Arcane Surge & Fortify changes to encourage use on main skills

Right now, the common use for the Arcane Surge & Fortify support gems is to stick them on a secondary skill (like a curse or a movement skill) and trigger them that way. Arcane Surge support offers no direct benefit to the skill that triggers it (besides the general Arcane Surge effect that benefits all spells) and Fortify gives increased (not more) physical damage which is a minor boost in most situation (minions being the ones that can best take advantage of it since they tend to have less increased damage to begin with).

I'd like to propose the following additions to these gems.

Arcane Surge Support
Supported skills deals x% more spell damage while you have Arcane Surge. (x would be similar to the value given by the Arcane Surge effect itself)


Fortify Support
Supported skills have x% of damage leech as life while you have Fortify (x would be a low value like 0.5%-1% so that Life Leech would still be better for dedicated leeching)

In the case of Arcane Surge, this would give around 25%-30% more damage by supporting the main skill at a high gem LV compared to a low LV gem attached to a secondary skill, along with additional cast speed & mana regen. That's not so powerful that it's a no-brainer, but it's enough of a boost to create a decision.

Likewise, the Fortify support would become a viable alternative to the Life Leech gem for melee skills (do you get more life leech on your main skill & fortify elsewhere or get the all-in-one combo in one place) rather than being reduced to being a movement & minion support gem only.

I think they are deliberately done like that to encourage use *of* secondary skills. It's kind of dumb how all utility supports seem to be going the way of becoming generic damage supports.

My impression is that one idea behind 'Arcane Surge' was to encourage the use of multiple skills.

In practice it however works like this:


BTW: "No one" uses life leech gem on main melee link.

100% sure they're intended to be secondary if they wanted it to be a main thing it would just have a multiplyer.

Surge does but you can just activate on it's own while fortify is well inc dogshit damage.