In Path Of Exile 2 Mastering the Huntress goes beyond mere speed; it involves understanding the battleground, executing precise parries, and accumulating valuable frenzy charges. Armed with a spear and guided by innate intuition, you're designed to adjust quickly as needed. However, to really excel in Wraeclast, your strength doesn't merely come from your abilities but from refining these talents effectively.
Assistance gems serve as the unsung champions of your setup, transforming a basic strike into a whirlwind of destruction. The ideal selection isn't merely about increasing damage; it shapes your whole battle tempo. These eight assistance gems are specifically crafted for the Huntress: accurate, unforgiving, and engineered to convert each encounter into terrain perfectly suited for an Azmeri hunter.
Coursing Current
- Required Level: Can be unlocked by inscribing a Level 2 or higher Unshaped Support Gem.
- Attribute Requirement: +5 Dexterity when added to a supported Skill Gem socket.
- Attack Properties: Offers an opportunity to inflict shock damage on adjacent foes whenever utilizing compatible abilities.
Coursing Current Support enhances your spear attacks by introducing a chance to spread shock to nearby enemies upon hitting a shocked target. This synergy is particularly effective with skills like Storm Spear, allowing the initial shock to jump through enemy ranks and amplifying overall damage output. By slotting in Coursing Current Support, you can efficiently manage groups of enemies, ensuring that the shock effect debilitates multiple foes simultaneously.
The tactical edge provided by Coursing Current Support shines when battling groups of tightly clustered foes. This support gem facilitates the propagation of the shock effect, boosting both damage output and area-of-effect management. Ideal for Huntresses who specialize in lightning-powered lance setups, Coursing Current Support delivers an effective means to boost elemental harm across numerous opponents, thus serving as a crucial component in one’s combat repertoire.
Electrocute
- Required Level: Can be unlocked by inscribing a Level 2 or higher Unshaped Support Gem.
- Attribute Requirement: +5 Dexterity when added to a supported Skill Gem socket.
- Attack Properties: Enhances the power of lightning-based moves; permits lightning attacks to cause Electrocuting status but stops them from inducing Shocks.
The Electrostatic Support boosts the effect of your electrified lance attacks. This enhancement raises the harm inflicted upon stunned foes, making it essential for those who build their spears around either rapid bursts or steady elemental application. Combined with Volt weaponry or gear that deals shocks on contact, this ability allows you to maximize electrical damage and make adversaries suffer just for being close to where your hits land.
It truly shines during prolonged battles or against foes with high resistance. When straightforward stats level off, Electrocute Support enhances your impact by increasing the severity of each consecutive strike. This passive ability amplifies your effectiveness for setups aimed at sustaining shock effects, particularly benefiting classes that consistently land hits, such as the Huntress’s spear chains. If you're investing in lightning-based strategies, this gem needs to be included in your essential equipment.
Pierce
- Required Level: Available upon inscribing a Level 2 or higher Unengraved Support Gem.
- Attribute Requirement: +5 Dexterity when added to a supported Skill Gem socket.
- Attack Properties: Awards enabled for attack capabilities that can penetrate extra targets.
Pierce Support boosts your spear assaults by letting projectiles penetrate extra targets. When paired with abilities such as Barrage, this feature can obliterate several adversaries sequentially, enhancing both your total damage dealt and ability to manage groups of enemies effectively.
The strategic advantage of Pierce Support really shines in scenarios with tightly packed enemy formations. By allowing your projectiles to pierce through multiple targets, you can efficiently thin out groups of enemies, making it easier to manage large mobs and reducing the risk of being overwhelmed.
Close Combat
- Required Level: Available after etching a Level 2 or higher Unshaped Support Gem.
- Attribute Requirement: +5 Dexterity when added to a supported Skill Gem socket.
- Attack Properties: Boosts close-combat damage against surrounding foes; provides Combat Rush upon hitting an enemy, which increases the attack speed of your subsequent movement ability.
Tailored specifically for a Huntress who favors close-quarters combat with a spear, Close Combat Support dramatically boosts damage output when engaging foes up-close. This enhancement complements abilities such as Rake and Puncture perfectly, which are staples of her fighting style. The effectiveness of the gem intensifies based on strategic placement during battles, encouraging an assertive and commanding approach to engagements. For those adept at evading attacks, outmaneuvering opponents, or swiftly closing distances, this gem provides reliable and substantial rewards.
One of its biggest benefits is that it encourages momentum while still maintaining survivability, particularly when combined with mobility abilities or evasive techniques. The focus isn’t solely on dealing more damage; instead, it involves integrating powerful close-combat strikes with your usual long-range lance moves.
Martial Tempo
- Required Level: Available after etching a Level 1 or higher Unshaped Support Gem.
- Attribute Requirement: +5 Dexterity when added to a supported Skill Gem socket.
- Attack Properties: Enables quicker assaults, making them strike more rapidly.
The Martial Tempo Support boosts your attack rate and provides additional flat physical harm, which makes it perfect for aggressive build strategies. This straightforward yet powerful gem enhances your gameplay by enabling quicker combo sequences, seamless skill combinations, and increased opportunities to inflict status conditions or activate hit-triggered effects. With spear techniques, this support turns into an exceptionally smooth and potent force, allowing you to dominate opponents before they have time to respond effectively.
Since it multiplies with other velocity enhancements, Martial Tempo shines in acceleration-focused setups. It greatly aids the Huntress’s timing, acting as an unwavering metronome. This auxiliary stone helps regulate your ability usage, minimize idle moments between attacks, or sustain damage absorption more reliably within melee configurations.
Precision
- Required Level: Accessible after inscribing a Level 2 or higher Unshaped Support Gem
- Attribute Requirement: +5 Dexterity when added to a supported Skill Gem socket
- Attack Properties: Enhances precision and likelihood of dealing critical hits with supported melee attacks.
Precision Support enhances your hits with the precision of a well-honed spear. This feature offers a flat boost to accuracy, turning it into an essential component for builds focused on critical hits or those blending elements. For characters such as The Huntress who depend heavily on precise spear assaults, missing crucial moves or projectiles can disrupt their flow entirely. With Precision, this concern fades away, allowing for greater potential damage via crit-scaling improvements.
The key value of this gem lies in its excellent compatibility with the Huntress’s inherent critical strike synergies. Whether you're using a build centered around Storm Spear or focusing on a high-critical-hit-rate elemental strategy, Precision enhances both the accuracy and impact of your strikes. This gem scales smoothly via passive skills as well and works beautifully alongside elemental ailments; critical hits frequently set off reactions such as Ignite or Shock effectively.
Life Thief
- Required Level: Accessible upon inscribing a Level 2 or higher Unshaped Support Gem
- Attribute Requirement: Add +5 Strength to enable support for this Skill Gem socket.
- Attack Properties: The supported skill drains life based on a portion of the physical or elemental harm inflicted.
The Life Thief Support gem transforms your attacking power into your ultimate shield, crucial for a fragile character. class like the Huntress Each strike delivers a fraction of the inflicted damage back as health, enabling you to remain engaged in combat for extended periods, particularly during lengthy encounters with bosses or intense skirmishes with hordes of enemies. This feature is clearly advantageous for builds focused on frequent hits but can also be beneficial in element-based or mixed-strategy configurations, where endurance frequently determines victory.
A standout feature of Life Thief is its consistent passivity. There’s no need to structure your strategy specifically around it; simply maintain continuous attacks. This characteristic proves particularly valuable in rapid Huntress setups, where agility, quick reflexes, and relentless pressure yield rewards. Combining it with boosts in attack velocity or effects that cause gradual damage can create a seamless, self-perpetuating mechanism, enhancing smoothness with each strike delivered.
Fire Infusion
- Required Level: Available upon inscribing a Level 1 or higher Unshaped Support Gem.
- Attribute Requirement: +5 Strength to enable adding it to the supported Skill Gem socket.
- Attack Properties: Provides additional fire damage to supported attacks; decreases cold and lightning damage.
The Fire Infusion Support boosts your lance strikes by changing part of their impact into flame damage, offering a substantial advantage over foes weak to fire. This auxiliary stone works exceptionally well alongside abilities such as Explosive Spear, amplifying its fiery output to enhance explosive AoE effects. With the inclusion of Fire Infusion Support, your Huntress becomes adept at engulfing clusters of adversaries in flames, rendering this asset crucial for managing multiple targets and taking down singular ones efficiently.
The genuine strength of Fire Infusion Support becomes apparent when paired with equipment or abilities that boost fire damage or improve ignite effects. Using items that raise fire penetration or critical hit chances can result in extremely powerful outcomes. For Huntresses emphasizing elemental spear setups, this support gem adds a blazing enhancement that significantly sharpens your build’s effectiveness.