@@Vartazian360 same, that button show more was hidden and not explained at all, i must admit coming straight from just playing poe1 the skill system feels weird now
@@zbigniewiksinskiI'm a fan of the skill system and passives, very flexible. Coming from Vanilla WOW, D2-3, and POE1(didn't gel with), I think this is the best.
ohhhh my god, i didn't know the "recommended gems" was a thing and i'm past level 30 lmao. That's gonna be soo helpful because i did feel like the support gems for some of my skills felt extremely limited and/or not very good.
Literally...This is PROBABLY the BEST TIP Path of Exile 2. I cannot believe I got baited into a support gem that didn't even work for the SKILL they recommended!!
At the end of the day, support gems are unique, cannot, and I mean cannot be used twice so what the game recommends isn't actually all that bad 90% of the time. That and you want to unlock every support gem and swap them in and out with different support skills as you progress anyways. Skill gems and support gems are very common and aren't stupid rare that you'll feel like you gimped yourself otherwise. For new players especially, turning off "recommended" is only going to make the game more complex and difficult to get into imo.
yeah most of them arent' bad recommendations, calling them all trash is a little extreme and there are so many it's overwhelming for new people to see that many on their first choice. For some skills there are clearly more viable options on the big list but they are certainly playable recommendations.
Yeah he's just saying if you are feeling your build is weak then do this. If you are okay with the damage your build is doing then keep sticking to the recommended gems. If you feel your links aren't doing as much as they should then open up all supports and see.
I didn't use the entire list until I started getting more than two slots. Then I used the list just to fill out the slots since you can't double them up.
FYI, Lacerate doen't work on Essence Drain because it is a DoT effect, and DoTs do not count as a *Hit.* Another support may add a "hit" effect to it, however, so it is allowed (but not recommended).
Similarly, Withering touch requires a hit effect *with* chaos damage. Skeletal Arsonsist don't natively do chaos damage, but it can be added via another support.
@@DarwinUA-cam it says in the gold text skill description “on hit with chaos damage” You can also hold alt and mouse over the underlined terms to read definitions of terms, it helps immensely.
actually essence drain has a hit part...The dot itself applied cannot be counted as hit and does not bleed. For essence drain to actually apply bleed you need to add physical damage ( that's the only damage that can bleed) to spells or generic physical damage overall, not physical damage to hits because essence drain even if it has a hit part is a spell....Works the same if you want to shock with a cold skill, add some lightning damage to spells or generic lightning damage, boom now your cold skill can shock, but it will not shock if you just a have a support gem that adds 40% chance to shock, without the lightning damage part.
Withering Touch does work with those skelletons. As long as they deal chaos damage, which they don't (yet). See the tags 'persistent, fire, detonator'. Unless you already have an item, passive skill or support gem that makes them deal chaos damage.
Almost all of these issues can be remedied by reading the descriptions on the support gems. Lacerate for example says that it "supports any skill that Hits enemies, giving it a chance to inflict Bleeding" - with Hits being defined as "any damage that isn't damage over time". Meanwhile Essence Drain clearly tells us that it "fires a Projectile that applies a powerful Chaos damage over time debuff". Thus we know that it won't work with Essence Drain, because it doesn't cause any damage from hits, but instead damage over time. Likewise Withering Touch says that "supported skills inflict Withered on Hit with Chaos damage", and while the attacks of Skeletal Arsonists clearly are hits, they do not inherently deal any chaos damage, and thus do not benefit from Withering Touch. If you where to add chaos damage to them however, Withering Touch would apply. By holding down the alt-key you can click on any keyword with a dotted line under it to get a fairly condensed and easy-to-digest explanation of each mechanic in the game.
The grey words - where lacerate says physical has to match one of the grey words on the active skill. Lacerate works oh physical skills and Essence Drain is Projectile, Chaos, and Duration. Withering Touch is Chaos and Duration. Skeleton Arsonist is Persistent, Fire and Detonator so it wont work. But Withering Touch would work on Essence Drain! You can socket it because its active and support but that won't mean it will have in effect.
I assumed this was going to be worthless fluff.. It was actually useful. I was baited for the first few support gems. This near-hidden option is very useful. Good work and thanks
They showed this in the preview clips. They didn't show how but I just looked around the pop up and bam found it right off the batt. Hope this finds everyone. Game changing
Essence Drain explains that it applies a damage of time (dot) affect and not that it "hits" an enemy so the lacerate won't work with that one. Also Withering Touch says that it applies a stack of wither on any "chaos" hit. Unless you get the passive to "give all minions 8% of all damage counted as chaos damage" that support gem would not work with minions.
Keep in mind not every ability works with every gem. Don't unlock a gem that increases spell area by 40% if you're using a warrior attack which likely is not a "spell".
It worls conditionally. ED has a hit and a dot. Why do you reckon a dot skill has any hit damage? Well, it is because that way, it can trigger on hit effects properly. For example, if you take a node or item that adds extra physical damage on hit to spells, then you can trigger bleed. Because it is technically possible, the game allows socketing that gem.
I circumvented the recommendations by navigating to the menus that shows all skills for each color. Turning off the recommendations is news to me. That'll definitely narrow down my searches and reading.
Great tips. And for the devs, too. My theory on why some gems are allowed with some skills, despite not working with the base skill, as is: Maybe there's a way to spec passives, use items, or combine support gems to ie. make Arsonists do chaos damage, that then could inflict withering? Or ie. make essence drain deal physical damage that could then cause bleeding?
For those who are unsure, the support gems do “work” with essence drain etc. however the negative effects have specific requirements to apply. For example wither only gets applied by a chaos hit, if your skewed have added chaos to their attack it will work unless the support gem states its not compatible with minions. And for bleed it requires physical hit. From memory ed has a small hit on application but it’s chaos, so unless physical is added somehow you will not get a bleed. Hope this helps o7
Quick note here regarding the bleed support gem. It's not a bug. The support gem has 2 requirements: 1 is that you place it in a support skill that it's compatible with. In your case, with essence drain. The other requirement is that the skill that essence drain is supporting needs to have the physical tag. Your skills didn't. Only your warrior skeletons had a physical tag, which is why it worked for them.
Oh I thought this was gonna be something else haha While I didn't see the "show recommended gems" option. I always just pressed on "all gems" haha I luckily figured that out pretty quickly vs my friend who found out about it today after I told him lol
Aaaah, man! Just discovered the support gems yesterday and spent all seven of them on the recommended. 😤 I hope I didn’t miss out on even better Upgrades.
Biggest "tip" I'm not seeing anywhere is that weapon swapping is more accessible. They made everyone work like d4 barb where you press the skill and auto switch. Really opens up build options imo
The bleed gem says "Hits". Essence drain does not "Hit". Hold Alt when hovering over any item to lock the tooltip then hover over any underlined word to learn more about it. Key words are the key to understanding this game. Good luck, Exile.
It shows that it works because there are ways to support skills and make them do physical for instance. It does mean you have to be careful and read and think about all the mechanics, which is good IMO. Makes it more fun to test stuff. Also another tip, bleed works off the size of the hit that triggered it. So little dinky hits will only do tiny bleeds. Same goes for ignite. There are ways to boost all of that on gear and on passives, but for minions it usually has to specifically mention minions.
some support - skill combinations are allowed under the pretense that you might want to add it to another support gem on the same skill. For example, there are support gems that buff poison somehow, and you can apply them to skills that don't poison, because you might also insert the envenom gem for poison chance. In other cases, like with essence drain, it could easily be that the initial hit can do an effect but not the status that comes after. That is to say maybe your drains could apply lacerates bleed on hit, just not from the chaos dot the ability is actually for
I was wondering where I could turn off recommendations, after I heard them say you can do this in an interview. Completely missed this checkmark, thanks
Ah! Holy crap! I did not know this, this is huge for me. I have been stashing a lot of Support Gems because most of the "Recommend" nerf the ability in some significant way.
Nice. Beginner Tip: Uncheck the beginner filter so that you're overwhelmed and have no idea what to pick and will likely choose something either suboptimal or flat out useless.
The recommended are flat out useless, there's actually recommended gems that don't even work for the skill it's recommended for, you can socket it but it doesn't work
it would still be nice if the non supported support gems would be greyed out so we don't waste our time going thru them all... Withering touch does mention hits with chaos damage which arsonist do not do so yea they need to block the interactions that don't work for sure
Your example for essence drain and lacerate actually works but not really. Lacerate can support any skill that Hits and Essence Drain Hits initially. But bleed scales with physical damage and Essence drain do not. So you can put lacerate but ED can bleed but won't deal damage. Unless there's a way to get phys damage to WD, then it will.
It, in fact, does NOT say that it is supported. You gotta look at the skill and damage type tags just above "Support Requirements". In fairness, this isn't obvious to new players. Just the ones coming from POE1. So GGG should add it to the tutorial.
I learned this from some other video but I'm still commenting for the algorithm cause this should reach every single poe2 player. This is a game changer and it's weird that recommended gem option is default as it's straight up cheeks. It could be useful but it's far too simplified.
Okay this makes me feel better. I was kinda disappointed when I saw there were only three choices each time haha. I was like “I thought the whole schtick of this game were these crazy combos!” I know it’s probably somewhere and I should have read it was a thing but I was just having fun with the gear and the bosses. Solid vid my man!
It's the design choice to limit the player because they (rightly) can't trust the average player to figure things out on their own. It's annoying for anyone with a couple brain cells to rub together, sure, but it there to herd the normies into making choices that might actually make them better players.
@@KhronicD I mean it has nothing to do with being a normie or whatever. These recommended gems exist because it is proven psychological fact. Across every thing in our lives it is consistently true that people, when presented with a handful of options vs a isle in a store overwhelmingly prefer being presented fewer but more distinct options. Even more so with video games people largely want to be able to make a decision fairly quickly and not have to scroll through a list of dozens upon dozens of support gems and say "hmm this one gives aoe that could be nice, but this one gives spell crit chance hmm but this one gives increased chance to chill but this one gives more stun threshold." It's also just more new player/user friendly. If you're not familiar with something, not just in gaming, you don't want to be bombarded with 50 different options and you have no knowledge to assess what the differences are and how those differences could be meaningful to you based on the application. To a random person a socket wrench may appear just as good as a torque wrench or even an impact driver but in reality all of them have slightly different applications where they suit the job better.
I'm lucky I saw this video. I would make myself look stupid otherwise. I was planning to write on Steam a topic, how support gem system is bad, because you have to craft all kind of skills and then look for a skill that allow you to craft your wanted support gem 😂 Turns out, I was just looking for a skill with specific recomended support gems 😂
I'd also like to point out to players. To look at the advanced information because the support gems aren't always telling the truth. For example the support gem that adds duration. On contagion it goes from 12 seconds to 19.38 seconds that is more than 40%. Where I was originally going to use it unearth I can't remember the exact numbers but it was only like a 20% increase. Frag grenade decreased in damage when I put lightning damage on it. Where flashbangs went up buy a lot.
Wow. Did not know that. I went through all the options in the game settings and did not expect a hidden setting like this. Maybe that could have been added to the tutorial.
I discovered this around level 12, up till then i was feelimg rather disappointed with support gems. When i saw that stupid little box i was like oooh thank god. Still a little disappointed with support gems but at least you have options.
Just started play 2 days and no idea about anything but love this game!! What is the Gem that grants 40% extra area effect? i look in list but can not find it. Warrior is such a fantastic class. Love mine!
Im playing on Xbox, already showed me all options instead of recommended, but if you keep scrolling until you get to "all magic skills" etc. it will let you make gems you already made and have equip. So I totally wasted one and just have a double of a gem selected. All the recommendation stuff on the first couple pages wont let you make stuff you already did.
PoE2 NEEDS to add the ability TO SEE the window that shows what skills a support gem CAN be attached and what they CAN NOT be attached to, when LOOKING AT THE "GEMCUTTING Support Gems" window. The window showing what skills a gem can be placed in ONLY SHOWS AFTER A GEM IS CUT. It's a little late at that point? WHY can't you see the window BEFORE a gem is cut so you know EXACTLY what your options might be?
Yeah I had an Ice move on my Monk that a support gem made it from being spammed rapidly into an only ending move so I would have to do 5 hits or so then I was able to use that ice skill I ripped that thing off so quick like nope not on my skill Then I already knew about what you just talked about and I'm running a full lightning build, so I unchecked recommend and found a support skill for adding shock onto my already shock skill and made it even better
I as well suggest anyone to really just look and read every single support skill you can even add rage to a brutal attack move and make yourself rage out
1) you just have to READ and press ALT to see what it says. 2)You don't waste gems, you can stash the gems and use it for other characters, you'll get more than you need and you can farm them. 3)Recommended gems are there for a reason. They DO work and are good most of the times and assure it will proc with a certain skill. However there are in fact better options a lot of the times, it just depends on your build.
I’m level 30 and I had no idea about this until now
Sure you didn't
@@NOT-A-Monolith lol. im lvl 22 and i didnt know either. Chill man.
@@Vartazian360 same, that button show more was hidden and not explained at all, i must admit coming straight from just playing poe1 the skill system feels weird now
@@zbigniewiksinskiI'm a fan of the skill system and passives, very flexible. Coming from Vanilla WOW, D2-3, and POE1(didn't gel with), I think this is the best.
I'm level 3 and I knew it. Because I watched the video when I was level 2.
im level 44.. this pissed me off. i completly missed this.
Dude i feel u. Me smart as* 33 years old software developer didnt saw that tiny stupid button either 😅
Lol Just learn to read
ohhhh my god, i didn't know the "recommended gems" was a thing and i'm past level 30 lmao. That's gonna be soo helpful because i did feel like the support gems for some of my skills felt extremely limited and/or not very good.
Literally...This is PROBABLY the BEST TIP Path of Exile 2. I cannot believe I got baited into a support gem that didn't even work for the SKILL they recommended!!
At the end of the day, support gems are unique, cannot, and I mean cannot be used twice so what the game recommends isn't actually all that bad 90% of the time. That and you want to unlock every support gem and swap them in and out with different support skills as you progress anyways. Skill gems and support gems are very common and aren't stupid rare that you'll feel like you gimped yourself otherwise. For new players especially, turning off "recommended" is only going to make the game more complex and difficult to get into imo.
yeah most of them arent' bad recommendations, calling them all trash is a little extreme and there are so many it's overwhelming for new people to see that many on their first choice. For some skills there are clearly more viable options on the big list but they are certainly playable recommendations.
Yeah he's just saying if you are feeling your build is weak then do this. If you are okay with the damage your build is doing then keep sticking to the recommended gems. If you feel your links aren't doing as much as they should then open up all supports and see.
Agreed
I didn't use the entire list until I started getting more than two slots. Then I used the list just to fill out the slots since you can't double them up.
Is there a recommendation in this game?? Where?? I dont think i notice this
FYI, Lacerate doen't work on Essence Drain because it is a DoT effect, and DoTs do not count as a *Hit.* Another support may add a "hit" effect to it, however, so it is allowed (but not recommended).
Similarly, Withering touch requires a hit effect *with* chaos damage. Skeletal Arsonsist don't natively do chaos damage, but it can be added via another support.
@@adamwebster1666 is it explained somewhere that u have to do chaos damage?
@@DarwinUA-cam it says in the gold text skill description “on hit with chaos damage”
You can also hold alt and mouse over the underlined terms to read definitions of terms, it helps immensely.
@@DarwinUA-cam Yes it is.
actually essence drain has a hit part...The dot itself applied cannot be counted as hit and does not bleed. For essence drain to actually apply bleed you need to add physical damage ( that's the only damage that can bleed) to spells or generic physical damage overall, not physical damage to hits because essence drain even if it has a hit part is a spell....Works the same if you want to shock with a cold skill, add some lightning damage to spells or generic lightning damage, boom now your cold skill can shock, but it will not shock if you just a have a support gem that adds 40% chance to shock, without the lightning damage part.
Withering Touch does work with those skelletons. As long as they deal chaos damage, which they don't (yet). See the tags 'persistent, fire, detonator'.
Unless you already have an item, passive skill or support gem that makes them deal chaos damage.
this is the shortest, most concise information i have ever seen dropped from Khakis
Almost all of these issues can be remedied by reading the descriptions on the support gems. Lacerate for example says that it "supports any skill that Hits enemies, giving it a chance to inflict Bleeding" - with Hits being defined as "any damage that isn't damage over time". Meanwhile Essence Drain clearly tells us that it "fires a Projectile that applies a powerful Chaos damage over time debuff". Thus we know that it won't work with Essence Drain, because it doesn't cause any damage from hits, but instead damage over time. Likewise Withering Touch says that "supported skills inflict Withered on Hit with Chaos damage", and while the attacks of Skeletal Arsonists clearly are hits, they do not inherently deal any chaos damage, and thus do not benefit from Withering Touch. If you where to add chaos damage to them however, Withering Touch would apply. By holding down the alt-key you can click on any keyword with a dotted line under it to get a fairly condensed and easy-to-digest explanation of each mechanic in the game.
Wow, derp. They really need to point this out… I’m convinced I wouldn’t have noticed that until a few hundred more hours or more.
The grey words - where lacerate says physical has to match one of the grey words on the active skill. Lacerate works oh physical skills and Essence Drain is Projectile, Chaos, and Duration. Withering Touch is Chaos and Duration. Skeleton Arsonist is Persistent, Fire and Detonator so it wont work. But Withering Touch would work on Essence Drain! You can socket it because its active and support but that won't mean it will have in effect.
I assumed this was going to be worthless fluff.. It was actually useful. I was baited for the first few support gems. This near-hidden option is very useful. Good work and thanks
They showed this in the preview clips. They didn't show how but I just looked around the pop up and bam found it right off the batt. Hope this finds everyone. Game changing
Wow, this might be the best tip ive seen yet. I had no idea about this and haven’t seen this addressed in any other vid. Kudos
Essence Drain explains that it applies a damage of time (dot) affect and not that it "hits" an enemy so the lacerate won't work with that one. Also Withering Touch says that it applies a stack of wither on any "chaos" hit. Unless you get the passive to "give all minions 8% of all damage counted as chaos damage" that support gem would not work with minions.
Thank you for this, i just got to level 12 and ran out of the recommended support gems that felt useful in any way
I haven't seen one of your vides since the Calus raid guide way back in th early days of Destiny 2! Good to see you're still at it!!!
I've been using the ignito gem on my spark and always wondered why it didn't work even if it let me equip it. Now I'm lost again
Subbing for damn good and to the point information, no BS filler. Thanks keep up the awesome works
Absolutely the best tip.
I instantly subscribed to your channel 👍
God dammit this makes so much sense, its all about the KEYWORDS. I was wondering why literally nothing I was trying was working
I want to cry, half of me wants to start anew, the other half wants to salvage what I've lost...
thanks for mentioning that support gems don't always work as advertised. i was pulling my hair out trying to figure out what was going wrong
Keep in mind not every ability works with every gem. Don't unlock a gem that increases spell area by 40% if you're using a warrior attack which likely is not a "spell".
It worls conditionally. ED has a hit and a dot. Why do you reckon a dot skill has any hit damage? Well, it is because that way, it can trigger on hit effects properly. For example, if you take a node or item that adds extra physical damage on hit to spells, then you can trigger bleed. Because it is technically possible, the game allows socketing that gem.
Thanks! You got a new subscriber
I circumvented the recommendations by navigating to the menus that shows all skills for each color. Turning off the recommendations is news to me. That'll definitely narrow down my searches and reading.
Great tips. And for the devs, too.
My theory on why some gems are allowed with some skills, despite not working with the base skill, as is:
Maybe there's a way to spec passives, use items, or combine support gems to ie. make Arsonists do chaos damage, that then could inflict withering? Or ie. make essence drain deal physical damage that could then cause bleeding?
Best tip so far! Thumb up.
Thank you so much for this video! What a life saver!
For those who are unsure, the support gems do “work” with essence drain etc. however the negative effects have specific requirements to apply. For example wither only gets applied by a chaos hit, if your skewed have added chaos to their attack it will work unless the support gem states its not compatible with minions. And for bleed it requires physical hit. From memory ed has a small hit on application but it’s chaos, so unless physical is added somehow you will not get a bleed. Hope this helps o7
Quick note here regarding the bleed support gem. It's not a bug. The support gem has 2 requirements: 1 is that you place it in a support skill that it's compatible with. In your case, with essence drain. The other requirement is that the skill that essence drain is supporting needs to have the physical tag. Your skills didn't. Only your warrior skeletons had a physical tag, which is why it worked for them.
He literally says that in the video lol did you pause it to type that comment out and then click off the video?
Oh I thought this was gonna be something else haha
While I didn't see the "show recommended gems" option. I always just pressed on "all gems" haha I luckily figured that out pretty quickly vs my friend who found out about it today after I told him lol
Aaaah, man! Just discovered the support gems yesterday and spent all seven of them on the recommended. 😤
I hope I didn’t miss out on even better Upgrades.
I started this video expecting something lame. My jaw dropped, I never noticed that checkmark before! This was a legit tip! 👍
O.M.G.
Thanks !!!!!!
Didnt saw that tiny button and iam even shocked that they have that on default activated instead of asking the player....
Thank you for this video, I had no idea this was possible.
I have tons of spare gems, how do you waste them?
Damn, I've been selling them because I thought I only had three to make, and I made them all. Thank you.
Biggest "tip" I'm not seeing anywhere is that weapon swapping is more accessible. They made everyone work like d4 barb where you press the skill and auto switch. Really opens up build options imo
This was the first good advice so far.
The bleed gem says "Hits". Essence drain does not "Hit".
Hold Alt when hovering over any item to lock the tooltip then hover over any underlined word to learn more about it.
Key words are the key to understanding this game. Good luck, Exile.
It shows that it works because there are ways to support skills and make them do physical for instance. It does mean you have to be careful and read and think about all the mechanics, which is good IMO. Makes it more fun to test stuff. Also another tip, bleed works off the size of the hit that triggered it. So little dinky hits will only do tiny bleeds. Same goes for ignite. There are ways to boost all of that on gear and on passives, but for minions it usually has to specifically mention minions.
As soon as I heard his intro I checked to see if even the clips have 10+ minutes lol
I knew about the recommended tick box, but on monk most of the recommendations are pretty solid so far. :)
some support - skill combinations are allowed under the pretense that you might want to add it to another support gem on the same skill.
For example, there are support gems that buff poison somehow, and you can apply them to skills that don't poison, because you might also insert the envenom gem for poison chance.
In other cases, like with essence drain, it could easily be that the initial hit can do an effect but not the status that comes after. That is to say maybe your drains could apply lacerates bleed on hit, just not from the chaos dot the ability is actually for
Holy shit dude im glad i caught this early on. Thank you so much
Brother that first tip was fucking "S" tier Thanks sooo much!!!!
Level 23, it's crazy I didn't even notice that checkbox, thanks for sharing!
I was wondering where I could turn off recommendations, after I heard them say you can do this in an interview. Completely missed this checkmark, thanks
Wither will work on your arsonists, but only if you also make them do some chaos damage.
Ah! Holy crap! I did not know this, this is huge for me. I have been stashing a lot of Support Gems because most of the "Recommend" nerf the ability in some significant way.
Nice. Beginner Tip: Uncheck the beginner filter so that you're overwhelmed and have no idea what to pick and will likely choose something either suboptimal or flat out useless.
The recommended are flat out useless, there's actually recommended gems that don't even work for the skill it's recommended for, you can socket it but it doesn't work
I hate you for not letting me know earlier, and I love you for letting me know now.
Hi Kackis I'm subscribed to your D2 channel but glad your covering PoE. Please do more content for this game 👍
Wither support only works on Chaos damaging abilities. Skeleton Arsonists do fire damage. Wither literally says "Chaos" in its keywords.
it would still be nice if the non supported support gems would be greyed out so we don't waste our time going thru them all... Withering touch does mention hits with chaos damage which arsonist do not do so yea they need to block the interactions that don't work for sure
There is a way to make it work, so it's allowed. Not the most intuitive and definitely easily misunderstood.
Dear god... I had no idea... I thought those were the only options... why the hell would they do this haha!? My god thank you for this!
Your example for essence drain and lacerate actually works but not really.
Lacerate can support any skill that Hits and Essence Drain Hits initially. But bleed scales with physical damage and Essence drain do not. So you can put lacerate but ED can bleed but won't deal damage.
Unless there's a way to get phys damage to WD, then it will.
What's the keyboard shortcut for gems and support gems?
The meditation skill - 25% faster attack speed is pretty awesome and not recommended for many great skills.
bleed is a physical damage debuff of course it doesn't work with essence drain (unless you add phys damage somehow)
OMG . 16 Hours in...Thank you so much!
My goodness. Thank you for explaining this.
It says right there, that Lacerate supports any skill that HITS enemies. Dot skills does not hit. But yeah, we shouldn't be able to put the gem there.
It, in fact, does NOT say that it is supported. You gotta look at the skill and damage type tags just above "Support Requirements". In fairness, this isn't obvious to new players. Just the ones coming from POE1. So GGG should add it to the tutorial.
I learned this from some other video but I'm still commenting for the algorithm cause this should reach every single poe2 player. This is a game changer and it's weird that recommended gem option is default as it's straight up cheeks. It could be useful but it's far too simplified.
Okay this makes me feel better. I was kinda disappointed when I saw there were only three choices each time haha. I was like “I thought the whole schtick of this game were these crazy combos!” I know it’s probably somewhere and I should have read it was a thing but I was just having fun with the gear and the bosses. Solid vid my man!
It's the design choice to limit the player because they (rightly) can't trust the average player to figure things out on their own. It's annoying for anyone with a couple brain cells to rub together, sure, but it there to herd the normies into making choices that might actually make them better players.
@@KhronicD yes and no. Most people when new or a noob at something need to warm up. never skip warm up, may injure urself.
@@KhronicD I mean it has nothing to do with being a normie or whatever. These recommended gems exist because it is proven psychological fact. Across every thing in our lives it is consistently true that people, when presented with a handful of options vs a isle in a store overwhelmingly prefer being presented fewer but more distinct options. Even more so with video games people largely want to be able to make a decision fairly quickly and not have to scroll through a list of dozens upon dozens of support gems and say "hmm this one gives aoe that could be nice, but this one gives spell crit chance hmm but this one gives increased chance to chill but this one gives more stun threshold." It's also just more new player/user friendly. If you're not familiar with something, not just in gaming, you don't want to be bombarded with 50 different options and you have no knowledge to assess what the differences are and how those differences could be meaningful to you based on the application. To a random person a socket wrench may appear just as good as a torque wrench or even an impact driver but in reality all of them have slightly different applications where they suit the job better.
❤🎉 Tq so much for this tips.
I'm lucky I saw this video. I would make myself look stupid otherwise. I was planning to write on Steam a topic, how support gem system is bad, because you have to craft all kind of skills and then look for a skill that allow you to craft your wanted support gem 😂 Turns out, I was just looking for a skill with specific recomended support gems 😂
Thank you for this effective tip! May I ask how to add slots for support gems?
Because right now, every skill gem is limited to 2 support gems only.
Lesser jeweler's orbs. They will start dropping as you progress, or can be purchased through trade.
I'd also like to point out to players. To look at the advanced information because the support gems aren't always telling the truth. For example the support gem that adds duration. On contagion it goes from 12 seconds to 19.38 seconds that is more than 40%. Where I was originally going to use it unearth I can't remember the exact numbers but it was only like a 20% increase. Frag grenade decreased in damage when I put lightning damage on it. Where flashbangs went up buy a lot.
Great tip!
Wow. Did not know that. I went through all the options in the game settings and did not expect a hidden setting like this. Maybe that could have been added to the tutorial.
I discovered this around level 12, up till then i was feelimg rather disappointed with support gems. When i saw that stupid little box i was like oooh thank god.
Still a little disappointed with support gems but at least you have options.
lol thank you. i was slotting in every skill gems to look at different support gems instead of doing this.
Just started play 2 days and no idea about anything but love this game!! What is the Gem that grants 40% extra area effect? i look in list but can not find it. Warrior is such a fantastic class. Love mine!
Broooo thanks. I'm only level 14, i was wondering why the supporter gems seemed limited
It says clearly it has to be physical dmg. It won't always work because you're not reading the description
Nice tip. Its even more complicated to find recommended options tab in console view on pc
What's the difference between support skill levels? 1-2-3 they all give same thing
If ur using controller or on console it shows the dex, str, and int support tabs.
saw it first day.. but it's a great tip!
Im playing on Xbox, already showed me all options instead of recommended, but if you keep scrolling until you get to "all magic skills" etc. it will let you make gems you already made and have equip. So I totally wasted one and just have a double of a gem selected. All the recommendation stuff on the first couple pages wont let you make stuff you already did.
wither effect on arsonists might be usable, but, on the command to detonate a weak minion's aoe, and not their standard attack?
Welcome to early access. Stuff will break then they update. Im more then happy to help out with the polishing.
I don't see this on console. There is no option to turn off recommendations. Anyone else notice this?
It should have the full list but have the recommended ones up top and high lighted
My game doesn’t have that check box?
PoE2 NEEDS to add the ability TO SEE the window that shows what skills a support gem CAN be attached and what they CAN NOT be attached to, when LOOKING AT THE "GEMCUTTING Support Gems" window. The window showing what skills a gem can be placed in ONLY SHOWS AFTER A GEM IS CUT. It's a little late at that point? WHY can't you see the window BEFORE a gem is cut so you know EXACTLY what your options might be?
I accidentally deleted a support gem. can I get it back?
Yeah I had an Ice move on my Monk that a support gem made it from being spammed rapidly into an only ending move so I would have to do 5 hits or so then I was able to use that ice skill
I ripped that thing off so quick like nope not on my skill
Then I already knew about what you just talked about and I'm running a full lightning build, so I unchecked recommend and found a support skill for adding shock onto my already shock skill and made it even better
I as well suggest anyone to really just look and read every single support skill you can even add rage to a brutal attack move and make yourself rage out
1) you just have to READ and press ALT to see what it says.
2)You don't waste gems, you can stash the gems and use it for other characters, you'll get more than you need and you can farm them.
3)Recommended gems are there for a reason. They DO work and are good most of the times and assure it will proc with a certain skill. However there are in fact better options a lot of the times, it just depends on your build.
do you get more support gems as you play? the earlier levels ?
yes
I did not know this thanks you
on controller the menu is different mine has tabs for str Dex and int gems. why is that only on controller?
no way you guys are in act 3 finding this out. geeze you learn everyday huh
I wouldn't worry if you wasn't aware of this near enough an endless supply of them anyway from mob drops
The green check mark when you hover over skill get LIES
Act 2 I figured it out. Now I need int to use the ones I like.