Prismatic Gem

Prismatic Gems change the color of Unusual particle effects on custom couriers socketed with Ethereal Gems, as well as the effects on Terrorblade's Fractal Horns of Inner Abysm and Techies' Swine of the Sunken Galley.

Socketing
Prismatic Gems can only be extracted with a Master Artificer's Hammer. Doing so will destroy the base item, and all other gems socketed within. To socket a Prismatic Gem into an item, the new gem is placed "on top of" the old prismatic gem. This results in the old gem being destroyed.

List
Asterisks (*) indicate an unreleased gem.

** Only available on Perfect World servers (China).

Legacy Gems
Legacy color gems are displayed as Prismatic: Legacy (#,#,#) where # is the RGB value of the color.

These colors originated during a time when newly unboxed couriers were assigned a random effect color on the RGB spectrum, thus making their color nearly unique. This feature was removed after concerns that randomly chosen colors were sometimes visually unappealing. Couriers with legacy colors effects were given a legacy color gem after the November 14, 2013 Patch.


 * Legacy gems are extremely rare.
 * Legacy gems can come in any color.
 * Legacy gems can be very valuable.
 * Light Blue (50, 166, 207), Magenta (196,57,198) , and Persian (41,36,203) were originally standard colors, but were later removed. Gems with these colors are nearly as rare as Legacy color gems.

History
Colors were previously changeable using Unusual Paint, a limited item. This was changed with the November 14, 2013 Patch.
 * All Unusual Paints were converted into Gem Packs.
 * Gem Packs contain a corresponding color gem and an Artificer's Chisel for creating a socket.