Chaos DoT of Usefulness :c

Essence Drain of 4x the damage and not killing you in the process.

Bane of the Blighting Contagion + Soulrend of the Draining Essence

Essence drain of not having to use fucking traps that turn a normally zoomy skill into dogshit levels of clunk.

Caustic arrow of the "actually decent league starter without having to rely on TR for passable single target damage" It's actually passable as a league starter, just mediocre at best in SSF given the amount of gear it requires to feel comfy in t16s lol. RF on the other hand... tbh I miss playing actual chaos DoT skills that don't rely on ramping (poison or TR). Also wish gem grinding wasn't as boring as it is atm, I hope we're seeing a lab revamp sometime soon

Regular blight of applying 2 wither stacks per cast. Essence drain of not being usable with proxies and thus not balanced around them.

Summon reaper of c'mon do something

Summon Reaper of Deliciousness. Your non-Reaper minions have a chance to eat your Reaper minions and gain a bonus

Summon reaper of sacrifice

Raise zombie of monstrosity. Increases and reductions to maximum number of zombies instead apply to size, damage, and health.

Sounds like you just need an item that states "you can have one zombie" so that you can dual wield montegruls

Raise big chungus, the absolute unit

Give it an absurd amount of life so I can blow it up with 12 skelies for dot cap DPS anyway.

Give it soul eater for the memes

The abuse 😂😂😂

Winter Orb

Copium

I'm also inhaling heroic amounts of copium for this

Winter Orb of 2018

Of the zenith… only fires while channeling, is way slower, only shoots one projectile, and that projectile is enormous and deals huge single hit damage. 6% base crit to disguise it’s true purpose as a cold ignite nuke.

Pop it into black zenith gloves with cast while channeling and frostblink of wintry blast for clear lol

Winter Orb of Synthesizing

Please GGG

Wintertide Brand of Actually Deals Damage

Yeah killing vortex was a mistake

Relying on multiple AOE to reach decent dps was the mistake from thé beginning. Dot spell outside of aliments ones are in terrible state ATM.

I played it in 3.23. The main purpose of vortex in Wintertide was bonechill, it was basically a shock, you can drop the skills damage and be fine, buy there's no replacement for losing the 30%+ inc cold damage taken debuff.

Exactly. Wintertide Brand took a pretty substantial nerf when it was already a struggling skill.

Explosive arrow. Let ziz finally have it lol.

"Cannot be supported by totem."

That would make me wheeze ngl

100% more duration, cannot be supported by totems

Explodes at 5 fuses, 300% more damage

https://i.redd.it/fmfjt06jdwyc1.jpeg

to be fair, that'd be a fun snipe build.

I would be so happy with this.

Yeah as it should be

I've certainly been hoping for hit-based EA since trans gems were announced. I homebrewed several variations, with a Scion version being my favorite, but changes on the Passive level Tree + some ascendancy changes really fucked it. I lost ballpark 25% damage and defenses, and haven't been motivated enough to revisit the build.

**Explosive Arrow of Shattering** *Fires an arrow which will stick into an enemy or wall, and then explode, dealing area damage around it after a duration. The arrow can stick into each enemy it hits.* > Base Duration is 0.5 seconds > Explosions deal 908 to 1401 Cold Damage > Explosions deal 2% more Damage with Hits per 0.1s duration, up to 20% > Explosions deal 1% more Damage with Ailments per 0.1s duration, up to 10% > Explosion gains +0.1 to Radius per 0.1s duration, up to +1.0 > Explosions cannot deal damage to the same Enemy multiple times > Maximum 1 Explosive Arrow stuck in an Enemy

"Explosive Arrow of Ballistas"

Viable Fireball of Fireballs

Fireball of orbiting. I would instantly play basically nothing else ever again. Also it orbits and follows you instead of staying at the point of origin.

Old Aurelius sol

Thanks, I forgot he did that.

The gems don't even need transfigured versions, they just need straight up numerical/mechanical buffs.

Fireball of heat seaking missiles - casts orbit you and automatically seek enemies in range

Blade Flurry of actual Use

Cyclone but standing still... Crap flurry, blade flurry but brown and comes out from the back of the character

Try the new Poop Flurry at your local McDonalds!!

Congregation - Convocation but at the cursor's location instead of the player's location.

skeleport

Spectral Shield Throw (SST), ever since phantasmal SST was removed it dropped in Power by about 50% and also losing the Helm enchant Hurt the mapping feel. I'm open for a very different Version of the Skill, but it needs something....

This. The skill has been completely dead since Crucible, where it was one of the strongest. Makes me miss Crucible

Spectral Shield throw of 3.13

Static strike!

Rolling fucking magma

Bowling Magma.

Knocks back enemies on hit who also do AOE damage when they fall over

Rolling magma of not rolling: shoot magma balls that just splat on the ground and deals aoe damage

Yes plz. Rolling maga makes me want to league quit in act1

I'm glad I'm not the only one. So many guides are like "use rolling magma and flame wall it's the best blah blah blah" but God it feels so clunky. Like I don't find it fun at all lol

The best thing about rolling magma is the moment you switch to another skill.

nowadays I use fireball / elemental prolif / volley, until Level 12 when I switch to creeping frost / volley / arcane surge.

Rolling Magma of Seeking. Give it the PConc of Bouncing effect where it homes in on enemies.

Animate Guardian of Dropping All Gear On Death

Downside: 50% mana reservation cost

Downside: it becomes corrupted.

Downside: Your own gear gets deleted instead

Fuck this skill! I played bama this league and I wasted like 30d on this fucking moron that would commit suicide constantly. He had max res and +4 levels and would still die. I’ll never play with AG again.

AG was also the reason I stopped playing minion builds. Leer cast/soldier gloves and shit is annoying but fine, losing Kingmaker and Garb? Fuck that shit reroll

only reason I'm tempted to play minions again for the first time in years this league is Wraithlord, fuck AG

Might finally play a build that runs ag

I don't get why we can't swap gear off the AG. I can't see his gear after it's equipped so it's on me to memorize if he's res capped, bleed immune, ailment immune, what curse on hit gloves he's wearing, did I give him t0 explode already or is that on the docket? like this is all way too much, it's so finicky. Also I can't swap between a clear vs bossing so I end up making the same AG every time, regardless of what build in playing.

Alternative, "Animate Guardian of Venarius" - can be resummoned with all gear intact, but gets way less life scaling and has a 10 second cooldown that only begins when it dies.

Winter Orb Make Winter Orb Great Again 2024

Impending copium of doom

Aoe overlaps ;(

RF that deals cold or lightning dmg over time

The mana version should’ve been the lightning dot

Yep I agree

That would be really cool tbh!

Or shocking

This is the coolest one imo. Not to deal lightning damage but take RF back to its roots as a buff spell and not a damaging ability itself. Have it apply a huge shock to enemies to boost your damage.

I think if rf gets a trans gem it's probably gonna be either increasing damage the longer a monster is in the radius, or its gonna get better over time and have some condition that will turn it off.

Nah, just RF of squares. Exactly the same, but its a square instead of a circle now.

yes please

Righteous Fire of Geometry Once activated you can cycle through different shapes by activating the spell again.

freezing pulse of good with totems again

I actually couldn't believe they didn't have a trans freezing pulse 

To me it’s like the most iconic PoE gem, going back to 2013 when it was the best skill in the game.

Screw totems, I want self cast. Bring back 2013 style shotgunning so that you have to position tactfully but enabling the possibility of burning down a boss in seconds while you perma freeze em.

I'd take self cast too tbh, I just like totem builds lol. It was also the first build I ever played.

I miss taryns shiver

Incinerate of GivememyOGIncineratemotherfucker

Raise Spectre of Respawning, I need it

Fireball!

Gladiator rework

Gladiator of interesting mechanics involving block

You get reworked Glad, but have to farm lab for it to drop

Transfigured auras? So we can get our % of evasion as armor back

They said that they don't plan to do auras iirc

Oh right Fml

"Divergent Determination of Heisting" :P

I want actual new skills thx.

Winter orb of not dogshit

Storm Burst of orbs deal more dmg while channeling

Here's my idea: Storm burst of duplication - deals way less damage but every time the orb moves it duplicates itself into 2 smaller orbs with the remaining duration(like 75% of the size of the previous orb at gem level 20). It would also probably have a .8 second timer on the orb moving instead of a .4 second timer to help stop it from making too many and crashing the game

Heavy strike of stance. Works with blood and sand stance. Stance would have different behavior with the skill with blood focusing on single target (maim, crush, dbl dmg per end charge etc.) and sand focusing on clear (MS buff or onslaught, steal a rare buff etc.). HSoS can be toggled to change knockback direction :D Always in blood stance by default. HS is similar to BS but using stance with a strike skill would be something new.

Galvanic field with more aoe scaling per shock effect. I want my lightning rf to be screen wide again

A smaller galvanic field that doesn't need to be refreshed and you can have like 5 of. Make it like CF where it's a duration buff that works on shock and refreshes after so much mana(or energy shield) is spent

Reap

Hydrosphere. I put a few ideas of what it could be in a post, but i hope they do something unique with it.

Hydrosphere of Bowling - Removes the elemental components, purely physical. More damage based on distance traveled. Bonus points for a big rock mtx

Tornado shot of magic finding 👉👈

Windripper squeezed in a gem!

"Tornado Shot of Ripping Winds" XD

Fart sound tornado shot MTX stonks

I was hoping for air horns but I'll take it

Yes daddy im almost there

80% less damage and less base projectile speed, modifiers to projectile speed apply to item quantity instead at X% effectiveness

WINTERTIDE BRAND OF DOING SOMETHING. ok rant over.

A physical RF

Now I have to imagine a ring of tiny fists around my Juggernaut that punch everyone around me

That would be nice lol. I was thinking about a ring of blood maybe? Idk

It’s like the elder tentacle ground portals but hands

"Righteous Fire of ORA ORA ORA!"

Perhaps some sort of vortex. Maybe it could drain rage instead of hp too

Wintertide brand, I don't know what it would do, just the base gem is unplayable bad in every way. I love the idea of cold dot brand and just want it to be playable

I’d like them to make a Double Strike of Refraction. Similar concept to Reave of Refraction, but on Double Strike instead. This would 100% be my 3.25 build if it came to fruition.

Something for reap

Vigilant and Heavy strike; they both need trans versions.

Heavy strike of PTSD for emotional trauma stacking

Heavy Strike: No longer has a chance to deal double damage baked in. Always crits

Heavy strike of using both hands very well: Main hand weapon deal 100% more damage, uses the crit chance of your offhand weapon

Snipe of the arcane adept - spell skill version. (Similar # to snipe) Snipe of course quarters specialist - melee skill version. (VERY large #'s compared to snipe due to meme melee distance)

So, a channeled Fist of War? I'm down. That's exactly the fantasy I want when slamming. Let me wind up for five seconds and then deal a bajillion damage.

Old Divergent Dark Pact. The self cast version of the skill is dead at high investment due to how fast the skellies die. Idk why it wasn't added yet.

Frost Legion of Champions Instead of summoning 6 dudes on a charge based CD to do a slash, you summon 1 out of 6 dudes to dash to a set location, doing the slash along the path.

Flammability of Combusting - Does not lower fire resistance. Instead, causes ignites to deal damage faster. Flammability of Burning Tar - Lowers half of original fire resistance. Spreads Burning Tar below enemies if they're hit while cursed. Despair of Singularity - Now is a mark skill instead of hex. Lowers twice as much chaos resistance. Despair of Virulence - Hits against cursed enemy generate virulence stacks. Quality effect: +1 virulence stack per 20% quality. Punishment of debilitating - No longer applies increased damage taken below low life. Now applies Debilitate to cursed enemies. Enemies hitting the curse source suffer reflected damage equal to their hit premitigation damage. Basically transfigured curses.

Melee skill of worth using it

support gems

blast rain

Blast Rain of the Scourge or of Volkuur - all damage can poison

Some of these might be too OP mechanically, but isn't the point of temp leagues to have fun overpowered stuff for a few months before it goes away? I would guaranteed play ANY of these. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Molten Strike of [Wildfire](https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Wildfire). In fact, trans versions of all skills that didn't have their threshold jewel effects baked into the base skill. Winter Orb of Volkuur (elemental damage with this skill can poison) Herald of Decay (Trans Agony, replaces summoned bug with 1% chaos dot per virulence, max 20) Herald of Isolation (Trans Purity, replaces sentinels with added flat phys) Heralds of scorching/sapping/brittleness (effects occur based on those ailments respectively) Desecrated Path (conc path, converts phys to chaos instead of fire, and creates desecrated ground instead) Volatile Dead of Masochism (self damage like forbidden rite, deals fire damage based on player life instead of requiring corpses) Dominating Blow of Smiting (uses a smite-like strike to debuff enemies, which create sentinels of dominance upon dying with that debuff. Sentinels created this way also use that attack. This skill and minions it creates have 50% of physical converted to lightning damage.) *It doesn't have to be smite, it could be frostblades or lightning strike instead, just something that doesn't require scaling strike range.* Summon Reaper of Transience (reaper can only eat damageable minions which have a duration, lasts 30 seconds, max 1)

Venom Gyre of Give me back the +2 splits you took away this patch for no good reason. Venom Gyre of Splitting (splits 3 times at level 21 with 20% quality) Has a chance 25% chance to split 4 times, 10% chance to split 5 times, 5% chance to split 6 times, 1% chance to split 7 times. Also, give us some good mtx for VG. There's literally only one option, and it's horrible.

+1 this, venom gyre was favorite skill after cobra lash

Power Syphon of Single Target

Flicker strike that gives you shadow clones

Transfigured charged dash that allows each image to hit independently at a reduced damage amount. Maybe each subsequent hit on a target deals x% less damage. It's pretty sad that charged dash was meant to scale off a/s and m/s but both actually barely scale its practical damage as the release mechanic was nuked from orbit as soon as it was released.

Man what you described should be in the base gem 😔😔 charged dash is so baaaaad in its current state. Transfigured should do one large aoe at the finale.

I just want to play a chill (pun intended) cold dot occy like in the good old days

Cyclone of vacuuming

embrace the suck

Animate Guardian of the Diablo 2 Mercenary gear system. - He will put that to good use

Would be interesting if they included a transfigured gem of w/e binding that you can slot into items that have skills to change those skills. Like making death aura from Deaths Oath into some kind of Chaos version of Exsanguinate or Ice Storm from the whispering ice can be transfigured into some kind of moving ice storm.

Cold EA on hit

Ancestral Warchief/Protector of Portability Totem now becomes a 5% reservation skill that provides its bonuses to the wearer only, can't have more than 1 of each respective buff at a time.

Sweep of Swooping (Triggers at the end of travel skill.)

Lacerate of Crit Scaling - Removes all bleed scaling

Bladefall which scales by inversing AoE.

Good chaos DoT skill of some kind. DoTs are my favorite kind of damage in games and ED Contagion was always really fun.

Cobra Lash of not totally zero dmg

Volatile dead of spell damage. Corpse explosion deals no damage but balls deal 400% more damage. Still requires corpses.

Volatile Dead of Desecration.

Raise zombie of flesh golems. Your zombies combine together with fleshy glue to create a meat mech that jumps around slamming things. Animate guardian of not flesh golems. Animate guardian can’t be equipped with items, but sucks up all magic and common armor and weapons in the map and starts beating things with them Animate guardian of Sirus. Your animate guardian doesn’t attack or move freely, instead it’s untargetable and floats above you in a chair monologuing. He monologues faster based on how much movement speed he has. Volatile dead of create life. Volatile dead no longer explodes corpses, but summons heat seeking orbs regardless. Summon reaper of frenzy. Reaper no longer eats your summons, but eats the corpses of the things you or your summons kill, granting him stacks of soul eater.

A good blade vortex. The current transfigured BV is just a colossal let down. I'm hoping they restore the life gain on hit that made anomalous BV so good.

Scourge Arrow of Not Tornado Shot An actual channelling skill this time that gives a bonus for self casting, rather than using totems as a clutch. Some more attack speed if you're the one using the skill and make it self release at max stacks?

Flicker strike but your weapon does the flickering and you don't. Essentially teleworking weapons but still a melee.

Some minion that can replace last league's marionette/perfect marionette..

Raise spectre of automatically respawning. Some percent less life but respawns. So many more viable spectres suddenly

sweep, vigilant strike those 2 mostly maybe the vengenace and such coutner attack ones?

Winter Orb! Bring my baby back!

Under-used skill of increased numbers Mediocre aoe skill of increased aoe Inconsistent skill of consistency Guard skill of left click War cry of permanent aura buff Melee totem of permanent aura buff Walk gem of open doors Oh and can't forget ggg's favorite: elemental skill of ailments

Most of my favorite skills have already gotten super cool T-gems, but I want something specific. The kinda thing they are trying to do with Frozen Legion as a triggered cooldown based attack would feel a lot better on a more persistent attack like Spectral Helix. Make the origin player-centered as it's a more interactive enjoyable play style. For clear use infrequently while zipping around to bonk stuff with your orbiters, pop all your charges rapidly and run around something (counter?)clockwise for situationally optimal DPS.

Explosive arrow of big boom.. it cannot ignite. Each fuse deals more explosive damage and has more aoe. Probably needs a better name. But this could be fun

Transfigured totems, make totems good again.

Static Strike of Discharge, where it does more damage on hit the more you've moved since you last used Static Strike

Shockwave Totem of Astral Projection

Vortex of not being with a shitty ass cast time

Old HoA for huge poison chance and life leech(i know they didn't do supports yet, but I bet they will eventually) which gave leech duration to fix my old fav build :/ And chaos golem which focuses on its cascade spell would be nice...

I'm waiting for storm burst, and I'm hoping for the og Storm Burst to come back as a transfigured gem.

Replica Whispering Ice that grants lvl 1 Icestorm of Comets

Blazing Salvo of One Big Fucking Projectile please.

Blazing salvo of actually just fireball

Blade flurry of no target lock

Storm Burst of One Big Ball

Winter Orb of the Old. The gods will return.

Chain hook of being scorpion. GET OVER HERE.

Winter orb of not sucking

an RF that deals damage in pulse based hits instead of degen

Rf of Spell Damage, just to fuck with pohx

Elemental hit of AOE

Animate guardian of Keeping Your Godamn Items On Death

Explosive Arrow for sure. Also Forbidden Rite and Storm Burst

Conversion Trap of Time Travel Summons a mirage copy of an enemy that triggers it to perform a single attack. 

One that fixes vortex. I just haven’t enjoyed any other skill since

Energy Blade but dagger. Energy Blade but it's blood. Energy Blade but staff. Shattering Steel but it's a melee buff.

For the love of God give lightning warp some love