Ruthless Support

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.

Supports melee strike or slam skills. Every third time you use a supported attack, that use of the skill will be more powerful.

Slam, Support, Melee, Attack, Strike. Level: 1–20. Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%. Requires Level 1.

Every third Attack with Supported Melee Attacks deals a Ruthless Blow
Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills deal (70–98)% more Melee Damage
Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills deal (70–98)% more Damage with Bleeding caused by Melee Hits
Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills have a base Stun Duration of 0.8 seconds

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
Ruthless Support	Supported Skills deal (0–10)% increased Attack Damage	50

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Related Gems

Name	Additional Effects From Quality	Weight
Ruthless Support	Supported Skills deal (0–10)% increased Attack Damage	50
Anomalous Ruthless Support	Supported Skills have (0–20)% increased Stun Duration on Enemies	100
Divergent Ruthless Support	Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills deal (0–20)% more Melee Damage Supported Skills have (0–20)% reduced Attack Speed	100

Level Effect

Level	Requires Level	Strength	Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills deal 70% more Melee Damage	Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills deal 70% more Damage with Bleeding caused by Melee Hits	Experience
1	1	7	70	70	70
2	2	9	71	71	308
3	4	12	73	73	1,554
4	7	16	74	74	6,667
5	11	22	76	76	26,047
6	16	30	77	77	49,725
7	20	36	79	79	95,714
8	24	42	80	80	169,595
9	28	48	82	82	283,759
10	32	54	83	83	453,996
11	36	60	85	85	703,128
12	40	66	86	86	1,061,223
13	44	72	88	88	2,065,870
14	48	78	89	89	2,507,110
15	52	84	91	91	5,798,936
16	56	90	92	92	15,083,919
17	60	96	94	94	27,792,735
18	64	102	95	95	43,869,739
19	67	106	97	97	242,081,556
20	70	111	98	98
21	72		100	100
22	74		101	101
23	76		103	103
24	78		104	104
25	80		106	106
26	82		107	107
27	84		109	109
28	86		110	110
29	88		112	112
30	90		113	113
31	91		114	114
32	92		115	115
33	93		115	115
34	94		116	116
35	95		117	117
36	96		118	118
37	97		118	118
38	98		119	119
39	99		120	120
40	100		121	121

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. This means you will have to use the attack skill 3 times to trigger Ruthless Blow.

The Ruthless Blow counter still counts whether or not you hit with a skill. For example: if you miss the first 2 hits of your supported attack, then Ruthless Blow will activate on your next (3rd) attack whether it is 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.

Item acquisition

Ruthless Support can drop anywhere. Drop level: 5.

Recipes

Ruthless 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
Mercy Mission Act 1	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗	✓	✓

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
Enemy at the Gate Act 1 Nessa	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗	✗
Mercy Mission Act 1 Nessa	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗	✓	✓
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa	✓

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