Please make more supports work with Orb tag skills, even if it means reduced effectiveness

There are many skills of which have had the Orb tag applied to them.

The Orb tag is not being used to constructively designate orb related skills that have orb related supports. The orb tag is being used as a derogatory tag to prevent "fun" from being applied to these skills from various supports.

It is being used "incorrectly" as a way to prevent good supports being applied to certain skills for incorrectly deliberated reasons, vastly reducing the number of supports new and old being applied to these skills.

If the support would be too potent for orb skills AS IS, reduce the effectiveness of the support when APPLYING to orb skills. Orb skills are one of my favourite types of skills, and the overly critical & ruthless application of what cannot support these skills is immensely depressing.

Tag's were meant as useful informative descriptors for skills, not deliberate tags only applied to a skill to prevent it from receiving new support gems.

Most players only use a single skill in a build (minus minions) so preventing something like Void Sphere of Rending being capable of using Unholy Trinity support when it is PERFECTLY theme'd around the skill is revolting. Why can't it receive half the buff effect because its an orb rather than ZERO?

Gluttony needs to be cast 10 times to receive the skill benefit, Cremation of Volcano's would be amazing for the short duration of this buff with the short duration of this skill. Why can we not have a chargeup ramping power for this? Why do orb skills get the short stick? Even if it got half the projectile count because its an orb skill it would be phenominal.

The answer is not incompatibility, its reduced effectiveness. This is really getting discouraging. Please give deep deliberation on this rather than the current status quo of labeling any "potentially problematic with x supports" an "orb" skill so it doesn't get any new interesting supports.....
State of Beyond Mechanic: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3568084

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Last bumped on Mar 8, 2026, 4:10:30 PM
no idea why GGG hates so much ORB skills but they keep geting the middle finger when it comes to supports. most likely becouse some interaction with one of them is troublesome...

at least give them couple supports like convert cast speed into damage or AOE at a % of its value.

Last edited by Iamterribleatnames#6579 on Mar 8, 2026, 4:13:50 PM

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