Gem (XC3)

Gems are items in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 that can be equipped to characters to provide certain advantages in battle, such as raising the user's stats.

Gems come in four different categories, Defender, Attacker, Healer, and Specialty. Each gem comes in ten different ranks.

Crafting
Gems are craftable at Rest Spots. Unlike Xenoblade Chronicles, this is an automatic process.

In addition to various other material requirements, each gem requires a gemstone to act as its base, and all levels above I require s as well.

If the player lacks the required objects, they can exchanging gold s to purchase the gem instead of crafting it. The resulting gem is the same.

Usage
Gems can be equipped to characters via the Characters menu. At first, characters can only equip one gem, but extra slots are unlocked as they level up - the second slot unlocks at level 20, while the third unlocks at level 40.

Unlike in Xenoblade Chronicles, gems are not limited, and you cannot craft multiple of the same type. Instead, crafting a gem unlocks it for all characters, and all party members can equip the same gem at once. The same gem cannot be equipped multiple times on the same character.

Heroes are automatically equipped with gems that cannot be switched out by the player.