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List of PoE Exceptional Gems Supports 3.28

Written by:  U4N
Published: Mar 02, 2026
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Over 40 New Exceptional Support Gems.

What are PoE Exceptional Support Gems?

Exceptional Support Gems are more transformative, offering an additional way to customise your build in the late game and extending character customisation even further into a build’s life.

PoE Exceptional Support Gems

In Path of Exile (PoE), Exceptional Support Gems refers to a specific category of endgame gems that provide powerful utility or transformative effects. As of the 3.28 Mirage League, this system has been significantly overhauled to replace the previous "Awakened Support Gem" system.

How to get PoE Exceptional Gems

Upon defeating the Endgame Incarnation bosses in Path of Exile: Mirage, powerful new Support Gems will begin dropping from specific Atlas Bosses. These new Support gems are categorised as Exceptional, being a significant expansion of that class of Support gem.

Exceptional gems are strictly endgame rewards and cannot be purchased from vendors:

1. Originator's Voidstone

Originator's Voidstone: Defeating the Incarnation bosses for the first time rewards this Voidstone, which enables these gems to drop from bosses.

  • Bosses within the Atlas can drop Astrolabes and Exceptional Support Gems

This Voidstone allows new Exceptional Support Gems to drop from many bosses across the Atlas.

2. Endgame Encounters

They primarily drop from specific endgame encounters and pinnacle bosses.

3. Divination Cards

Specific cards like The Enlightened remain a primary way to target-farm the classic cycle (Empower/Enlighten/Enhance).

4. The Labyrinth Gem craft

  • 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.

5. Bestiary

  • The Beastcrafting recipe to increase the level of non-Corrupted Awakened Gem by 1 now adds 500m Experience to an Exceptional Support Gem.
  • The Beastcrafting recipe to Reroll an Awakened Support Gem now sacrifices an Exceptional Support Gem for 3 high Level, high Quality Support Gems.

Key Characteristics

  • Mutually Exclusive: You cannot benefit from both an Exceptional gem and its regular version on the same skill.
  • Leveling: They typically have a maximum level of 3 (or 4–5 for certain legacy or awakened exceptional versions) and a very high experience requirement.
  • No Vendor Recipe: The common recipe to flip a level 20 gem for a 20% quality version does not work on Exceptional gems; you must use Gemcutter's Prisms.

The 3.28 Mirage Rework

With the 3.28 Mirage Content Update, "Exceptional Support Gems" now describes a broader system of over 40 new gems:

  • Replacement of Awakened Gems: Most previous Awakened Support Gems have been phased out and are now considered legacy in permanent leagues. They are replaced by these new Exceptional variants.
  • Transformative Properties: Unlike Awakened gems, which were often just numerically stronger, the new Exceptional gems are designed to provide unique interactions for endgame builds.
  • Greater Variants: Some are "Greater" versions of existing gems (e.g., Greater Multistrike Support or Greater Spell Cascade Support). These are mutually exclusive with their regular counterparts.

List of PoE Exceptional Support Gems 3.28

Exceptional Gems

Cooldown Recovery Support is an Exceptional Support Gem.

Tag: Exceptional, Support. Level: 3 (Max). Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 150%.

Requires Level 76, 52 Dex, 75 Int

Supports skills that have a cooldown. Cannot modify the skill of minions.

  • Supported Skills have 40% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate

Frostmage Support is an Exceptional Support Gem.

Tag: Exceptional, Cold, Arcane, Support, Spell. Level: 1.

Requires Level 72, 114 Int

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.

  • Supported Skills gain Added Cold Damage equal to 22% of Reserved Maximum Mana
  • Supported Skills gain Base Mana Cost euqal to 5% of Reserved Maximum Mana

Greater Spell Cascade Support is an Exceptional Support Gem.

Tag: Exceptional, Support, AoE, Spell. Level: 3 (Max). Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 140%.

Requires Level 76, 120 Int

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.

  • Supported Skills have 24% less Area of Effect
  • Supported Skills deal 24% less Damage
  • Supported Area of Effect Skills also affect areas in front of, behind, and on each side of the targeted area

Voidstorm Support is an Exceptional Support Gem.

Tag: Exceptional, Support, Attack, AoE, Duration, Bow. Level: 1. Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 140%.

Requires Level 72, 114 Dex

Supports ranged attack skills that fire projectiles upwards. Cannot support triggered attacks, attacks used by things other than you, or which create minions.

  • Supported Skills Trigger Voidstorm when impacting the ground
  • Voidstorms cannot be Triggered within 3 metres of you

Voidstorm

Cast Time: 0.50 sec. Attack Damage: 140% of base. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 140%

Creates a voidstorm that blinds enemies within it. Entering the storm will cause it to explode, dealing attack damage in an area.

  • Base duration is 10.00 seconds
  • Base radius is 1.8 metres
  • Maximum 3 Storms
  • Storms gain one stage per 0.2 seconds, up to a maximum of 10
  • Storms have 15% more Area of Effect per stage
  • Explosion deal 40% more Damage with Hits and Ailments per Stage

Foulgrasp Support is an Exceptional Support Gem.

Tag: Foulgrasp Support. Exceptional, Brand, Support, AoE, Spell, Lightning, Trigger. Level: 1. Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%.

Requires Level 72, 50 Dex, 72 Int

Supports brand skills that can be recalled.

  • Supports Skills can Cast 2 additional Brands
  • Supported Brands Trigger Foulgrasp when they are Recalled

Foulgrasp

Cooldown Time: 1.00 sec. Cast Time: 1.00 sec. Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 110%.

Summons forth a field of grasping hands, each of which clutches an orb of lightning. When an enemy is near a hand, the orb it clutches will detonate to deal lightning spell damage.

  • Deals 131 to 1175 Lightning Damage
  • Base duration is 8.00 seconds
  • Base radius is 4 metres
  • Base secondary radius is 1.5 metres
  • Maximum 30 Hands
  • Creates 2 Hands per Brand

Greater Multistrike Support is an Exceptional Support Gem.

Tag: Exceptional, Support, Melee, Attack. Level: 3 (Max). Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 160%. Quality: +20%.

Requires Level 76, 75 Str, 52 Dex

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.

  • Supported Skills Repeat 3 additional times
  • Supported Skills have 50% more melee Attack Speed
  • Supported Skills deal 20% less Attack Damage
  • Supported Skills deal 10% increased Melee Damage
  • First repeat of Supported Skills deal 22% more damage
  • Second repeat of Supported Skills deal 44% more damage
  • Third repeat of Supported Skills deal 66% more damage

Hiveborn Support is an Exceptional Support Gem.

Tag: Exceptional, Minion, Cold, Support, Spell, Trigger. Level: 3 (Max). Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%. Quality: +20%.

Requires Level 76, 120 Int

Supports offering skills you use yourself.

  • Supported Offerings Trigger Summon Hiveborn when used

Summon Hiveborn

Cooldown Time: 5.00 sec. Cast Time: 1.00 sec.

Summons a horde of Hiveborn Breach monsters to do your bidding. These summoned monsters have all their physical damage converted to cold.

  • Base duration is 10.00 seconds
  • Maximum 14 Hiveborn
  • Base radius is 4.5 metres
  • Summons 5 Hiveborn
  • Minions have 20% chance to Cover Enemies in Frost on Hit

Hextoad Support is an Exceptional Support Gem.

Tag: Exceptional, AoE, Duration, Support, Hex, Spell, Chaos. Level: 3 (Max). Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 160%. Quality: +20%.

Requires Level 76, 120 Int

Supports non-aura hex curse skills.

  • Supported Skills create Cursed Ground with a base Duration of 14 seconds
  • Hexes from Supported Skills have no Duration
  • Enemies on the Cursed Ground from a Supported Skill are Cursed with that Hex
  • Maximum 1 area of Cursed Ground
  • 10% increased Area of Effect of Supported Curse Skills
  • Cursed Ground from Supported Skills Triggers Bursting Toad every 0.8 seconds

Bursting Toad

Cast Time: 1.00 sec. Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 400%

A toad leaps towards enemies and explodes, dealing spell damage in an area.

  • Deals 2504 to 3757 Chaos Damage
  • Base radius is 2.3 metres
  • Inflicts Withered for 2 seconds on Hit

Eclipse Support is an Exceptional Support Gem.

Tag: Exceptional, Support. Level: 3 (Max). Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 94%. Quality: +20%.

Requires Level 76, 273 Str, 273 Dex, 273 Int

Supports any skill gem.
Cannot support skills that don't come from gems.

  • This Gem gains 100% increased Experience
  • +1 to Level of Supported Skill Gems
  • +12% to Quality of Supported Skill Gems

Bloodsoaked Banner Support is an Exceptional Support Gem.

Tag: Exceptional, Physical, Support, Duration. Level: 3 (Max). Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 1000%. Quality: +20%.

Requires Level 76, 75 Str, 52 Dex

Supports banner skills. Cannot modify the skills of minions.

  • Supported Skills have 10% increased Area of Effect
  • Supported Skills Cost Life instead of Mana
  • Supported Banners inflict Corrupted Blood every second to enemies within their area
  • Corrupted Blood inflicted by Supported Banners deals 26.7 base Physical Damage per second per Valour consumed
  • Corrupted Blood inflicted by Supported Banners has a Base Duration of 8 seconds
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