Barbs II

Supports MeleeMeleeMelee Attacks are those that directly hit with a melee Strike or a Slam, dealing Melee damage. Melee attacks usually scale from Weapon or Unarmed damage. Any Projectiles these attacks create do not count as Melee damage. StrikeStrikeA Strike is a Melee attack that directly hits with weapons or body parts. Slam attacks do not count as Strikes. Skills. After you RetaliateRetaliate with ThornsRetaliating specifically refers only to the inherent ability to deal Thorns damage to enemies when they Hit you. Some effects may cause you to deal Thorns damage in other ways, but those are not Retaliation, and effects which specifically care about when you Retaliate will ignore them. with ThornsThornsThorns damage is a kind of Hit Damage you can deal. Thorns damage is not Attack damage or Spell damage and is not affected by modifiers specific to those. If you have Thorns damage, you inherently Retaliate against Melee Attack Hits, dealing your Thorns damage to the enemy that Hit you. Some skills and other effects may also deal your thorns damage to enemies at other times. Damage, you also deal your ThornsThornsThorns damage is a kind of Hit Damage you can deal. Thorns damage is not Attack damage or Spell damage and is not affected by modifiers specific to those. If you have Thorns damage, you inherently Retaliate against Melee Attack Hits, dealing your Thorns damage to the enemy that Hit you. Some skills and other effects may also deal your thorns damage to enemies at other times. damage to enemies you HitHit DamageAny damage that isn't damage over time is Hit damage. Damaging Ailments which result from a Hit will calculate their damage from that Hit, and will not subsequently have Damage modifiers applied directly to them. As a result of this, raising Hit Damage will result in more powerful Damaging Ailments innately. with Supported Skills.

Place into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.