
When playing POE 2, you will find that there are many game items in the game, and their functions and appearances vary, and some can be exchanged by POE2 Currency, while others cannot.
Among all the item types, gems are the most important one, and gems can be further divided into skill gems and support gems, and the relationship between the two types of gems is very close. In Path of Exile 1, you can link support gems to skill gems on equipment for use; but in POE 2, it is better to attach support gems to skill gems already embedded in the skill screen.
Among them, the main function of support gems is to modify and enhance the effects of the skill gems associated with them. Although support gems themselves have no active skills, they can adjust the properties of skill gems in various ways, allowing you to further customize skills according to your favorite game style. And support gems can also add additional combat effects for you, such as increased damage, increased range, and other bonuses.
Currently, you can choose the support gems that suit you in Path of Exile 2. However, whether the support gems you choose are really useful depends on the build and class you use. Based on this, we will recommend 8 support gems worth obtaining for you.
1. Arcane Tempo
If you feel that your casting time is too long in battle, and you like to use skills with relatively long casting times, then Arcane Tempo will be a great help. Because when you embed it into a skill, your casting speed will increase by 25%, allowing you to gain an advantage in battle more quickly.
However, it should be noted that you can only embed one Arcane Tempo in a build at a time, so you must maximize its role as much as possible. For example, after obtaining it, you can enhance your gear by consuming Chaos Orbs POE 2 so that they can work better with Arcane Tempo.
2. Unleash
As a support gem, the main effect of Unleash is that in battle, for every 200% increase in your casting time, the spell supported by Unleash will gain a seal, and you can eventually gain up to two seals. Once you cast the spell, the seal is removed, and the spell effect reappears each time the seal is removed.
This allows you to actually cast two skills in quick succession, so if you shoot a fireball, you’ll actually end up shooting two. So if you frequently use skills with a lot of projectiles, Unleash is useful.
3. Mastery Support Gems
Mastery support gems are actually a general term for a class of support gems, including the following gems:
- Lightning Mastery
- Physical Mastery
- Minion Mastery
- Chaos Mastery
- Cold Mastery
- Fire Mastery
These support gems will increase the level of the corresponding skill by one level, depending on their type. For example, Fire Mastery gem will increase the fire skill by one level. Although it seems that these types of support gems have limited effects, they can be useful if the skill gains they bring can be combined with other support gems.
4. Infusion Support Gems
Like Mastery support gems, Infusion is a general term for some support gems, which currently includes the following:
- Fire Infusion
- Cold Infusion
- Chaos Infusion
- Lightning Infusion
Each of these Infusion gems will increase the associated support skill’s elemental damage by 25% based on its type, but will also reduce the output of some other elemental damage by 50%. For example, Cold Infusion will cause you to deal more cold damage to enemies while reducing your output of fire or lightning damage.
However, it is worth noting that Chaos Infusion gem works slightly differently. It increases chaos damage while reducing the damage of all other elemental types by 50%.
5. Jagged Ground
The mechanism of this support gem is relatively simple, mainly giving you a 50% chance to create jagged ground that lasts for four seconds, causing all enemies that enter the ground area to be debuffed by 20%.
If you have experienced or seen some game bloggers use Jagged Ground gem, you will know that it only supports Slam skills, and the effect it brings is also very suitable for melee builds.
6. Conduction
The effect of Conduction is to increase your chance of electrocution by 100%, so that you can hit the enemy more directly and make them suffer more damage in a short period. This support gem is suitable for most combat situations, especially when combined with the skill of Galvanic Shards. It can exert greater power!
7. Brutality
If you are used to causing physical damage to the enemy in combat, then Brutality will be very suitable for you because it can increase your output of physical damage by 35%. Although the disadvantage of this gem is that the skills assisted by it will not cause chaos or elemental damage, if the assisted skills do not rely on these two types of damage, then Brutality basically has no disadvantages.
However, just in case, if you have a skill gem that can increase chaos or elemental damage to your skills, it is best to embed it together. Also, if you can, it’s helpful to use POE 2 Exalted Orbs to get more random affixes for your gear on top of the benefits of Brutality!
8. Wildshards
Wildshards gem is useful for skills that fire projectiles, and it gives you a 20% chance to fire eight more projectiles in a circle. Although 20% is not impressive, Wildshards are still worth a try. And this gem is very versatile, because many POE 2 classes can use projectiles.
These are the 8 support gems we recommend for you, but if you find more support gems that suit you during the actual game, you can also choose to embed and use them. Have fun!