Path of Exile 2 and Path of Exile: Affliction Recently Asked Questions

How do Vaal versions of Transfigured Gems work?
Transfigured gems can be corrupted to Vaal versions of the gem, but the Vaal Skill that gets added to the Transfigured gem will be the normal Vaal Skill and not a Transfigured version of the Vaal Skill.

How does a split beast work on a Simplex Amulet? Will this allow magic simplex amulets with non-zero modcount?
Yes.

Does only Ice Golem have the ''of Hordes'' Transfigured variant, as shown by the third batch of Transfigured Gems?
No, all Summon Golem gems will have the "of Hordes" Transfigured variant to make up for the Anima Stone Unique Jewel no longer having the "+1 to maximum number of summoned Golems" stat, as mentioned in the patch notes.

How does Lightning Strike of Arcing's ''10% more damage per chain'' work?
It causes projectiles to deal 10% more damage for each time the projectile has chained. This stat will be reworded to be less ambiguous.

What does Dark Effigy from the Warlock of the Mists do?
Creates a Dark Effigy tethered to you. Damage you take from enemy hits is taken from the Effigy's life before yours, and 200% of damage the Effigy takes from enemy hits is taken from your life before its own. The Effigy is destroyed if you get too far away from it. The effigy is not a minion. Its life scales based on your character level.

Can you please give us the numbers for the Warden of the Maji's Barkskin skill?
Barkskin is a persistent buff that reserves 25% of your mana. Its effects are:

• Gain 1 Bark each second if you haven't been Hit by an Enemy Attack Recently
• Lose 1 Bark when Hit by an Enemy Attack
• 15% increased Armour per Bark
• -15 Physical Damage taken from Attack Hits per Bark
• 2% more chance to Evade Attacks per Bark below maximum
• Maximum 10 Bark

How about details of the Warlock's Penance Mark skill?
Whenever the marked enemy is hit, it spawns 3 phantasms, no more than once per second. The phantasms are regular enemies and will fight you while they live, but expire after a few seconds if not already killed. They grant flask charges and vaal souls when slain (but don't drop loot or leave corpses).

Is the ''Maximum 3 summoned Golems'' line from the ''of Hordes'' variants of Golem Skill Gems global or for that specific Golem?
It is specific to that instance of the skill. For example, if you have both a normal Stone Golem and an Ice Golem of Hordes socketed, you could have 3 Ice Golems summoned, or 2 Ice Golems and 1 Stone Golem, but not 3 Stone Golems. The same principle applies to different versions of the same type of Golem.

Can we please have more details about the skills of the newly shown transfigured minion gems?

• The empowered chaos DoT aura from Summon Chaos Golem of the Maelström deals approximately 2.5 times the damage of the regular version, has a duration equal to its cooldown, and 50% more area of effect. It applies Withered once per second to enemies in the storm.
• The impact from Flame Golem of the Meteor is an attack that also leaves an area of burning ground. Because Flame Golem's other skills are all spells a direct comparison isn't possible, but the damage is fairly high.
• The dash attack from Summon Reaper of Eviscerating is identical to the regular version, but has no cooldown.
• Raise Zombie of Slamming uses the same slam attack that default Raise Zombie used to use.

Does Penance Mark scale with Mark Effect? If so, what does it do?
Yes, Penance Mark scales with Mark Effect. Scaling Mark Effect increases the number of enemy Phantasms spawned.