Gem-Forged Jewelry

Each shard type produces a different passive identity:

• Echo jewelry — permanent experience gain bonus (skiller leveling).
• Gilt jewelry — permanent scrap drop bonus (raw income).
• Vein jewelry — permanent crafting material drop bonus (resource grinding).
• Signal jewelry — permanent equipment drop bonus (gear hunting).
• Hunter jewelry — permanent elite spawn bonus (boss and elite farming).

Jewelry inherits its tier from both the bar and the shard. A Steel Echo Ring uses a Steel bar and a Refined Echo shard. Higher tiers cost rarer materials and demand higher Crystallography levels, but reward you with stronger combat stats AND a stronger passive bonus.

You have three jewelry slots: two ring slots and one neck slot. Bonuses from all three stack additively. A focused build can stack three Hunter pieces for elite-rich farming, or mix types — Echo + Gilt + Vein covers all the gathering bases.

Forging a shard into jewelry burns it permanently. Save Apex and Transcendent shards for jewelry only when you have a steady supply, because the same shard could give a much bigger temporary buff if consumed in combat. A typical pattern: forge low-tier shards for early jewelry, hoard the high tiers as boss-fight insurance, then forge them once you can outproduce demand.