PoE New Gems for the Expansion: War for the Atlas from buzai232's blog

With the recent release of “War for the Atlas” (PoE 3.1), I have noticed there aren’t a lot of resources outlining the Buy Path of Exile items New Gems (active and support skill gems). This won’t serve as a guide but rather as a breakdown to give an idea of what to expect before you dive in! New POE Active Skill Gems Here is a brief look at all the active POE skill gems pulled from the 3.1 patch notes. Vulnerability: Has had a change and has been divided into two separate gems.

The physical portion of it is now a Strength POE Skill Gem that curse’s all targets in an area, causing them to take increased physical damage and increased physical damage over time. Attacks against cursed enemies have a chance to inflict bleeding and maim. Despair: is the damage over time component and is now an Intelligence Skill POE Gem that curses all targets in an area, making them less resistant to chaos damage and causing them to take increased damage over time. Cursed enemies also take additional chaos damage when hit.

Existing Vulnerability skill gems have become DeIs an Intelligence & Dexterity POE Skill Gem that appears to be a new movement ability option. It functions similarly to Lightning Warp though it requires a corpse to target for the movement portion. Its potential for damage could be ok as it is based on the life of the corpse (3% fire damage based on life). It has a 0.8s base cast time as opposed to Lightning Warp’s 1.0s. Be aware it does not have a chance to critically strike.

Volatile Dead: Is an Intelligence & Dexterity POE Skill Gem which seems to now give us the chance to give monsters a taste of their own Volatiles!! It will cause corpses near the targeted location to explode, dealing damage in a small area (this won’t be the skills source of damage as it does not scale to spell damage), and creating an orb which moves towards nearby enemies before dealing damage in a larger area. The orb appears to be able to off screen, and there is no limit to the amount of orbs you can have at one time. The delay between the corpse exploding and the orb spawning may make it feel clunky but a less duration support could potentially change that.Click Here