{
"post": {
"title": "How Do I Obtain a Gem if It Isn't a Quest Reward/Purchasable Later for my Class?",
"selftext": "Looking at a Blade-Flurry focussed build for a melee-witch, but the PoE wiki says that Witch never receives this gem, nor is it later purchasable from a vendor.\n\nAre my options just to either trade for it, or level an alt until I get the gem and then transfer via stash?",
"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/9v7nzy/how_do_i_obtain_a_gem_if_it_isnt_a_quest/"
},
"comments": [
{
"body": "Siosa in the Act 3 Library and Lily Roth in the Act 6 town will both sell all available gems regardless of class restrictions. The former only sells gems up to a certain level, while the latter sells all purchasable gems. You'll have to complete a quest for both of them to buy gems - find some pages for Siosa, and clear a zone for Lily.\n\nAlternatively you can purchase the gem on a second character, or from another player.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Awh brilliant, my fears are abated - Cheers to you and /u/Lord_Earthfire, thanks guys!",
"replies": [
{
"body": "There are few skill gems that cant be bought from vendor tho! Added Chaos damage, Detonate Mines and Portal can only be obtained from drops.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Also Enlighten, Enhance and Empower are drop-only, with the exception of masters in your hideout who randomly and seldomly sell them for a Divine orb."
},
{
"body": "Welp, guess I'll be grinding for that added chaos damage drop - cheers for the extra info :v",
"replies": [
{
"body": "If you play a SSF league, then you just gotta grind it and try to roll the Gemcutter strongboxes for more gems. But if you play a \"trade league\", you can just buy one with a chaos orb from other players."
},
{
"body": "I have one you can have, probably won't be online for like another 10-ish hours, shoot me a pm"
},
{
"body": "Keep in mind you can always buy items from other players at poe.trade if you don't want to grind for them :)."
},
{
"body": "Catarina randomly sells Added Chaos Damage Support."
}
]
}
]
},
{
"body": "Also note: All gems pruchasable by your class level with your character, if you buy them from the gem-seller in acts 1-4. Siosa and Lilly only sell gems at lvl 1."
}
]
},
{
"body": "Worth noting, this wasn't always the case. Many of us remember the dark days of levelling a Scion, Duelist and Shadow/something to gain access to all gems.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Increased duration and Immortal Call use to be my go to for making alchs early on in leagues"
}
]
},
{
"body": "Lilly will also sell you gems from Oriath FYI. You don't have to do the Twilight Strand quest either. There's some quest in act 10 that counts as helping her, at which point she'll start selling gems to you. Can't remember the quest offhand though."
},
{
"body": "Does Lily happen to reappear later on? I performed her quest, turned it in, and moved on. When I went back later to check her stock she was gone and my heart was broken :(",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Once you complete her quest in Act 6 she moves from next to the boat to inside the town where Nessa was in Act 1.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Thank you so much!"
}
]
}
]
}
]
},
{
"body": "Note: Siosa is not a town vendor so you need to bring the currency with you in your inventory",
"replies": [
{
"body": "If Siosa were a cashier at my local Netto, I'd be never visiting the place again since I've humiliated myself shit ton already by not taking my wallet with me."
}
]
},
{
"body": "There are 2 vendors that are selling all gems aquireable by quests. Lilly roth in beginning of act 6 and Siosa in the library in Act 3\n\nBoth need to be unlocked with quests",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Lilly also sells in act10",
"replies": [
{
"body": "and epilogue"
}
]
},
{
"body": "Not *all* gems. Most. They don't sell Enhance, Empower, or Enlighten, nor do they sell Added Chaos Damage. ",
"replies": [
{
"body": "But these are also not obtainable by quests, either. Also worthnoty that Siosa only sells uo to a certain level."
},
{
"body": "They also don't sell the two white gems, detonate mines and Portal. ",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Good point, I forgot about those. "
},
{
"body": "Or vaal breach, if we're including all gems here",
"replies": [
{
"body": "That's just a corrupted portal though. I mean sure, you could count it as a separate gem, but I wouldn't. "
}
]
}
]
},
{
"body": "Always found it kinda strange that Added Chaos stayed drop only. I wonder why they did that.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Well, most builds still function without added chaos. Even if it's some sort of chaos build.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "My question was, why specifically that gem was excluded from the traders stock. ",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Yes Inquisitor, this post right here. "
},
{
"body": "Chaos is different from other damage types in a lot of ways. That's about all I got."
}
]
},
{
"body": "Poison builds pretty much always requires Added chaos tho."
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
]
},
{
"body": "The easiest answer to your question is Lily Roth after you finish her quest in act6. She has all the gems(sans drop only ones) at a lvl1. \n\nYou can trade for the gems you need (usually quality ones between 10-15% are 1c depending on how \"meta\" they are)\n\n"
}
]
}