Ruthless SupportSlam, Support, Melee, Attack, Strike Icon: u Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Supports melee strike or slam skills. Every third time you use a supported attack, that use of the skill will be more powerful.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 Ailments 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 Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
Acquisition Drop level: 5Vendor Offer 1x Scroll FragmentMetadata Item class: Support Gem Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SupportGemRuthless
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.
Contents
1 Skill functions and interactions
2 Gem level progression
3 Item acquisition
3.1 Recipes
3.2 Quest reward
3.3 Vendor reward
4 Version history
5 References
Skill functions and interactions
When supported by Multistrike SupportMultistrike SupportAttack, Melee, Support Icon: 3 Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 150%Requires Level 38Supports melee attack skills, making them repeat twice when used, targeting a random enemy each time. Cannot support Vaal skills, channelling skills, travel skills, retaliation skills or triggered skills.Supported Skills Repeat 2 additional times Supported Skills have (35-44)% more Melee Attack Speed Supported Skills deal (30-20)% less Attack Damage First Repeat of Supported Skills deals 22% more Damage Second Repeat of Supported Skills deals 44% more Damage
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 Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket., 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 third Multistrike use (attacks 7-9) will be Ruthless Blows. This is granted, only if you do not have additional repeats from other sources, such as Awakened Multistrike SupportAwakened Multistrike SupportAttack, Melee, Support Icon: 3 Level: (1-5) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 150%Requires Level 72Supports melee attack skills, making them repeat three times when used, targeting a random enemy each time. Cannot support Vaal skills, channelling skills, travel skills, retaliation skills or triggered skills.Supported Skills Repeat 3 additional times Supported Skills have (45-47)% more Melee Attack Speed Supported Skills deal 20% less Attack Damage First Repeat of Supported Skills deals 22% more Damage Second Repeat of Supported Skills deals 44% more Damage Third Repeat of Supported Skills deals 66% more Damage
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 Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket., Fatal Flourish, or Echoing Shrine. Otherwise, as an example of using Awakened Multistrike SupportAwakened Multistrike SupportAttack, Melee, Support Icon: 3 Level: (1-5) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 150%Requires Level 72Supports melee attack skills, making them repeat three times when used, targeting a random enemy each time. Cannot support Vaal skills, channelling skills, travel skills, retaliation skills or triggered skills.Supported Skills Repeat 3 additional times Supported Skills have (45-47)% more Melee Attack Speed Supported Skills deal 20% less Attack Damage First Repeat of Supported Skills deals 22% more Damage Second Repeat of Supported Skills deals 44% more Damage Third Repeat of Supported Skills deals 66% more Damage
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 Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket., Ruthless Blows will not occur from attacks 1-8, but from attacks 9-12.Using this idea, a Ruthless Blow may actually trigger by skill use, rather than skill attack. This means you will have to use the attack skill three times to benefit from a Ruthless Blow.
The Ruthless Blow counter still counts whether or not you hit with a skill. For example: if you miss the hits from the first 2 uses of your supported attack, then Ruthless Blow will activate on your next (3rd) use whether it is a hit or not. This extends to Attack Cancelling, if you cancel the animation of your attack before it finishes, the Ruthless Blow counter still counts this and will activate on your third usage of the attack, whether you cancel it or not.
It is possible to reset the Ruthless Blow counter to 0 by losing the active skill it supports, for example by resocketing it, or re-equipping the item it's socketed in. (Resocketing Ruthless Support itself does not reset the counter.)
Tracking Blows: Keeping track of Ruthless Blows allows for them to be ready to use before a fight begins.
Separate Attacks - Separate active gems that can be supported by Ruthless Support tracks its own Ruthless Blows separately. When tracking multiple attacks, multiple Ruthless Blows can be ready before a fight begins.
Channelled skills, including CycloneCycloneAttack, AoE, Movement, Channelling, Melee Level: (1-20) Cost: (2-3) Mana Attack Speed: 300% of base Attack Damage: (60-111)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (60-111)% AoE Radius: 1.6Requires Level 28Channel this skill to move towards a targeted location while spinning constantly attacking enemies in an area around you. While channelling this skill, you cannot be knocked back.10% increased Area of Effect per 0.1 metre additional Melee Strike Range 30% less Movement Speed
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (0.5-10)% more Movement Speed
Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. can not be supported by Ruthless and will not interact with it in any way.
Gem level progression
Level
More melee damage with Ruthless Blow
More Ailment damage from Ruthless Blow
Exp.
Total Exp.
1
1
0
70%
70%
0
0
2
2
0
71%
71%
70
70
3
4
0
73%
73%
308
378
4
7
16
74%
74%
1554
1932
5
11
22
76%
76%
6667
8599
6
16
30
77%
77%
26047
34646
7
20
36
79%
79%
49725
84371
8
24
42
80%
80%
95714
180085
9
28
48
82%
82%
169595
349680
10
32
54
83%
83%
283759
633439
11
36
60
85%
85%
453996
1087435
12
40
66
86%
86%
703128
1790563
13
44
72
88%
88%
1061223
2851786
14
48
78
89%
89%
2065870
4917656
15
52
84
91%
91%
2507110
7424766
16
56
90
92%
92%
5798936
13223702
17
60
96
94%
94%
15083919
28307621
18
64
102
95%
95%
27792735
56100356
19
67
106
97%
97%
43869739
99970095
20
70
111
98%
98%
242081556
342051651
21
72
114
100%
100%
N/A
N/A
22
74
N/A
101%
101%
N/A
N/A
23
76
N/A
103%
103%
N/A
N/A
24
78
N/A
104%
104%
N/A
N/A
25
80
N/A
106%
106%
N/A
N/A
26
82
N/A
107%
107%
N/A
N/A
27
84
N/A
109%
109%
N/A
N/A
28
86
N/A
110%
110%
N/A
N/A
29
88
N/A
112%
112%
N/A
N/A
30
90
N/A
113%
113%
N/A
N/A
31
91
N/A
114%
114%
N/A
N/A
32
92
N/A
115%
115%
N/A
N/A
33
93
N/A
115%
115%
N/A
N/A
34
94
N/A
116%
116%
N/A
N/A
35
95
N/A
117%
117%
N/A
N/A
36
96
N/A
118%
118%
N/A
N/A
37
97
N/A
118%
118%
N/A
N/A
38
98
N/A
119%
119%
N/A
N/A
39
99
N/A
120%
120%
N/A
N/A
40
100
N/A
121%
121%
N/A
N/A
Item acquisition
Ruthless Support can drop anywhere.
Recipes
Ruthless Support can be created from the following recipes:
Amount
Part
Description
Meta
9
Gift of the Gemling QueenGift of the Gemling Queen9Level 20 Support GemOur Lady Dialla, as a symbol of our progress, shines greater than all the gems.
Random level 20 support gem
A
7
Dialla's SubjugationDialla's Subjugation7Support Gem Quality:+23% CorruptedA symbol of beauty and innocence The gems corrupted her mind Malachai corrupted her gems All but a glimmer of greatness lost in madness
Random corruptedsupport gem with 23% quality
A
6
The FoxThe Fox6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox." - Ezomyte Proverb
Random level 20 gem
A
3
Gemcutter's PromiseGemcutter's Promise3Gem Quality:+20%"I swore to use my position to help the people. What good is power when it just accumulates on the already-powerful?" - Erasmus, Imperial Gemcutter
Random gem with 20% quality
A
1
Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item Item drops after killing {0} monstersRight click this item then left click an item to apply it. The Incubated item drops after killing a specific number of monsters.
Random gem with 1–20% quality
A
1
The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.
Random divination card set exchange
A
Quest reward
This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:
Class →
Witch
Shadow
Ranger
Duelist
Marauder
Templar
Scion
Quest ↓
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 ↓
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.
Version history
Version
Changes
3.22.0
Ruthless Support now causes Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills to deal more Damage with Ailments caused by Melee Hits (previously more Damage with Bleeding caused by Melee Hits).
3.15.0d
Ruthless Support now has a Cost and Reservation Multiplier of 120% (previously 140%).
3.15.0
Now has a 140% Cost and Reservation Multiplier (previously 110%).
Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills now deal 70-98% more Melee Damage (previously 75-132%).
Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills now deal 70-98% more Damage with Bleeding caused by Melee Hits (previously 75-132%).
Now only supports melee strike and slam skills (previously supported non-channeling melee attack skills).
Quality on the Anomalous Ruthless Support no longer grants “Supported Skills have 0-10% increased Attack Speed”. It now grants “Supported Skills have 0-20% increased Stun Duration on Enemies”.
3.7.0
Now causes ruthless blows with supported skills to deal 75% more melee damage at gem level 1 (unchanged), up to 132% more at gem level 20 (from 113%).
Now causes ruthless blows with supported skills to deal 75% more damage with bleeding at gem level 1 (unchanged), up to 132% more at gem level 20 (from 113%).
3.1.0
Can no longer support Channelled skills.
CycloneCycloneAttack, AoE, Movement, Channelling, Melee Level: (1-20) Cost: (2-3) Mana Attack Speed: 300% of base Attack Damage: (60-111)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (60-111)% AoE Radius: 1.6Requires Level 28Channel this skill to move towards a targeted location while spinning constantly attacking enemies in an area around you. While channelling this skill, you cannot be knocked back.10% increased Area of Effect per 0.1 metre additional Melee Strike Range 30% less Movement Speed
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (0.5-10)% more Movement Speed
Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. can no longer be supported by Ruthless Support.
Ruthless mode, also known as Hard Mode, is a character creation flag that significantly increases the difficulty and changes the playstyle of the game by opting-in to extreme item scarcity and various other changes.
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.
What is Ruthless in POE? Ruthless in Path of Exile is a challenging game mode that introduces scarcity and heightened difficulty. It redefines the concept of endgame, making every milestone a significant achievement. Item drops are significantly reduced, making each discovery potentially game-changing.
Ruthless is described as a completely different game experience with extreme item scarcity among other changes which you can read more about on the forums. These changes are very present from the start as no support gems are given to the player in any way other than them dropping. Aura gems are drop only as well.
Overall, you will often see Gladiator as a recommended choice for Beginners and League Starter Builds. Block is a very reliable mechanic that allows you to take plenty of Hits before going down even with literally 0 equipment. Gladiator is also the most popular class for nearly all Bleed-oriented builds out there.
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 third Multistrike use (attacks 7-9) will be Ruthless Blows.
From Path of Exile Wiki. Slam is a gem tag and a subset of melee and attack skills, and are mutually exclusive with the Strike tag. Slams always have the AoE gem tag. Slam skills can be exerted by most Warcries.
The chance to evade an attack is based on the defender's evasion rating, though the actual chance to be hit by an attack also depends on the attacker's accuracy. Because chance to hit cannot be lower than 5%, chance to evade cannot exceed 95%.
The author, Rufus Griswold, was Poe's arch-nemesis. In broad-stroke descriptors of their relationship to each other, Griswold was a northerner, while Poe was a southerner.
He was also one of the first to write stories of deep psychological horror, earning him the epithet 'The Master of Macabre'. Poe's most famous piece The Raven was published in 1845 and made him an overnight success.
In this and many other horror stories, Poe uses descriptive language and chilling visuals to give the stories a graphic and realistic sense of terror. Today, Edgar Allan Poe's tales still stand as some of the finest examples of the horror genre.
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While you walk, this skill causes corpses near your steps to explode, dealing fire damage in an area. The explosions of the corpses are not affected by modifiers to spell damage, and cannot be reflected. Explosion deals base Fire Damage equal to 5% of the corpse's Maximum Life.
Corpse Walk spawns corpses and/or Spectral Corpses while moving, one by one, on a time-based interval. It has a maximum of 12 corpses independent of other corpse generation skills. It spawns corpses with the same level as the area. It otherwise uses the same corpse mechanics as Desecrate.
The choice of class determines combat style, with classes like Duelist, Witch, Templar, Ranger, Marauder, and Shadow having specific strengths and weaknesses. Scion, unlocked after Act 3, is considered the best class due to its flexibility and access to a wide skill tree.
The Inquisitor is the best choice, particularly when you are using any elemental-based attack skills. That is because of Augury of Penitence — a notable ascendancy passive skill that makes nearby enemies take increased elemental damage.
"Ruthless" is told by an omniscient third-person narrator. The perspective shifts from outside the characters to inside Judson's and Mabel's viewpoints as the story progresses.
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Multistrike SupportMultistrike SupportAttack, Melee, 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 third Multistrike use (attacks 7-9) will be Ruthless Blows. This is granted, only if you do not have additional repeats from other sources, such as 
Awakened Multistrike SupportAwakened Multistrike SupportAttack, Melee, Support
, Fatal Flourish, or Echoing Shrine. Otherwise, as an example of using 
CycloneCycloneAttack, AoE, Movement, Channelling, Melee
can not be supported by Ruthless and will not interact with it in any way.
Gift of the Gemling Queen
Gift of the Gemling Queen9Level 20 Support GemOur Lady Dialla,
Dialla's Subjugation7Support Gem
The Fox6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox."
Gemcutter's Promise3Gem
Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item
The Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.