Path of Exile 2's Patch 0.5, Return of the Ancients, has reshaped one of the most lucrative chase categories in the entire endgame: Lineage Support Gems. These rare gems power some of the strongest builds in the game, and many of them now sell for hundreds of Divine Orbs at peak demand. Knowing exactly where each one drops, what the realistic odds look like, and how to push those odds higher will save you dozens of hours of wasted maps. Below is a complete walkthrough of every drop source of Lingage Support Gems, the new tiered drop weighting, and the optimal farming setup currently being used by top players in PoE 2 0.5.

PoE 2 0.5 Lineage Support Gems Drop & Farm Guide

Lineage Support Gems are unique versions of regular support gems that grant powerful, often build-defining effects with heavy trade-offs. Unlike standard supports, they cannot be obtained from Uncut Support Gems, and your character must be at least level 65 to socket one. In Patch 0.5, GGG removed the previous guaranteed drop from Anomaly map bosses, replacing it with a tiered weighted pool, while also rebalancing dozens of effects (such as Garukhan's Resolve, Kaom's Madness, Atalui's Bloodletting, and the Xoph/Esh/Tul/Uul-Netol set tied to Xesht).

To get the most out of these gems, you'll want to know three things: how often they actually drop, where to find them, and which atlas setup pushes your yield to its peak. The sections below cover each topic in order.

Lineage Support Gems Drop Rate

Now that GGG has removed the old 100% guarantee per Anomaly map, drops follow a tiered weighting system that depends on the encounter type. Here's how the numbers shake out across the three major content categories.

Anomaly Map Bosses (Target Farmable) Drop Rate

Bosses inside Jade Isles, Sacred Reservoir, Sealed Vault, and Derelict Mansion no longer guarantee a Lineage drop. Community tracking suggests roughly a 45%–65% chance that the boss drops any Lineage gem at all per kill. When a drop does occur, it rolls from the boss's specific pool using weighted probabilities.

Using The Jade Isles (Manoki) as the reference example:

A few notes worth keeping in mind:

• The drop pool only behaves reliably at Tier 6+ maps (item level 79/80 Irradiated maps are ideal). Lower tiers severely cut your yield.

• Atlas passives such as Memories of the Marrath and Memories of the Kurui grant a 15% chance for the boss to drop an extra Anomaly Lineage support, rolled independently from the base drop chance.

• Many players have reported running 4–8 Anomaly maps with zero drops this patch, so variance is steep. Plan for long sessions rather than single-map luck.

Pinnacle Boss Drop Rate

Pinnacle encounters (The Arbiter, Zarokh, The Trialmaster, Xesht, and Uhtred) gate Lineage drops behind encounter difficulty.

• Lower/standard difficulties: very rare or fully disabled.

• T3 / max-difficulty pinnacle fights: roughly 20% overall chance for a Lineage gem to drop.

• The pool itself splits about 50 / 33 / 16, so a top-tier chase gem like Uhtred's Augury or Zarokh's Refrain lands at roughly a 3%–4% net rate per kill at max difficulty.

Random Global Pool Drop Rate

Gems such as Dialla's Desire, Ahn's Citadel, Ratha's Assault, Brutus' Brain, and Romira's Requital can drop from any monster in zones level 52+. There is no published percentage, and the weights sit in the same neighborhood as Headhunter or Mageblood. These are windfalls rather than targets, and high-density Vaal Temple or juiced map runs are the most common ways players stumble into them.

Lineage Support Gems Drop Locations

With the rate math out of the way, here is the complete drop source table for every farmable Lineage Support Gem in 0.5, organized by source type for easier farming reference.

1. Anomaly Map Boss Drops (Target Farmable)

These gems drop exclusively from the four Anomaly map boss encounters revealed on your atlas. Each boss has its own dedicated pool with weighted rarity tiers.

The Jade Isles - Boss: Manoki

Found on water/swamp atlas tiles, surrounded by hurricane and tsunami visual effects before being revealed. Reveal them by completing nearby maps.

Sacred Reservoir - Boss: Zahmir, the Blade Sovereign

Located in desert/sand biomes, hidden under sandstorm overlays. Noticeably rarer to find on the atlas than Jade Isles in most seeds.

Sealed Vault - Bosses: Ytzara & Maztli

Identifiable by the floating blood crystal hovering above a sealed entrance. Requires finding an Idol key from surrounding maps to enter, which is notoriously rare.

Derelict Mansion - Bosses: Varloch & Avelyne (the Ascent Lord and Evelyne)

A duo encounter inside a haunted manor map. Reveal mechanic mirrors the others, complete surrounding maps to lift the obscuring effect.

2. Pinnacle Boss Drops

Pinnacle encounters have meaningful drop rates only at T3 / maximum difficulty, with an overall ~20% chance for any Lineage gem to drop and a ~50/33/16 split inside the boss's pool.

The Arbiter (Atlas Pinnacle Boss)

Zarokh - Trials of the Sekhemas (Floor 4 Boss)

The Trialmaster - Trials of Chaos

Xesht - Breach Pinnacle

The largest Pinnacle pool, with four chase gems all rolling from the same encounter:

Uhtred - Expedition Pinnacle (Allroth)

Unlocked once you've completed enough Expedition encounters to access the Uhtred fight. Drops one of three gems per kill at max difficulty:

Uhtred is among the most reliable Pinnacle farms because every kill at max difficulty rolls from a strong three-gem pool with no filler.

3. Mechanic-Specific Drops

These gems do not drop from bosses. They come from specialized loot containers tied to mechanics within maps.

Abyssal Depths - Large Abyssal Trove

Abyssal Depths spawn from Abyss cracks in maps. When the crack opens fully, jumping into the depths gives you access to a Large Abyssal Trove at the end, which is the dedicated source for these gems:

4. Random Global Drop Pool

These gems can drop from any monster in zones level 52 or higher. They have no dedicated farming target—your best approach is high-density, juiced mapping (Vaal Temples, juiced Rituals, and Breach-stacked maps are the most efficient hunting grounds).

5. New 0.5 Lineage Gems (Drop Sources Confirmed/Implied)

Patch 0.5 added several new Lineage gems. Based on context from the source material, here is what we can confirm:

6. Currently Disabled or Restricted Gems in 0.5

A handful of older or niche Lineage gems are currently drop-disabled or heavily restricted in the 0.5 loot pool. Don't waste filter slots or farming time on these:

• Atziri's Communion

• Dreamer's Knell

• Helbrym's Hide

Quick Reference: Where to Farm What You Need

For any boss-locked drop, allocate Memories of the Marrath and Memories of the Kurui on the atlas before running Anomaly maps, and take Untold Histories on Jado for the 35% increased Lineage find chance. For global pool gems, the highest-density mapping you can sustain is always the answer.

How To Farm Lineage Support Gems in PoE 2 0.5?

Now that you know what drops where, the next step is putting together a setup that maximizes your odds per map. The most expensive gems—Rakiata's Flow, Garukhan's Resolve, and the Sealed Vault chase set, come from Anomaly maps, so the strategy below focuses on those, with notes on Pinnacle and global farming as well.

Step 1: Find and Reveal Anomaly Maps

Anomaly maps appear as obscured spots on your atlas with visual effects:

• Eye of the Storm reveals into The Jade Isles (Rakiata's Flow source). Look for hurricane/tsunami swirls over the map.

• Temporal Sanctum reveals into the Sacred Reservoir (Garukhan's Resolve source). Look for sandstorm visuals.

• Sealed Vault and Derelict Mansion appear with their own distinct overlays.

You reveal these by completing the surrounding maps. Jade Isles tend to be far more common than Sacred Reservoirs in any given atlas, so expect to push hard in one direction to find the latter.

Step 2: Use Doryani and Grand Project Tablets to Search Faster

Doryani's atlas node Hidden Patterns gives a 10% chance when completing a map to make nearby maps accessible without being connected. Pair this with the Grand Project unique tablet, which lets you run any nearby map after a tower without connection requirements. Together they let you jump across the atlas at high speed while hunting for Anomaly markers.

Step 3: Take Jado and the Right Atlas Nodes

The Jado atlas ascendancy is currently the strongest farming option for these gems. Two nodes matter most:

• Untold Histories - 35% increased chance to find Lineage Supports.

• Partial Translations - 20% chance to double the effect of explicit modifiers on tablets.

The two mandatory atlas nodes for Anomaly farming are Memories of the Marrath and Memories of the Kurui, each granting a 15% chance for the boss to drop an extra Anomaly Lineage support. Do not run Anomaly maps until both are allocated. The 15% extra rolls stack with the base drop chance and represent a huge percentage gain over hundreds of maps.

Step 4: Roll Six-Mod Waystones with High Quantity

Drop weighting in 0.5 scales with waystone modifier drop chance, so you want your maps to be packed:

• Run Tier 15+ waystones with as much waystone drop chance as possible. Anything over 120% is acceptable; 135%+ is excellent.

• Alch + Exalt and corrupt your tier 15s to fish for the highest possible roll.

• The map base itself doesn't matter for Anomaly drops, only the modifier weight.

Step 5: Stack the Right Tablets

For your tower tablets, the modifier you want is increased quantity of Wastelands found in the map, which rolls up to 40% per slot. Stack three tablets with this modifier for a heavy quantity boost.

The boss tablet with increased waystone drop chance from map bosses may also influence Lineage drops, since the drop technically comes from the boss—the value is lower per slot but worth testing.

If Anomaly maps are running long for you, the Visions of Paradise tablet (currently around 7 Divines) lets you run the same map twice. Given that one Rakiata's Flow can pay for dozens of these, it's a reasonable gamble for serious farmers.

Step 6: Push Tier and Don't Skip Modifiers

Multiple players have confirmed that dropping below Tier 6 (or running de-juiced maps) leads to far fewer drops, sometimes none at all. Run Irradiated tier 79/80 maps as your baseline. If your build can handle the density and damage, juiced full-quant Anomaly runs are where the chase gems actually fall.

Step 7: Pinnacle Bosses on Max Difficulty

For Pinnacle gems—Arbiter's Ignition, Zarokh's Refrain, Ixchel's Torment, the Xesht set, and the Uhtred trio—only T3 / maximum difficulty kills give a meaningful drop rate (around 20% for any Lineage). At lower difficulties you'll mostly waste keys. Build up your fragments and run them on max scaling whenever possible.

Step 8: For Global Drops, Just Map Hard

Ahn's Citadel, Dialla's Desire, Brutus' Brain, Ratha's Assault, and the rest of the global pool can't be target farmed. The most efficient approach is high-density, high-quantity mapping (Vaal Temple farming, juiced rituals, and breach-stacked maps are popular), and treating any drop as a windfall while you chase the bigger Anomaly and Pinnacle prizes.

Lineage Support Gems are easily the most rewarding chase category in 0.5, and the new tiered drop system means a single Rakiata's Flow or Uhtred's Augury can fund an entire build. Lock in your Jado ascendancy, take both Memories nodes, roll high-quant waystones with Wasteland-quantity tablets, and push Anomaly maps at Tier 6+ until the rare drops fall. With the right setup, even the 2% chase gems become realistic targets over a weekend of focused farming.