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Active Skills are abilities which an exile activates by using an equipped Skill Gem, they are controlled by mouse or keyboard events. They take mana and grant an immediate effect. They are not Passive Skills, constant effects which are mainly earned through character levelling.

Gems

All Active Skills are contained in portable gems which must be equipped in gem sockets before their use. Support Gems augment these skills when the gems are linked.

Gem Experience

Gems gain experience and levels alongside the character wearing them. For all the experience the exile receives, a gem gains its own additional experience at 10% of that amount. Additional gems do not share that experience, but gain their own 10%. Gem experience is not restricted by player level boundaries, so a high level characters might not gain experience from low level enemies, but the gem will continue to gain the 10% it normally would. Gems do not need to be utilized for them to gain experience, only equipped. Gems equipped in both weapons slots gain experience, though only the currently active weapon slot's skills can be used.

Once a gem has enough experience to level up, it will stop gaining experience and a level-up icon will appear on the right of the screen and in the inventory menu. Left-clicking it will level up the gem, right-clicking the icon will hide it on the side of the screen, but it will still be accessible in the inventory menu. Not levelling up a gem is useful in some situations.

As gems level up, the abilities they grant get better, but the requirements to equip them also increase. Each gem level, the exile must have both the attribute corresponding to gem colour and a character level high enough to meet its increased requirements. If a gem gains enough experience to level up, but the exile currently does not meet the requirements, the level-up icon will appear greyed out and not be useable until the requirements are met. For specifics, see the lists of Active Skills and Support Gems below.

Gems may be traded like normal items and they will retain their experience.

Sockets

Each gem must be set in a socket corresponding to the gem's colour. Sockets can be found in Armour and Weapons and can hold either Active Skill Gems or Support Gems. Certain Orbs can modify the sockets in items.

Support Gems are gems which modify the Active Skills they are linked to. To link Support Gems to Active Skill gems, they all need to be socketted in a segment of sockets which have lines between them. Many linked sockets can be used to give many skills a number of support bonuses. For example, the two skills Fireball and Freezing Pulse may be linked with the support skill Elemental Proliferation in a three linked item, or Freezing Pulse may be replaced by Chance to Ignite to enhance the Fireball even more. This is why rare maximum of "6l" or six-linked-socket items are so powerful, they can link up to 5 Support Gems to 1 Active Skill.

Active Skills

Sorted By Attribute

Active Skills have requirements based on each of the three main Attributes, and can be easily identified by the attribute colour.

Strength Skills	Dexterity Skills	Intelligence Skills
Template:Strength Skills	Template:Dexterity Skills	Template:Intelligence Skills

Support Gems

Strength Support Gems	Dexterity Support Gems	Intelligence Support Gems
Template:Strength Support Gems	Template:Dexterity Support Gems	Template:Intelligence Support Gems