Quick Guide to Timeless Jewels
What Is a Timeless Jewel?
Timeless Jewels are special unique jewels that drop from Legion content. There are 5 different jewels, matching the 5 Legion factions:
- Lethal Pride – Karui
- Elegant Hubris – Eternal Empire
- Glorious Vanity – Vaal
- Militant Faith – Templar
- Brutal Restraint – Maraketh
What Does It Do?
Every Timeless Jewel socketed in your passive tree has a Radius:
Within this radius, it does 2 things:
- It changes all Keystones in the radius to one keystone unique to the Timeless Jewel.
- It has some sort of effect on all other passives in the radius. This can mean adding some stats, or completely transforming the passive.
These changes are indicated by the 2 variable stats on each Timeless Jewel:
- The Name: Represents the Keystone you get. Same name = same keystone.
- The Number: Represents the changes to other passives. This is not very intuitive. The number is a random seed, if you are familiar with that. This means it is irrelevant if the number is bigger or smaller, a different number, even just off by 1, will result in completely different effects on the other passives. Same number = same changes to other passives.
Lethal Pride
Keystones:
- Akoya – Chainbreaker
- Kaom – Strength of Blood
- Rakiata – Tempered by War
Effect on other passives:
- Small attribute passives: +2 str
- Other small passives: +4 str
- Notables: an additional mod from a list of available mods.
Lethal Pride does not change other passives, it just adds stats to all of them. It is often used to get a lot of strength and many other useful effects, including double damage, intimidate, or physical damage taken as fire.
The keystones are very rarely used.
Brutal Restraint
Keystones:
- Asenath – Dance with Death
- Balbala – The Traitor
- Nasima – Second Sight
Effect on other passives:
- Small attribute passives: +2 dex
- Other small passives: +4 dex
- Notables: an additional mod from a list of available mods.
Brutal Restraint is another jewel that just adds additional modifiers to the nodes. It is used to get a lot of dexterity, as well as mods like aura effect, flask effect, projectile damage.
The Traitor keystone is notably useful to allow reliable flask uptime on key flasks. Used with Coruscating Elixir builds, as well as for perfect Quicksilver uptime when leveling a 2nd character.
Glorious Vanity
Keystones:
- Ahuana – Immortal Ambition
- Doryani – Corrupted Soul
- Xibaqua – Divine Flesh
Effect on other passives:
- All small passives: completely replaced at random
- Notables: completely replaced at random
Glorious Vanity is a wildcard. All passives are replaced with alternative passives from 2 huge lists of available small passives and notables. These tend to be stronger than regular passives, but the random nature makes it hard to find good combinations.
Typically, Glorious Vanity is used only for the keystones. Divine Flesh and Corrupted Soul both are very powerful nodes for some builds. You would typically use Glorious Vanity at the far edge of your skill tree to change as few passives as possible while getting the keystone.
Elegant Hubris
Keystones:
- Cadiro – Supreme Decadence
- Caspiro – Supreme Ostentation
- Victario – Supreme Grandstanding
Effect on other passives:
- All small passives: do nothing, their effect is completely removed
- Notables: completely replaced at random with very powerful notables.
Elegant Hubris is often used for the Supreme Ostentation keystone to ignore all attribute requirements on builds that don’t get many attributes, like Magic Find builds.
Other builds use it for the extremely powerful notables, Minion builds commonly make use of this. Having small passives that do absolutely nothing is a big drawback, but sometimes you can use mechanics to allocate passives that are not connected to your tree to save a lot of points. Thread of Hope and Impossible Escape are examples.
Militant Faith
Keystones:
- Avarius – Power of Purpose
- Dominus – Inner Conviction
- Maxarius – Transcendence
Effect on other passives:
- All small attribute passives: replaced by passives that give Devotion
- All small passives: add Devotion
Notables: One of 2 effects at random:
- Add Devotion
- Completely replaced at random with notables that require Devotion
Additionally, Militant Faith has 2 random modifiers on the jewel, that get bonuses from all Devotion in the radius.
Militant Faith is commonly used for the keystones, Inner Conviction is very powerful on power charge stacking builds, the drawback can be circumvented by wearing the Ralakesh’s Impatience boots. Transcendence is another popular option on armor stackers, its drawbacks can also be migitated by wearing Loreweave.
Additionally, the 2 random modifiers can add some significant buffs, depending on how much devotion you get in the radius.
Usually, you do not want your important notables in the radius to be replaced. Check the “how to buy” section for how to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Why Does My Build Use It?
If your build uses any Timeless Jewel, and you are not sure, why it is used, make sure to read the section about the specific Jewel your build uses. There is a short explanation for the common uses of each jewel.
Besides that, check the location on the tree, and what passives are affected by the radius:
- Is any keystone in radius and allocated?
- Your build obviously wants the keystone.
- Are many passives in radius?
- Your build wants as many additional effects on the passives as possible (Lethal Pride/Brutal Restraint).
- Are very few passives in radius and a keystone?
- Your build only wants the keystone and minimize other changes (Glorious Vanity).
If you do not know the location for the Timeless Jewel on the tree (if you grabbed a build from poe.ninja for example), check for suspiciously placed jewel sockets, or allocated Keystones that make no sense for the build. The Agnostic allocated on an energy shield build? It’s probably being changed to a different keystone by a Timeless Jewel.
What Name / Number Do I Need?
Since the changes for small passives and notables are random, but dependant on the number displayed on the jewel, it can be tricky to find the exact jewel you want. Luckily there are tools available, that can show you the effects for each number on the passive tree, and even allow you to search the best possible combinations for your build.
There are 2 tools available, that are very similar in terms of functionality:
- The Timeless Jewel Calculator website
- The Path of Building Timeless Jewel Finder
Both have their pros and cons. The Calculator is browser-based, so you don’t need an external software. It also has a more polished UI and tends to be easier to understand for newer players.
I personally prefer the PoB Jewel Finder, it has some features specifically tailored to your own build. Path of Building is pretty much mandatory for any PoE player anyway, so this is the tool we will be using here.
I sincerely hope this was helpful. Good luck to you!
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