By 60 you may be augmenting every several grift levels you earn, as each +5 or +10 is noticeable during progression. This means that once you reach grift 30, you should absolutely augment your weapon if it is ancient, and then every 5-10 grifts re-augment it. This doesn't mean that you should use a 30, 40, or 50 rank gem though.
They are one of the keys to progressing into the upper greater rifts.Īs the accepted answer states, you get +5 for every rank of the gem. This recipe is the most material expensive of the cube recipes, and is meant to provide a long term material sink for players to work at rolling a nearly-perfect example of their favorite legendary item.
These augments are extremely important for endgame content. The Law of Kulle is a recipe for Kanai's Cube that reforges a legendary (not set) item.