Ruthless Support
Level: (1–20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%
Requires Level (1–70), (7–111) Str
Supports melee strike or slam skills. Every third time you use a supported attack, that use of the skill will be more powerful.
Every third Attack with Supported Melee Attacks deals a Ruthless Blow
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:
Supported Skills deal (0–10)% increased Attack Damage
This is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
Level Effect /40
Implicit
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)
LevelRequires LevelStrRuthless Blows with Supported Skills deal 70% more Melee DamageRuthless Blows with Supported Skills deal 70% more Damage with
Ailments caused by Melee Hits
Experience
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341273731,554
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51122767626,047
61630777749,725
72036797995,714
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176096949427,792,735
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Attribute /6

Ruthless Support

KeyValue
CostiLvl 1: Normal: 1xScroll of Wisdom
BaseType Ruthless Support
Class Support Gems
Iconu
ItemTypeMetadata/Items/Gems/SupportGemRuthless
Referencepoe.ninja, Community Wiki
Supported Gem /0 ⍟
  • Allow Type: MeleeSingleTarget, Slam
  • Excluded Type: Channel, NoRuthless
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    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

    VersionChanges
    3.15.0d
  • Ruthless Support now has a Cost and Reservation Multiplier of 120% (previously 140%).
  • 3.15.0
  • Now has a 140% Cost and Reservation Multiplier (previously 110%).
  • Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills now deal 70-98% more Melee Damage (previously 75-132%).
  • Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills now deal 70-98% more Damage with Bleeding caused by Melee Hits (previously 75-132%).
  • Now only supports melee strike and slam skills (previously supported non-channeling melee attack skills).
  • Quality on the Anomalous Ruthless Support no longer grants “Supported Skills have 0-10% increased Attack Speed”. It now grants “Supported Skills have 0-20% increased Stun Duration on Enemies”.
  • 3.7.0
  • Now causes ruthless blows with supported skills to deal 75% more melee damage at gem level 1 (unchanged), up to 132% more at gem level 20 (from 113%).
  • Now causes ruthless blows with supported skills to deal 75% more damage with bleeding at gem level 1 (unchanged), up to 132% more at gem level 20 (from 113%).
  • 3.1.0
  • Can no longer support Channelled skills.
  • Cyclone can no longer be supported by Ruthless Support.
  • 3.0.0
  • Ruthless Support has been added to the game.

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