Can You Use More Than One Timeless Jewel in Path of Exile?
The short and direct answer is: No, you cannot use more than one Timeless Jewel at a time in Path of Exile (PoE). Each character is limited to equipping only one unique Timeless Jewel. This limitation is a core design element of these powerful and game-changing items, preventing players from stacking their effects and creating overpowered builds. This rule is explicitly stated on each unique Timeless Jewel, bearing the tag “Limited to: 1 Historic”. Let’s delve deeper into the specifics of Timeless Jewels and explore the intricacies surrounding them.
Understanding Timeless Jewels
What are Timeless Jewels?
Timeless Jewels are a special class of unique jewels in Path of Exile that drastically alter the passive skill tree within a certain radius. They are not merely stat-boosting items; they actively modify existing passive nodes, often granting powerful and build-defining effects. There are five distinct types of Timeless Jewels, each associated with a different legion and offering a unique flavor:
- Brutal Restraint: Primarily focused on adding Dexterity and transforming notable passives.
- Lethal Pride: Similar to Brutal Restraint, but focused on adding Strength and modifying notable passives.
- Militant Faith: Revolves around Devotion and modifying effects based on this stat, altering skill costs.
- Glorious Vanity: The most unpredictable, randomly modifying minor and notable passive nodes in its radius.
- Elegant Hubris: Modifies passive nodes within its radius based on the seed number, with notable passives generally becoming very beneficial.
These jewels have a “Historic” tag, meaning you can only equip one at a time. They are designed to be foundational to builds, offering unique transformations and powerful effects, but are balanced through the restriction of only one being usable per character.
How Timeless Jewels Work
Timeless Jewels are placed into allocated Jewel Sockets on the passive skill tree. Once socketed, they affect all passive nodes within their radius, altering these nodes’ properties based on the specific jewel’s modifiers. These changes can include:
- Adding stats such as Strength, Dexterity, or Intelligence to minor nodes.
- Transforming notable passives into different, often more powerful, effects.
- Granting specific modifiers based on stats like Devotion, as seen with Militant Faith.
The radius of the jewel’s effect and the specific transformations it makes are determined by the unique attributes of each jewel. It’s important to carefully plan your passive tree and jewel placement to maximize the benefits of your chosen Timeless Jewel.
Farming Timeless Jewels
The primary method of acquiring Timeless Jewels is through the Domain of Timeless Conflict. This involves:
- Collecting Legion Splinters by completing Legion Encounters in maps.
- Combining 100 splinters of a single legion type to form a Legion Emblem.
- Placing the Legion Emblem (and at least one other emblem) into the Map Device.
- Defeating the encountered Legion enemies in the Domain of Timeless Conflict, with Timeless Jewels dropping from bosses or chests.
This makes acquiring these jewels a specific and targeted farming activity, further adding to their rarity and significance.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About Timeless Jewels
Here are 15 commonly asked questions about Timeless Jewels in Path of Exile to further enhance your understanding:
1. Can you equip multiple unique Timeless Jewels on different characters?
Yes, the limitation of one unique Timeless Jewel applies per character. You can equip a different Timeless Jewel on each of your characters, as long as they are not equipped on the same character.
2. Do Timeless Jewel effects stack if two different players in a party have them?
No, the effects of Timeless Jewels do not stack between players in a party. Each player only benefits from the effects of their own jewel.
3. Can you trade Timeless Jewels?
Yes, Timeless Jewels are tradeable like most items in Path of Exile. You can buy and sell them to other players.
4. How do you allocate a jewel socket on the skill tree?
You must use a skill point to allocate a passive node leading to a jewel socket, then spend another skill point to allocate the jewel socket itself. Once allocated, you can place any jewel there.
5. Do Timeless Jewels affect keystone passives?
Yes, a Timeless Jewel can affect keystone passives within its radius. However, due to the mechanic where each modified keystone can only affect the player once – identical keystones do not stack.
6. Can you use a Glorious Vanity Timeless Jewel to get a keystone twice?
No, the mechanic of each modified keystone only affecting the player once prevents this. Even if Glorious Vanity transforms two nodes into the same keystone, you will only receive its effect once.
7. How do you identify which Timeless Jewel is best for your build?
The ideal Timeless Jewel depends entirely on your build’s needs. You need to check which passive tree transformations are beneficial for your specific passive tree and then decide accordingly.
8. Can Timeless Jewel modifications be overridden by other effects?
No, the modifications from a Timeless Jewel are generally permanent and are not overridable by other effects.
9. Do Timeless Jewels interact with Cluster Jewels?
Yes, Timeless Jewels can affect nodes on Cluster Jewels if they fall within the radius of the Timeless Jewel.
10. Can the radius of a Timeless Jewel be increased?
No, the radius of a Timeless Jewel is fixed and cannot be altered by any means.
11. What is the significance of the seed number on Timeless Jewels?
The seed number affects how the modifications of some Timeless Jewels, like Glorious Vanity and Elegant Hubris, are randomized. This is especially pertinent for Elegant Hubris, where the seed number greatly influences its passive node changes.
12. Do Timeless Jewel modifications apply to minions?
This depends on the specific Timeless Jewel and the way it modifies passives. Some alterations may indirectly benefit minions, while others only affect the player.
13. Can Timeless Jewels be modified further with orbs?
No, Timeless Jewels, being unique items, cannot be further modified using currency orbs.
14. What does “Devotion” mean in relation to Militant Faith?
Devotion is an effect that grants increased maximum life and additional strength. It also grants increased effect magnitude for non-curse auras the character casts. It is an effect that is related to Militant Faith.
15. Can Timeless Jewels drop from sources outside the Domain of Timeless Conflict?
Extremely rarely, Militant Faith can drop from the mini-boss Cardinal Sanctus Vox, but generally, they are exclusive to the Legion Domain.
In conclusion, while you might be tempted to stack the powerful effects of multiple Timeless Jewels, the game’s design limits you to using only one at a time. This restriction ensures that each jewel remains a significant build-defining choice, contributing to Path of Exile’s deep and strategic gameplay.