Close Combat Support

Close Combat Support is a support gem.

Supports melee attack skills. Cannot support skills which create minions.

Support, Melee, Attack, Duration. Level: 1–20. Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 140%. Requires Level 18.

Supported Skills deal up to (25–39)% more Melee Damage to Enemies, based on proximity
Supported Skills grant Combat Rush on Hit
Combat Rush lasts 2 seconds or until you use a Travel Skill
Combat Rush grants 20% more Attack Speed to Travel Skills not Supported by Close Combat
Supported Skills can only be used with Axes or Swords

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 Active Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.

Name	Additional Effects From Quality	Weight
Close Combat Support	Supported Skills deal (0–10)% increased Melee Damage	50

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Related Gems

Name	Additional Effects From Quality	Weight
Close Combat Support	Supported Skills deal (0–10)% increased Melee Damage	50
Anomalous Close Combat Support	(0–40)% increased Effect of Combat Rush granted by Supported Skills	100
Divergent Close Combat Support	(0–20)% increased Damage to Close Range Enemies	100

Level Effect

Level	Requires Level	Strength	Dexterity	Supported Skills deal up to 25% more Melee Damage to Enemies, based on proximity	Experience
1	18	14	21	25	69,833
2	22	17	24	25	128,549
3	26	19	28	26	154,553
4	29	21	31	27	225,374
5	32	23	34	28	320,672
6	35	25	37	28	447,718
7	38	27	40	29	615,318
8	41	29	42	30	834,639
9	44	31	45	31	1,570,760
10	47	33	48	31	1,633,987
11	50	35	51	32	2,151,030
12	53	37	54	33	2,812,189
13	56	39	57	34	3,655,184
14	58	40	58	34	3,017,327
15	60	42	60	35	7,818,905
16	62	43	62	36	15,256,013
17	64	44	64	37	26,260,555
18	66	46	66	37	62,855,887
19	68	47	68	38	212,002,638
20	70	48	70	39
21	72			40
22	74			40
23	76			41
24	78			42
25	80			43
26	82			43
27	84			44
28	86			45
29	88			46
30	90			46
31	91			47
32	92			47
33	93			47
34	94			48
35	95			48
36	96			49
37	97			49
38	98			49
39	99			50
40	100			50

Close Combat Support is a support gem which grants the supported attack more melee damage based on how close the user is to the enemy. It also grants a buff that causes the next unsupported movement skill more attack and cast speed on the next use on hit. This support gem restricts the skill to swords and axes.

Skill functions and interactions

The "up to x% more damage" stat on Close Combat support (and the matching stat on the Slayer's Impact notable) applies the full damage bonus to targets up to a distance of 15 units from you, then linearly scales down the bonus to 0 at a distance of 40 units.


Distance	Melee Damage
15	39%
20	31%
25	23%
30	16%
35	8%
40	0%

Item acquisition

Close Combat Support can drop anywhere. Drop level: 18.

Recipes

Close Combat Support can be created from the following recipes:

Amount	Part	Description
9	Gift of the Gemling Queen	Random level 20 support gem
7	Dialla's Subjugation	Random corrupted support gem with 23% quality
6	The Fox	Random level 20 gem
8	Dying Anguish	Random level 19 gem with 19% alternative quality
8	The Hook	Random corrupted level 21 gem with 23% alternative quality
3	Gemcutter's Promise	Random gem with 20% quality
1	Gemcutter's Incubator	Random gem with 1–20% quality
1	The Void	Random divination card set exchange

Quest reward

This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:

Class →	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Quest ↓	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Sharp and Cruel Act 2	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✗	✗

Vendor reward

This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:

Class →	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Quest ↓	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Sharp and Cruel Act 2 Yeena	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
The Root of the Problem Act 2 Yeena	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa	✓