Ruthless Support

Ruthless Support is a support gem that grants a Ruthless Blow every third attack with the supported melee attacks.

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.

With Cyclone, Ruthless Blows doesn't work as normal as intended, Ruthless Blow won't trigger every 3rd attack, however, it will trigger every 3rd series of spin attacks made by Cyclone.

A similar issue exists with channeling attacks (Blade Flurry and Charged Dash). The Ruthless blow is activated every third channel and persists for the entire channel and the release. With proper timing, this allows you to do 2 short channels and 1 full channel, greatly increasing the effectiveness of the support and consequently your dps.

Gem level progression

Level			More melee damage with Ruthless Blow	More bleeding damage from Ruthless Blow	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	1	0	70%	N/A	0	0
2	2	0	71%	N/A	70	70
3	4	0	73%	N/A	308	378
4	7	16	74%	N/A	1554	1932
5	11	22	76%	N/A	6667	8599
6	16	30	77%	N/A	26047	34646
7	20	36	79%	N/A	49725	84371
8	24	42	80%	N/A	95714	180085
9	28	48	82%	N/A	169595	349680
10	32	54	83%	N/A	283759	633439
11	36	60	85%	N/A	453996	1087435
12	40	66	86%	N/A	703128	1790563
13	44	72	88%	N/A	1061223	2851786
14	48	78	89%	N/A	2065870	4917656
15	52	84	91%	N/A	2507110	7424766
16	56	90	92%	N/A	5798936	13223702
17	60	96	94%	N/A	15083919	28307621
18	64	102	95%	N/A	27792735	56100356
19	67	106	97%	N/A	43869739	99970095
20	70	111	98%	N/A	242081556	342051651
21	72	114	100%	N/A	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	101%	N/A	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	103%	N/A	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	104%	N/A	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	106%	N/A	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	107%	N/A	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	109%	N/A	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	110%	N/A	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	112%	N/A	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	113%	N/A	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	114%	N/A	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	115%	N/A	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	115%	N/A	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	116%	N/A	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	117%	N/A	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	118%	N/A	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	118%	N/A	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	119%	N/A	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	120%	N/A	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	121%	N/A	N/A	N/A

Version history

Version	Changes
3.1.0	Can no longer support Channelled skills.
3.0.0	Ruthless Support has been added to the game.