The Bone Cage is a highly effective skill for the Druid in Path of Exile 2. Based on our latest ladder analysis of 32 top players in the 90-plus bracket, this build frequently maximizes damage by utilizing support gems such as Astral Projection, Efficiency II, Spell Cascade. To optimize survivability and DPS, players commonly allocate key passives like Desensitisation, Wildsurge Incantation, Aspiring Genius on the skill tree.

Bone Cage
(Druid) Builds
Sample size: 32 characters analyzed.
Last updated: 2026-07-28 19:43:54 UTC
Below data represents gem links within this cohort. Selected main skills are strictly isolated.
★ Selected Main Skills
Other Active Skills & Auras
Flasks Distribution
Main Hand (Set I)
Top Bases / Uniques
Top Explicit Mods
# to Level of all [Physical|Physical] [Spell|Spell] Skills
40.6%
#% increased [Spell] Damage
37.5%
[Gain] #% of Damage as Extra [Cold] Damage
31.2%
[Gain] #% of Damage as Extra [Lightning] Damage
31.2%
#% increased [Spell] [Physical] Damage
28.1%
[Gain] #% of Damage as Extra [Fire] Damage
28.1%
# to maximum Mana
21.9%
#% increased Cast Speed
21.9%
#% increased Mana Regeneration Rate
18.8%
# to [Intelligence|Intelligence]
15.6%
Offhand (Set I)
Top Explicit Mods
# to maximum [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
21.9%
# to maximum Mana
18.8%
#% increased [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
18.8%
#% increased [Spell] Damage
18.8%
# to Level of all [Spell|Spell] Skills
15.6%
# to [Intelligence|Intelligence]
12.5%
#% increased [Critical|Critical Hit Chance] for [Spell|Spells]
9.4%
#% to [Resistances|Chaos Resistance]
9.4%
[Critical|Critical Hits] with [Spell|Spells] apply # Stacks of [CriticalWeakness|Critical Weakness]
9.4%
# to all [Attributes|Attributes]
6.2%
Helmet
Top Bases / Uniques
Top Explicit Mods
# to maximum Mana
56.2%
#% increased [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
43.8%
#% increased [ItemRarity|Rarity of Items] found
43.8%
#% of Damage taken bypasses [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
34.4%
[StatGain|Gain] #% of maximum Life as Extra maximum [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
34.4%
#% to [Resistances|Fire Resistance]
28.1%
#% to [Resistances|Lightning Resistance]
28.1%
# to maximum [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
25%
#% to [Resistances|Cold Resistance]
25%
# to maximum Life
18.8%
Body Armour
Top Bases / Uniques
Top Explicit Mods
# to maximum [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
62.5%
#% increased [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
50%
#% to [Resistances|Cold Resistance]
40.6%
#% to [Resistances|Fire Resistance]
40.6%
# to [Spirit|Spirit]
37.5%
#% increased [ESRechargeRate|Energy Shield Recharge Rate]
31.2%
#% to [Resistances|Lightning Resistance]
28.1%
# to maximum Life
21.9%
# Life Regeneration per second
18.8%
# to Level of all [Corrupted] Skill Gems
9.4%
Gloves
Top Bases / Uniques
Top Explicit Mods
#% increased [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
84.4%
# to [Intelligence|Intelligence]
78.1%
#% to [Resistances|Cold Resistance]
75%
#% increased Mana Regeneration Rate if you've dealt a [Critical|Critical Hit] [Recently]
71.9%
#% increased [Critical|Critical Hit] Chance
71.9%
Cannot Regenerate Mana if you haven't dealt a [Critical|Critical Hit] [Recently]
71.9%
# to maximum [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
18.8%
# to maximum Life
15.6%
#% increased [CriticalDamageBonus|Critical Damage Bonus]
12.5%
#% to [Resistances|Lightning Resistance]
9.4%
Boots
Top Bases / Uniques
Top Explicit Mods
#% increased Movement Speed
75%
#% increased [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
50%
#% to [Resistances|Lightning Resistance]
43.8%
#% to [Resistances|Cold Resistance]
34.4%
# to maximum Life
28.1%
# to maximum [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
25%
#% to [Resistances|Fire Resistance]
25%
# to [StunThreshold|Stun Threshold]
21.9%
#% to [Resistances|Chaos Resistance]
18.8%
# to maximum Mana
15.6%
Amulet
Top Bases / Uniques
Top Explicit Mods
# to Level of all [Spell|Spell] Skills
78.1%
#% increased [ItemRarity|Rarity of Items] found
53.1%
# to maximum [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
37.5%
# to [Spirit|Spirit]
34.4%
# to maximum Life
34.4%
# to all [Attributes|Attributes]
21.9%
#% increased [Spell] Damage
21.9%
#% to all [ElementalDamage|Elemental] [Resistances]
21.9%
#% increased maximum [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
18.8%
# to maximum Mana
15.6%
Ring 1
Top Explicit Mods
#% increased [ItemRarity|Rarity of Items] found
53.1%
#% increased Cast Speed
43.8%
# to maximum Mana
40.6%
#% to [Resistances|Lightning Resistance]
40.6%
#% increased [Spell] Damage
34.4%
#% to [Resistances|Fire Resistance]
31.2%
#% increased [CriticalDamageBonus|Critical Spell Damage Bonus]
28.1%
# to maximum Life
25%
#% to all [ElementalDamage|Elemental] [Resistances]
25%
#% to [Resistances|Cold Resistance]
21.9%
Ring 2
Top Bases / Uniques
Top Explicit Mods
#% increased [ItemRarity|Rarity of Items] found
53.1%
# to maximum Mana
46.9%
#% to all [ElementalDamage|Elemental] [Resistances]
46.9%
#% increased Cast Speed
40.6%
# to maximum Life
37.5%
#% to [Resistances|Lightning Resistance]
34.4%
#% to [Resistances|Chaos Resistance]
31.2%
#% to [Resistances|Cold Resistance]
31.2%
#% to [Resistances|Fire Resistance]
31.2%
#% increased [CriticalDamageBonus|Critical Spell Damage Bonus]
25%
Belt
Top Explicit Mods
Has # [Charm] Slots
96.9%
#% of [Flask|Flask] Recovery applied Instantly
50%
# to maximum Life
40.6%
#% increased [StunThreshold|Stun Threshold]
37.5%
All [MagesLegacy|Mage's Legacies] have #% increased effect per duplicate [MagesLegacy|Mage's Legacy] you have
37.5%
Legacy of [LegacyOfQuicksilver|Quicksilver]
34.4%
# to [Strength|Strength]
31.2%
Legacy of [LegacyOfSilver|Silver]
28.1%
# to [Dexterity|Dexterity]
25%
When you kill a [Rarity|Rare] monster, you gain its [MonsterModifiers|Modifiers] for # seconds
25%
Main Hand (Set II)
Top Bases / Uniques
Top Explicit Mods
#% increased [Spell] Damage
43.8%
# to maximum Mana
37.5%
[Gain] #% of Damage as Extra [Lightning] Damage
34.4%
# to Level of all [Lightning|Lightning] [Spell|Spell] Skills
25%
#% increased chance to [Shock]
25%
[Gain] #% of Damage as Extra [Cold] Damage
18.8%
Gain # Mana per enemy killed
15.6%
[Gain] #% of Damage as Extra [Fire] Damage
15.6%
# to Level of all [Physical|Physical] [Spell|Spell] Skills
12.5%
# to [Intelligence|Intelligence]
12.5%
Offhand (Set II)
Top Bases / Uniques
Top Explicit Mods
# to maximum [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
18.8%
# to Level of all [Spell|Spell] Skills
9.4%
# to [Intelligence|Intelligence]
9.4%
#% increased [Spell] Damage
9.4%
#% to [Resistances|Chaos Resistance]
9.4%
[Critical|Critical Hits] with [Spell|Spells] apply # Stacks of [CriticalWeakness|Critical Weakness]
9.4%
#% increased [Critical|Critical Hit Chance] for [Spell|Spells]
6.2%
#% to [Resistances|Fire Resistance]
6.2%
Interactive Meta Heatmap
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Key Notables & Keystones
Desensitisation
(27)84.4%✕ Remove
Wildsurge Incantation
(27)84.4%✕ Remove
Aspiring Genius
(23)71.9%✕ Remove
Heavy Buffer
(22)68.8%✕ Remove
Enhanced Barrier
(22)68.8%✕ Remove
Sudden Escalation
(21)65.6%✕ Remove
Barbaric Strength
(20)62.5%✕ Remove
For the Jugular
(18)56.2%✕ Remove
Dangerous Blossom
(17)53.1%✕ Remove
Dampening Shield
(17)53.1%✕ Remove
Cut to the Bone
(17)53.1%✕ Remove
Pure Energy
(16)50%✕ Remove
Melding
(16)50%✕ Remove
Critical Overload
(16)50%✕ Remove
Controlling Magic
(16)50%✕ Remove
Efficient Casting
(16)50%✕ Remove
True Strike
(16)50%✕ Remove
Patient Barrier
(16)50%✕ Remove
Insightfulness
(15)46.9%✕ Remove
Illuminated Crown
(15)46.9%✕ Remove
Mind Eraser
(15)46.9%✕ Remove
Shredding Force
(14)43.8%✕ Remove
The Unseen Path
(14)43.8%✕ Remove
Deadly Force
(14)43.8%✕ Remove
The Lesser Harm
(14)43.8%✕ Remove
Comradery
(14)43.8%✕ Remove
Forced Outcome
(14)43.8%✕ Remove
Lasting Incantations
(14)43.8%✕ Remove
Blood Tearing
(14)43.8%✕ Remove
Calculated Hunter
(13)40.6%✕ Remove
Alternating Current
(13)40.6%✕ Remove
Vulgar Methods
(13)40.6%✕ Remove
General Electric
(13)40.6%✕ Remove
Entwined Realities
(13)40.6%✕ Remove
Harmonic Generator
(13)40.6%✕ Remove
Elemental Equilibrium
(13)40.6%✕ Remove
Raw Power
(13)40.6%✕ Remove
Final Barrage
(12)37.5%✕ Remove
Dependable Ward
(12)37.5%✕ Remove
Arcane Nature
(12)37.5%✕ Remove
Touch the Arcane
(12)37.5%✕ Remove
Practiced Signs
(12)37.5%✕ Remove
Essence of the Storm
(12)37.5%✕ Remove
Blackflame Covenant
(12)37.5%✕ Remove
Wasting Casts
(12)37.5%✕ Remove
Bolstering Presence
(12)37.5%✕ Remove
Power of the Storm
(11)34.4%✕ Remove
Crystalline Phylactery
(11)34.4%✕ Remove
Eternal Life
(11)34.4%✕ Remove
Soulless Form
(11)34.4%✕ Remove
Pain Attunement
(11)34.4%✕ Remove
Relentless Vindicator
(10)31.2%✕ Remove
Breaking Point
(10)31.2%✕ Remove
Cower Before the First Ones
(10)31.2%✕ Remove
Rupture the Soul
(10)31.2%✕ Remove
Affliction Enforcer
(10)31.2%✕ Remove
Battle Fever
(10)31.2%✕ Remove
Tempered Mind
(9)28.1%✕ Remove
Conservative Casting
(9)28.1%✕ Remove
Critical Exploit
(9)28.1%✕ Remove
Power Conduction
(8)25%✕ Remove
Chronomancy
(7)21.9%✕ Remove
Stormbreaker
(7)21.9%✕ Remove
Shimmering
(7)21.9%✕ Remove
Constricting
(7)21.9%✕ Remove
Roil
(7)21.9%✕ Remove
Potent Incantation
(6)18.8%✕ Remove
Hallowed
(6)18.8%✕ Remove
Careful Assassin
(6)18.8%✕ Remove
Cooked
(6)18.8%✕ Remove
Instruments of Power
(5)15.6%✕ Remove
Devoted Protector
(5)15.6%✕ Remove
Barya of Navira
(5)15.6%✕ Remove
Deadly Thorns
(5)15.6%✕ Remove
Ancestral Bond
(5)15.6%✕ Remove
The Fourth Teaching
(5)15.6%✕ Remove
Barrier of Venarius
(5)15.6%✕ Remove
Chaos Inoculation
(5)15.6%✕ Remove
Sacred Rituals
(5)15.6%✕ Remove
Sanguine Tolerance
(4)12.5%✕ Remove
Deadly Swarm
(4)12.5%✕ Remove
Reverberation
(4)12.5%✕ Remove
Overzealous
(4)12.5%✕ Remove
Radial Force
(4)12.5%✕ Remove
Navira's Well
(4)12.5%✕ Remove
Throatseeker
(4)12.5%✕ Remove
Stylebender
(4)12.5%✕ Remove
Turn the Clock Forward
(3)9.4%✕ Remove
Ruin
(3)9.4%✕ Remove
Return to Nature
(3)9.4%✕ Remove
Exhaust All Power
(3)9.4%✕ Remove
Boundless Growth
(3)9.4%✕ Remove
Mental Alacrity
(3)9.4%✕ Remove
Erraticism
(3)9.4%✕ Remove
Bone Chains
(3)9.4%✕ Remove
Warding Fetish
(3)9.4%✕ Remove
Voll's Protection
(3)9.4%✕ Remove
Preservation
(3)9.4%✕ Remove
Turn the Clock Back
(3)9.4%✕ Remove
Ancestral Reach
(3)9.4%✕ Remove
Hastening Barrier
(3)9.4%✕ Remove
Whispers of Doom
(3)9.4%✕ Remove
Profane Commander
(3)9.4%✕ Remove
Unquenchable Iron
(3)9.4%✕ Remove
Mana Blessing
(3)9.4%✕ Remove
Chakra of Elements
(3)9.4%✕ Remove
Efficient Killing
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Storm Driven
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Ancestral Alacrity
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Shimmering Mirage
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Rupturing Pins
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Right Hand of Darkness
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Mental Perseverance
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Dreamcatcher
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Sacrificial Blood
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Moment of Truth
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Bonded Precision
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Rapid Recharge
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Ruinic Helm
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Supportive Ancestors
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Ice Storm
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Brain Freeze
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Rustle of the Leaves
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Haemorrhaging Cuts
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Crashing Wave
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Ingenuity
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Energising Archon
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Flow Like Water
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Brain Storm
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Spirit Bond
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Soul Bloom
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Ancestral Conduits
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Night's Bite
(2)6.2%✕ Remove
Remnant Attraction
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Spiral into Depression
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Powerful Casting
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Eldritch Will
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Seeing Stars
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Echoing Frost
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Crystallised Immunities
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Echoing Thunder
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Abasement
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Sanguimancy
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Heartstopping Presence
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Repulsion
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Ritual Cadence
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Essence of Virtue
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Barya of Kelari
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Heartbreaking
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Arcane Blossom
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Advanced Thaumaturgy
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Spiral into Mania
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Lingering Whispers
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Cruel Fate
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Arcane Intensity
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Thin Ice
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Explosive Impact
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Impending Doom
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Vitality Siphon
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Everlasting Infusions
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Mental Toughness
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Grounded in the Earth
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Necromantic Conduit
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Sunder the Flesh
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Material Solidification
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Shocking Limit
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Inner Faith
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Gem Studded
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Resurging Archon
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Back in Action
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Stripped Defences
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Conduit
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Flow State
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Convalescence
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Heartstopping
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Empowering Remnants
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Invigorating Archon
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Efficient Inscriptions
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Step Like Mist
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Bringer of Order
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Zone of Control
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Invocated Efficiency
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Overexposure
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Unnamed Heartwood
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Gore Spike
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Mystical Rage
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Pure Chaos
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Lingering Horror
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Grasping Wounds
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Thaumaturgic Generator
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Swift Flight
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
All Natural
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Enduring Archon
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Fated End
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Infusion of Power
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Open Mind
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Implanted Gems
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Echoing Flames
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Storm Surge
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Mindful Awareness
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Mystic Stance
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Principal Infusion
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Unbound Forces
(1)3.1%✕ Remove
Intense Flames
(1)3.1%✕ Remove