Rubies are additional skill points that can be used to unlock new spells and talents, or to improve old ones.
The first ruby can be bought at character Level 10 from your class trainer. You can buy one ruby for every character level after that.
You will receive up to six rubies from completing certain World Mysteries quests, one for achieving the highest possible amount of Combat Glory, and one for completing a level 40 quest that involves gathering Astral Gemstones. You can also get five rubies for completing the Great Mage's Diary quest line, one ruby for each page (though achieving this is nearly impossible).
You can acquire a total of 46 rubies by level 42 (though closer to 37 is a more realistic goal).
A Mage's Talent Grid
Talent Grids[]
Rubies can be spent in the Talent Grids tabs of the Talent panel. To unlock a talent, you need to connect it with the middle square of the grid. You can only connect them by selecting squares horizontally or vertically, spending 1 ruby at each square, which means that you might have to waste some rubies to get certain talents. Each talent square can be chosen once, but there are duplicate squares that can be stacked with each other.
You can see an example of a Talent Grid on the right. To get the highlighted talent, a mage will have to spend 3 Rubies to connect it to the middle square, and one Ruby to unlock the talent.
Cost per level[]
At every character level above 10 you can buy an additional ruby, each more expensive than the previous one. Each ruby costs a specific amount of gold, whether you buy it immediately or decide to get it at a higher level.
