In Path of Exile 2, you acquire different kinds of skills throughout the course of the leveling process. However, leveling up your character only grants access to a passive ability skill tree, where you can spend points to buff various stats. The actual skills you use in combat can't be acquired via leveling up. Instead, Path of Exile 2 requires you to find Uncut Skill Gems and create a Skill Gem to be used for different available skills depending on your character's level.

Naturally, Uncut Skill Gems are quite the commodity in Path of Exile 2, as they allow you to take advantage of new and powerful combat skills. Unfortunately, these commodities aren't too common to find across any of the game's locations.

How Uncut Skill Gems work in Path of Exile 2

First and foremost, you need to understand how Uncut Skill Gems work in Path of Exile 2. When you find one of these gems, it will have a number on it. This number equates to the level of the Skill Gem, which determines what skills you can socket it into. For example, if you find a Level 5 Uncut Skill Gem, you can use that to create a Skill Gem for a Level 5 skill on your character.