Sage-Tips

What are gems good for in Skyrim?

Gems are raw materials for crafting jewelry and can be sold for a considerable amount of gold. Gems can’t be created but may be found by mining ores. They are mainly lootable (Chests, urns, strongboxes, corpses & sometimes on surfaces like tables, dressers.

What are garnets used for Skyrim?

A Flawless Garnet is a precious gem that can be found in various containers throughout Skyrim. They are typically used in making jewelry, though they can also be sold.

Are gems worth anything Skyrim?

4 Answers. Gems are useful for smithing, as they increase the skill by quite a bit. They can be smithed into jewelry which can then be enchanted with properties that buff certain attributes (fortify light armor, extra sneaking or lockpicking percentage, etc). Also, some gems are used during quests.

Where can you get the most money for gems in Skyrim?

Merchants

• Fralia Gray-Mane – Whiterun.
• Madesi – Riften.
• Niranye – Windhelm.
• Kerah – Markarth.
• Sorine Jurard – Fort Dawnguard DG
• Khajiit Caravans traders usually have several precious gems to sell.

How do you get a flawless diamond in Skyrim?

Locations

1. An Abandoned Rowboat, unmarked location – one is found in a wrecked boat in a river gorge just south of Kolskeggr Mine, in The Reach.
2. Kagrenzel.
3. Korvanjund Crypt.
4. Skuldafn Temple.
5. Forgotten Vale DG
6. Highpoint Tower DR
7. Kagrumez DR
8. Obtained after defeating and looted The Ebony Warrior DR.

How do I get void salts in Skyrim?

Void Salts can also be crafted at the Atronach Forge with the following items:

1. One Salt Pile.
2. One Amethyst.
3. One Soul Gem of any type (filled or empty)

What should I not sell in Skyrim?

Important items you shouldn’t sell.

• Those Dragonpriest Masks. Hold on to them. Do not sell. Ever.
• The Unusual gems in their small golden boxes.
• 5 Ice Wraith teeth.
• 2 Mammoth Tusks.
• 3 Flawless Amethysts.
• 20 Deathbell, Nirnroot and Nightshade.
• 1 Gold ore.
• 10 Bear pelts of any kind.

How do I get amethyst in Skyrim?

Locations

1. One can be found in the Tower Section of Blind Cliff Cave.
2. Dustman’s Cairn, just past where Farkas turns into a werewolf, on a small pedestal.
3. Two can be found in Korvanjund during the Civil War questline.
4. Temple of Dibella’s Inner Sanctum on a bookshelf.

What to do with flawless amethysts?

For example, there is an Argonian in Riften who will ask you to find three Flawless Amethysts so that he can make a wedding ring for his lover. As you mentioned, they can also be sold for a fair amount of gold. Keep in mind though that gemmed jewelry is more costly than just gems alone.

How do you make a silver amethyst ring?

One amethyst is one of two items needed at a forge to create a silver amethyst ring. An amethyst item (either an amethyst, a flawless amethyst, or a silver amethyst ring) is one of two items needed at the Atronach Forge to create a hostile storm atronach.

What do you need a sapphire for in Skyrim?

A sapphire item is also one of three items needed at the Atronach Forge to create a sample of frost salts. Two flawless sapphires are required to craft the Aetherial Crown DG. A flawless sapphire is needed to create the Shrine of Kynareth in the cellar of homesteads with the Hearthfire add-on.