Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills deal (70–98)% more Melee Damage
Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills deal (70–98)% more Damage with
Ailments caused by Melee Hits
Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills have a base Stun Duration of 0.8 seconds
Additional Effects From Quality:
Quest /4
Act | Quest | NPC | Character |
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1 | The Twilight Strand | Marauder | |
1 | Mercy Mission | Quest Reward | Scion · Duelist · Templar |
1 | Mercy Mission | Nessa | Duelist · Scion · Templar |
1 | Enemy at the Gate | Nessa | Marauder |
Genus
Level Effect /40
Implicit |
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Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120% Every third Attack with Supported Melee Attacks deals a Ruthless Blow Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills have a base Stun Duration of 0.8 seconds (Ailments that deal Damage are Bleeding, Ignited, and Poisoned) |
Level | Requires Level | Str | Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills deal 70% more Melee Damage | Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills deal 70% more Damage with Ailments caused by Melee Hits | Experience |
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1 | 1 | 7 | 70 | 70 | 70 |
2 | 2 | 9 | 71 | 71 | 308 |
3 | 4 | 12 | 73 | 73 | 1,554 |
4 | 7 | 16 | 74 | 74 | 6,667 |
5 | 11 | 22 | 76 | 76 | 26,047 |
6 | 16 | 30 | 77 | 77 | 49,725 |
7 | 20 | 36 | 79 | 79 | 95,714 |
8 | 24 | 42 | 80 | 80 | 169,595 |
9 | 28 | 48 | 82 | 82 | 283,759 |
10 | 32 | 54 | 83 | 83 | 453,996 |
11 | 36 | 60 | 85 | 85 | 703,128 |
12 | 40 | 66 | 86 | 86 | 1,061,223 |
13 | 44 | 72 | 88 | 88 | 2,065,870 |
14 | 48 | 78 | 89 | 89 | 2,507,110 |
15 | 52 | 84 | 91 | 91 | 5,798,936 |
16 | 56 | 90 | 92 | 92 | 15,083,919 |
17 | 60 | 96 | 94 | 94 | 27,792,735 |
18 | 64 | 102 | 95 | 95 | 43,869,739 |
19 | 67 | 106 | 97 | 97 | 242,081,556 |
20 | 70 | 111 | 98 | 98 | |
21 | 72 | 100 | 100 | ||
22 | 74 | 101 | 101 | ||
23 | 76 | 103 | 103 | ||
24 | 78 | 104 | 104 | ||
25 | 80 | 106 | 106 | ||
26 | 82 | 107 | 107 | ||
27 | 84 | 109 | 109 | ||
28 | 86 | 110 | 110 | ||
29 | 88 | 112 | 112 | ||
30 | 90 | 113 | 113 | ||
31 | 91 | 114 | 114 | ||
32 | 92 | 115 | 115 | ||
33 | 93 | 115 | 115 | ||
34 | 94 | 116 | 116 | ||
35 | 95 | 117 | 117 | ||
36 | 96 | 118 | 118 | ||
37 | 97 | 118 | 118 | ||
38 | 98 | 119 | 119 | ||
39 | 99 | 120 | 120 | ||
40 | 100 | 121 | 121 |
Attribute /6
Ruthless Support
Key | Value |
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Cost | iLvl 1: Normal: 1xScroll of Wisdom |
BaseType | Ruthless Support |
Class | Support Gems |
Icon | u |
ItemType | Metadata/Items/Gems/SupportGemRuthless |
Reference | poe.ninja, Community Wiki |
Supported Gem /70 ⍟
Icon | Name |
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Leap Slam Jump through the air, damaging and knocking back enemies with your weapon where you land. Enemies you would land on are pushed out of the way. Requires an Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Sword or Staff. Cannot be supported by Multistrike. | |
Leap Slam of Groundbreaking Jump a short distance through the air, damaging and knocking back enemies with your weapon where you land. Enemies you would land on are pushed out of the way. Requires an Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Sword or Staff. Cannot be supported by Multistrike. | |
Ground Slam Slams the ground in front of you, creating a wave that travels forward and damages enemies with an increased chance to stun. The wave deals more damage to closer enemies. Requires an Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed. | |
Ground Slam of Earthshaking Slams the ground in front of you, creating a wide wave that travels forward and damages enemies with an increased chance to stun. Requires a Two Handed Axe, Two Handed Mace, or Staff. | |
Vaal Ground Slam Slams the ground in front of you, creating a wave that travels in all directions that damages enemies with an increased chance to stun. The wave deals more damage to closer enemies. Requires an Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed. | |
Double Strike Performs two fast strikes with a melee weapon. | |
Double Strike of Impaling Performs two fast strikes with a melee weapon. | |
Double Strike of Momentum Performs two fast strikes with a melee weapon, gaining stages which cause this skill to attack faster. All stages are lost when you move. | |
Vaal Double Strike Performs two fast strikes with a melee weapon, each of which summons a double of you for a duration to continuously attack monsters in this fashion. | |
Elemental Hit Each attack with this skill will choose an element at random, and will only be able to deal damage of that element. If the attack hits an enemy, it will deal damage in an area around them, with the radius being larger if that enemy is suffering from an ailment of the chosen element. It will avoid choosing the same element twice in a row. | |
Dual Strike Attacks with both weapons, dealing the damage of both in one strike. Dual wield only. Does not work with wands. | |
Dual Strike of Ambidexterity Attacks with both weapons, dealing the damage of both in one strike. Requires dual-wielding two different melee weapon types to use. | |
Frenzy Performs an attack that gives the character a frenzy charge if it hits. Frenzy charges increase your attack speed. | |
Frenzy of Onslaught Performs an attack that gives the character a frenzy charge if it hits. Frenzy charges increase your attack speed. | |
Flicker Strike Teleports the character to a nearby monster and attacks with a melee weapon. If no specific monster is targeted, one is picked at random. Grants a buff that increases movement speed for a duration. The cooldown can be bypassed by expending a Frenzy Charge. | |
Flicker Strike of Power Teleports the character to a nearby monster and attacks with a melee weapon. If no specific monster is targeted, one is picked at random. Grants a buff that increases movement speed for a duration. The cooldown can be bypassed by expending a Power Charge. | |
Vaal Flicker Strike Repeatedly teleports to enemies and hits them, inflicting a wound but dealing no damage. After the repeating finishes, each enemy is hit by the total damage of their wounds, which are removed. | |
Infernal Blow Attacks with your weapon, applying a charged debuff to enemies hit by your strike, and an uncharged debuff to any other enemies hit. Upon reaching 6 charges, expiring, or the enemy's death, the charged debuff is removed to damage that and other surrounding enemies. Enemies with either debuff explode when they die, damaging other surrounding enemies. Damage from this explosion cannot be reflected. Requires a Sword, Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed. | |
Infernal Blow of Immolation Attacks with your weapon, applying a charged debuff to you the first time you hit an enemy with this skill. Upon reaching 6 charges, or charges expiring, the charged debuff is removed to damage nearby enemies. Requires a Sword, Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed. | |
Glacial Hammer Hits enemies, converting some of your physical damage to cold damage. If a non-unique enemy is frozen and is on less than one third life, they will shatter when hit by Glacial Hammer. If striking three times in a row, the third strike will freeze enemies more easily. Requires a Mace, Sceptre or Staff. | |
Glacial Hammer of Shattering Hits enemies, converting some of your physical damage to cold damage. If striking three times in a row, the third strike will be a critical strike. Requires a Mace, Sceptre or Staff. | |
Vaal Glacial Hammer Hits enemies, converting some of your physical damage to cold damage. It traps enemies with you in a circle of ice so that they can't escape. Requires a Mace, Sceptre or Staff. | |
Viper Strike Hits enemies, converting some of your physical damage to chaos damage and inflicting poison which will be affected by modifiers to skill duration. If dual wielding, will strike with both weapons. Requires a claw, dagger or sword. | |
Viper Strike of the Mamba Hits enemies, converting some of your physical damage to chaos damage and inflicting poison which will be affected by modifiers to skill duration. If dual wielding, deals the damage of both weapons in one strike. Requires a claw, dagger or sword. | |
Heavy Strike Attacks enemies with a forceful blow, knocking them back. Requires a Mace, Sceptre, Axe, Sword or Two-Handed Weapon. | |
Dominating Blow Attacks enemies with a melee strike, applying a debuff for a short duration. If a non-unique enemy dies while affected by the debuff, the enemy's corpse will be consumed and a Sentinel of Dominance with the same rarity, prefix and suffix modifiers will be summoned for a longer secondary duration. | |
Dominating Blow of Inspiring Attacks enemies with a melee strike, applying a debuff for a short duration. If a non-unique enemy dies while affected by the debuff, the enemy's corpse will be consumed and a Sentinel of Dominance with the same rarity, prefix and suffix modifiers will be summoned for a longer secondary duration. | |
Lightning Strike Infuses your melee weapon with electrical energies as you swing. In addition to converting some of your physical damage to lightning damage, the stored energy is released from the weapon as projectiles as you strike, flying out to hit farther-away enemies. The projectiles cannot miss if the melee attack hit a target. | |
Lightning Strike of Arcing Infuses your melee weapon with electrical energies as you swing. In addition to converting some of your physical damage to lightning damage, the stored energy is released from the weapon as a projectile as you strike, flying out to hit farther-away enemies and chain between them. The projectile cannot miss if the melee attack hit a target. | |
Vaal Lightning Strike Infuses your melee weapon with electrical energies as you swing. In addition to converting some of your physical damage to lightning damage, the stored energy becomes an orb attached to the enemy you hit, or the ground if you don't hit an enemy. The orb will periodically fire projectiles at other nearby enemies for a duration, which will also damage the enemy the orb is attached to. | |
Puncture Punctures enemies, causing a bleeding debuff, which will be affected by modifiers to skill duration. Puncture works with bows, daggers, claws or swords. | |
Molten Strike Infuses your melee weapon with molten energies to attack with physical and fire damage. This attack causes balls of molten magma to launch forth from the enemies you hit, divided amongst all enemies hit by the strike. These will deal area attack damage to enemies where they land. | |
Molten Strike of the Zenith Infuses your two-handed melee weapon with molten energies to attack with physical and fire damage. This attack causes balls of molten magma to launch forth from the enemies you hit, divided amongst all enemies hit by the strike. These will deal area attack damage to enemies where they land. Every fifth time you attack with this skill it fires more, high-damage projectiles. | |
Riposte Perform a deadly counter-attack when you block. Uses both weapons while you're dual wielding. | |
Static Strike Attack with a melee weapon, gaining static energy for a duration if you hit an enemy. While you have static energy, you'll frequently hit a number of nearby enemies with beams, dealing attack damage. | |
Ice Crash Slam the ground, damaging enemies in an area around the impact in three stages of increasing size. Enemies take slightly less damage on the second and third stage, and can only be hit by one stage. Works with Swords, Maces, Sceptres, Axes, Staves and Unarmed. | |
Ice Crash of Cadence Slam the ground, damaging enemies in an area. Slams with main hand weapon deal more damage. Slams with off hand weapon have larger area of effect. Requires dual-wielding Swords, Maces, Sceptres, or Axes to use. | |
Vigilant Strike Attacks enemies with a powerful melee strike which grants Fortification, reducing damage you take from hits. The cooldown can be bypassed by expending an Endurance Charge. Requires a Melee Weapon. | |
Frost Blades Attack enemies with increased range, releasing icy blades from the first enemy hit which fly at other enemies. Requires a Melee Weapon. | |
Frost Blades of Katabasis Attack enemies with greatly increased range, creating a chilling area that deals cold damage over time if it hits. Requires a Melee Weapon. | |
Wild Strike Your melee weapon strikes enemies, converting physical damage to a random element. Then, depending on the element chosen, it releases a fiery explosion, an arcing bolt of lightning, or an icy wave. It will avoid choosing the same element twice in a row. | |
Wild Strike of Extremes Your melee weapon strikes enemies, converting physical damage to a random element. Then, depending on the element chosen, it releases a fiery explosion, an arcing bolt of lightning, or an icy wave. It will avoid choosing the same element twice in a row. | |
Earthquake Smashes the ground, dealing damage in an area and cracking the earth. The crack will erupt in a powerful aftershock after a duration. Cracks created before the first one has erupted will not generate their own aftershocks. Requires an Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed. | |
Earthquake of Amplification Smashes the ground, dealing damage in an area and cracking the earth. The crack will erupt in a powerful aftershock after a duration. Cracks created before the first one has erupted will not generate their own aftershocks. Requires an Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed. | |
Ancestral Protector Summons an Ancestor Totem which attacks enemies with melee strikes while you're near it. Being near it grants you more attack speed. Requires a Melee Weapon or Unarmed. | |
Ancestral Warchief Summons an Ancestor Totem which attacks enemies with a powerful slam while you're near it. Being near it grants you more melee damage. Requires a Melee Weapon or Unarmed. | |
Sunder Slams the ground, creating a slow wave of churning terrain that damages enemies in a sequence of areas in front of you. A number of enemies hit by the wave will release a shockwave, damaging other enemies around them. Using the skill again will stop the previous wave. Requires a Mace, Sceptre, Axe, Staff or Unarmed. | |
Sunder of Earthbreaking Slams the ground, creating a wave of churning terrain that damages enemies in a sequence of areas in front of you. A number of enemies hit by the wave will release a shockwave, damaging other enemies around them. Requires a Mace, Sceptre, Axe, Staff or Unarmed. | |
Tectonic Slam Slam the ground, unleashing a fiery fissure in front of you, dealing area damage and randomly releasing a number of smaller fissures branching off from it. Consume an Endurance Charge every third time you slam the ground with this skill. Requires a Mace, Sceptre, Sword, Axe, Staff, or Unarmed. | |
Tectonic Slam of Cataclysm Slam the ground, consuming all Endurance Charges and unleashing a fiery fissure in front of you, dealing area damage and randomly releasing a number of smaller fissures branching off from it. Requires a Mace, Sceptre, Sword, Axe, Staff, or Unarmed. | |
Vaal Earthquake Smashes the ground, dealing damage in an area and cracking the earth. The crack will erupt in a powerful aftershock after a short duration. After using this skill, your steps will deal damage around you, cracking the earth if the previous cracks have erupted. This effect ends after a secondary duration, or after a maximum number of aftershocks. Requires an Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed. | |
Consecrated Path Slams the ground at a targeted location. If an enemy is near where you target, you'll teleport to it from a short distance away, slam, and create an area of consecrated ground. Can't be supported by Multistrike, and requires a Sword, Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed. | |
Consecrated Path of Endurance Slams the ground at a targeted location. If an enemy is near where you target, you'll teleport to it from a short distance away, slam, and create an area of consecrated ground. The cooldown can be bypassed by expending an Endurance Charge. Can't be supported by Multistrike, and requires a Sword, Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed. | |
Smite Performs a melee attack, and causes lightning to strike a nearby enemy, dealing damage in an area. Each target can only be hit once by this skill. Hitting an enemy grants an aura for a duration. Requires a Sword, Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed. | |
Smite of Divine Judgement Performs a melee attack, and causes lightning to strike nearby enemies, dealing damage in an area. Each target can only be hit once by this skill. Requires a Sword, Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed. | |
Perforate Smash the ground to bring forth multiple spears to damage enemies. When in Blood Stance, multiple spikes burst from the ground in sequence, able to hit enemies multiple times. In Sand Stance, the spikes are thrust outwards. Requires a Sword or Axe. You are in Blood Stance by default. | |
Perforate of Duality Smash the ground to bring forth multiple spears to damage enemies. When in Blood Stance, multiple spikes burst from the ground in sequence, able to hit enemies multiple times. In Sand Stance, the spikes are thrust outwards. Requires a Sword or Axe. You are in Blood Stance by default. | |
Perforate of Bloodshed Smash the ground to bring forth multiple spikes from the ground in sequence, able to hit enemies multiple times.
Requires a Sword or Axe. | |
Pestilent Strike Attacks with your weapon, inflicting a debuff on enemies hit by the strike. If a debuffed enemy dies while poisoned, Pestilent Strike inflicts a secondary chaos damage over time debuff on enemies around them, based on the poisons on the slain enemy. This damage is not affected by your damage modifiers. Requires a Claw or Dagger. | |
Earthshatter Slam the ground, sending out rectangular fissures that deal area damage to enemies and thrust a spike from the ground when they end. Warcries or other Slam Attacks performed by you or allied players near any spike will cause them to shatter, damaging surrounding enemies. Works with Maces, Sceptres, Axes, Staves and Unarmed. | |
Earthshatter of Fragility Slam the ground, sending out rectangular fissures that deal area damage to enemies and thrust a spike from the ground when they end. The spikes shatter after a duration, damaging surrounding enemies. Works with Maces, Sceptres, Axes, Staves and Unarmed. | |
Earthshatter of Prominence Slam the ground, sending out a rectangular fissure that deals area damage to enemies and thrusts a large spike from the ground where it ends. Warcries or other Slam Attacks performed by you or allied players near the spike will cause it to shatter, damaging surrounding enemies. Works with Maces, Sceptres, Axes, Staves and Unarmed. | |
Boneshatter Attack enemies with a forceful melee strike that also hurts you. Successive uses will raise the damage dealt both to enemies and you. Stunning an enemy with the strike releases a damaging pulse. Requires a Mace, Sceptre, Axe or Staff. | |
Boneshatter of Complex Trauma Attack enemies with a forceful melee strike that also hurts you. Successive uses will raise the damage dealt both to enemies and you. Stunning an enemy with the strike releases a damaging pulse. Requires a Mace, Sceptre, Axe or Staff. | |
Boneshatter of Carnage Attack enemies with a forceful melee strike. Stunning an enemy with the strike releases a damaging pulse. Requires a Mace, Sceptre, Axe or Staff. | |
Volcanic Fissure Slam the ground, creating a winding fissure that deals area damage while travelling outwards. When it reaches the target location it erupts, releasing a burst of molten projectiles. Requires an Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed. | |
Volcanic Fissure of Snaking Slam the ground, creating a winding fissure that deals area damage while travelling outwards. When it reaches the target location it erupts dealing damage in an area. After erupting, the fissure continues moving towards enemies to cause further eruptions. Requires an Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed. | |
Vaal Volcanic Fissure Slam the ground, creating a winding fissure that deals area damage while travelling outwards. When it reaches the target location it erupts, releasing a burst of molten projectiles. After erupting, the fissure continues moving towards enemies to cause further eruptions. Requires an Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed. | |
Vaal Molten Strike Infuses your melee weapon with molten energies to attack with physical and fire damage. This attack causes balls of molten magma to launch forth causing area attack damage to enemies where they land. | |
Vaal Smite Calls lightning down to infuse your weapon, then performs a melee attack and causes lightning to strike nearby enemies, dealing damage in an area. Hitting an enemy grants an aura for a duration. Requires a Sword, Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed. |
Community Wiki
Ruthless Support
Ruthless Support is a Support gem that causes every third Attack made with the skill to deal substantially more damage and have increased base stun duration.
Skill functions and interactions
When supported by Multistrike Support, Ruthless blows work differently, instead of occurring every third hit, it occurs every third multistrike. This means hits from the first 2 uses (attacks 1 - 6) will be "normal blows" and all hits from the 3rd multi-strike use (attacks 7-9) will be ruthless blows.
Using this idea, Ruthless Blow may actually trigger by skill use, rather than skill attack, meaning, you will have to use the attack skill 3 times to trigger Ruthless Blow.
The Ruthless Blow counter still counts if you hit with a skill or not, for example, if you miss the first 2 hits of your supported attack, Ruthless Blow will count at your last 3rd attack, whether it be a hit or not.
Tracking blows: Keeping track of ruthless blows allows for them to be ready to use before a fight begins.
- Multiple attacks - can be supported by ruthless support. Each attack tracks their own ruthless blows separately. When tracking multiple attacks, multiple ruthless blows can be ready before a fight begins.
Channeled skills, including Cyclone can not be supported by Ruthless and will not interact with it in any way.
Version history
Version | Changes |
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3.15.0d |
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3.15.0 |
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3.7.0 |
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3.1.0 |
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3.0.0 |
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