PoE Coin of Power Guide: Every Strength Support and How to Imbue Your Gems

The PoE Coin of Power is the red Djinn Coin from the Mirage 3.28 league, and it does one specific thing: corrupts a level 20 skill gem and bolts a free random Strength support effect onto it forever. No socket cost, no link cost, no recipe, no choice in which support you get. You either roll Fortify and feel like a genius, or you roll Iron Will on a bow build and remember why corruption is called corruption. This guide covers how to get the Coin of Power, how to use it without bricking your gem, what Strength supports it can actually roll (and the two it cannot), and which level 20 gems are worth the gamble in the first place.

What Is the PoE Coin of Power?

The Coin of Power is a stackable currency item introduced in the Mirage 3.28 league. Its mod text on the official PoE Wiki reads “Corrupts a level 20 Skill Gem, Imbuing it with a random Strength Support effect.” The flavour text underneath is “Knowledge and speed are useless without the strength to wield them. I wish for power!” That flavour quote is also a hint: each of the three imbuing coins is themed around an attribute, and they cannot be substituted for each other.

Field	Value
Item class	Currency Item
Stack size	10
Drop level	68
Drop source	Mirage encounters under a Sigil of Ruzhan Wish (drop-restricted)
Currency exchange cost	1,000 Gold per coin
Trade value (May 2026)	~179 chaos / 1.7 divine
24-hour volume	~5,600 coins traded

The coin does not consume a socket and it does not break your existing links. The Imbued Gem keeps every link it had and gains the new support effect “for free” on top. The catch is that the gem becomes corrupted in the process, which means you can no longer apply Vaal Orbs, gemcutter’s prisms, or anything else to it. You also cannot reroll the imbue once the coin lands.

How to Get a Coin of Power

Coin of Power drops are gated behind the Mirage league mechanic. The flow is the same as the other Djinn Coins, but you have to deliberately push the encounter toward Coin of Power rather than the other two attribute coins.

Step 1: Run Maps at Area Level 68 or Higher

The Coin of Power has a drop level of 68, which lines up with the start of the Atlas. White and yellow tier maps are fine; you do not need to be in red maps to start farming. If you have not opened the Atlas yet, finish the campaign first and then come back. The early-Atlas Mirage drops feed your first imbues at exactly the right pace.

Step 2: Free Afarud and Talk to Varashta

While clearing a map, you will find a chained Djinn called Afarud surrounded by enemies. Kill the captors and Varashta appears, offering you three Wishes. Each Wish has a Sigil icon attached: Ruzhan (red, Strength), Kelari (green, Dexterity), or Navira (blue, Intelligence). For Coin of Power specifically, you want a Wish carrying the Sigil of Ruzhan.

If none of the three Wishes carry the Ruzhan sigil, the choice is yours: take the best Wish on offer (most Wishes still drop other valuable Mirage rewards), or skip the Mirage entirely. Mirage encounters are not refundable, so be honest about whether your build cares more about coins or general loot. For an end-to-end breakdown of which Wishes pair best with Coin farming, see the complete Djinn Coins guide.

Step 3: Clear the Mirage Zone

Selecting a Wish opens a portal to the Mirage, a copy of your current map that inherits all map mods, scarabs, and Atlas tree bonuses. Coin drops come from the monsters inside, plus the Bronze, Silver, and Gold Djinn Caches scattered through the zone. Gold Caches roll the most coins per cache, so prioritize them when you see one.

Compact map layouts make a real difference here. The Mirage zone is sized by walkable area, not radius, so a tight layout lets the same area-fill spawn more monsters and caches. The best Mirage maps for farming guide has a tier list of layouts ranked by Mirage density.

Alternate Sources

Two secondary sources also drop Coin of Power, though both are slower than running Mirages directly. Honoured and Sacred Incubators have a small chance to roll Djinn Coins, which is a nice bonus while you are doing other content. The Currency Exchange in Mirage league cities also lists Coin of Power for 1,000 Gold per coin if you happen to have gold to burn from heist or ritual content.

How to Use a Coin of Power

Using the coin is simple, but the preparation around it is where most players brick gems. Follow the order below precisely.

1. Level the gem to 20. The coin will not apply to a level 19 gem. There is no workaround.
2. Apply 20% quality first. Once the coin lands, the gem is corrupted, which locks quality in place. If you skip this step, you are stuck with whatever quality the gem had at the time of imbue.
3. Confirm the gem is uncorrupted. Coins do not work on already-corrupted gems. If you’ve Vaal-orbed it for level 21, that gem is ineligible.
4. Right-click the Coin of Power, then left-click the gem. The coin consumes, the gem corrupts, and a random Strength support effect attaches at level 1.
5. Socket the Imbued Gem. Place it in any link group; the imbue support stacks with whatever supports are linked to it. Remember: only one Imbued Gem can sit in a single link group.

⚡ Quick tip: Always level a duplicate gem to 20 in your weapon swap before imbuing the main one. If you roll a bad support, the duplicate is your fallback. Coin of Power is rare enough that bricking your only level 20 copy is a serious time loss.

Strength Supports the Coin Can Roll

The Coin of Power pulls from the pool of red (Strength-tagged) supports that are valid for the gem you are imbuing. The system always checks compatibility, so you cannot accidentally roll Melee Splash on a spell or Iron Will on a minion gem. The result is random within the legal pool, but the pool itself is fixed.

High-Value Strength Supports You Want to Roll

Several Strength supports retain most of their value at level 1 because their effect does not scale with gem level, or because the level 1 numbers are already large enough to matter:

• Fortify Support. grants the Fortify buff on melee hit, plus a baseline melee damage multiplier. Defensive value alone makes it the standout result for any melee build.
• Ruthless Support. adds a periodic massive damage strike with no cost, no scaling requirement, and no downside.
• Lifetap Support. converts mana cost to life cost on the linked skill, plus a damage multiplier. Solves mana management on permanent skills, especially valuable for league starters.
• Brutality Support. large physical damage multiplier in exchange for losing elemental damage. Build-defining for pure-physical melee.
• Pulverise Support. area of effect plus melee damage. Universal value on melee AoE skills.
• Fist of War Support. flat damage multiplier on slam skills. The bonus is the largest level 1 numeric jump of any Strength support.
• Close Combat Support. distance-scaled damage and attack speed for melee. Strong on point-blank fighters.
• Infused Channeling Support. channel-skill multiplier with damage reduction. Build-specific but transformative when it lands.
• Melee Physical Damage Support. old-reliable multiplier for any physical attack.

Two Supports the Coin Can Never Roll

The PoE Wiki page for Coin of Power explicitly excludes two Strength-tagged supports from the imbue pool: Flamewood Support and Shockwave Support. Both are red gems and both technically qualify as Strength-aligned, but the Wish system filters them out. Grinding Gear Games has not published the exact reason, but the community consensus is that both supports were considered too strong as a free level 1 effect (Shockwave creates a free melee AoE proc, Flamewood adds an avenging totem skill). If you specifically want either of those, you have to socket them the normal way.

Less Exciting Rolls (Still Useful)

The pool also contains plenty of niche or low-impact rolls. Iron Will, Iron Grip, Less Duration, Maim, and similar gems show up regularly and rarely make a build-defining difference. None of them are bricks; they just are not the result you were hoping for. Hardcore players sometimes treat a “wasted” imbue as a sell signal: a gem with a low-tier roll often holds enough trade value to recoup most of the coin cost.

Best Gems to Imbue with Coin of Power

Random rolls cut both ways, so the gems worth imbuing share three traits: their main skill is the build’s primary damage source, the worst possible Strength roll still does something useful for them, and they cost relatively little to replace if you brick the imbue. That last trait matters more than people think.

• Boneshatter, Earthshatter, Sunder, Heavy Strike. physical melee skills are the safest target. Almost every Strength support gives them something, and the tier-1 outcomes (Fortify, Brutality, Fist of War) are build-altering.
• Tectonic Slam, Earthquake, Vaal Smite. slam skills hit the Fist of War lottery the hardest. A rolled Fist of War on a slam skill is one of the strongest single rolls in the game.
• Cyclone. channel-skill rolls (Infused Channeling especially) make Cyclone scale even further. Lifetap on Cyclone removes mana sustain entirely.
• Warcries. General’s Cry and Seismic Cry benefit from warcry-tagged Strength supports. Random rolls on these tend to be useful even when they are not optimal.
• Transfigured melee variants. every transfigured gem is a valid imbue target. Use a coin on a transfigured Sunder or transfigured Boneshatter and the imbue applies normally.

Skills that are weak targets: pure spell builds (Coin of Knowledge fits better), bow and ranged attacks (Coin of Skill is the right one), most curses, and most aura skills. Imbuing a curse or aura with a Strength support generally returns nothing useful because the linked skill has no attack to support.

Coin of Power vs Coin of Skill vs Coin of Knowledge

Mirage league has five Djinn Coins total. Three of them imbue gems (Power, Skill, Knowledge), one restores Afarud Uniques to Maraketh form (Restoration), and one drops from Beyond monsters and converts Maraketh Uniques (Desecration). Here is how the three imbuing coins compare directly.

Coin	Sigil	Support Pool	Best For
Coin of Power	Sigil of Ruzhan	Random Strength (red) support	Melee, slam, channel, warcry skills
Coin of Skill	Sigil of Kelari	Random Dexterity (green) support	Bow, ranged, attack speed, dual wield
Coin of Knowledge	Sigil of Navira	Random Intelligence (blue) support	Spells, totems, minions, curses

All three follow the same level 20, uncorrupted, one-per-link-group rules. Each coin’s value on the trade league fluctuates with how many builds in the current meta want its support pool. Trade prices shift each league as the meta changes, so check poe.ninja before committing to a coin you intend to buy in bulk rather than farm.

Common Mistakes and Pro Tips

Two link-group workarounds are worth knowing. First, you can break a 6-link with the Crafting Bench to isolate each Imbued Gem in its own link group within the same equipment piece, which lets you stack a second Imbued Gem on the same item as long as the two are not linked together. Second, dual wielding gives you two weapons, each with its own link groups, which means you can run two Imbued Gems simultaneously on one character (one per weapon).

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Frequently Asked Questions

Summary

Coin of Power is the Strength version of the Mirage league imbue mechanic. Drop it from Sigil of Ruzhan Mirage encounters in level 68+ maps, prepare your level 20 gem with full quality before applying, and accept that the support effect is a random roll from a fixed pool with two specific exclusions. Tier-1 results (Fortify, Brutality, Fist of War, Lifetap, Ruthless) are build-defining; tier-3 results (Iron Will, Less Duration) usually still hold trade value and rarely brick a build outright. The coin is one of the most impactful currency additions Mirage shipped, and it is one of the cleanest reasons to actually engage with the Mirage zone instead of skipping it.

For the broader Mirage league context including the other coins and the league’s place in the 2026 PoE roadmap, see our Path of Exile in 2026 overview, the complete Djinn Coins guide for the four other coin types, the Coin of Desecration guide for converting Maraketh uniques into their Afarud forms, and the best Mirage maps for farming guide if you are optimizing your map pool for coin yield.