Cruelty - Path of Exile

1. PoE Cruelty Explained

2. Cruelty Source

3. Damage Over Time Effects

4. Cruelty Buff

5. Cruelty Support

1. PoE Cruelty Explained

Cruelty makes all Skills Supported by Cruelty Support deal up to 40% more Damage over Time, based on the amount of Damage in the Hit which grants it.

1. Source: Cruelty Support(Hits from Supported Skills grant Cruelty), Damage Over Time Mastery(30% increased Effect of Cruelty).
2. Cruelty is a buff. It grants more Damage Over Time. The DOT value based on the percent of maximum life removed by a damaging hit. For a level 20 Cruelty Support,
   

   Hit does x% of the monster’s maximum life	Grants y% more Damage Over Time
   0.01%	15.85%
   3.2%	40%

3. Maximum Cruelty Effect is 40%. It cannot bypass even you stack Cruelty Support gem quality. No matter how much “increased effect of Cruelty” you have, you will still be limited to 40% increased DOT taken.
4. Cruelty has a Base Duration of 4 seconds. Divergent Cruelty Support: Cruelty granted by Supported Skills has (0–20)% increased Duration.
5. The effect of Cruelty calculator: E = (5 / 6) * (D / L)^0.2 * (1 + M). where D is the is the percent of life removed by damage, L is the enemy’s maximum life, and M is the sum of increases to Cruelty effect.
6. Traps don’t work well with cruelty. In order for a trap to get the damage bonus, your character must have another source of cruelty AS WELL as support the trap with cruelty support. This is because a trap supported by cruelty support will give itself the cruelty buff, but it only will benefit from buffs attached to your character.

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Can totems benefit from the Cruelty buff? And what about traps/mines?

Totems, Traps, and Mines use your skills. If you have Cruelty, your skills that are supported by Cruelty Support will deal more damage over time. This is true regardless of whether those skills are used by you or by your totems, traps or mines.

If a totem somehow gained the Cruelty buff itself, that would do nothing, because even if it had skills of its own, those wouldn't be supported by Cruelty support.

2. Cruelty Source

2.1 Cruelty Support

Supports any skill that hits enemies.

• 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 Quality: (0–5)% increased Effect of Cruelty granted by Supported Skills.

2.2 Passive: Damage Over Time Mastery

• 30% increased Effect of Cruelty
• +10% to Damage over Time Multiplier if you’ve Killed Recently
• 15% increased Duration of Ailments on Enemies, 15% increased Skill Effect Duration
• 10% less Damage Taken from Damage over Time

3. Comparison of Common Damage Over Time Effects

Damage over time (often refered to as DoT) is a damage inflicted continuously over a period of time. Unlike the other three damage sources, damage over time does not hit.

All damage over time effects are a kind of debuff. A creature can have multiple applications of these debuffs of the same type but usually only the one with the highest damage per second works at any given time (except for poison where all applications stack cumulatively); this is true even in the case of effects applied by different players or sources.

For example, if two players each apply the ignite status ailment to the same target, only the higher damage per second of the two ignites will affect the target, at least until the higher fades and leaves the second ignite to become the new highest. In this context, two damage over time effects are to be considered the same only if they have the same name; a target may be affected by multiple effects that deal burning damage (such as  Righteous Fire, ignite and burning ground).

Name	Inflicting hit damage as DPS	Default duration	Total bonus damage per stack	Max. stacks	DPS at max. stacks	Total bonus damage from max. stacks	CollapseDefault DoT damage type
Bleed	70% of Physical	5 s	350%	1	70%	350%	Physical
Bleed, target moving	210% of Physical	5 s	1050%	1	210%	1050%	Physical
Bleed, with Crimson Dance	35% of Physical	5 s	175%	8	280%	1400%	Physical
Ignite	50% of Fire	4 s	200%	1	50%	200%	Fire
Ignite, 1  Emberwake	30.30%–33.3% of Fire	6–6.6 s	200%	2	60.6%–66.7%	400%	Fire
Ignite, 2 Emberwakes	21.7%–25% of Fire	8–9.2 s	200%	3	65.2–75%	600%	Fire
Ignite, 1  Replica Emberwake	67.5%–72.5% of Fire	2.7–2.9 s	200%	1	67.5–72.5%	200%	Fire
Ignite, 2 Replica Emberwakes	85%–95% of Fire	2.1–2.4 s	200%	1	85%–95%	200%	Fire
Ignite, 1 Emberwake, 1 Replica Emberwake	40.9%–48.3% of Fire	4.1–4.8 s	200%	2	81.8%–96.7%	400%	Fire
Poison	20% of Physical + Chaos	2 s	40%	∞	∞	∞	Chaos
Poison from  Viper Strike	20% of Physical + Chaos	4 s	80%	∞	∞	∞	Chaos

4. Cruelty Buff

Cruelty is a buff associated with  Cruelty Support that grants more damage over time to supported skills.

Icon	Description
	Skills supported by Cruelty Support deal more damage over time.

5. Cruelty Support

Cruelty Support is a Strength/Intelligence support gem. It supports skills that hit enemies, causing them to deal more damage with hits. You also gain a Cruelty buff, which makes all supported skills deal up to 50% more damage over time, based on the amount of damage of the initial hit. Supports any skill that hits enemies. Minions cannot gain Cruelty. Support, Duration. Level: 1–20. Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 140%. Requires Level 18. 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 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 Cruelty Support (0–5)% increased Effect of Cruelty granted by Supported Skills 100

Cruelty Support Build

Main Skill	Builds
Vaal Earthquake or Earthquake	Vaal Earthquake + Brutality Support + Fist of War Support+ Deadly Ailments Support + Less Duration Support + Cruelty Support(or Fortify Support, Melee Physical Damage Support)
Lancing Steel	Lancing Steel + Brutality Support + Impale Support + Vicious Projectiles Support + Maim Support + Cruelty Support(or Pierce Support, Bloodthirst Support)
Reckoning (item provided)	Reckoning + Cruelty Support + Culling Strike Support+ Life Gain on Hit Support
Split Arrow	Split Arrow + Brutality Support + Vicious Projectiles Support + Chance to Bleed Support + Deadly Ailments Support + Cruelty Support(or Chain Support)

Deal up to 50% more damage over time, based on the amount of damage of the initial hit

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 maximum life.
• 50% more damage over time to skills supported by Cruelty when the hit does 3.2% of the monster's maximum life.

Cruelty Support Build Example

The Cruelty Support Gem grants a buff called Cruelty which increases the damage over time you deal with supported skills. It also boosts the hit damage from supported skills, and the Cruelty buff gets stronger the harder you hit. This gem is designed as an additional option for builds that focus on both hits and damage over time.

Cruelty Support Alternate Quality

Level Effect

Quest Rewards

Cruelty Support is now offered to the Marauder, Templar, Witch and Scion for completing Sharp and Cruel, and can be purchased from Yeena.

Cruelty Support Popularity in Different Classes

Class	Cruelty Support Popularity
Gladiator	31%
Elementalist	19%
Hierophant	14%
Juggernaut	5%
Occultist	5%
Champion	5%
Inquisitor	5%
Trickster	5%
Chieftain	2%
Deadeye	2%
Pathfinder	2%
Necromancer	2%
Assassin	2%

Cruelty Support Screenshots

PoE 3.14.1

Fixed a bug where the Duelist was unable to purchase Cruelty Support from Yeena after completing Sharp and Cruel.