Cruelty

This page is about the buff. For the support gem, see Cruelty Support.

Cruelty

Buff

Skills supported by Cruelty Support deal more damage over time.

Cruelty is a buff associated with Cruelty SupportCruelty SupportSupport, Duration
Icon: Y
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 140%Requires Level 18Supports any skill that hits enemies. Minions cannot gain Cruelty.Supported Skills deal (15-24)% more Damage with Hits
Cruelty has a Base Duration of 4 seconds
Hits from Supported Skills grant Cruelty
(0-19)% increased Effect of Cruelty granted by Supported Skills

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
(0.25-5)% increased Effect of Cruelty granted by Supported SkillsThis 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. that grants more damage over time to supported skills.

Mechanics

Cruelty grants more damage over time with supported skills based on the damage of the hit compared to the target's maximum life. It lasts 4 seconds by default, and has a maximum effect of 40%. The maximum is unaffected by modifiers to Cruelty effect.

At gem level 20, The Cruelty buff provides 15.85% more damage over time to skills supported by Cruelty when the hit does 0.01% of the monster's ailment threshold and 40% more damage over time to skills supported by Cruelty when the hit does 3.2% of the monster's ailment threshold. Taking Shaper's 7 million ailment threshold as an example, a hit of 224k is needed to reach the maximum buff of 40%.

The effect of Cruelty is calculated using the following formula:

$\color [rgb]{0.6392156862745098,0.5529411764705883,0.42745098039215684}E={1+M \over 120\%}*\left({D \over L}\right)^{0.2}$

where D is the is the amount of damage caused by a hit, L is the enemy's maximum life, and M is the sum of increases to Cruelty effect.

Sources

Support skill gems

Gem
Cruelty SupportCruelty SupportSupport, Duration Icon: Y Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 140%Requires Level 18Supports any skill that hits enemies. Minions cannot gain Cruelty.Supported Skills deal (15-24)% more Damage with Hits Cruelty has a Base Duration of 4 seconds Hits from Supported Skills grant Cruelty (0-19)% increased Effect of Cruelty granted by Supported Skills Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (0.25-5)% increased Effect of Cruelty granted by Supported SkillsThis 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.	18

Version history

Version	Changes
3.15.0	Maximum Cruelty Effect is now 40% (previously 50%).
3.14.0	Introduced to the game as a buff (which not related to the original passive skill)
1.3.0	Removed from the game. (Originally grants 25% increased Critical Strike Multiplier)
Before 1.0.0	Cruelty is introduced to the game as a notable passive skill