Gems[]
Gems are one of the game's currency. You can use gems to awaken certain fruits and their moves. You can also use gems to reroll your race, buy certain accessories, and also buy certain weapons.
Gems can be obtained by killing enemies in the second sea or in first sea or by killing npc's on Enies lobby and Udon Prison, or by using the AFK grinding
(recommended).
Gems are required to awaken your devil fruit, which grants it more powerful abilities. An awakened fruit has new skills that are visually different from the usual fruit, and also have more damage.
Gems required to awaken moves scale on the level of the move.
At the moment, only these fruits can awaken with G$Gems at the gem merchant: ; Fire V2; String V2; Dark V2; Chop V2; Lightning V2; Sand V2; Ope V2(which need G$Gems+ True Kikoku Scroll); Rubber (G5)(which need G$Gems+Permission Scroll;) Mochi V2 and Magma V2.
The maximum amount of gems you can hold is 35k. Changed from 30k, 20k and 10k. Gem cap can be increased at New Alabastawith Poneglyph Merchant for one poneglyph. (1 poneglyph provides 1k gem cap increase.)
Tips[]
The best way to farm Gems is in Raids localized in the Teleport Island or V2, V3, and Toji raid.
Toji raid is the easiest available raid and gives 3-4k gems and is only accessible in multiverse sea, requiring you to do no dmg for gems.
Easiest way to use this is join people that are soloing the raid and AFK in it for the gems.
UPDATE: DO THE MARINE HEADQUARTERS RAID, LOCATED AT MARINE HQ IN FIRST SEA, IT IS JUST 3 WAVES OF BOSSES WITH A FEW MILLION HEALTH AND TAKES AROUND 5 MINUTES IF UR IN SECOND SEA. IT GIVES 3-4K GEMS PER RAID, AND IS THE FASTEST METHOD FOR PEOPLE BELOW 3RD SEA. TRUST ME IT IS SO GOOD.
The Gem Merchant title gives you a 1.2x gem buff.
Tokens[]
Token are often confused with Gems. Tokens are used to buy event chests on Ice Island in sea 1. Gems are used to awaken your devil fruit.