InPath of Exile 2, character customization is key to having a fulfilling experience. After all, you’ll want to discover and equip your character with the skills and attributes that best suit your playstyle. Does this sound familiar? If so, congratulations, you aren’t new to the world of action-RPGs.
What Are Support Gems?
Skills are obtained through skill gems. You’ll find these valuable items as you progress in your journey through Path of Exile 2. If you’d like to know more about Skill Gems, refer to the link below.
Path of Exile 2: All Skill Gems
The essentials for gaining new abilities.
Support Gems are used to enhance Skill Gems. It’s just as the item’s moniker implies. you’re able to enhance a skill with up to 5 support gems. Essentially, these gems offer passive bonuses or stat boosts to the skill they are linked to.
Where to Find Support Gems
Just like Skill Gems, you can obtain Support Gems as rewards for quest completion or by obtaining anUncut Support Gemas loot from a significant or boss-level enemy. There will be many opportunities to retrieve these enhancements. But use them wisely to maximize their bonus effects.
All Support Gems
Below is a comprehensive list of all Support Gems (to date) in Path of Exile 2. Keep in mind that we are continually updating this database. So, be sure to check back regularly!
Description
Supports Offering Skills. Supported Skills Sacrifice a portion of your life on use, but deal much more damage and have more powerful Buffs in return.
Acceleration
Supports Projectile skills, making those Projectiles travel faster.
Aftershock
Supports Slams you use yourself, giving them a chance to create an Aftershock.
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, making it more likely to Critically Hit enemies on full life.
Ammo Conservation
Supports Crossbow Ammunition Skills, granting a chance to not consume a Bolt when firing.
Ancestral Urgency
Supports Skills which place Totems, causing those skills to place Totems much more quickly.
Arcane Surge
Supports Spells you cast yourself, tracking the mana you spend to cast them. Spending enough mana grants a burst of Mana Regeneration and Cast Speed.
Arcane Tempo
Supports Spells, causing them to cast faster.
Armour Explosion
Supports Attacks, causing them to trigger a fiery explosion when they Fully Break an enemy’s Armour.
Astral Projection
Supports Nova Skills, causing those Skills to take place at the targeted location when used instead of around you.
Auto Reload
Supports Crossbow Ammunition Skills, causing them to automatically reload when they Heavy Stun an enemy.
Supports Strike skills, causing them to steal modifiers from Rare monsters they kill.
Biting Frost
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing them to deal more damage to Frozen enemies but consume their Freeze. Cannot support skills that Consume Freeze.
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing them to Blind on Hit.
Supports Melee Attacks, causing them to deal more damage against Bleeding enemies, but preventing them from inflicting Bleeding.
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to Knock Back enemies.
Break Endurance
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, giving it a chance to gain an Endurance Charge when it Fully Breaks an enemy’s Armour.
Break Posture
Supports Attacks, causing them to Daze Enemies when they fully Break Armour.
Supports any skill that deals damage, boosting its Physical damage at the expense of all other damage types.
Supports Attacks, causing them to gain Accuracy.
Burning Inscription
Creates Ignited Ground Igniting Enemies based off a percentage of your Maximum Mana.
Bursting Plague
Supports skills that can Poison enemies, causing Poisoned enemies to gain Plague over time and explode in a Plague Burst on death. Cannot support the skills of Minions.
Cannibalism
Supports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to recover Life on kill while the Skill is active.
Supports Invocation Skills which Trigger other Skills. Supported Skills have significantly higher Maximum Energy.
Supports Projectile skills and any other skills that Chain, causing them to Chain additional times.
Chaos Infusion
Supports Attacks, causing them to gain Chaos Damage but deal less Damage of other types.
Chaos Mastery
Supports Chaos skills, granting them an additional level.
Chaotic Freeze
Supports Spells that deal non-Ailment Chaos damage over time. Enemies taking damage over time from Debuffs caused by supported skills will suffer Freeze build up from Chaos damage Hits from any source.
Supports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain increased Mana Regeneration while the Skill is active.
Close Combat
Supports Attacks, causing them to deal more damage to enemies based on how close they are to you.
Cold Exposure
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to deal less damage but inflict Cold Exposure when it Critically Hits an enemy.
Cold Infusion
Supports Attacks, causing them to gain Cold Damage but deal less Fire and Lightning Damage.
Cold Mastery
Supports Cold skills, granting them an additional level.
Cold Penetration
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, making those Hits Penetrate enemy Cold resistance.
Combo Finisher
Supports Melee Attacks you use yourself. Supported Skills cannot be used until enough Combo has been built up, but deal massively more damage. Cannot support skills which already Combo, or Triggered Skills.
Comorbidity
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, allowing it to inflict an extra Poison on enemies but shortening the duration of those Poisons.
Concentrated Effect
Supports any skill with an area of effect, causing that area to be smaller but any area damage it deals to be higher.
Conduction
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, making it more likely to Shock.
Considered Casting
Supports Spell Skills that Hit Enemies, boosting Damage at the cost of Cast Speed.
Controlled Destruction
Supports Spells that Hit enemies, boosting their damage but preventing them from dealing Critical Hits.
Corpse Conservation
Supports skills that consume Corpses, giving them a chance to take effect without destroying the Corpse.
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing Poison it applies to also Break enemy Armour. Cannot support skills that Consume Fully Broken Armour.
Corrupting Cry
Supports Warcries, causing them to inflict Corrupted Blood on enemies in their area of effect.
Coursing Current
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, giving it a chance to also Shock nearby enemies when you Shock an enemy.
Supports Strikes that perform a Final Strike at the end of a combination of attacks, allowing you to use the Final Strike twice in succession.
Culling Strike
Supports Attack Skills, causing them to Cull Rare and Unique Enemies on Hit.
Culmination
Supports Melee Attack Skills. Supported Skills gain Combo when you successfully Strike Enemies with other Melee Attacks. Supported Skills reset their Combo on use, dealing more Damage the higher Combo you had on use. Cannot support skills which already gain Combo. Cannot Support Skills used by Minions.
Cursed Ground
Supports Curse Skills. Supported Curse Skills no longer have an activation delay, instead creating areas which curse Enemies so long as they are within them.
Danse Macabre
Supports Offering Skills. Supported Skills have increased Buff effect and deal more damage, but will target an additional skeletal Minion when cast. If there is not an additional skeletal Minion to target, no damage or Buff effect will be granted.
Dazing Cry
Supports Warcries, causing them to Daze Enemies on use.
Deadly Poison
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to deal less damage but inflict more potent Poison.
Decaying Hex
Supports Curse skills. Cursed enemies' bodies decay, taking Chaos damage over time.
Deceleration
Supports Projectile skills, making those Projectiles travel more slowly.
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to deal less damage but inflict more potent Bleeding.
Deep Freeze
Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing Freeze it inflicts to last longer.
Demolisher
Supports any skill, causing Armour Break it inflicts to be stronger.
Supports Skills that create Ground Surfaces, causing those surfaces to last longer.
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing them to apply Broken Armour to enemies when causing a Heavy Stun to enemies.
Discombobulate
Supports Attacks, causing them to build up Daze based on a portion of Physical Damage dealt.
Double Barrel
Supports Crossbow Ammunition Skills, causing them to load an extra bolt at the cost of reload speed.
Drain Ailments
Supports Spells that deal non-Ailment damage over time, causing them to consume Ailments on enemies it applies damage over time Debuffs to in order to deal substantially more damage over time.
Electrocute
Supports any Skill which can deal Damage. Lightning Damage from Supported Skills can inflict Electrocute, but Supported Skills deal less Damage.
Elemental Army
Supports skills which create Minions, bolstering the Elemental Resistances of those Minions.
Elemental Discharge
Supports any Spell that Hits enemies, causing it to consume Elemental Ailments on hit to trigger an Elemental Discharge. Cannot support the skills of Minions.
Elemental Focus
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to deal more Elemental Damage but be unable to inflict Elemental Ailments.
Encumbrance
Supports any skill, causing inflicted Slows to be more powerful.
Energy Barrier
Supports any skill that you can use, causing Energy Shield recharge to begin immediately if you are Stunned while using it.
Energy Retention
Supports Meta Skills. Supported Skills gain a chance to partially Refund a portion of Energy cost when Triggering or Invoking other Skills.
Enraged Warcry
Supports Warcries, causing them to consume Rage to further boost Empowered Attacks.
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, giving it a chance to Poison enemies.
Eternal Flame
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing its Ignites to be inflicted less often but last longer.
Supports any damaging Skill that you use yourself, granting it significantly higher chance to Critically Hit, but causing it to gain a long cooldown. Cannot support Skills which already have a cooldown.
Supports any damaging Skill that you use yourself, granting it significantly higher chance to inflict Ailments on hit, but causing it to gain a long cooldown. Cannot support Skills which already have a cooldown.
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to deal more damage against enemies on Low Life.
Supports any Skill that you use yourself, granting it significantly higher Area of Effect but causing it to gain a long cooldown. Cannot support Skills which already have a cooldown.
Exploit Weakness
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing them to deal more Damage against enemies with Broken Armour but preventing them from Breaking Armour themselves. Cannot support skills that Consume Broken Armour.
Extraction
Supports Spell Skills. Using supported Spells will cause you to Sacrifice a portion of your Life on use, gaining extra Chaos Damage in exchange. Does not support Persistent Skills, Minion Skills, or Triggered Skills.
Fast Forward
Supports any skill that has a duration, making that duration shorter.
Feeding Frenzy
Supports skills which create Minions, making them deal and take more damage.
Supports Skills that you use yourself. Supported Skills will consume a Frenzy Charge on use if possible, and will gain significant Skill Speed if they do. Supported Skills cannot generate Frenzy Charges.
Fiery Death
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing explosions on killing Ignited enemies.
Fire Exposure
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to deal less damage but inflict Fire Exposure when it Ignites an enemy.
Fire Infusion
Supports Attacks, causing them to gain Fire Damage but deal less Cold and Lightning Damage.
Fire Mastery
Supports Fire skills, granting them an additional level.
Fire Penetration
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, making those Hits Penetrate enemy Fire resistance.
Fist of War
Supports Slams you use yourself, providing a powerful Ancestral Boost every few seconds.
Focused Curse
Supports Curse skills, causing them to Curse enemies more quickly after being cast.
Font of Blood
Supports Skills which create stationary objects. Objects created by supported Skills generate a Font of Blood, creating an Aura which grants Life regeneration.
Font of Mana
Supports Skills which create stationary objects. Objects created by supported Skills generate a Font of Mana, creating an Aura which grants Mana regeneration.
Font of Rage
Supports Skills which create stationary objects. Objects created by supported Skills generate a Font of Rage, creating an Aura which grants Rage over time, as well as preventing Rage loss.
Supports Projectile skills, making their Projectiles Fork.
Supports skills that create walls in a line, causing them to be created in a circle instead but deal less Hit damage.
Fresh Clip
Supports Crossbow Skills, granting them more damage for each bolt reloaded by that Skill in the last 6 seconds.
Frost Nexus
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to create patches of Chilled Ground around Frozen enemies.
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to Consume Freeze on Igniting a Frozen enemy to boost the effect of the Ignite.
Glaciation
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, making it more effective at Freezing enemies.
Supports any Skill which creates Ice Crystals, causing them to be created with higher Life.
Heavy Swing
Supports Melee Attacks, boosting their Physical damage at the cost of Attack Speed.
Supports Skills which deal Damage, increasing the maximum Physical Damage of their Hits.
Heightened Curse
Supports Curse Skills, magnifying their power.
Supports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain increased Life recovery from Flasks while the Skill is active.
Supports Curses, spreading their effects when a Cursed enemy dies.
Supports Spells that deal non-Ailment Chaos damage over time, causing damage over time they inflict to also Hinder enemies.
Holy Descent
Supports Skills that leap into the air, causing them to create Consecrated Ground when you land
Supports any damaging skill that you use yourself, causing it to deal significantly more damage but gain a long cooldown. Cannot support Skills which already have a cooldown.
Supports Attacks you use yourself. Freezing an enemy with supported skills infuses all of your Attacks with Cold damage for a short time.
Supports any Skill which creates Ice Crystals, causing them to be created with lower Life.
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, making it more likely to Ignite.
Supports Attacks, granting them extra Fire damage against Ignited enemies but making them unable to Ignite enemies themselves.
Impact Shockwave
Supports Melee Strike skills, causing them to create an Aftershock that damages enemies around the target when they Heavy Stun an enemy.
Impending Doom
Supports Curse skills you cast yourself, causing them to trigger Doom Blast on Cursed enemies when the Curse expires.
Supports Meta Skills. Supported Skills generate Energy significantly faster.
Inevitable Critical
Supports any skill you use yourself that Hits enemies, causing it to accumulate Critical Hit chance over time.
Infernal Legion
Supports skills which create Minions, causing them and enemies near them to Burn. Damage dealt by the Burning is based off the Life of the supported Minion.
Supports skills with cooldowns, increasing the rate at which those cooldowns recover.
Supports Attacks you use yourself. Killing a Shocked enemy with supported skills infuses all of your Attacks with Lightning damage for a short time.
Inspiration
Supports any skill, making it cost less to use. Cannot support skills which reserve Spirit.
Intense Agony
Supports Spells that deal non-Ailment damage over time, causing them to have a shorter duration but deal substantially more damage over time with Debuffs inflicted against enemies on full life.
Supports Skills which create Totems. Totems created by Supported Skills have additional Elemental Resistances.
Jagged Ground
Supports Slam skills, granting them a chance to create patches of Jagged Ground.
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, giving it a chance to inflict Bleeding.
Supports skills that create Persistent Minions, causing those Minions to fight on for a short duration before dying when they are fatally wounded.
Lasting Shock
Supports any skill that Hits enemies or inflicts Shock, causing its Shocks to be inflicted less often but last longer.
Supports Skills which Hit Enemies. Supported Skills gain increased chance to Critically Hit against Immobilised Enemies.
Life Bounty
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing enemies it kills to grant more Life Flask charges.
Life Drain
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing you to recover Life when it Culls an enemy.
Life Thief
Supports Attacks, causing their Physical damage to Leech Life.
Supports any Skill, turning a portion of its Mana cost into a Life cost. Does not support Skills which reserve Spirit.
Lightning Exposure
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to deal less damage but inflict Lightning Exposure when it Shocks an enemy.
Lightning Infusion
Supports Attacks, causing them to gain Lightning Damage but deal less Cold and Fire Damage.
Lightning Mastery
Supports Lightning skills, granting them an additional level.
Lightning Penetration
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, making those Hits Penetrate enemy Lightning resistance.
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing any Pin buildup it inflicts to be stronger the closer the enemy is to you.
Supports Skills which fire Grenades, causing those Grenades to have much higher duration and damage.
Supports Attacks, causing them to deal more damage from farther away.
Magnified Effect
Supports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger.
Supports Attacks, causing them to Maim enemies.
Mana Bounty
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing enemies it kills to grant more Mana Flask charges.
Mana Flare
Supports any Spell that Hits enemies, causing it to trigger a Mana Flare on Critical Hit. The Mana Flare consumes your Mana to deal Fire damage. Cannot support the skills of Minions.
Martial Tempo
Supports Attacks, causing them to Attack faster.
Meat Shield
Supports skills which create Minions, granting them more life but making them deal less damage.
Minion Instability
Supports skills which create Minions, causing them to violently explode when reduced to Low Life.
Minion Mastery
Supports Minion skills, granting them an additional level.
Minion Pact
Supports damaging skills you use yourself, draining the life from one of your Minions on use in order to boost the skill’s damage. Only takes effect if you have a Minion with enough life to drain the full amount.
Supports skills that can be used while moving, allowing you to move faster while using them.
Supports any damaging skill that you use yourself, causing it to deal more damage if you move a sufficient distance while using the skill. Teleportation does not count towards the distance travelled.
Murderous Intent
Supports skills that can Empower skills other than themselves, causing skills they Empower to Cull enemies.
Neural Overload
Supports any skill that Hits enemies. Nearby enemies are marked when they are Primed for Electrocution, and hitting a marked enemy with a supported skill will Electrocute them.
Nimble Reload
Supports Crossbow Ammunition Skills, causing them to Reload bolts significantly faster.
Overabundance
Supports skills which can have a limited number of effects active at once, increasing that limit at the cost of their duration. Only applies to restrictions that use the word ““limit””.
Overcharge
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, making its Shocks more effective but last for a shorter duration.
Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing it to build up Stun more quickly.
Supports Skills which fire Grenades, giving fired Grenades a chance to activate again, but lengthening their cooldowns.
Perpetual Charge
Supports skills that consume Power, Frenzy or Endurance Charges on use, giving them a chance not to remove each Charge while still gaining the benefits of consuming them.
Persistence
Supports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.
Physical Mastery
Supports Physical skills, granting them an additional level.
Supports Projectile skills, making their Projectiles Pierce an enemy but deal less damage after doing so.
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, allowing its Physical damage to Pin enemies but making it unable to Stun.
Supports Skills that you use yourself. Supported Skills will consume a Power Charge on use if possible, and will be much more likely to Critically Hit if they do. Supported Skills cannot generate Power Charges.
Practiced Combo
Supports Strike Skills. Supported Skills have a chance to build additional Combo on Hit. Cannot support Skills used by Minions.
Supports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain increased Accuracy while the Skill is active.
Premeditation
Supports skills that can Empower skills other than themselves, causing skills they Empower to deal more damage.
Primal Armament
Supports Attacks that use a weapon, causing them to deal more weapon Elemental damage.
Supports skills that can generate Charges, giving them a chance to generate an additional Charge when they do so.
Supports Melee Attacks, causing them to grant Rage on Hit.
Rageforged
Supports any damaging skill that you use or trigger yourself, causing it to consume Rage to deal more damage. If you don’t have enough Rage to consume, the damage bonus will not apply.
Raging Cry
Supports Warcry skills, causing them to grant you Rage on use.
Supports any Skill which creates Projectiles, giving those Projectiles a chance to Chain when impacting terrain.
Rising Tempest
Supports Skills which deal Damage, raising Elemental Damage dealt for each Skill used Recently of a different Elemental type. Cannot support Minion Skills.
Ritualistic Curse
Supports Curse skills, causing them to cover a larger area but take longer to Curse enemies.
Supports skills that Hit Enemies. Supported skills Aggravate Bleeding on Hitting Heavily Stunned Enemies.
Supports Attacks, causing repeated uses to be more effective at Stunning enemies.
Scattershot
Supports Projectile skills, making them fire extra Projectiles. Also lowers Attack and Cast speed of supported skills, as well as lessening their damage.
Searing Flame
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing inflicted Ignites to deal more damage but its Hits to deal less damage.
Second Wind
Shock Siphon
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing you to recover Energy Shield when it kills a Shocked enemy.
Soul Drain
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing you to recover Mana when it Culls an enemy.
Soul Thief
Supports Attacks, causing their Physical damage to Leech Mana.
Spell Cascade
Supports Spells that affect an area around you or a target location, causing those Spells to also target additional areas on either side of the target area, along a randomly chosen axis. Cannot support Channelling skills or Remote skills.
Spell Echo
Supports Spells that affect an area around you or a target location. Supported Spells echo, causing their effects to happen again after a short delay. Cannot support Channelling skills or Remote skills.
Supports Skills that Hit Enemies, causing those Hits to Break Armour based on a portion of Physical Damage dealt.
Stomping Ground
Supports Travel skills, causing your footsteps to crack the earth and emit damaging shockwaves while using the skill.
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, prolonging Shocks they inflict on Ignited enemies.
Strip Away
Supports Skills which apply Exposure to Enemies, increasing the effect of applied Exposure.
Supercritical
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to deal more damage with Critical Hits but have less Critical Hit chance.
Swift Affliction
Supports any skill that deals damage, causing it to deal more damage over time but have a shorter duration.
Unbreakable
Supports any skill that you can use, making you harder to Stun while using it.
Supports Melee Attacks which create fissures in the ground, causing them to create additional fissures at the cost of damage and attack speed.
Supports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain Life Regeneration while the Skill is active.
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, Spreading Ignites it inflicts to nearby enemies after a delay.
Wildshards
Supports Spell Skills that fire Projectiles. Supported Skills have a chance to fire many additional Projectiles in a circle.
Supports any skill that you can use, triggering a blast of wind that Knocks Back enemies if you are Stunned while using it.
Window of Opportunity
Supports Channelling skills that have special effects if released with perfect timing, causing them to deal much more damage if released with perfect timing but reducing the perfect timing window.
Withering Touch
Supports any skill that Hits enemies, giving it a chance to Wither enemies on Hit.
