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1-# Ruthless with Gold
1+# Ruthless mode
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3-Back in 2007, when we were initially designing Path of Exile, we decided to eschew a gold coin system in favour of Currency Items that are used for crafting. We wrote about this in the 2011 Dev Diary entry "Rethinking Gold as a Currency".
3+Ruthless (previously codenamed "Hard Mode") is an additional character creation flag alongside Hardcore and Solo Self-Found that allows you to opt-in to extreme item scarcity and various other changes.
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5-With a decade and a half of hindsight, our currency item system turned out to be a great decision, but we have often wondered… what would Path of Exile have been like if we had just gone with gold coins?
5+This article is not a set of patch notes. Only significant changes are described, but without numerical detail. There are a lot of other small changes that aren't covered here, but this article should give you a decent overall impression of Ruthless.
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7-The Ruthless with Gold event is a way to try this out. Think of it as an alternate reality version of the early days of Path of Exile, finally made possible by the Ruthless mode we released earlier this year.
7+## What Ruthless is not
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9-In Ruthless with Gold,
10-* Monsters and chests drop [[Gold]] Coins, which can be used to buy items from vendors.
11-All vendor prices throughout the game have been replaced by prices in Gold Coins.
12-* When you sell items to vendors, you receive Gold Coins rather than currency shards. Other Ruthless vendor recipes are unmodified.
13-* There may also be a few other uses for gold that we'll describe closer to the event's launch.
14-Due to how many Gold Coins you find, they auto-pickup as you approach them.
15-* Gold Coins are itemised like Perandus Coins, and stack up to 5000 per inventory/stash space (50k in Currency Stash Wildcard Spaces).
16-* In a party, Gold Coins you pick up are shared between nearby party members.
17-* You can still find currency items, at regular Ruthless drop rates (i.e. not often). Gold Coins are dropped in addition to regular currency, meaning that in Ruthless with Gold, there is somewhat less item scarcity than full Ruthless.
18-* Sanctum is not enabled.
19-* Otherwise, base Ruthless rules apply
9+Ruthless is not for everyone. If you don't like the sound of it, then it's probably best you continue playing the regular Path of Exile modes. It's like Hardcore or Solo Self-found. Some players really enjoy the additional constraints as a way of enhancing their game experience. Many players do not, and that's okay.
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21-Ruthless with Gold is a four-week, trade-enabled, non-hardcore event that is both an opportunity to experience what Path of Exile would have been like with gold, while also letting you try out a slightly easier version of Ruthless. Players who have been keen to give Ruthless a shot but haven't wanted to do that at a major league start can use this event as a chance to try it out.
11+Ruthless is not a replacement for regular Path of Exile. It's a challenging mode for a specific type of player. A change being made in Ruthless is not an indication that we will make that change in the regular game. In fact, if we felt a particular change was good for the regular game, we'd just make it there to benefit everyone.
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23-* Start date: 1pm March 8th PST
24-* End date: 3pm April 4th PDT
13+Ruthless is not monetised any differently. You can play it for free and your existing microtransactions will work in it.
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26-This event is available on PC and Console.
15+Ruthless is not consuming significant development resources. It's a pet project that some senior designers have been working on in their spare time over the last 18 months.
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28-## Prizes
17+## What Ruthless is
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30-You’ll be able to earn one guaranteed Sanctum Mystery Box per account for reaching Level 45 in Ruthless with Gold. Please note that having multiple characters in this event will not grant you more Mystery Boxes.
19+Ruthless is a mode about friction, tension and anticipation. It's quite difficult, but overcoming that difficulty feels highly rewarding. In a world where your items are far below par, every item drop has the potential to be the breakthrough one you need.
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32-The event also has a pool of microtransaction prizes that are randomly drawn for characters that reach certain level thresholds. The pool of available prizes is shared between PC and Console players. Having multiple characters will increase your chances of winning a randomly drawn prize. More details on all the prizes can be found below.
21+Ruthless is a mode that re-imagines traditional understanding of where Path of Exile's endgame is. It redefines the entire game as the endgame. Even reaching higher campaign acts, let alone maps, is an achievement. Traditionally weak items are suddenly very valuable. High level characters and good rare items infer immense bragging rights.
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23+Ruthless is a mode where you barely find any items. You might get to act four without equipping a pair of rings. But each ring you find represents a huge power boost.
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25+Ruthless is a mode where most items are normal rarity. You don't see a lot of magic items, and even fewer rare items. But finding a rare item of a base type you're looking for feels amazing.
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27+Ruthless is a mode where you find very little crafting currency. You might only find one Orb of Alchemy throughout the whole campaign. But that orb lets you convert any base type of your choice to a rare item.
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29+Ruthless is nostalgic. We picked the name partly because it was what the third of four difficulty levels was called back in closed beta. Aspects like item scarcity and support gems being valuable really feel like the early days of Path of Exile, just without desync.
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31+## Item Scarcity
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33+The core Ruthless experience is that you don't have strong enough items to handle the content. Every item that drops has the potential to be an upgrade to your current gear.
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35+In Ruthless, the quantity of items dropped has been massively reduced throughout all game content.
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37+The rate of finding magic, rare and unique items has been massively reduced throughout all game content.
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39+Rings, Amulets and Belts are much rarer than in regular Path of Exile. They cannot be purchased from Vendors.
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41+Most league reward systems have been changed to only grant item rewards that are specific to that league (for example, Cluster Jewels only come from Delirium), plus items from the core drop pool. In Ruthless, getting items from the core drop pool is a valuable reward, especially when there is an item rarity bonus.
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43+Many deterministic items like Divination Cards or Oni-Goroshi cannot be obtained. Many bosses like Atziri that guarantee unique drops still do, but are often harder to access.
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45+## Limited Crafting
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47+In Ruthless, most of your items come from killing monsters. It's hard to find magic, rare and unique items, and it's even harder to craft them. Crafting is a powerful luxury that you'll have to use sparingly for the right items.
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49+The drop rate of crafting currency items has been massively decreased.
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51+The rate at which you receive shards of crafting currency when vendoring items has been decreased.
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53+Master crafting is not available. The crafting bench cannot be accessed and recipe plinths cannot be found.
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55+Veiled Chaos Orbs, Orbs of Binding, Orbs of Dominance, Influenced Exalted Orbs and Awakener's Orbs cannot be obtained.
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57+When an Influenced Item is reforged or the Influenced Mod is removed, its influence is lost.
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59+Most vendor recipes are not available. A few new Ruthless-specific vendor recipes have been introduced.
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61+## Skill and Support Gem Changes
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63+In Ruthless, Skill Gem drops matter. Support Gem drops matter a whole lot.
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65+Gems cannot be purchased from vendors.
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67+The Fixture of Fate and Death to Purity quests each award you a token that can be traded to Siosa for any Skill Gem other than ones specifically excluded.
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69+Percentage Reservation Skills (such as Auras) are not offered as quest rewards and are drop-only. Blood and Sand is the only exception to this. Support Gems can only be found as random drops. You cannot obtain them deterministically. Ruthless is a league of item scarcity. When items are scarce, they are exciting to find, exciting to look for and exciting to trade. We are defining Support Gems as items. This means some builds are harder to assemble, and careful planning is needed by SSF Ruthless players.
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71+Gems gain far less experience than they do in regular Path of Exile. It's a lot harder to level your skills up, which is another axis of reduced character power in Ruthless. A melee character's damage comes from their weapon. Spellcasters get a lot of their damage from their gems as they level up. This change helps reduce the power gap between these two playstyles that is otherwise exacerbated by item scarcity in Ruthless. It also means that when you're farming an area for item drops, you can grind for gem experience at the same time.
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73+Almost all movement skills are not available in Ruthless. In this mode, movement skills trivialise game systems that matter a lot more, such as terrain layout, monster body blocking, and actual level traversal.
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75+Here is a full list of movement skills that are not available in Ruthless: Dash, Frostblink, Flame Dash, Lightning Warp, Leap Slam, Shield Charge, Whirling Blades, Blink Arrow, Smoke Mine, Bodyswap, Charged Dash, Phase Run and Withering Step. Venom Gyre relies on Whirling Blades and is hence also not available.
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77+## Additional Changes
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79+Ruthless is challenging and punitive. It contains a number of changes that make Path of Exile harder and allow skilled players to differentiate themselves from everyone else.
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81+A compounding character experience penalty applies from level 68 onwards. It takes a lot of investment to achieve a high-level Ruthless character.
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83+Item drops are not allocated to specific party members. Looting is entirely free-for-all. Items really matter. Better pick them up before someone else does.
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85+Flasks and Life/Mana are not restored upon entering town or your hideout. Vendors that sell Flasks (and Helena in your hideout) can refill them for you. This disincentivises the strategy of using Portal Scrolls as an instant full heal.
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87+Onslaught does not grant movement speed in Ruthless. This is related to the absence of movement skills.
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89+If you die near a quest boss in the campaign, a chunk of its life is recovered.
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91+Hardcore Ruthless characters are not migrated to Standard Ruthless upon death. They are just permanently dead.
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93+Utility Flasks can not gain charges while active and have lower duration than they do in regular Path of Exile. Additionally, Quicksilver Flasks have had their duration reduced.
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95+Scarabs only enable mechanics in a map. They do not scale in power with their tiers. Instead, higher tiers of Scarabs are needed for higher tiers of map. Winged Scarabs do not exist.
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97+There's a Ruthless-specific Atlas Passive Skill Tree.
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99+Content from past leagues is encountered less often than in regular Path of Exile.
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101+You do not accumulate free daily Atlas Missions.
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103+Vaal Side Areas, Enkindling Orbs and Instilling Orbs do not exist in Ruthless.
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105+Map Modifiers do not provide Rarity or Pack Size. They provide Quantity and twice as much of an increased chance to drop maps. These stats work multiplicatively together to increase map drops. For example, the mod that causes Monsters Poison on Hit provides 6% increased Quantity of Items and a 12% increase of Maps Found in your Maps.
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107+League spawns work differently where the chance for extra content is first decided, and then what content spawns is picked from the pool of available outcomes. As an example, we have a 25% chance to spawn league content, so 1 in every 4 maps has additional content. This additional content is picked between all choices from Abyss, Breach, Harvest, etc. If you were to block one of those from spawning, it will make all remaining content have a higher chance of appearing. Atlas passives related to each league also only serve to make that content more likely, but does not increase the total extra content that appears.
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109+The Uber Lab does not grant ascendancy points.
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111+The Pantheon system is disabled.
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113+Kitava in Act 10 always drops a random T1 map.
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115+Kirac Missions have been adjusted such that they do not let you jump tiers of maps you haven't otherwise completed. His shop has also been similarly adjusted.
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117+Unique Maps have been rebalanced to be more inline with Ruthless.
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119+Orbs of Unmaking cost 1 Chance Orb from Kirac.
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121+Master Missions are not guaranteed to appear in the campaign.
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123+Kirac sells white maps for Orbs of Transmutation, yellow maps for Chance Orbs and red maps for Alchemy Orbs.
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125+The Item Rarity Support cannot be obtained.
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127+The formula for player quantity has been changed such that it suffers from harsher diminishing returns.
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129+Essences can only be used to upgrade to rare, and cannot be used to reroll rares. Fossils functionally do this as well, as Chaotic Resonators do not exist in this mode.
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131+The levels where you start finding four socket, five socket and six socket items have been adjusted.
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133+Voidstones do not upgrade maps. This may change in the future
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135+Ruthless uses separate item filter files which must be created specifically for it. If players used regular Path of Exile ones then they would filter out items that are actually very useful in Ruthless.
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137+https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3320651