Ruthless Support

Ruthless SupportSupport, Melee, Attack
Icon: u
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 110%Supports melee attack skills. Every third time you use a supported attack, that use of the skill will be more powerful. Cannot support channelling skills.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3DivergentSupported Skills deal 0.5% increased Attack DamageSupported Skills have 0.5% increased Attack SpeedSupported Skills have 1% reduced Attack Speed
Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills deal 1% more Melee DamageEvery third Attack with Supported Melee Attacks deals a Ruthless Blow
Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills deal (75-132)% more Melee Damage
Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills have a base Stun Duration of 0.8 seconds
Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills deal (75-132)% more Damage with Bleeding caused by Melee HitsThis 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.Acquisition
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Item class: Support Skill Gems
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SupportGemRuthless

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.

Gem level progression

Level					Cost and Reservation Multiplier	Critical Strike Chance	Mana Cost	Damage Effectiveness	Stored Uses	Cooldown	Vaal souls	Stored Uses	Soul Prevention Time	Attack Damage	Base duration	Attack Speed	More melee damage with Ruthless Blow	More bleeding damage from Ruthless Blow	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	1	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	75%	75%	0	0
2	2	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	78%	78%	70	70
3	4	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	81%	81%	308	378
4	7	0	16	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	84%	84%	1554	1932
5	11	0	22	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	87%	87%	6667	8599
6	16	0	30	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	90%	90%	26047	34646
7	20	0	36	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	93%	93%	49725	84371
8	24	0	42	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	96%	96%	95714	180085
9	28	0	48	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	99%	99%	169595	349680
10	32	0	54	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	102%	102%	283759	633439
11	36	0	60	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	105%	105%	453996	1087435
12	40	0	66	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	108%	108%	703128	1790563
13	44	0	72	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	111%	111%	1061223	2851786
14	48	0	78	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	114%	114%	2065870	4917656
15	52	0	84	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	117%	117%	2507110	7424766
16	56	0	90	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	120%	120%	5798936	13223702
17	60	0	96	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	123%	123%	15083919	28307621
18	64	0	102	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	126%	126%	27792735	56100356
19	67	0	106	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	129%	129%	43869739	99970095
20	70	0	111	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	132%	132%	242081556	342051651
21	72	0	114	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	135%	135%	-342051651	0
22	74	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	138%	138%	0	0
23	76	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	141%	141%	0	0
24	78	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	144%	144%	0	0
25	80	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	147%	147%	0	0
26	82	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	150%	150%	0	0
27	84	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	153%	153%	0	0
28	86	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	156%	156%	0	0
29	88	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	159%	159%	0	0
30	90	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	162%	162%	0	0
31	91	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	165%	165%	0	0
32	92	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	168%	168%	0	0
33	93	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	171%	171%	0	0
34	94	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	174%	174%	0	0
35	95	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	177%	177%	0	0
36	96	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	180%	180%	0	0
37	97	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	183%	183%	0	0
38	98	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	186%	186%	0	0
39	99	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	189%	189%	0	0
40	100	0	0	0	0%	0%	0	0%	0	0.00 sec	0	0	0 sec	0%	0.00 sec	0%	192%	192%	0	0

Item acquisition

In addition, the Large Chest in The Twilight Strand (Act 1) contains this gem, if the player selects Marauder as the character.

Version history

Version	Changes
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. CycloneCycloneAttack, AoE, Movement, Channelling, Physical, Melee Level: (1-20) Cost: 2 Mana Attack Speed: 300% of base Attack Damage: (44-54)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (44-54)%Requires Level 28Channel this skill to move towards a targeted location while spinning, building up stages while constantly attacking enemies in an area around you. While channelling this skill, you cannot be knocked back.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3Divergent4Phantasmal0.5% increased Area of Effect1% chance to Knock Enemies Back on hit0.25% more Movement Speed1% Chance to Avoid Interruption from Stuns While Using this SkillDeals (44-54)% of Base Attack Damage 30% less Movement Speed First Hit deals 50% less Damage Gains 1 Stage every (0.33-0.17) seconds while Channelling +1 to radius per Stage Lose 1 Stage every 0.33 seconds while not Channelling (5-28) to (8-42) Added Attack Physical Damage Maximum (3-6) Stages 8% increased Area of Effect per 1 additional Melee Strike RangePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. can no longer be supported by Ruthless Support.
3.0.0	Ruthless Support has been added to the game.

References

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