In Path of Exile 2 you can change and improve your skills with support gems. What support gems exist and what they can do, you will find out here on MeinMMO.
While in many role-playing games you select your skills and how they function via a skill tree, in Path of Exile 2, this is done through so-called gems. In the game, you’ll find uncut gems (“Uncut Gems”) with which you unlock skills. The cut gems, which become specific skills, are then placed in your skill overview.
Update, February 10, 2025: The article has been updated and modified.
What are support gems? Support gems are support gems in Path of Exile 2, which can change and support your skills. To obtain support gems, you need uncut support gems. You can obtain them as rewards in the campaign and as drops from monsters. To store them, you can get special chest tabs in PoE 2.
Below, we list all support gems with their names in the game and their effects. They are sorted alphabetically and divided into their tiers and color groups.
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All Support Gems and Their Effects
Support gems exist in different tiers, and over the course of the game, they drop at increasingly higher levels. Until about the beginning of Act 3, you mainly find uncut gems of level 1. Depending on the tier of the uncut gem, you can unlock or “cut” support skills of the corresponding level.
Support gems have different colors: red, green, and blue. The color represents the attribute they are connected to (strength, dexterity, intelligence). For example, you need sufficient intelligence to equip blue support gems. More on that later. Now let’s get to the gems and what they can do:
Level 1 Support Gems
Red Gems (Strength)
- Impact Shockwave: Supported skills create an aftershock when they heavily stun an enemy and deal the same damage to enemies within 1.4 meters.
- Bloodletting: The mana cost of skills is converted into life cost.
- Perseverance: Supported skills have 40% increased skill effect duration.
- Bloodlust: Supported skills deal 30% more physical damage in melee against bleeding enemies and cannot cause bleeding.
- Brutality: Supported skills deal 35% more physical damage, no chaos damage, and no elemental damage.
- Ground Stomp: Triggers a shockwave when you step while using supported skills.
- Double Run: Supported skills have a 30% reduced reload speed and load an extra bolt.
- Eternal Flame: Supported skills have a 100% extended burn duration on enemies and 25% less chance to ignite.
- Fist of War: Attacks with supported skills are enhanced by ancestors, no more than once every 6 seconds.
- Fire Infusion: Supported attacks deal 25% of the damage as fire damage and 50% less cold and lightning damage.
- Flesh Shield: Creatures from supported skills deal 35% less damage and have 50% more maximum life.
- Execution: Supported skills deal 40% more damage with hits against low-life enemies.
- Inspiration: Supported skills have 40% reduced costs.
- Rage: Supported skills grant 3 rage on melee hits.
- Unyielding: 200% increased stun threshold while using supported skills.
- Merciless: Every fifth use of this attack causes 500% more stun build-up.
- Uneven Ground: Supported skills have a 50% chance to create rugged ground. Rugged ground lasts for 4 seconds.
- Forethought: Skills empowered by supported skills deal 15% more damage.
- Fast Forward: Supported skills have 30% less skill effect duration.
- Corrupted Cry: Supported warcries have 30% less range. Corrupted blood deals 25% of your strength as physical damage per second. The duration of corrupted blood is 5 seconds. Supported warcries inflict corrupted blood.
- Vitality: Regenerates 1% of life per second while a supported skill is active.
- Breaker: 20% chance for a resist charge when supported skills fully break an opponent’s armor.
- Maim: Supported skills have a 30% chance to cause bleeding.
- Ignition: Supported skills have a 100% increased chance to ignite.
- Overwhelm: Hits with supported skills cause 50% more stun build-up.
Green Gems (Dexterity)
- Charging: Supported skills have a 100% increased chance to shock.
- Persistent Shock: Supported skills have a 100% extended shock duration and 25% less chance to shock.
- Charging: Attacks deal 35% of the damage as lightning damage for 3 seconds when an opponent is shocked by supported skills.
- Lightning Infusion: Supported attacks deal 25% of the damage as lightning damage and 50% less cold and fire damage.
- Acceleration: Supported skills have a 40% increased projectile speed.
- Enduring Charge: Supported skills have a 35% chance to not remove charges but still count them as consumed.
- Companion Illness: Targets can be affected by +1 poisons from supported skills simultaneously, have 30% less poison duration.
- Burden: Debuffs caused by supported skills have a 15% increased slow magnitude.
- Crescendo: The final hit of supported skills can be executed twice in a row.
- Piercing: Projectiles from supported skills pierce an opponent, dealing 30% less damage when they have pierced an opponent.
- Fixation: Supported skills do not generate stun build-up. Physical damage from supported skills sets fixation.
- Opportune Moment: Supported skills have a 25% shorter window for perfect timing and deal 50% more damage when released with perfect timing.
- Leverage: Supported skills have a 50% increased critical strike chance against immobilized opponents.
- Combat Tempo: Supported skills have a 25% increased attack speed.
- Corrosion: Poison applied by supported skills also breaks armor for 80% of the poison damage caused.
- Combo Finisher: Supported skills lose combo when you do not generate a combo for 8 seconds. Supported skills deal 50% more damage and require 5 combo to use.
- Life Drain: Restores 12% of life over four seconds when supported skills deliver the killing blow to an opponent.
- Ammunition Management: Supported attacks with crossbows have a 25% chance not to consume a bolt.
- Pestilence: Poison inflicted by supported skills also inflicts 200% of the damage per second as pestilence to the opponent, up to a maximum of 10% of the opponent’s maximum life.
- Precision: 30% increased accuracy while a supported skill is active.
- Spread Shot: Supported skills deal 20% less damage, fire 2 additional projectiles, and have 20% less attack and cast speed.
- Rapid Decay: Supported skills deal 35% more damage over time (excluding debuffs). 20% less duration of supported skills and damaging debuffs they cause.
- Poisoning: Supported skills have a 60% chance to poison on hit.
- Slowing: Supported skills have 30% less projectile speed.
- Chaining: Supported skills chain +1 times, chain 100% more times and deal 50% less damage with hits.
- Wind Wave: Triggers “Wind Wave” when you are stunned while using supported skills.
- Second Wind: Supported skills have a 50% reduced cooldown rate and double the number of cooldown uses.
- Abundance: Supported skills have a 50% chance to grant an additional charge.
- Abundance: Supported skills have +1 to maximum and 50% less skill effect duration.
Blue Gems (Intelligence)
- Expansion: Supported skills have a 50% increased area of effect and +6 seconds to the cooldown.
- Arcane Tempo: Supported skills have a 25% increased casting speed.
- Arcane Wave: Gain Arcane Wave for 8 seconds after you have used 100% of your maximum mana for supported skills.
- Imminent Judgment: Triggers “Doom Explosion” when curses from supported skills expire.
- Unleash: Supported spells gain a seal every 200% of the cast time, up to a maximum of 2 seals. Supported spells are unsealed while casting, and their effects recur for each lost seal. Supported skills deal 50% less damage if they recur.
- Elemental Army: Creatures from supported skills have +30% to all elemental resistances.
- Freezing: Attacks deal 35% of the damage as cold damage for 3 seconds when an opponent is frozen by supported skills.
- Energy Barrier: Energy shield recharge starts immediately and is not interrupted by damage for 2 seconds when you are stunned.
- Cursing Maximizer: 25% increased effect of supported curses.
- Frost Nexus: Supported skills create chilling ground for 4 seconds when they freeze an opponent.
- Fortress: Supported skills deal 50% less damage with hits. Walls from supported skills are instead created as a circle.
- Ambush: Supported skill has a 100% increased critical strike chance against enemies at full life.
- Hypothermia: Supported skills cause 50% more freeze build-up.
- Instable Creatures: Creatures from supported skills explode when they reach low life and deal 15% of their maximum life as fire damage to opponents in the vicinity.
- Concentrated Effect: Supported skills deal 40% more area damage and have 50% less area of effect.
- Creature Pack: Supported skills remove 100% of your maximum life from a creature in the vicinity when used to deal 40% more damage.
- Cold Infusion: Supported attacks deal 25% of the damage as cold damage and deal 50% less fire and lightning damage.
- Controlled Destruction: Supported skills deal 30% more damage with hits and impairments but cannot deal critical hits.
- Clarity: 30% increased mana regeneration rate while a supported skill is active.
- Last Breath: Creatures from supported skills die in 4 seconds after their life is reduced to 0.
- Hourglass: Supported skills deal 40% more damage and have +10 seconds to the cooldown.
- Deep Freeze: Supported skills have a 50% increased freeze duration on opponents.
- Withering Touch: Withering lasts for 4 seconds. Supported skills deal 50% less damage and cause withering on hit with chaos damage.
- Decaying Curse: Supported skills apply “Decaying” and deal 30% of intelligence as chaos damage per second for 8 seconds.
- Increased Effect: Supported skills have 40% more area of effect.
- Spell Cascade: Supported skills and cascades of supported skills have 20% less area of effect. Supported skills deal 30% less damage but also affect areas on either side of the target area along a random axis.
Level 2 Support Gems
Red Gems (Strength)
- Automatic Reload: Supported skills automatically reload when you heavily stun an opponent.
- Blood Fountain: Blood wells from supported skills grant you and your allies 2% life regeneration per second. Objects created by supported skills generate a blood well with a radius of 3 meters.
- Ancestral Urgency: Supported skills have an 80% increased totem placement speed.
- Penetrating Fire: Supported skills penetrate 30% fire resistance.
- Demolisher: Supported skills break 40% more armor.
- Ironwood: Totems summoned by supported skills have +40% to all elemental resistances.
- Great Momentum: Supported skills deal 35% more physical melee damage and have 10% less attack speed.
- Holy Descent: Supported skills create consecrated ground upon landing for 4 seconds.
- Herbology: 30% increased recovery from life flasks while a supported skill is active.
- Legion of Hellfire: Creatures from supported skills suffer 20% of their maximum life as fire damage per second and ignite opponents within a radius of 1.5 meters equal to 20% of the creature’s maximum life as fire damage.
- Life Steal: Steals 6% of the physical attack damage from supported skills as life.
- Aftershock: Supported skills have a 20% chance to create an aftershock.
- New Magazine: Supported crossbow skills deal 1% more damage for each bolt reloaded by this skill in the last 6 seconds.
- Knockback: Supported skills knock back opponents on hit.
- Primary Weapon: Supported skills deal 25% more elemental damage with weapons.
- Armor Explosion: Supported skills trigger an explosion when they fully break an opponent’s armor.
- Raging Cry: Supported skills grant 4 rage per 5 strength of counted opponents in range.
- Exploiting Weakness: Supported skills cannot break armor and consume fully broken opponent armor to deal 50% more damage.
- Shatter: Breaks armor by 15% of the physical damage dealt by the supported skill.
- Devastator: 50% increased duration of ground surfaces created by supported skills.
- Wrathful Warcry: Supported warcries consume up to 10 rage, increasing the damage of empowered attacks by 30%.
Green Gems (Dexterity)
- Blindness: Supported skills have a 100% chance to blind opponents on hit.
- Penetrating Lightning: Supported skills penetrate 30% lightning resistance.
- Electrify: Lightning damage from supported skills counts toward electrification build-up. Supported skills deal 40% less damage.
- Ingenuity: Supported skills have a 30% accelerated cooldown rate.
- Long Shot: Supported skills deal 35% more attack damage against opponents more than 7 meters away from you, scaling to no bonus at 3.5 meters or closer.
- Skilled Combo: Supported strike skills have a 40% chance to build an additional combo on hit.
- Combat: Supported skills deal 25% more attack damage against opponents within 1 meter of you, scaling to no bonus at 3.5 meters or further.
- Break Posture: Supported skills cause dizziness when they fully break armor. Dizziness lasts for 6 seconds.
- Momentum: After moving at least 2 meters during a single use of a supported skill, the remainder of that use deals 40% more damage.
- Deflect: Projectiles from supported skills have a 20% chance to chain an additional time off the terrain.
- Mutilate: Supported attacks always maim on hit.
- Critical Hit: Supported skills have a 50% increased accuracy.
- Fury: Supported skills cannot generate frenzy charges, consume a frenzy charge when used if possible, and have 30% more skill speed when consuming frenzy charges.
Blue Gems (Intelligence)
- Stripping: Increased effect of sacrifices by 30%. Supported skills sacrifice 15% of life on use. Supported sacrifice skills deal 30% more damage.
- Astral Projection: Supported skills are cast around the target location instead of around you and have 35% less area of effect.
- Burning Inscription: A spell that creates ignited ground based on your maximum mana.
- Bitten Frost: Supported skills cannot cause freeze build-up, consume freeze on opponents, and deal 50% more damage.
- Debuffs Withdrawal: Supported skills consume a random debuff on the target when applying “damage over time” debuffs, causing the debuff to deal 35% more damage if a debuff was consumed.
- Lightning Mastery: +1 to the level of supported lightning skills.
- Chaos Infusion: Supported attacks deal 25% of the damage as chaos damage and deal 50% less damage (excluding chaos damage).
- Chaotic Freezing: Chaos damage counts towards freeze build-up from hits against targets suffering damage over time from supported skills.
- Chaos Mastery: +1 to the level of supported chaos skills.
- Elemental Focus: Supported skills deal 25% more elemental damage and cannot cause elemental impairments.
- Energy Storage: Skills triggered by supported meta skills have a 35% chance to refund half their energy costs.
- Extraction: Supported skills deal 25% of the damage as chaos damage and sacrifice 10% of life when used.
- Elemental Discharge: Supported skills cannot apply freeze, shock, or ignite and consume freeze, shock, and ignite on hit to trigger “Elemental Discharge”.
- Frostfire: 100% increased magnitude of ignites caused on frozen targets with supported skills. Supported skills cannot generate freeze build-up and consume freeze from opponents they ignite.
- Fire Mastery: +1 to the level of supported fire skills.
- Cold Mastery: +1 to the level of supported cold skills.
- Cold Vulnerability: Supported skills inflict cold vulnerability with critical hits for 8 seconds and 25% less damage.
- Creature Mastery: +1 to the level of supported creature skills.
- Capacitor: Supported meta gems have 80% increased maximum energy.
- Macabre Dance: Supported sacrifice skills have a 30% increased buff effect, target an additional skeleton creature, and deal 30% more damage. Supporting effects are only applied when targeting an additional skeleton creature.
- Physical Mastery: +1 to the level of supported physical skills.
- Stormfire: Shocks from supported skills do not dissipate on ignited opponents.
- Supercritical: Supported skills have a 100% increased bonus for critical strikes and 20% less critical strike chance.
- Cursed Ground: Supported skills create cursed ground. Opponents on the cursed ground of a supported skill are cursed while they are on it. Maximum 1 area of cursed ground.
- Cursed Bloom: Curses from supported skills transfer to opponents within 3 meters when a cursed opponent dies.
- Hexing: Supported skills have a 50% increased chance to cause impairments and +8 seconds to cooldown.
- Wild Shards: Supported skills have a 20% chance to fire 8 additional projectiles in a circle.
How do I equip support gems? You place the uncut support gem by using it – on the keyboard, for example, with the right click. In the overview that opens, select a specific gem you want to cut. You’ll find the cut support gem in your inventory and can simply place it in the skill overview. To do this, just place the gem in the socket of the skill that is to be supported.
How many support gems can I equip? At first, you can equip two support gems in the sockets for each equipped skill. Later, roughly from Act 3, you will receive jewels that add more sockets – up to 5 per skill total.
Your attributes also play a role, as you need sufficient intelligence to equip blue support gems. For example, if you have 20 intelligence points available, you can equip 4 blue support gems (5 INT each).
The overview of your skills shows you how many support gems of each color you are allowed to equip. If you lack points in an attribute, you can boost them with gear or correct them with the NPC “The Shrouded” through respec.
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