And then they are limited in terms of personal safety by the fact that they don ' t have damage to leech from . It is more that you cannot kill enemies than leech actually . Supports , especially a Guardian , can usually get insane recovery rates going without leech if built for it . But if the enemies never stop hitting you because they stay alive it won ' t help . I agree that supports have to be strong enough to make up for the downside of not allowing for soloplay . And even in the current state of support builds being absurdly strong in group play they are a very unpopular choice of build . I believe the only way to make supports more popular would be content which basically requires group play to be completed . Not sure it would suit PoE to introduce that kind of content though . Mainly because group play has a lot of problems , especially on the technical side .