Skill Gem Guide

Swings a weapon in an arc, hitting all enemies in front of you. Deals increased damage with axes and swords.

A powerful single-target melee strike that deals massive physical damage with a chance to double damage.

Slams the ground with a mace or staff, sending a shockwave in a cone that stuns enemies.

Leap through the air and slam the ground, dealing area damage where you land. Also serves as a movement skill.

Rapidly attacks with a melee weapon twice. Has a chance to cause bleeding.

Spin continuously, dealing damage to all enemies around you while moving. Channelled skill.

Rapidly slash at enemies in front of you, building up stages. Release for a powerful burst of damage.

Strikes the ground with a melee weapon, creating a wave that travels forward, damaging enemies in its path.

Slashes twice in an X pattern, dealing damage in a wide arc. Has increased bleed chance.

Slams the ground, converting physical damage to fire. Consumes endurance charges for extra area of effect.

Sweeps a melee weapon in a wide arc. Each successive hit increases the area of effect.

Strikes an enemy with melee, adding fire damage. Killed enemies explode, dealing fire damage to nearby foes.

Fires multiple arrows in a spread pattern. Excellent for clearing packs of monsters.

Fires a volley of arrows into the air that rain down on a target area, hitting all enemies within.

Fires an arrow that converts to lightning on impact, shocking the target and chaining to nearby enemies.

Fires an arrow that converts physical damage to cold, creating chilling ground on impact.

Fires an arrow that deals fire damage and has a chance to ignite the target for burning damage over time.

Fires arrows into the air that land as spore pods, dealing chaos damage over time in overlapping areas.

Fires a rapid sequence of arrows at a single target. Excellent for single-target boss damage.

Fires an arrow that creates a tornado at the target location, launching secondary projectiles in all directions.

Fires a bolt from a crossbow that grants power charges on kill. Increased critical strike chance per charge.

Launches a ball of fire that explodes on impact, dealing fire damage in an area. Can ignite enemies.

A ring of ice expands outward from the caster, dealing cold damage and chilling all enemies it hits.

A bolt of lightning chains between enemies, shocking each one. Chains more times with gem level.

Fires a projectile that applies chaos damage over time and heals you for a portion of the damage dealt.

Applies a chaos damage over time debuff that spreads to nearby enemies when the target dies.

Creates a slowly moving ball of lightning that repeatedly hits enemies in its path.

Creates a wall of fire that damages enemies passing through and adds fire damage to projectiles passing through it.

Releases a wave of cold that damages and slows enemies. Damage decreases with distance.

Fires projectiles of lightning that move randomly, hitting enemies they come in contact with.

Channels a beam of decay that applies chaos damage over time and hinders enemy movement.

Summons skeleton warriors that fight for you. Maximum number increases with gem level.

Raises a zombie from a nearby corpse to fight for you. Zombies have high life and deal physical damage.

Summons flaming skulls that fly toward enemies, dealing fire damage on contact.

Fires a spray of physical damage projectiles in a fan pattern. Converts to other damage types easily.

Marks an area on the ground. After a delay, lightning strikes the marked area dealing massive damage.

Creates an area of frigid ground that deals cold damage over time and generates frenzy charges.

Sends a wave of fire along the ground, dealing increased damage to burning enemies and creating burning ground.

Fires a piercing lance of bone that deals physical damage. Can consume corpses for additional projectiles.

Increases the area of effect of supported skills at the cost of slightly reduced damage.

Greatly increases spell damage of supported skills but reduces critical strike chance.

Reduces mana cost of supported skills and provides energy shield recovery on skill use.

Adds a percentage of physical damage as extra fire damage to supported skills.

Adds flat cold damage to supported skills and increases freeze chance.

Adds flat lightning damage to supported skills and increases shock effect.

Increases the attack speed of supported attack skills.

Increases the cast speed of supported spell skills.

Greatly increases the physical damage of supported melee attack skills.

Reduces the area of effect but significantly increases area damage of supported skills.

Increases the critical strike chance of supported skills.

Increases the critical strike multiplier of supported skills.

Supported spells repeat an additional time after casting, with slightly reduced damage per repeat.

Supported melee attacks repeat two additional times, hitting faster with each repeat.

Supported skills fire four additional projectiles with reduced damage per projectile.

Supported projectile skills chain to additional enemies with reduced damage per chain.

Supported projectiles pierce through enemies, hitting multiple targets in a line.

Increases the damage dealt by minions from supported skills.

Greatly increases elemental damage but prevents supported skills from inflicting elemental ailments.

Increases chaos damage of supported skills but reduces elemental damage.

Greatly increases physical damage but prevents supported skills from dealing non-physical damage.