To begin, we'll take a in depth look at Gems and what they can do for you.

Normal Gems provide stat increases as well as substance to your Power Level. Empowered gems also contain stats but they also come with eight powerful abilities.

The First Normal Water Gem slot is unlocked at level 10.

The Second Normal Water Gem slot is unlocked at level 27.

The First Normal Air Gem slot is unlocked at level 13.

The Second Normal Air Gem slot is unlocked at level 29.

The First Normal Fire Gem slot is unlocked at level 17.

The Second Normal Fire Gem slot is unlocked at level 30.

The Empowered Water Gem slot is unlocked at level 21.

The Empowered Air Gem slot is unlocked at level 23.

The Empowered Fire Gem slot is unlocked at level 25.

Gem upgrades require Gem Dust, obtained from Gem Booster Boxes, deconstructing Gems, or bonus Shop Dust Boxes. Normal and Empowered Gems can achieve the new Stellar Tier.

 Empowered Gems can be won in Leaderboard Contests or crafted for 1 Lunar Soul.

Empowered gems will have one of eight abilities :

Explosive Epilouge - Killing enemies causes them to explode.

Volatile Velocity - Increases the shot speed of any projectile.

Cubic Curtain -  Avoiding damage grants a protective shield, absorbing the next attack and stunning the attacker.

 Mired Mojo - Taking damage has a chance to spawn a ring of snaring projectiles, reducing enemy Movement Speed.

Pyrodisc - Killing an enemy has a chance to generate a flaming disk that damages nearby enemies.

Sunburst - Taking damage has a chance to spawn a ring of stunning projectiles, briefly disabling affected enemies.

 Spirit Surge - Taking damage has a chance to spawn a ring of projectiles, applying damage-over-time to enemies based on your max health.

Stinging Curse - Dealing damage applies damage-over-time effects to enemies.

Gem Optimizations

If the gem has * behind it, replace it with a Class Gem when you have the chance.

 Melee Classes Optimization (By Importance)

Magic Classes Optimization (By Importance)

Now, we'll take a look at the new tier of Trove, Stellar!

Stellar upgrades will require a fully upgraded Radiant piece of equipment, and the following:

2 Radiant Souls (Obtained from deconstructing Radiant Equipment)

10 Shaper's Stars (Obtained from Everdark Colosseums)

Each upgrade after this will be:

300 Eyes of Q'bthulhu

9999 Flux

You obtain Sharper's Stars by opening Colosseum Chests with Shaper's Keys.

Sharper's Keys can be obtained in Shadow Towers for 5 Titan Souls.

If you open Colosseum Chests in u8, you'll recieve two Shaper's Stars. In u9, you'll recieve 3. This means:

You'll need 65 Titan Souls to upgrade a item to Stellar in u8.

You'll need 45 Titan Souls to upgrade a item to Stellar in u9.

For a full maxed set of Stellar Gear, you'll need 190 Titan Souls for u8 and 135 Titan Souls for u9. You will also need:

6 Radiant Souls

4500 Eyes of Q'bthulhu

150,000 Flux

Utilizing Ultra Shadow Towers, you are able to get a maximum of 30 Titan Souls weekly.

Some classes in Trove can be broken and abused to create deadly monsters of nature. Here are a few of them!

Shadow Hunter - DPS

Bow

Physical Damage / Critical Chance / Critical Damage / Energy Regeneration

Mask / Hat

Maximum Health / Phyiscal Damage / Critical Damage/Energy Regeneration

Gems

Physical Damage / Energy Regeneration / Critical Chance / Critical Damage

More coming soon!