VIEWING SKILLS FORPath of Exile 1The original game
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REVIEWED SKILL ATLAS

Skills, separated from items.

Find what a skill does, how a character gets it, what game-data tags describe it, and which reviewed builds use it. Active skills stay separate from support gems.

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Ball Lightning skill iconSkill gem · Spell / Damage / Projectile

Ball Lightning

Fires a slow-moving projectile that damages each enemy in an area around it repeatedly with bolts of lightning.

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Blazing Salvo skill iconSkill gem · Spell / Damage / Area

Blazing Salvo

Fires projectiles which fly in an arc, dealing area damage on impact with either enemies or the ground near where you target. Targeting farther away causes the projectiles to spread out and land over a wider area.

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Creeping Frost skill iconSkill gem · Spell / Projectile / ProjectilesFromUser

Creeping Frost

Fire an icy projectile that bursts on impact or when reaching the targeted area, dealing area damage and creating a chilling area that deals cold damage over time. This area will creep across the ground towards nearby enemies until its duration expires.

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Essence Drain skill iconSkill gem · Spell / Projectile / ProjectilesFromUser

Essence Drain

Fires a projectile that applies a damage over time debuff when it hits. You are healed for a portion of the debuff damage. The debuff is spread by Contagion.

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Explosive Arrow skill iconSkill gem · Attack / RangedAttack / MirageArcherCanUse

Explosive Arrow

Fires an arrow which will stick into an enemy or wall, and then explode, dealing area damage around it, either after a duration or when the maximum number of arrows stuck to that target is reached. If an enemy has multiple Explosive Arrows stuck in them, the first one to explode will consume the others, adding their damage to its explosion.

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Fireball skill iconSkill gem · Projectile / ProjectilesFromUser / Spell

Fireball

Unleashes a ball of fire towards a target which explodes, damaging nearby foes.

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Forbidden Rite skill iconSkill gem · Spell / Damage / Area

Forbidden Rite

Lobs an exploding projectile near the targeted location, and extra projectiles toward enemies around you. The projectiles deal chaos damage based on your life and energy shield. Casting this spell damages you.

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Freezing Pulse skill iconSkill gem · Spell / Projectile / ProjectilesFromUser

Freezing Pulse

An icy projectile which has a chance to freeze enemies it passes through. The projectile fades quickly, reducing damage and freezing chance until it dissipates.

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Frostbolt skill iconSkill gem · Spell / Projectile / ProjectilesFromUser

Frostbolt

Fires a slow-moving projectile that pierces through enemies, dealing cold damage.

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Lightning Arrow skill iconSkill gem · Attack / RangedAttack / MirageArcherCanUse

Lightning Arrow

Fires a charged arrow which damages enemies by causing them to be struck by a bolt of lightning, which also damages a number of surrounding enemies.

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Molten Strike skill iconSkill gem · Attack / Projectile / Area

Molten Strike

Infuses your melee weapon with molten energies to attack with physical and fire damage. This attack causes balls of molten magma to launch forth from the enemies you hit, divided amongst all enemies hit by the strike. These will deal area attack damage to enemies where they land.

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Rolling Magma skill iconSkill gem · Spell / Damage / Area

Rolling Magma

Lob a fiery orb that deals area damage as it hits the ground. The skill chains, bouncing forward to deal damage multiple times.

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Soulrend skill iconSkill gem · Spell / Area / Duration

Soulrend

Fires a projectile that turns towards enemies in front of it, damaging and piercing through those it hits, and leeching some of that damage as energy shield. As the projectile travels, it repeatedly applies a short but powerful chaos damage over time debuff to each enemy in an area around it.

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