List of skill gems usable with bows

This is a list of weapon skills that can be used with bows.

Gem	Tier
Bow ShotBow ShotAttack, Projectile, Barrageable Level: (1-20) Attack Damage: (100-312)% of baseRequires: BowFire an arrow with your Bow.Skills can be managed in the Skills Panel.	0
Escape ShotEscape ShotAttack, AoE, Projectile, Cold Tier: 1 Level: (1-20) Cost: (11-80) Mana Attack Damage: (65-265)% of baseLeap backwards and fire an arrow which can Chill or Freeze enemies around the location you escaped from.Converts 100% of Physical Damage to Cold Damage Projectile count cannot be modified +0.7 seconds to Total Attack Time (300-585)% more Freeze Buildup Impact radius is 2.4 metres Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (6-120)% more Freeze BuildupSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.	1
Lightning ArrowLightning ArrowBarrageable, Attack, AoE, Projectile, Lightning, Chaining Tier: 1 Level: (1-20) Cost: (6-43) Mana Attack Speed: 90% of base Attack Damage: (80-250)% of baseFire a charged arrow at the target. On hitting an enemy or wall, the arrow will fire Chaining Lightning beams at nearby enemies.Converts 40% of Physical Damage to Lightning Damage Hits up to (2-4) additional enemies near the target Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (2-40)% more chance to ShockSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.	1
Lightning RodLightning RodAttack, AoE, Projectile, Sustained, Lightning, Duration, Barrageable Tier: 1 Level: (1-20) Cost: (4-30) Mana Attack Speed: 120% of base Attack Damage: (26-94)% of baseRequires: BowFire an arrow that drops from above, creating a Lightning burst. The arrow remains in the ground, and any Chaining Lightning beams can Chain to it. When Chained to, the arrows charge up for a brief period before releasing another Lightning burst. The Lightning Arrow Skill skips this delay, causing bursts immediately.Converts 100% of Physical Damage to Lightning Damage Burst radius is 2 metres Maximum Arrow duration is 20 seconds Arrow disappears after being Chained to 8 times Maximum 20 active Arrows Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (1-20)% chance to cause an additional Burst on impactSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.	1
Poisonburst ArrowPoisonburst ArrowBarrageable, Attack, AoE, Projectile, Chaos, Duration Tier: 1 Level: (1-6) Cost: (5-10) Mana Attack Damage: (95-145)% of baseFires a virulent arrow that creates a burst of Poison on hit, affecting all enemies in an area.Place into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill. Sockets are found in the Skills menu tab.	1
Shockwave TotemShockwave TotemAttack, Totem, AoE, Melee, Slam, Duration, Nova Tier: 3 Level: (1-20) Cost: (15-103) ManaRequires: Any Martial WeaponRaise a Totem that Slams the ground around it, repeatedly damaging nearby enemies. Jagged Ground erupts when hit by this Slam, damaging enemies standing on it. The Totem cannot create Jagged Ground.Totem Totem duration is 12 seconds Limit 1 Totem Totem gains +(0-75)% to all Elemental Resistances Totem gains +(0-35)% to Chaos Resistance Slam Attack Speed: 50% of base Attack Damage: (25-66)% Shockwave radius is 3 metres Jagged Ground Eruption Attack Damage: (108-237)% Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: +(0.2-4) seconds to Totem durationSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.	3
SnipeSnipeBarrageable, Attack, AoE, Projectile, Channelling Tier: 3 Level: 1Channel to charge up your bow before releasing a powerful shot. Releasing the moment you fully charge causes the arrow to explode on impact for a guaranteed Critical Hit.Place into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill. These are found in the Skill Gems panel.	3
Stormcaller ArrowStormcaller ArrowBarrageable, Attack, AoE, Projectile, Lightning, Duration Tier: 3 Level: (1-20) Cost: (7-54) Mana Attack Speed: 80% of base Attack Damage: (20-62)% of baseFire an arrow that embeds where it lands for a short duration. At the end of the duration, a Lightning Bolt strikes the arrow, disintegrating it and damaging enemies with a high chance to Shock. Shocks caused by the Bolt will spread to Enemies near the impact. Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (1.5-30)% increased Shock DurationSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.	3
Vine ArrowVine ArrowBarrageable, Attack, AoE, Projectile, Chaos, Duration Tier: 3 Level: 1Fire an arrow into the air that lands after a short delay, damaging enemies and causing a plant to spring up at the impact location. The plant sprouts vines that latch onto nearby enemies, Slowing their movement speed and dealing Chaos damage over time. The plant can be Poisoned, causing it to deal more damage.Place into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill. These are found in the Skill Gems panel.	3
Herald of BloodHerald of BloodBuff, Attack, Persistent, AoE, Physical, Herald, Payoff Tier: 4 Level: (1-20) Reservation: 30 SpiritWhile active, killing an enemy with Blood Loss will cause a bloody explosion that deals Physical Attack damage to surrounding enemies based off the life of the exploded enemy, destroying their Corpse if the enemy was Normal or Magic. The explosion also has a chance to Aggravate Bleeding.Enemies with Blood Loss you kill explode Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Deals +(0.2-4)% of exploded enemy's Blood Loss as unscalable Physical Attack DamageSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.	4
Herald of ThunderHerald of ThunderBuff, Attack, Persistent, AoE, Lightning, Herald, Payoff Tier: 4 Level: (1-20) Reservation: 30 SpiritWhile active, killing Shocked enemies with a non-Herald Attack Hit will cause subsequent Attack Hits to release lightning bolts which deals Attack damage to all surrounding enemies.Buff Lightning Bolts strike the targets of your next (2–3) Attack Hits after Killing a Shocked Enemy with Attack Damage Bolt Attack Damage: (70–286)% Supported Skills Cannot inflict Shock Bolt impact radius is 1.6 metres 100% of Bolt Physical Damage Converted to Lightning Damage Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Lightning Bolts strike the targets of your next (0–2) Attack Hits after Killing a Shocked Enemy with Attack DamageSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.	4
BarrageBarrageSpell, Buff, Duration Tier: 5 Level: (1-20) Cost: (11-51) Mana Cooldown Time: 2.00 sec Can Store 1 Use(s) Cast Time: 0.70 secRequires: Spear, BowReady a volley of arrows or spears, Empowering your next Barrageable Bow or Projectile Spear Attack to Repeat multiple times. Consumes your Frenzy Charges on use to add additional repeats.Empowered Attacks Repeat +2 times, and a further +1 time per Frenzy Charge consumed Repeats deal 50% less Damage (600-410)% of repeated Skill's attack time is added to this skill's cooldown, to a maximum of 30 seconds Maximum Buff duration is 5 seconds Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Repeats deal +(0.25-5)% more DamageSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.	5
Electrocuting ArrowElectrocuting ArrowAttack, AoE, Projectile, Lightning, Duration, Barrageable Tier: 5 Level: (1-20) Cost: (6-46) Mana Attack Speed: 80% of base Attack Damage: (90-281)% of baseRequires: BowFire an electrifying arrow that explodes in an Area on Hit. Hitting an enemy will attach an Electrocuting Rod to them, causing all incoming Lightning damage to build up Electrocution. This rod is removed when the enemy is next Electrocuted.Cannot Pierce Converts 50% of Physical Damage to Lightning Damage Cannot Chain Arrow duration is 25 seconds Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Hits against targets with attached Rods gain (0.5-10)% of Damage as extra Lightning DamageSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.	5
Freezing SalvoFreezing SalvoAttack, AoE, Projectile, Cold Tier: 5 Level: (1-20) Cost: (15-105) Mana Attack Damage: (48-150)% of baseRequires: BowPassively coalesces icy missiles from the air over time. Using the skill fires a missile, firing an additional missile for each that has been accumulated. Fires an additional missile, up to its current missile count, targeting each Ice Fragment in its Area of effect, causing the Fragments to Detonate immediately.Converts 80% of Physical Damage to Cold Damage (50-107)% more Freeze Buildup Impact radius is 1.2 metres Accumulates up to 10 additional missiles Accumulates a missile every 0.75 seconds Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (2-40)% more Freeze BuildupSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.	5
Toxic GrowthToxic GrowthAttack, AoE, Projectile, Chaos Tier: 5 Level: 1Leap into the air and fire a volley of arrows which cause toxic pustules to sprout from the ground on impact. The pustules explode after a delay and can be Poisoned, causing them to explode faster and more violently.Place into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill. These are found in the Skill Gems panel.	5
Gas ArrowGas ArrowBarrageable, Attack, AoE, Projectile, Fire, Chaos, Duration Tier: 7 Level: 1 Cost: 9 Mana Attack Damage: 80% of baseFires a noxious arrow at the ground, creating a cloud of flammable poisonous gas at the end of its flight. The cloud will detonate if hit by a Detonator skill or if an Ignited enemy touches it, creating a fiery explosion.Arrow Impact radius is 1.8 metres Poison Cloud Does not Hit, but Poisons enemies as though Hitting them Gains 50% more Area of Effect per second, up to a maximum of 200% Cloud radius is 1.8 metres Cloud duration is 4 seconds Explosion Converts 100% of Physical Damage to Fire Damage Impact radius is 1.8 metres Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Impact radius is (0–0.4) metresPlace into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill. Sockets are found in the Skill Gem panel.	7
Herald of PlagueHerald of PlagueBuff, Persistent, Chaos, Herald Tier: 8 Level: (1-20) Reservation: 30 SpiritRequires: Any Martial WeaponWhile active, killing a Poisoned enemy spreads its Poison to other nearby enemies, and has a chance to also Hinder them.Spreads the most Damaging Poison on enemies you kill in a (1.5-1.8) metre radius (10-29)% chance to Hinder enemies on spreading Poison to them Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (1-20)% chance to Hinder enemies on spreading Poison to themSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.	8
Mirage ArcherMirage ArcherBuff, Persistent, Trigger, Duration, Meta Tier: 8 Level: (1-20) Reservation: 60 SpiritRequires: Spear, Bow, CrossbowWhile active, dodge rolling will create a Mirage that uses socketed ranged Attacks for a short duration, then vanish. You cannot create another Mirage while one exists, or for a short time after one vanishes. Dodge rolling while you are unable to create a new Mirage will restart this timer.Mirage deal 30% less Damage Cannot create a new Mirage if a Mirage has expired or you have dodge rolled in the past 6 seconds Mirage duration is (4.05–5) secondsPlace one or more Skill Gems into this Meta Gem's sockets in the Skills Panel. The socketed Skills will be incorporated into the Meta Gem's effect.	8
Detonating ArrowDetonating ArrowBarrageable, Attack, AoE, Projectile, Fire, Channelling, Detonator, Staged Tier: 9 Level: 1Channel to build up power before firing off a burning arrow. At maximum charge, the arrow will detonate at the end of its flight, causing an explosion in an area around it.Place into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill. These are found in the Skill Gems panel.	9
Ice ShotIce ShotBarrageable, Attack, Projectile, Cold Tier: 9 Level: 1Fire an icy arrow that sprays a cone of ice shards when it hits a target.Place into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill. These are found in the Skill Gems panel.	9
Rain of ArrowsRain of ArrowsAttack, AoE, Projectile, Sustained Tier: 9 Level: (1-20) Cost: (15-103) Mana Attack Speed: 80% of base Attack Damage: (50-132)% of baseRequires: BowFire a hail of arrows into the air, causing them to rain from above. Consumes your Frenzy Charges to fire more arrows.Fires (30-39) Arrows Rain radius is 3.6 metres Arrow impact radius is 0.7 metres Maximum 1 arrow rain One arrow lands every 0.08 seconds Fires 100% more Arrows if a Frenzy Charge was consumed Fires 50% more Arrows per Frenzy Charge consumed Modifiers to Projectile speed apply to arrow landing frequency Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Arrows fall (1-20)% fasterSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.	9
Shockchain ArrowShockchain ArrowBarrageable, Attack, AoE, Projectile, Lightning, Chaining, Payoff Tier: 11 Level: 1Fire a Lightning-infused arrow that homes in on enemies afflicted by Lightning Ailments. Hitting such an enemy will charge the arrow, causing it to release a damaging shockwave and split beams towards up to two nearby targets. Those beams will repeat this process if they hit an enemy afflicted by a Lightning Ailment. Consumes Shock from enemies it Hits, but not Electrocution.Place into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill. These are found in the Skill Gems panel.	11
Tornado ShotTornado ShotBarrageable, Attack, AoE, Projectile, Physical, Duration Tier: 11 Level: (1-20) Cost: (13-95) Mana Attack Speed: 120% of base Attack Damage: (50-156)% of baseFire a skyward shot that whips up a Tornado where it lands, dealing Physical damage over time and Hindering enemies standing in it. Arrows, thrown Spears and Crossbow bolts fired at the Tornado are sucked into it, causing the Tornado to spit out a nova of copied Projectiles. Copied Projectiles cannot be copied again, even by further Tornados. Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Copied Projectiles deal +(0.75-15)% more damageSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.	11
Magnetic SalvoMagnetic SalvoAttack, AoE, Projectile, Lightning Tier: 13 Level: 1Aim skyward and fires energy missiles at lingering bolts or arrows created by other Lightning Attacks in front of you. The missiles explode if they land close to a lingering bolt or arrow, dealing more damage in a larger area but destroying that bolt or arrow in the process.Skills can be managed in the Skills Panel.	13
Spiral VolleySpiral VolleyAttack, Projectile, Sustained Tier: 13 Level: (1-20) Cost: (6-64) Mana Attack Damage: (60-187)% of baseRequires: BowLoad your Bow with a volley of enchanted arrows and fire them in a circle as you spin forward, firing directly at targets if possible. Consumes Frenzy Charges to cause the arrows to deal more damage and Chain to other targets. Each target can only be Hit once.+0.4 seconds to Total Attack Time Fires 25 Arrows Chains once per Frenzy Charge Consumed 30% more Damage per Frenzy Charge Consumed 100% more Damage if a Frenzy Charge was Consumed Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Fires (0.2-4) ProjectilesSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.	13