Ruthless Support

Slam, Support, Melee, Attack, Strike

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

(Ailments that deal Damage are Bleeding, Ignited, and Poisoned)

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.

Quest /4

Act	Quest	NPC	Character
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

Ruthless Support

Level Effect /40

Implicit
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120% (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
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 /7

Key	Value
Cost	iLvl 1: Normal: 1xScroll of Wisdom
Acronym	Hit, Stun, Melee, Duration, Ailment
BaseType	Ruthless Support
Class	Support Gems
Icon	u
ItemType	Metadata/Items/Gems/SupportGemRuthless
Reference	poe.ninja, Community Wiki

Ruthless Support

Slam, Support, Melee, Attack, Strike

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

(Ailments that deal Damage are Bleeding, Ignited, and Poisoned)

Additional Effects From Quality:

Supported Skills deal (0–10)% increased Attack Damage

Supported Gem /69

Allow Type: MeleeSingleTarget, Slam

Excluded Type: Channel, NoRuthless

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.

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.

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 a melee weapon 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 of Onslaught

Perform a strike with a melee weapon 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

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. Requires a Mace, Sceptre, Axe, Sword or Staff.

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

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 of Shanking

Punctures enemies, causing a bleeding debuff, which will be affected by modifiers to skill duration. Puncture works with 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.

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.

Crushing Fist

Retaliate against a blocked hit by calling forth a huge armoured fist to slam into the ground in front of you as you do the same, dealing weapon damage in an area.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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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

Version	Changes
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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