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Plenty of people will tell you that enchantments boil down to personal preference and playstyle.  Well they are only half right.  Enchantments can boost your stats in unimaginable ways.  There are 3 main types of gem slot and thus gems are broken down into 3 main catagories.  Offensive, Defensive, and Utility.  In addition to that, there are armor enchantments and weapon enchantments.

 

In our DPS build for offensive you want Brutal Enchantments

 

At rank 12 they add 420 crit and power.  Now normally you have 7-9 offensive slots which means that if you have all rank 12s you can add between 2940 (7 slots) to 3780 (9 slots) crit and power.

 

A cheaper option is to run Azure or Radiant enchantments, but in general you will get less out of these and the buff increase is only to one stat.

 

For defensive I always use Dark because it adds lifesteal and when you are doing tons of DPS some of that DPS will be stolen from your target and added to your own life.  No disadvantages there.  

 

For utility I always use Dragon Hoard Enchantments that way you can find tons of refining stones and upgrade your artifact equipment.   

 

It should go without saying but, obviously you want the highest level gems you can get.  Currently I have all rank 11s but if you can get rank 12s obviously thats what you want to shoot for.

 

In your armor enchantment slot there's really only one option; Lesser Soulforged Enchantment 

 

The Soulforged Enchantment will get you back up should you fall in battle.  

 

For weapon enchantment again there are really only three options Lesser Vorpal or Lesser Terror or lesser feytouched.  My personal choice here is the vorpal because it allows you to attack with an additional amount of critical severity which determines how hard your crit strikes hit.  But the vorpal is only good if you have a full 53% crit.  If you have less than that you will want to go with the feytouched, because it adds dps to your output while allowing you to take less damage.  The terror is also a great choice because you deal more DPS as necrotic damage. 

 

Again, this should go without saying but I will say it anyway.  You want the highest level enchants you can get or craft.  Lesser is the first rank, but you want to shoot for transcendent or pure or perfect. 

 

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