PoE Ruthless Movement Skills

As you may be aware, Path of Exile's Ruthless mode features no movement skills. In 3.21, we are giving it a single movement skill: Quickstep.

Quickstep

Quickstep is an active skill gem. It can be only used in Ruthless mode.

Performs a series of quick teleports towards a targeted location, stopping at any place you can't stand. if using the "Attack in Place" option, the direction is reversed. Shares a cooldown with other blink skills. Cannot be supported.

Tags: Spell, Movement, Travel, Blink. Cooldown Time: 10.00 sec. Cast time: 0.15 sec.

Requires Level 1.

  • 200% increased cooldown recovery rate if used while a unique enemy is in your presence
  • This spell's cast speed cannot be modified

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

PoE Quickstep Gem

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It has a longer cooldown than other movement skills, cannot travel through monsters or terrain but its cooldown is greatly reduced near unique monsters.

PoE Quickstep Gem 3.21

How to get it?

  • It's a guaranteed drop from Hillock.

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Movement Skills Path of Exile: Ruthless

Almost all movement skills are not available in Ruthless. In this mode, movement skills trivialise game systems that matter a lot more, such as terrain layout, monster body blocking, and actual level traversal.

Here is a full list of movement skills that are not available in Ruthless: Dash, Frostblink, Flame Dash, Lightning Warp, Leap Slam, Shield Charge, Whirling Blades, Blink Arrow, Smoke Mine, Bodyswap and Charged Dash. Venom Gyre relies on Whirling Blades and is hence also not available.

Onslaught does not grant movement speed in Ruthless. This relates to the absence of movement skills.

Some gameplay situations become very difficult without the ability to use movement skills, such as Grasping Vines. Is this something that is being taken into consideration or is this part of the challenge?

It’s something we’ll take in consideration. The way we’re looking at it is if a mechanic is impossible without being able to teleport away, it should be changed for both Ruthless and the core game.

Have items that grant movement skills been removed as well?

Items that grant movement skills are currently still obtainable, but the skills they grant will have longer cooldowns. We’ll be keeping an eye on this in the lead up to the 3.20 expansion and may modify them if needed.

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