Inspiration SupportSupport Icon: r Level: (1-20)Requires Level 31Supports any skill.Supported Skills have (25-34)% reduced Mana Cost Gain an Inspiration Charge when you Spend Mana for Supported Skills Lose all Inspiration Charges after Spending a total of (122-800) Mana with Supported Skills Supported Skills deal (5-8)% more Elemental Damage per Inspiration Charge Supported Skills have (7-10)% increased Critical Strike Chance per Inspiration ChargeThis 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 Active Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
Inspiration Support is a support gem that reduces the mana cost of linked skills. When the supported skill is used, it grants an Inspiration charge, which grants more elemental damage and critical strike chance. You lose all Inspiration Charges after you spend a certain amount of mana.
Supported skills grant you an Inspiration Charge when you spend mana with them, up to 5 charges. These charges last for 10 seconds. If you haven't generated a charge for longer, you will lose all Inspiration Charges.
This creates a mana counter for all skills linked with Inspiration Support, up to the respective cap (800 at gem level 20).
As soon as a skill is used that puts the total mana spent above the threshold, the mana counter is reset to 0 and all Inspiration Charges are removed.
Hence lower mana costs result in better usage of Inspiration Charges. For example, if it takes 100 mana to cast a skill, the first 5 casts will average at 50% of the gem's potential and then the next 3 casts will be at 100% potential, while a mana cost of 1 will result in 795 casts at maximum efficiency after the first 5 initial casts.
The 25-34% reduced mana cost of skills is additive with other sources of reduced mana costs.
The buff grants more elemental damage and increased critical strike chance per Inspiration Charge. Inspiration Charges are shared between all skills linked with Inspiration Support. It doesn't matter which skill created the charges, each skill linked to this support will benefit from the charges even if it doesn't use mana.
Effective usage
Among others Inspiration Support is especially interesting for build utilizing a Cast On Critical Strike Support set-up. Since attacks usually cost much less mana to use than spells, especially Cyclone, it results in more efficient use of this particular support gem. Both the attack and spell(s) in a common CoC set-up will be supported, granting increased critical strike chance and more elemental damage to both.
Another build archetype that can benefit from this support gem are builds that use Heralds. Herald of Ice and Herald of Thunder in particular, which are used for so called "Autobombers". The effects of these Heralds only scale off of elemental damage and not spell damage, while also using critical strike chance (assuming they are given a base critical strike chance through other means). Supporting both an attack like Shield Charge, which has a low mana cost, and the Heralds with Inspiration Support will make maintaining Inspiration Charges easy.
Builds that use Righteous Fire as a main damage source will appreciate the very rare "more elemental damage" multiplier. Again, by supporting both Righteous Fire and another skill, like Shield Charge, with Inspiration Support, it is possible to generate charges with the attack and having Righteous Fire benefit from the buff.
So while this gem doesn't have the highest more-multiplier (40% more at level 20 and 5 charges), the downside of generating and maintaining charges can be easily manageable while other support gems come at a steep opportunity cost such as critical strike chance reduction or being unable to inflict elemental ailments.
Gem level progression
Level
Reduced Mana cost
Mana spent
Elemental Damage
Critical Chance
Exp.
Total Exp.
1
31
33
23
25%
N/A
3%
6%
0
0
2
34
36
25
25%
N/A
3%
6%
285815
285815
3
36
38
26
26%
N/A
3%
6%
252595
538410
4
38
40
27
26%
N/A
3%
6%
314394
852804
5
40
41
29
27%
N/A
3%
6%
388734
1241538
6
42
43
30
27%
N/A
4%
6%
477437
1718975
7
44
45
31
28%
N/A
4%
6%
583786
2302761
8
46
47
33
28%
N/A
4%
7%
710359
3013120
9
48
49
34
29%
N/A
4%
7%
1355511
4368631
10
50
51
35
29%
N/A
4%
7%
1138877
5507508
11
52
53
37
30%
N/A
4%
7%
1368233
6875741
12
54
55
38
30%
N/A
4%
7%
1638338
8514079
13
56
57
39
31%
N/A
4%
7%
1956648
10470727
14
58
58
41
31%
N/A
4%
7%
3655184
14125911
15
60
60
42
32%
N/A
4%
8%
3017327
17143238
16
62
62
43
32%
N/A
5%
8%
7720126
24863364
17
64
64
44
33%
N/A
5%
8%
15058455
39921819
18
66
66
46
33%
N/A
5%
8%
25964218
65886037
19
68
68
47
34%
N/A
5%
8%
62460771
128346808
20
70
70
48
34%
N/A
5%
8%
211508743
339855551
21
72
72
50
35%
N/A
5%
8%
N/A
N/A
22
74
N/A
N/A
35%
N/A
5%
9%
N/A
N/A
23
76
N/A
N/A
36%
N/A
5%
9%
N/A
N/A
24
78
N/A
N/A
36%
N/A
5%
9%
N/A
N/A
25
80
N/A
N/A
37%
N/A
6%
9%
N/A
N/A
26
82
N/A
N/A
37%
N/A
6%
9%
N/A
N/A
27
84
N/A
N/A
38%
N/A
6%
9%
N/A
N/A
28
86
N/A
N/A
38%
N/A
6%
9%
N/A
N/A
29
88
N/A
N/A
39%
N/A
6%
10%
N/A
N/A
30
90
N/A
N/A
39%
N/A
6%
10%
N/A
N/A
31
91
N/A
N/A
40%
N/A
6%
10%
N/A
N/A
32
92
N/A
N/A
40%
N/A
6%
10%
N/A
N/A
33
93
N/A
N/A
40%
N/A
6%
10%
N/A
N/A
34
94
N/A
N/A
40%
N/A
6%
10%
N/A
N/A
35
95
N/A
N/A
41%
N/A
6%
10%
N/A
N/A
36
96
N/A
N/A
41%
N/A
6%
11%
N/A
N/A
37
97
N/A
N/A
41%
N/A
6%
11%
N/A
N/A
38
98
N/A
N/A
41%
N/A
6%
11%
N/A
N/A
39
99
N/A
N/A
42%
N/A
7%
11%
N/A
N/A
40
100
N/A
N/A
42%
N/A
7%
11%
N/A
N/A
Item acquisition
Inspiration Support can drop anywhere.
Recipes
Inspiration Support can be created from the following recipes:
Gift of the Gemling QueenGift of the Gemling Queen9Level 20 Support GemOur Lady Dialla, as a symbol of our progress, shines greater than all the gems.
Random level 20 support gem
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Dialla's SubjugationDialla's Subjugation7Support Gem Quality:+23% CorruptedA symbol of beauty and innocence The gems corrupted her mind Malachai corrupted her gems All but a glimmer of greatness lost in madness
Random corruptedsupport gem with 23% quality
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The FoxThe Fox6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox." - Ezomyte Proverb
Random level 20 gem
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Gemcutter's PromiseGemcutter's Promise3Gem Quality:+20%"I swore to use my position to help the people. What good is power when it just accumulates on the already-powerful?" - Erasmus, Imperial Gemcutter
Random gem with 20% quality
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Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item Item drops after killing {0} monstersRight click this item then left click an item to apply it. The Incubated item drops after killing a specific number of monsters.
Random gem with 1–20% quality
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1
The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.
Random divination card set exchange
A
Vendor reward
This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:
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