PoE 3.28 New Skill Gems - Mirage New Skills

In Path of Exile 3.28 (Mirage League), several new skill and support gems were introduced, primarily focusing on "Holy" and "Lightning" themes.

New Skill Gems

• Added a new Strength/Intelligence Skill Gem, Divine Blast: Project a beam of holy light from your shield to a targeted location, causing an implosion of holy energy. This energy then lingers for a short duration, before blasting outwards in a larger and more damaging explosion.
• Added a new Strength/Intelligence Skill Gem, Holy Hammers: Slam the ground ahead of you, calling down a Holy Hammer from above. On hitting an enemy, another Hammer will cascade forward, repeating if further enemies are hit, up to a cap. A Power Charge can be expended to call down additional Hammers to either side of the initial slam. Requires a Mace or Staff.
• Added a new Strength/Intelligence Skill Gem, Holy Strike: Infuse your weapon with holy energy and swing. Successfully hitting an enemy will summon forth a Holy Armament, which copies your main hand weapon stats to determine its own. These Holy Armaments are undamageable minions, and will attack the enemies you target with Holy Strike. Requires a Mace, Sceptre or Staff.
• Added a new Strength/Intelligence Skill Gem, Shield of Light: Retaliate against a blocked hit with a sweep of your Shield, unleashing a wave of light in a cone in front of you. Additional waves also emanate from allies in a radius around the first target struck, towards that target.
• Added a new Strength Transfigured Skill Gem, Shockwave Totem of Authority: Summons a totem that shakes the earth around you, damaging enemies.
• Added a new Strength/Intelligence Transfigured Skill Gem, Static Strike of Gathering Lightning: Attack with a melee weapon, gaining a Gathering Lightning buff for a duration if you hit an enemy. While you have Gathering Lightning, attacks with this skill will cause chaining beams of lightning, which chain farther the more Gathering Lightning you have.
• Added a new Dexterity Transfigured Skill Gem, Charged Dash of Projection: Channel to project an illusion which you steer. You gain stages while it moves, until it stops at a maximum total distance. Waves of area damage frequently pulse along its path, based on your attack speed. Stop channelling to release the illusion, dealing a final wave of damage. Requires a Melee Weapon.
• Sweep: Has been reworked, and is now called Holy Sweep. Holy Sweep swings a two handed mace or a staff in a circle, calling down Holy Hammers to land randomly on a number of enemies struck. Hits from these Holy Hammers cannot be evaded.

New Transfigured Skill Gems

• Added a new Dexterity/Intelligence Transfigured Skill Gem, Flamethrower Trap of Stability: Throws a trap that releases a number of flames in different directions around it when triggered. The flames last for a duration repeatedly dealing damage.
• Added a new Intelligence Transfigured Skill Gem, Kinetic Fusillade of Detonation: Wave your wand to create multiple hovering kinetic projectiles. After a short duration, the projectiles explode, dealing area damage. Using this attack again will reset the duration for all hovering projectiles. Cannot be directly used by traps or mines.
• Added a new Intelligence Transfigured Skill Gem, Orb of Storms of Squalls: Creates an electrical orb that will strike enemies in its area of effect with beams of lightning when placed, as well as when you use a lightning skill while within its area. These beams of lightning can then split to hit more enemies. When striking enemies, this orb will teleport to a random enemy struck. Casting this skill again will replace the previous orb.
• Added a new Intelligence Transfigured Skill Gem, Shock Nova of Procession: Casts a ring of Lightning around you, followed by a larger Lightning nova. Each effect hits enemies caught in their area with Lightning Damage. This then repeats, with each repeat offset from the previous in the direction of your target.
• Added a new Intelligence/Strength Transfigured Skill Gem, Storm Burst of Repulsion: Unleash orbs of energy while you channel that repeatedly jump away from the targeted location until their duration expires, dealing damage in a small area after each jump. When you stop channelling, all remaining orbs explode, dealing higher damage in a larger area.
• Added a new Intelligence/Dexterity Transfigured Skill Gem, Siphoning Trap of Pain: Throws a trap that applies debuff beams to a number of nearby enemies for a duration. The beams chill enemies and deal cold damage over time.
• Creeping Frost of Floes is a transfigured version of the Creeping Frost skill gem in Path of Exile. It modifies the original skill's mechanics, typically focusing on different ways to apply its cold damage or chilling effects.
• Searing Bond of Detonation is a transfigured version of the Searing Bond skill gem in Path of Exile. Summons a totem that casts a beam of fire at you and each other totem you control, dealing burning damage to enemies caught in the beam. Enemies near either end of a beam also suffer burning damage. Reaching maximum active totem count will cause all totems from this skill to detonatte, applying the same burning damage for a duration.

New Support Gems

• Added a new Strength/Intelligence Support Gem, Blessed Call Support: Supports Warcry skills, causing them to create Consecrated Ground. Supported Warcries have lowered Area of Effect and Cooldown Recovery Rate. Cannot support triggered Warcries.
• Added a new Strength/Intelligence Support Gem, Excommunicate Support: Supports melee attacks, causing them to gain a percentage of physical damage as extra fire and lightning damage, and excommunicate enemies on melee hit. Does not modify skills used by minions.
• Added a new Intelligence Support Gem, Exemplar Support: Supports Minion skills, causing your minions to have increased Critical Strike Chance and Critical Strike Multiplier for each of your own recent Critical Strikes.
• Added a new Strength/Intelligence Support Gem, Hallow Support: Supports melee attacks you use yourself, causing them to inflict Hallowing Flame on melee hit. Does not modify skills used by minions.
• Lesser Multiple Projectiles Support has been renamed to Multiple Projectiles Support.

Exceptional Gems

Over 40 New Exceptional Support Gems.

• Cooldown Recovery Support Supports skills that have a cooldown. Cannot modify the skill of minions.
• Frostmage Support  Supports spell skills that deal damage with hits and have no reservation. Cannot support arcane skills, Brand skills, Orb skills, Vaal skills, or skills used by totems, traps or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
• Greater Spell Cascade Support  Supports spell skills that apply an effect to an area around a targeted location. Cannot support Vaal skills or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
• Voidstorm Support  Supports ranged attack skills that fire projectiles upwards. Cannot support triggered attacks, attacks used by things other than you, or which create minions.
• Foulgrasp Support  Supports brand skills that can be recalled.
• Greater Multistrike Support Supports melee attack skills, making them repeat three times when used, targeting a random enemy each time. Cannot support Vaal skills, channelling skills, travel sskills, retaliation skills or triggered skills.
• Hiveborn Support  Supports offering skills you use yourself.
• Hextoad Support  Supports non-aura hex curse skills.
• Eclipse Support  Supports any skill gem. Cannot support skills that don't come from gems.
• Bloodsoaked Banner Support  Supports banner skills. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
• Invert the Rules Support
• Cast on Ward Break Support
• Vaal Sacrifice Support Supports Vaal spell skills, making them repeat when cast at the cost of your life and energy shield. Cannot support totem skills, channelling skills, trigggered skills, instant skills, retaliation skills, blink skills, or skills with a reservation.
• Greater Spell Echo Support
• Vaal Temptation Support
• Machinations Support
• Pyre Support
• Bonespire Support
• Scornful Herald Support
• Cull the Weak Support
• Greater Ancestral Call Support
• Fissure Support
• Hexpass Support
• Greater Fork Support
• Greater Chain Support
• Lethal Dose Support
• Companionship Support
• Divine Sentinel Support
• Annihilation Support
• Invention Support
• Greater Kinetic Instability Support
• Void Shockwave Support Supports melee attack skills. Cannot support triggered attacks, attacks used by thing other than you, or skills which create minions.
• Eldritch Blasphemy Support
• Gluttony Support
• Overheat Support
• Congregation Support Supports skills which create Minions.
• Greater Devour Support
• Greater Unleash Support
• Pacifism Support
• Minion Pact Support
• Unholy Trinity Support
• Overloaded Intensity Support
• Transfusion Support

Gem Imbuing (Currency)

The 3.28 Mirage Patch also introduced "Coins" (Coin of Knowledge, Power, and Skill) that corrupt a level 20 skill gem to imbue it with a random level 1 support effect of the corresponding attribute.

Skill Gem Changes 3.28

• The Holy Slam skill used by Herald of Purity Minions and Dominating Blow Minions now has 32% more Area of Effect.
• Absolution and Absolution of Inspiring: Now have a base debuff duration of 3 seconds (previously 1), and a base Minion duration of 15 seconds (previously 10). Sentinels of Absolution now have 44% more Area of Effect with their Empowered Lightning Blast Skill, and it now deals 40% more Damage.
• Animate Guardian of Smiting: Now has Minion deals 0-76% more Damage (previously 0-38%). The Smite Attack now has an impact radius of 2.1 metres (previously 1.5 metres).
• Charged Dash: The description has been updated to clarify that the more Damage while Channelling if Illusion has finished moving only applies to Damage with Hits. This is not a functional change.
• Consecrated Path: Now has 273-468% Effectiveness of Base and Added Damage at gem levels 1-20 (previously 227-417%). Quality now provides Deals +0-15% more Damage with Hits to closer targets (previously +0-10%).
• Consecrated Path of Endurance: Quality now provides Deals +0-15% more Damage with Hits to closer targets (previously +0-10%).
• Detonate Dead of Scavenging now has 70% less Damage with Ailments (previously 60%).
• Dominating Blow: The chance to summon a Normal Sentinel on Hitting a Unique Monster now also applies when Hitting Rare Monsters. Debuff Duration is now 3 seconds (previously 1), and Sentinel Duration is now 30 seconds (previously 20).
• Dominating Blow of Inspiring: Debuff Duration is now 3 seconds (previously 1), and Sentinel Duration is now 30 seconds (previously 20).
• Earthshatter: Now has an Effectiveness of Added Damage of 158%-329% at gem levels 1-20 (previously 171%-393%).
• Energy Blade: Quality now provides Buff grants 0-10% increased Attack Speed (replacing Buff grants 0-5% more Maximum Energy Shield).
• Holy Flame Totem: Now fires 3-6 Projectiles at gem levels 1-20 (previously 3 at all levels). Now has the AoE gem tag.
• Holy Flame Totem of Ire: Now deals 20% more Damage at all Levels and has an Effectiveness of Added Damage of 40% (previously 35%). Now has the AoE gem tag.
• Orb of Storms: Can now be supported by Spell Echo.
• Penance Brand: Now deals 10% more Damage at all gem levels. Now has an Effectiveness of Added Damage of 520-630% at gem levels 1-20 (previously 470-570%). No longer has 30% less Damage with Ailments. Quality now provides Deals +0-15% more Damage with Hits against Branded Enemy (previously +0-10%).
• Penance Brand of Conduction: Now activates every 0.1 seconds while Attached (previously 0.15). Quality now provides Deals +0-30% more Damage with Hits against Branded Enemy (previously +0-15%).
• Penance Brand of Dissipation: Now activates every 1 second while Attached (previously 0.75), and now has Pulses deal 20% more Damage with Hits and Ailments per Energy after the first (previously 30%). Quality now provides Deals +0-15% more Damage with Hits against Branded Enemy (previously +0-10%).
• Portal: No longer has its casting interrupted by self-damage.
• Purifying Flame of Revelations: Now has a Mana cost of 5-20 at gem levels 1-20 (previously 6-25), and now has a base cast time of 0.6 seconds (previously 0.7). Shockwave now deals 150% more Damage (previously 110%).
• Raised Spectres: No longer gain a hidden more Elemental Damage bonus when converting their Physical Damage to Elemental. They also now scale up their monster level more at gem levels past 20, a gem level 30 Raised Spectre is now level 85 (previously 81).
• Static Strike: Now has a base enemy zap range of 2.5 metres (previously 2), a base duration of 4 seconds (previously 3), and Beams now deal 30% less Damage (previously 40%).
• Storm Brand: Now Deals 3-10 Lightning Damage at gem level 1 (previously 3-8), scaling to 150-449 Lightning Damage at gem level 20 (previously 92-277). Storm Brand's Effectiveness of Added Damage is now 45-55% at gem levels 1-20 (previously 30% at all gem levels). Storm Brand now deals 80% more Damage with Hits against Branded Enemy at all levels (previously 80-130%).
• Storm Brand of Indecision: Quality now provides Deals +0-15% more Damage with Hits against Branded Enemy (previously +0-10%).
• Storm Burst: Now places an orb immediately on casting, rather than the first orb being placed one cast into the process of channelling.
• Summon Holy Relic: Holy Relic's Nova Skill now grants 9-985 Life regenerated per second to Minions at gem levels 1-20 (previously 9-464).
• Sweep: Has been reworked, and is now called Holy Sweep. Holy Sweep swings a two handed mace or a staff in a circle, calling down Holy Hammers to land randomly on a number of enemies struck. Hits from these Holy Hammers cannot be evaded.
• Thunderstorm: The explosion now deals 300% more Damage with Hits and Ailments. This was previously described as simply more Damage, but was only applying to Damage from Hits.
• Viper Strike of the Mamba: now has 30% less Attack Speed while Dual Wielding and 20% less Damage with Hits while Dual Wielding (matching regular Viper Strike). This modifier now explicitly states that it only applies to Damage with Hits rather than being ambiguous.
• Viper Strike of the Mamba now also has Cannot inflict multiple Poisons in the same Hit, as additional ways to apply multiple Poisons in a single Hit would otherwise have to be significantly weakened for the sake of this Skill. This does not affect the Skill's normal Dual Wielding behaviour, as it causes a single Hit (and therefore applies a single Poison) based on the combined Damage of both weapons.
• Winter Orb: Projectile Speed modifiers now affect the time it takes for projectiles to impact the ground (previously projectile speed had no effect on Winter Orb).

Vaal Gem Changes 3.28

• Vaal Domination: Ascended Sentinels now gain +2 radius per stage with their Sunder ability (previously +1), and now deal 300% more Damage (previously 200%).
• Vaal Absolution: Ascended Sentinels of Absolution now deal 300% more Damage (previously 200%), and have a base duration of 20 seconds (previously 15). Ascended Sentinels of Absolution now have 44% more Area of Effect with their Lightning Blast cascade Skill.

Support Gem Changes 3.28

• All Awakened Support Gems can no longer be obtained, except for Awakened Empower, Awakened Enlighten and Awakened Enhance.
• The following Divination Cards have been temporarily disabled: The Cheater and the Desecrated Virtue. Existing Divination Cards cannot be turned in currently.
• Chain Support has a Cost & Reservation Multiplier of 140% (previously 150%)
• The Labyrinth Gem craft outcome to exchange a Support Gem for its Awakened version has been removed.
• The Labyrinth Gem craft outcome to exchange a Support Gem for a random Exceptional Support Gem, instead now states you will receive a random Empower, Enlighten or Enhance Support Gem.
• Greater versions of Supports no longer work alongside their non-Greater version, in a similar way to how Awakened Supports did not work with the corresponding non-Awakened version of the Support. In the case both versions of a Support are socketed, the Greater one takes priority.
• Existing Supports affected by this change include: Multiple Projectiles and Greater Multiple Projectiles, Volley and Greater Volley, Spell Echo and Greater Spell Echo.
• Lesser Multiple Projectiles Support has been renamed to Multiple Projectiles Support.
• Autoexertion now has a Mana Reservation of 20% (previously 15%).
• Overexertion now grants Supported Attacks deal 7-10% more Damage for each Warcry Exerting them (previously 12-18%), and Supported Attacks deal 10-14% more Damage if Exerted (previously 10% at all gem levels). No longer displays as supporting Triggered Attack skills which cannot be Exerted, such as Shockwave Support.