Melee Splash Support

Melee Splash Support Melee Splash Support is a support gem that can be linked with a melee strike skill gem to add a splash effect to the attack, dealing damage around each enemy struck by it.

Supports melee strike skills, causing their melee strike to deal splash damage around each target hit.

Support, Melee, Attack, Strike, AoE. Level: 1–20. Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%. Requires Level 8.

  • Supported Skills deal Splash Damage to surrounding targets
  • Supported Skills deal (41–50)% less Damage to surrounding targets
  • Supported Skills have (0–57)% more Melee Splash Area of Effect

This is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Active Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.

NameAdditional Effects From QualityWeight
Melee Splash SupportSupported Skills have (0–10)% increased Area of Effect50

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Related Gems

Level Effect

LevelRequires LevelStrengthSupported Skills deal 50% less Damage to surrounding targetsSupported Skills have #% more Melee Splash Area of EffectExperience
181850, 13,231
2102150, 139,569
3132549, 1628,189
4173149, 1959,146
5213748, 112111,192
6254348, 115193,800
7294947, 118320,280
8335547, 121507,839
9376146, 124554,379
10406646, 127755,049
11437045, 1301,016,533
12467545, 1331,898,602
13497944, 1361,964,019
14528444, 1392,573,731
15558843, 1427,610,839
16589343, 14513,436,884
17619742, 14825,050,611
186410242, 15143,867,388
196710641, 154242,078,618
207011141, 157
217240, 160
227440, 163
237639, 166
247839, 169
258038, 172
268238, 175
278437, 178
288637, 181
298836, 184
309036, 187
319135, 189
329235, 190
339334, 192
349434, 193
359533, 195
369633, 196
379732, 198
389832, 199
399931, 1101
4010031, 1102

Skill functions and interactions

Melee Splash does not work with melee skills that already have an area of effect, such as Ground Slam and Cleave. Infernal Blow has the "AoE" gem tag for its explosion effect, but the primary hit is still single-target and will benefit from Melee Splash. Whirling Blades, although being a melee skill and not having an AoE, is not compatible with Melee Splash.

Skills supported by Melee Splash do not receive the AoE gem tag.

Modifiers to AoE (e.g. Area of Effect radius and Area Damage) will apply to the AoE component of Melee Splash. However, damage on target initially struck does not count as an AoE and will not be affected by relevant bonuses, using splash effectively grants a normal hit on the primary target plus a donut-shaped AoE around it.

The area of effect created by Melee Splash has a base radius of 14 units.

Melee Splash will also "spread" effects, for example, if your initial hit is a knockback to the target you hit with a single-target skill, nearby enemies within the radius of Melee Splash will also get knocked back. Same works with stuns as well. This is very effective with Heavy Strike as it is a guaranteed knockback per hit.

Item acquisition

Melee Splash Support can drop anywhere. Drop level: 8.

Recipes

Melee Splash Support can be created from the following recipes:

Amount Part Description
9 Gift of the Gemling Queen Random level 20 support gem
7 Dialla's Subjugation Random corrupted support gem with 23% quality
6 The Fox Random level 20 gem
8 Dying Anguish Random level 19 gem with 19% alternative quality
8 The Hook Random corrupted level 21 gem with 23% alternative quality
3 Gemcutter's Promise Random gem with 20% quality
1 Gemcutter's Incubator Random gem with 1–20% quality
1 The Void Random divination card set exchange

Quest reward

This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:

Class → Witch Shadow Ranger Duelist Marauder Templar Scion
Quest ↓
The Caged Brute
Act 1		 ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Vendor reward

This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:

Class → Witch Shadow Ranger Duelist Marauder Templar Scion
Quest ↓
The Caged Brute
Act 1
Nessa		 ✓
A Fixture of Fate
Act 3
Siosa		 ✓
Fallen from Grace
Act 6
Lilly Roth		 ✓

Related unique items

The following unique items are related to Melee Splash Support:

Item Base Item Level Stats
Kitava's Feast Void Axe 68 Socketed Gems are supported by Level 25 Melee Splash
(200-240)% increased Physical Damage
1% of Physical Attack Damage Leeched as Life
1% of Physical Attack Damage Leeched as Mana
Recover 5% of Life on Kill
Enemies Killed by your Hits are destroyed
The Hungry Loop Unset Ring 70 Has 1 SocketConsumes Socketed Uncorrupted Support Gems when they reach Maximum Level
Can Consume 4 Uncorrupted Support Gems
Has not Consumed any Gems
<Consumed support gem modifier>

Related modifiers

The following modifiers are related to Melee Splash Support:

Name Level Stats Spawn Weighting
of Shaping 68 Socketed Gems are supported by Level 16 Melee Splash
(23-27)% increased Area Damage		 sword_shaper 1000
axe_shaper 1000
mace_shaper 1000
claw_shaper 1000
sceptre_shaper 1000
dagger_shaper 1000
rune_dagger_shaper 1000
default 0
of Shaping 75 Socketed Gems are supported by Level 18 Melee Splash
(28-32)% increased Area Damage		 sword_shaper 1000
axe_shaper 1000
mace_shaper 1000
claw_shaper 1000
sceptre_shaper 1000
dagger_shaper 1000
rune_dagger_shaper 1000
default 0
of Shaping 80 Socketed Gems are supported by Level 20 Melee Splash
(33-37)% increased Area Damage		 sword_shaper 1000
axe_shaper 1000
mace_shaper 1000
claw_shaper 1000
sceptre_shaper 1000
dagger_shaper 1000
rune_dagger_shaper 1000
default 0

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