Inspiration Support

Inspiration Support Recipe

Outcome	Vendor Recipes	Notes
1x  Hypothermia Support 1x  Ice Bite Support 1x  Cold Penetration Support 1x  Mana Leech Support 1x  Added Cold Damage Support 1x  Inspiration Support	1x Bitterdream	The resulting Added Cold Damage Gem is level 10, all the others are level 1.
1x  Unbound Ailments Support 1x  Inspiration Support 1x  Immolate Support 1x  Ice Bite Support 1x  Innervate Support 1x  Fire Penetration Support,  Cold Penetration Support, or  Lightning Penetration Support	1x  Replica Bitterdream	The resulting Immolate, Ice Bite, and Innervate Gems are level 10, all the others are level 1.
1x  Unbound Ailments Support 1x  Inspiration Support 1x  Immolate Support 1x  Ice Bite Support 1x  Innervate Support 1x  Elemental Penetration Support	1x  Replica Bitterdream 1x level 20  Fire Penetration Support 1x level 20  Cold Penetration Support 1x level 20  Lightning Penetration Support	The resulting Immolate, Ice Bite, and Innervate Gems are level 10, all the others are level 1.

Selling Bitterdream to a vendor in exchange for the following support gems.

Inspiration Support

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. The mod of this gem: Supported Skills have #% reduced Mana Cost does not affect mana reservation. Supports any skill. Minions, Totems, Traps and Mines cannot gain Inspiration Charges. Critical, Support. Level: 1–20. Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%. Requires Level 31. Supported Skills have (25–34)% reduced Mana Cost Gain an Inspiration Charge when you Spend Mana on Upfront Costs or Effects of Supported Skills Supported Skills have (6–8)% increased Critical Strike Chance per Inspiration Charge Supported Skills deal (3–5)% more Elemental Damage per Inspiration Charge Lose all Inspiration Charges after Spending a total of (122–800) Mana on Upfront Costs and Effects of 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 Inspiration Support Supported Skills have (0–20)% increased Inspiration Charge Duration 50

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Related Gems

Level Effect

Skill functions and interactions

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.

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 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

Cast On Critical Strike Support - Since attacks usually cost much less mana to use than spells, especially Cyclone, it results in more efficient use of Inspiration Support. Both the attack and spell(s) in a common Cast On Critical Strike set-up will be supported, granting increased critical strike chance and more elemental damage to both.

Herald of Ice and Herald of Thunder - 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 like Deadly Infusion, Increased Critical Strikes Support, etc.). 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.

Righteous Fire will appreciate the very rare "more elemental damage" multiplier. 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.

Weave the Arcane (and other ways to reduce the mana cost of skills to 0) can be used to bypass the mana counter. However Inspiration Charges will be lost if no mana is spent by supported skills within the 10 seconds the charges last.

Mines, which reserve mana and have a low mana cost, can benefit as well and with the right set-up maintain the buff consistently. Similarly Brands can link the main brand-skill, Brand Recall and a movement skill to keep the buff active. Builds that use Ignite as their main damage source can use the "more elemental damage" multiplier to scale both the initial hit and the ailment.

So while this gem doesn't have the highest more-multiplier, the downside of generating and maintaining charges can be easily managed while other support gems come at a steep opportunity cost such as reducing critical strike chance with Controlled Destruction Support or being unable to inflict elemental ailments with Elemental Focus Support.

Inspiration Support has a breakpoint of level 25 to hit 6% more Damage per charge (20% more damage compared to a level 20 gem). This can be achieved with +1 to Level of Socketed Gems gear, a Level 21 Gem, and +3 to Level of all Critical Support Gems from a Critical Mastery.

Item acquisition

Inspiration Support can drop anywhere.Drop level: 31.

Recipes

Inspiration Support can be created from the following recipes:

Amount	Part	Description
1	Bitterdream	level 15 Inspiration Support and 5 other gems
1	Replica Bitterdream	level 15 Inspiration Support and 5 other gems
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

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 ↓
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Clarissa	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa	✓
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth	✓

Related unique items

The following unique items are related to Inspiration Support:

Item	Base Item	Level	Stats
Bitterdream	Shadow Sceptre	32	22% increased Elemental DamageSocketed Gems are Supported by Level 15 Bonechill Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 15 Hypothermia Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 15 Ice Bite Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 15 Cold Penetration Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 15 Added Cold Damage Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 15 Inspiration
Replica Bitterdream	Shadow Sceptre	32	22% increased Elemental DamageSocketed Gems are Supported by Level 1 Elemental Penetration Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 15 Immolate Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 15 Unbound Ailments Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 15 Ice Bite Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 15 Inspiration Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 15 Innervate
Forbidden Shako	Great Crown	68	Socketed Gems are Supported by Level (1-10) <random Support Gem> Socketed Gems are Supported by Level (25-35) <random Support Gem> +(25-30) to all Attributes
The Hungry Loop	Unset Ring	70	Has 1 SocketConsumes Socketed Uncorrupted Support Gems when they reach Maximum Level Can Consume 4 Uncorrupted Support Gems Has not Consumed any Gems <Consumed support gem modifier>

Related modifiers

The following spawnable modifiers also grants Inspiration Support.

Name	Generation Type	Level	Stats	Tags	Spawn Weighting
The Elder's	Prefix	68	Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 1 Inspiration	support, gem	grants_2h_support 0 staff_elder 400 warstaff_elder 400 default 0
V2SupportedByReducedManaCorrupted	Corrupted	1	Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 10 Inspiration	support, gem	sword 0 bow 0 staff 0 two_hand_weapon 1000 default 0