of gems types and qualities below.

Types of Gems

There are only 4 types of gems in Diablo 3: Topaz, Ruby, Emerald and Amesthyst. Each one comes in 14 different qualities from chipped to radiant star. Each tier of gems (tier 1 to 14) requires 3 of the previous tier to create. Three chipped amethysts can be turned into 1 flawed amethysts if you’re Jewel is high enough level.
Each gem offers an added attribute depending on whether its used in a helmet or another slot of gear. Here’s the breakdown of the 4 known gems:

Diablo 3 Flawless Star Recipe Drop

Gem Qualities

Each gem comes in 14 different qualities which can be improved by finding 3 of the lower-quality and combining them at your Jeweler top make a single next-quality gem. For instance, if you have 3 Chipped Emeralds they can be combined to 1 Flawed Emerald and 3 Flawed Emeralds can be turned into 1 Normal Emerald.

Diablo 3 Convert Gems

The progression of gem qualities works like this:

Chipped -> Flawed -> Normal -> Flawless -> Perfect -> Radiant -> Square -> Flawless Square -> Perfect Square -> Radiant Square -> Star ->Flawless Star -> Perfect Star -> Radiant Star

As you level your Jewel you will unlock the next gem quality except once you reach level 10 you will unlock Star, Flawless Star, Perfect Star and Radiant Star qualities.

Checkout my gem calculator to determine which gems you can make, how much they will cost to craft and what level you need to be in order to craft them.