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.

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, meaning, you will have to use the attack skill 3 times to trigger Ruthless Blow.

The Ruthless Blow counter still counts if you hit with a skill or not, for example, if you miss the first 2 hits of your supported attack, Ruthless Blow will count at your last 3rd attack, whether it be 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.

Gem level progression

Level			More melee damage with Ruthless Blow	More bleeding damage from Ruthless Blow	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	1	0	75%	75%	0	0
2	2	0	78%	78%	70	70
3	4	0	81%	81%	308	378
4	7	16	84%	84%	1554	1932
5	11	22	87%	87%	6667	8599
6	16	30	90%	90%	26047	34646
7	20	36	93%	93%	49725	84371
8	24	42	96%	96%	95714	180085
9	28	48	99%	99%	169595	349680
10	32	54	102%	102%	283759	633439
11	36	60	105%	105%	453996	1087435
12	40	66	108%	108%	703128	1790563
13	44	72	111%	111%	1061223	2851786
14	48	78	114%	114%	2065870	4917656
15	52	84	117%	117%	2507110	7424766
16	56	90	120%	120%	5798936	13223702
17	60	96	123%	123%	15083919	28307621
18	64	102	126%	126%	27792735	56100356
19	67	106	129%	129%	43869739	99970095
20	70	111	132%	132%	242081556	342051651
21	72	114	135%	135%	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	138%	138%	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	141%	141%	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	144%	144%	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	147%	147%	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	150%	150%	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	153%	153%	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	156%	156%	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	159%	159%	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	162%	162%	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	165%	165%	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	168%	168%	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	171%	171%	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	174%	174%	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	177%	177%	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	180%	180%	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	183%	183%	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	186%	186%	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	189%	189%	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	192%	192%	N/A	N/A

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
3.15.0	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. can no longer be supported by Ruthless Support.
3.0.0	Ruthless Support has been added to the game.