Specialist Card Augments
The Dragon Core Crafting NPC in Dragonveil crafts the Dragon Gems you apply to a +20 Specialist Card to give it a permanent Dragon Blessing — an elemental buff. Each element (Fire · Water · Shadow · Light) comes in a PvE and a PvP version.
The same NPC also crafts the Dragon Cores, the base material for the Dragon equipment and its augments.
Dragon Cores
Craft the Core matching the content you play, from raid fragments plus Runic Dragon Powder. Cores are used to build the Dragon equipment.
Dragon Gems
The Gem carries the element of the blessing. Each gem needs , the matching Scale Essence, and the matching Dragon Energy. The PvP gems additionally require an .
Short on essences? The same NPC can turn a Dragon Energy into 5 matching Scale Essences (e.g. → 5× ).
Gem buffs · Dragon Blessing
Apply a Dragon Gem to a Specialist Card that is +20 to grant it a permanent Dragon Blessing matching the gem's element. Applying a different gem swaps the blessing (you can't apply the same one twice). The blessing is active while that SP is worn.
PvE Blessing
PvP Blessing
This blessing is the gem's element buff. The separate activity-scaling bonus that the Dragon weapons and armours gain lives on the Equipment Augments page.