Gem Synergy list`s?

[D55]

My fourth time coming back to try get in to this game since its release,all is going better this time but the one thing im really struggling with is Gem synergies, is there a list of most/all of the good ones and ones that sound good but to avoid?

Thanks for any help and apologies if its been asked a million times

[The_Driver]

Wouldn't that be a list of lists? I mean you have a list of active gems and then for each of those gems you'd have a list of support gems that are ok... And even then... it's highly depend on the rest of the setup.

poedb* has two tables for most active gems, useful links and supported by. Note again that "useful" is relative and heavily depends on what you scale etc, so it's just the tip of the iceberg what scales well.

If you really want to know what's a good damage increase, try Path of Building**, import your character and go to the skills... it has an option to sort gem suggestions for the next slot by damage change (note that this explicitly downranks things as increased area of effect, even though they can be an improvement for clearspeed greater than any damage increase, depending on the case).

If you want to have a look at real life examples, use poe.ninja *** and look at the public profiles of what people use with a skill. Note again that support gem usefulness might differ if your build takes its power from different sources (so e.g. don't try to copy an elemental setup if you go full physical instead).

No really, some support gems might be ruining your setup while they're fantastic for others... there's e.g. support gems that only allow you to deal physical damage with that skill, so if your build scales from elemental damage, that's really hurting you, while other builds embrace it and build around it.

TL;DR: Usefulness of support gems is a function of at least (skill tree, items, other support gems) and really that's still missing targeted enemy, map mods etc, you know, the fast-changing kind of stuff.

* e.g. https://poedb.tw/us/gem.php?n=Cyclone
** https://github.com/Openarl/PathOfBuilding/releases
*** e.g. https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds?skill=Cyclone

[Mournblade]

What really helped me was searching up some gameplay and advice videos on Youtube. Engineering Eternity is a good one. It looks like someone already linked Path of Building, but if you use that plus various build guides you can plug in everything to your heart's content. There are a number of ways of getting builds made by the community. Then you just have to determine if it's a good one for you to try. Best of luck with the game.