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This guide lists the Equipment Skills available in Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2). Read on to discover detailed information about each Equipment Skill, including their effects, level requirements, and much more.
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| Skill | Tags | Equipment |
|---|---|---|
 Blink Blink While active, replaces your dodge roll with a short-cooldown Spell that allows you to tunnel through space, instantly reappearing a medium distance away.
|
Spell Persistent, Travel, |
• Sands of Silk Shrouded Vest |
 Bone Blast Bone Blast Conjures a circle of ritual inscriptions that last for a short duration. When the duration ends, spikes of bone erupt from enemies in the area, damaging them and potentially causing Bleeding.
|
Duration, Physical, AoE |
• Bone Wand • Sanguine Diviner Bone Wand |
 Bow Shot Bow Shot Fire an arrow with your Bow
|
Projectile | • All Bows |
 Cast on Block Cast on Block While active, gains Energy when you Block and triggers socketed Spells on reaching maximum Energy.
|
Persistent, Trigger, Meta |
• Svalinn Crucible Tower Shield |
 Cast on Charm Use Cast on Charm Use While active, gains Energy when one of your Charms is used and triggers socketed Spells on reaching maximum Energy.
|
Persistent, Trigger, Meta |
• Bijouborne Double Belt |
 Chaos Bolt Chaos Bolt Fires a burst of Chaos energy at the target.
|
Chaos, Projectile |
• Withered Wand |
 Chaotic Infusion Chaotic Infusion Grants your weapon Infusion. Non-Melee Projectile Attacks with that weapon consume Infusions to infuse the first Projectile fired, causing it to explode at the end of its flight.
|
AoE Chaos, |
• Spire of Ire Helix Spear |
 Crossbow Shot Crossbow Shot Fires a bolt from your Crossbow
|
Projectile, AoE | • All Crossbows |
 Decompose Decompose Consumes a Corpse to create a cloud of flammable Poisonous gas. Any Burning effects or Detonator skills will explode the gas cloud, creating a fiery explosion.
|
Chaos, Duration, AoE, Fire |
• Corpsewade Iron Greaves |
 Discipline Discipline Emits an Aura that grants Allies in your Presence additional Total Energy Shield. The Aura does not affect you.
|
Persistent, Aura |
• Stoic Sceptre |
 Ember Fusillade Ember Fusillade Conjures a blazing Ember that hovers above you. After a short duration, the Ember launches at an enemy, dealing Fire damage in an area on impact. Recasting this spell resets the duration for all active Embers. Multiple Embers fired in the same Fusillade will attempt to target different enemies.
|
Duration, Projectile, AoE, Fire |
• Dusk Vigil Ashen Staff |
 Firebolt Firebolt Launches a fiery Projectile towards a target. The Projectile explodes on impact, damaging foes in a small area.
|
Projectile, AoE, Fire |
• Ashen Staff • Dusk Vigil Ashen Staff |
 Freezing Shards Freezing Shards Launches icy Projectiles in a sweeping arc. Multiple Projectiles can hit the same enemy.
|
Cold, Projectile |
• Gelid Staff • Taryn's Shiver Gelid Staff |
 Herald of Ash Herald of Ash While active, enemies you sufficiently Overkill with attacks will cause an explosion that ignites nearby enemies based on the Overkill damage dealt.
|
Duration, Herald, AoE, Fire, Attack |
• The Coming Calamity Heroic Armour |
 Herald of Ice Herald of Ice While active, Shattering an enemy with an Attack Hit will cause an icy explosion that deals Attack damage to surrounding enemies.
|
Cold, Persistent, Herald, Payoff, AoE, Attack |
• The Coming Calamity Heroic Armour |
 Herald of Thunder Herald of Thunder While active, killing Shocked enemies with Attack damage, will cause subsequent Attack hits to release lightning bolts which deals Attack damage to all surrounding enemies.
|
Persistent, Herald, Payoff, AoE, Lightning, Attack |
• The Coming Calamity Heroic Armour |
 Lightning Bolt Lightning Bolt Call down a Shocking bolt of Lightning to strike enemies in a small area.
|
AoE, Lightning |
• Voltaic Staff • Earthbound Voltaic Staff • Choir of the Storm Jade Amulet |
 Lightning Spell Melee on Hit Lightning Spell Melee on Hit While active, gains Energy when you Hit enemies with Melee Attacks and triggers socketed Lightning spells on reaching maximum Energy.
|
Persistent, Trigger, Lightning, Meta |
• Mjolner Torment Club |
 Living Bomb Living Bomb Plant a seed of Fire inside an enemy, which grows over a duration. When the duration expires, the seed explodes, damaging the enemy and all other enemies nearby.
|
Duration, AoE, Fire |
• Pyrophyte Staff • The Searing Touch Pyrophyte Staff |
 Mace Strike Mace Strike Strike with your Mace.
|
Melee, Strike, AoE |
• All One-Handed Maces • All Two-Handed Maces |
 Malice Malice Emits an Aura that continuously inflicts Critical Weakness on enemies in your Presence.
|
Duration, Persistent, Aura |
• Omen Sceptre • Font of Power Omen Sceptre |
 Mana Drain Mana Drain Siphons power from an enemy, briefly Hindering them and Leeching Mana.
|
Meta |
• Attuned Wand • Lifesprig Attuned Wand |
 Parry Parry Ready your Buckler to parry the next Strike or Projectile that would Hit you, Blocking the Hit and retaliating with a quick sweep that leaves enemies off balance, casuing them to take increased Attack damage.
|
Melee, Physical, Channelling Duration, | • All Bucklers |
 Power Siphon Power Siphon Attempts 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.
|
Physical |
• Siphoning Wand |
 Purity of Fire Purity of Fire Emits an Aura that boosts the Fire Resistance of Allies in your Presence. The Aura does not affect you.
|
Persistent, Fire, Aura |
• Guiding Palm Shrine Sceptre • Sacred Flame Shrine Sceptre |
 Purity of Ice Purity of Ice Emits an Aura that boosts the Cold Resistance of Allies in your Presence. The Aura does not affect you.
|
Cold, Persistent, Aura |
• Guiding Palm Shrine Sceptre • Sacred Flame Shrine Sceptre |
 Purity of Lightning Purity of Lightning Emits an Aura that boosts the Lightning Resistance of Allies in your Presence. The Aura does not affect you.
|
Persistent, Lightning, Aura |
• Guiding Palm Shrine Sceptre • Sacred Flame Shrine Sceptre |
 Quarterstaff Strike Quarterstaff Strike Strike with your Quarterstaff
|
Melee, Strike, AoE | • All Quarterstaves |
 Raise Shield Raise Shield Raise your Shield to Block all incoming Blockable hits. Blocking too much damage while your shield is raised may stagger you.
|
This skill has no tags | • All Shields |
 Sigil of Power Sigil of Power Places a Sigil on the ground, providing a powerful Spell Damage Buff to you and Allies while standing in it. The Buff becomes more powerful the more mana you spend while standing in the Sigil.
|
Duration, AoE |
• The Burden of Shadows Chiming Staff • Chiming Staff |
 Skeletal Warrior Minion Skeletal Warrior Minion Summons Reviving Skeletal Warriors.
|
Physical, Persistent |
• Rattling Scepter • The Dark Defiler Rattling Scepter |
 Spark Spark Launches a spray of sparking Projectiles that travel erratically along the ground until they hit an enemy or expire.
|
Duration, Projectile, Lightning |
• Earthbound Voltaic Staff |
 Spear Stab Spear Stab Strike with your Spear
|
Melee, Strike, AoE | • All Spears |
 Spear Throw Spear Throw Hurl your Spear with force. Consumes a Frenzy Charge if you have one to cause the Spear to explode at the end of its flight.
|
Projectile, AoE | • All Spears |
 Volatile Dead Volatile Dead Consumes a Corpse to create a fireball that seeks out enemies and explodes.
|
AoE, Fire |
• Enezun's Charge Volatile Wand • Volatile Wand |
Unlike Gem Skills, the Equipment Skills are automatically made available in your Skills Menu once the item is equipped. It will be located at the very top with a square icon, this skill can not be unequipped without removing the equipment.
To use the skill, assign it to a button on the hotbar. Either drag the skill or manually input it by pressing the hotbar on the bottom right and clicking its icon.
The Equipment Skill will have 2 Support Gem slots available from the start. You can enhance the effects of your Equipment Skills by slotting Support Gems with matching tags to make them more effective.
As you progress further in the game additional Support Gem slots will become available with the fifth slot opening at level 90.
Equipment Skills are inherent skills that come with a specific type of Equipment in the game. This skill will be available to all equipment that carry the same Base Type, unless the Equipment Skill is part of a Unique Item's benefits.
| Skills | |
|---|---|
| Ascendancy Skills | Equipment Skills |
| Gem Skills | Spear Skills |
List of All Equipment Skills
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