PoE2 gem database
Skill gems
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Overwhelming Presence
While active, emits an Aura that makes enemies in your Presence easier to Stun and inflict Elemental Ailments upon.
Buff, Persistent, Aura
Pain Offering
Skewer a Skeleton on a bone spike to send nearby Minions into a frenzy as long as the spike remains, making their skills faster and harder hitting. The bone spike is itself a Minion. If it dies, the effect ends immediately.
Minion, Buff, AoE, Duration
Parry
Ready your Buckler to parry the next Hit you would take, Blocking the Hit and retaliating with a quick sweep that leaves enemies off balance, causing them to take massively increased Attack damage for a short duration. Parrying causes you to accumulate Heavy Stun buildup. You cannot Evade a Hit you could parry, but Evasion instead grants an equal chance to avoid this Heavy Stun buildup.
Attack, Melee, Physical, Duration, Channelling
Perfect Strike
Channel to charge up your weapon with Fire. Releasing with Perfect Timing will create a damaging wave of intense Fire.
Attack, AoE, Melee, Strike, Fire
Permafrost Bolts
Load your Crossbow with icy bolts that fragment in flight, damaging enemies on hit and in a small cone behind their final target. The icy coating on the bolts makes them extremely potent at Freezing enemies. These fragments can Merge.
Attack, AoE, Ammunition, Projectile, Cold
Phantasmal Arrow
Fires an arrow that embeds where it lands for a short duration. At the end of the duration, the arrow explodes in spectral flame, turning it to ashes and damaging enemies, with a high chance to Ignite. Igniting any enemy with the Explosion also applies Ignite to enemies within range.
Attack, AoE, Projectile, Fire, Duration
Pinnacle of Power
Consume all Power Charges to master the elements, gaining Elemental Damage and the ability to apply Elemental Ailments with other damage types. Can only be used while you have maximum Power Charges.
Spell, Buff, Lightning, Cold, Fire
Plague Bearer
While active, stores a portion of the Poison Damage you deal. Using this Skill unleashes the stored Poison to damage and Poison enemies around you.
Buff, Persistent, AoE, Physical, Chaos
Plasma Blast
Load your Crossbow with unstable bolts that require a lengthy charging period to fire but deal devastating damage, Pierce through enemies, and explode upon hitting terrain. Additional Projectiles are fired in a spread, unlike other Crossbow Skills.
Attack, AoE, Ammunition, Projectile, Lightning
Poisonburst Arrow
Fire a virulent arrow that creates a burst of Poison on hit, affecting all enemies in an area.
Attack, AoE, Projectile, Chaos, Duration
Pounce
Shapeshift into a Werewolf and leap to a target location, damaging enemies in an area around where you land. Predator's Mark will be Triggered targeting the highest Rarity enemy Hit, or if a Mark gem is socketed into this Skill, that Mark will be Triggered instead. Using this Skill allows any Wolf Minions you have to leap immediately.
Attack, Minion, Shapeshift, Werewolf, AoE
Power Siphon
Attempt to rip the lifeforce from an enemy. Enemies within Culling range will be highlighted and instantly killed on Hit, granting a Power Charge. Can only target Enemies in Culling range.
Spell, Physical
Powered by Verisium
Spends Ward to generate Verisium Infusions, which can be used in place of any Elemental Infusions.
Spell, Repeatable
Primal Bounty
Empowers the next Projectile Skill you use, causing it to create additional Projectiles and fly faster.
Buff, Trigger
Primal Strikes
Perform a Lightning-charged stab that can be chained into a combination of up to three attacks. The first two attacks conjure a charging Wildwood spirit if they Hit a Shocked enemy and refresh Shock duration. The third attack is a large swipe that inflicts Elemental Exposure, and can Consume Shock to conjure a stampede of spirits.
Attack, AoE, Melee, Strike, Lightning
Profane Ritual
Mark a Corpse with a profane rune, dealing Chaos damage over time to nearby enemies. When the ritual is complete the Corpse is consumed and you gain a Power Charge.
Spell, AoE, Chaos, Duration, Repeatable
Punch
Perform an Unarmed Strike.
Attack, AoE, Melee, Strike
Purity of Fire
Emit an Aura that boosts the Fire Resistance of you and Allies in your Presence.
Buff, Persistent, Aura, Fire
Purity of Ice
Emit an Aura that boosts the Cold Resistance of you and Allies in your Presence.
Buff, Persistent, Aura, Cold
Purity of Lightning
Emit an Aura that boosts the Lightning Resistance of you and Allies in your Presence.
Buff, Persistent, Aura, Lightning
Quarterstaff Strike
Strike with your Quarterstaff.
Attack, AoE, Melee, Strike
Queen's Procession
While active, Sprinting turns you into a locust swarm which deals Physical Attack damage, which is not based on your Weapon's damage, in an area around you. You take damage and gain Heavy Stun buildup if this Hits any targets, but damage you take from other sources while sprinting will not apply Heavy Stun or interrupt your sprinting.
Buff, Attack, Persistent, AoE, Physical
Raging Spirits
While active, Fire Spells you use yourself will also summon Raging Spirits, which are short-lived flaming skulls that rush at nearby enemies and rapidly Attack them, ignoring commands. Enemies will not directly engage these Minions, and can pass through them.
Buff, Minion, Persistent, Fire, Duration
Rain of Arrows
Fire a hail of arrows into the air, causing them to rain from above. Consumes a Frenzy Charge to fire more arrows.
Attack, AoE, Projectile, Sustained
Rain of Blades
Pour your Runic Ward into conjuring blades. For the duration of the Buff, these blades fall on enemies Hit by your Projectile Attacks.
Attack, Buff, AoE, Trigger, Duration
Raise Shield
Raise your Shield to Block all incoming Blockable hits. Release immediately after Blocking when an enemy is close to perform a Shield Bash, damaging and Stunning enemies. While your Shield is raised you cannot be Light Stunned by hits you Block, but Blocking too much damage may Heavy Stun you. You cannot Evade while your Shield is raised, but Evasion instead grants an equal chance to avoid this Heavy Stun buildup.
Attack, AoE, Melee, Physical, Channelling
Raise Zombie
Consume a Corpse or Power Charge to create a short-lived Zombie. Zombies created from Power Charges are Empowered and also create two additional non-empowered Zombies.
Minion, Physical, Duration
Rake
Dash towards an enemy and perform a lacerating slash, inflicting Bleeding on all enemies struck.
Attack, AoE, Melee, Strike, Physical
Rampage
Shapeshift into a Bear and charge forward, Slamming the ground as you run. Channelling ends after a short amount of time but can be prolonged by spending Rage.
Attack, Shapeshift, Bear, AoE, Melee
Rapid Assault
Perform a series of six rapid stabs. The final stab inflicts Bleeding and leaves a spearhead stuck in the target, Maiming them for a duration. Detonator Skills will cause the stuck spearheads to explode, dealing further damage to the target and other nearby enemies.
Attack, AoE, Melee, Strike, Physical
Rapid Shot
Load your Crossbow with a large clip of heated bolts. Heat builds up on your Crossbow as you fire them, and reaching maximum Heat will prevent you from firing or reloading these bolts for a short time. However, other Skills can Consume Heat for extra benefits. Using this Skill again reloads the clip.
Attack, Ammunition, Projectile, Fire
Ravenous Swarm
While active and enemies are present, swarms of insects emerge from your body to pursue nearby enemies. The swarms are untargetable Minions that Attack and Poison enemies.
Buff, Minion, Persistent, Physical, Chaos
Reap
Conjure a bloody scythe that sweeps across the targeted area, dealing Physical damage to enemies and applying Critical Weakness. Cannot be Triggered.
Spell, AoE, Physical, Duration
Reaper's Invocation
While active, gains Energy when you kill an enemy with a Melee Attack. Using the Invocation once sufficient Energy is gathered will consume the Energy to trigger socketed Spells, and can trigger them multiple times if it has enough Energy.
Buff, Persistent, Trigger, Invocation, Meta
Refutation
Spends all your Ward to gain a short-duration Buff that causes you to Block all Blockable Hits and apply Parried to enemies from which you've Blocked a Hit. This Buff is removed if you are Heavy Stunned. While this Buff is active, you cannot be Light Stunned, but Blocking too much damage may Heavy Stun you.
Buff, Spell, Duration, Repeatable
Remnants of Kalguur
While active, enemies you Stun or kill have a chance to generate a Runic Ward Remnant. These Remnants can Overflow your Runic Ward.
Buff, Persistent, Remnant
Rend
Shapeshift into a Wyvern and perform a wide slash with your wingtip claws. Consumes a Power Charge if possible to grant you a Buff that gives you extra Lightning damage. While you have the Buff, Rend covers a much larger area but is slower.
Attack, Shapeshift, Wyvern, AoE, Melee
Repulsion
Target an area and Curse enemies within with a Verisium Rune, inflicting them with Fragility. Hitting these enemies causes the Curse to Trigger an explosion to deal damage in an area and apply significant Knockback to other enemies near the Cursed target, with more Stun buildup based on the Fragility on the target Hit.
Spell, Attack, AoE, Trigger, Physical
Requiem
Your weapon passively accumulates anguish from the tormented souls within. When fully charged, use this skill to compose the Requiem, transforming your Crossbow shot into a torrent of anguish for a short, fixed amount of time. Does not use Ammunition.
Attack, AoE, Ammunition, Projectile, Cold
Resonating Shield
Repeatedly hammer your Shield with your weapon causing damaging shockwaves in an area around you. Enemies hit by the shockwave lose Armour for a duration. While Channelling Resonating Shield, your Shield is raised and you will Block all incoming Blockable hits.
Attack, AoE, Melee, Sustained, Physical
Rhoa Mount
Harnesses a Companion Rhoa you can mount while you're wielding a Bow or Spear. While mounted you can use Bow, thrown Spear, and Mark Skills, and are much less slowed while using Skills, but being Hit will cause Heavy Stun buildup. While you aren't mounted, the Rhoa will attack your enemies alongside you with its beak, but can be damaged.
Minion, Buff, Companion, Persistent
Righteous Descent
Leap into the air carried by divine wings, damaging enemies with your spear where you land. If there is a Fragment of Divinity near you or the targeted location, this attack will Consume it when you leap to become Empowered, dealing more damage and granting life and mana recovery. This skill does not use up its Cooldown when empowered.
Attack, AoE, Melee, Slam, Physical
Rite of Restoration
Place a Sigil on the ground, providing a powerful Buff to you and Allies standing in it which grants Life Regeneration and amplifies Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield. The Buff becomes more powerful the more mana you spend while standing in the Sigil.
Spell, AoE, Duration, Staged
Ritual Sacrifice
Sacrifice the Corpse of a Rare Monster to grant you its Modifiers for a duration, or gain a single random Modifier at the cost of your own life force.
Buff, Duration
Rolling Magma
Shapeshift into a Wyvern and lob a ball of magma that deals area damage as it hits the ground. The skill Chains, bouncing forward to deal damage multiple times. Impacts on Molten Fissures or Volcanos will activate them as though they were Slammed.
Attack, Shapeshift, Wyvern, AoE, Projectile
Rolling Slam
Slam the ground to Stun enemies and knock them away, then continue forward and perform a devastating second Slam.
Attack, AoE, Melee, Slam
Runic Reprieve
Channel to create a protective bubble all around you, Blocking Hits against you. While Channelling this Skill, you cannot be Light Stunned by Hits you Block, and damage you take from Hits is also removed from Runic Ward. Blocking Hits this way causes you to accumulate Heavy Stun buildup. You cannot recover Runic Ward while this Skill is active.
Spell, Channelling
Runic Tempering
Channel to imbue your armour with Runic Plates. When you are Hit while you have these plates, some of the damage you would take will be prevented, and this skill will cause backlash, dealing your Thorns damage in an area around your attacker.
Channelling
Ruzhan, the Blazing Sword
Summon Ruzhan, an invulnerable Flame Djinn Minion, to do your bidding. Ruzhan emerges to Strike enemies with his greatsword whenever you use a damaging Skill, and casts devastating Fire Spells when Commanded to do so.
Minion, Persistent, Command, Fire
Ruzhan's Fury
Ruzhan's Fury is a skill gem.
Command, AoE, Projectile, FireRuzhan's Reckoning
Ruzhan's Reckoning is a skill gem.
Command, AoE, FireRuzhan's Trap
Ruzhan's Trap is a skill gem.
Command, AoE, Projectile, Fire, Duration
Sacrifice
While active, your undead Reviving Minions can be used in place of Corpses by your skills, but your Minions Revive more slowly.
Buff, Minion, Persistent
Sanguine Revelry
Conjure hateful energy to fuel your Rage and Life. While active, Bleeding enemies you kill have a chance to spawn a Hateful Remnant, and Hitting a Bleeding target spawns a Hateful Remnant every few seconds. Picking up a Hateful Remnant grants you Rage and recovers Life based on your current Rage.
Buff, Persistent, Remnant
Savage Fury
While active, your Fury builds from Attacking enemies. Using this Skill releases your Fury to send you into a bestial frenzy, gaining damage and Onslaught but constantly losing life and forcing you into animal form. The frenzy ends immediately if you return to human form. You cannot gain Fury while in a frenzy.
Buff, Persistent, Duration
Scavenged Plating
While active, uses fragments of armour scavenged from enemies to bolster your own. Fully Breaking an enemy's Armour grants you stacks of Scavenged Plating for a duration based on the enemy's Rarity, and you gain Armour and Thorns per stack. Normal enemies grant 1 stack, Magic enemies grant 2 stacks, Rare enemies grant 5 stacks and Unique enemies grant 10 stacks.
Buff, Persistent, Physical, Duration
Seismic Cry
Perform a damaging Warcry, Knocking Back nearby enemies and Heavy Stunning enemies that are Primed for Stun. If an enemy is Heavy Stunned or a currently Heavy Stunned enemy is Hit, this Skill Empowers subsequent Slams to perform an additional Aftershock. This Skill's cooldown can be bypassed by expending an Endurance Charge.
Warcry, AoE, Physical, Nova
Shard Scavenger
While active, Consuming Freeze, Shock, Ignite, or Fully Broken Armour on an enemy reloads your Crossbow, restores one cooldown use for your Grenades and grants a Buff causing Crossbow Attacks to not consume bolts for a duration. This can only occur once every few seconds.
Buff, Persistent, Physical, Lightning, Cold
Shattering Concoction
Consume charges from your Mana Flask to throw a flask that explodes, dealing Cold Attack damage in an area and inflicting Exposure. This damage is not based on your unarmed damage, so this is not considered an Unarmed Attack
Attack, AoE, Projectile, Cold
Shattering Palm
Dash to an enemy and Strike them with an Attack that manifests a wave of cold, coating nearby enemies in shards of ice. Dealing enough damage to these enemies will shatter the shards, causing an icy explosion that deals Attack damage.
Attack, AoE, Melee, Strike, TriggerGuides using this page
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