Nightblade Support: What Does It Mean in PoE 2?
The Nightblade Support is a support gem in Path of Exile 2 that enhances melee attack skills for characters utilizing claws or daggers. This support gem offers a unique set of benefits that are particularly effective for builds focused on critical strikes and evasion.
Mechanics
The Nightblade Support gem provides several powerful enhancements to your melee attacks:
- Increased Critical Strike Chance: The gem enhances the critical strike chance of the supported melee skills, allowing players to deal more frequent and potent critical hits.
- Elusive Buff: On a critical strike, Nightblade grants the elusive buff, which increases movement speed and evasion, enhancing both offensive and defensive capabilities.
- Scaling Effect: The effect of the elusive buff is amplified with the level of the gem, making it more effective as players progress.
Build Strategies
The Nightblade Support gem is particularly effective in certain build strategies:
- Assassin Claw Builds: Utilizing the Nightblade Support gem with claws enhances critical strike efficiency and allows for rapid disengagement utilizing the elusive buff.
- Dagger Crit Builds: For dagger users, the increased critical strike chance and elusive buff provide a balance of offense and defense, making it ideal for high-risk, high-reward playstyles.
Interaction with Other Mechanics
The Nightblade Support gem interacts synergistically with other game mechanics:
- Critical Strike Modifiers: Combining Nightblade with other critical strike enhancing skills or items can exponentially increase the player's damage output.
- Evasion Boosts: The elusive buff's evasion increase stacks with other evasion-boosting skills or gear, enhancing the player's survivability.
- Passive Skill Tree: Allocating points in the passive skill tree to increase critical strike multipliers or evasion can further amplify the benefits received from the Nightblade Support gem.
For more information on how to optimize your build with Nightblade Support, visit the official Path of Exile website.