What is Cruelty?

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deathdrep wrote:
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Added a new Strength/Intelligence Support Gem - Cruelty: Supports skills that hit enemies, causing them to deal more damage with hits. You also gain a Cruelty buff, which makes all supported skills deal up to 50% more damage over time, based on the amount of damage of the initial hit.


From the patchnotes


Ahh thanks for the heads up.

That doesn't seem very good at initial glance sadly then.
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aggromagnet wrote:
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Added a new Strength/Intelligence Support Gem - Cruelty: Supports skills that hit enemies, causing them to deal more damage with hits. You also gain a Cruelty buff, which makes all supported skills deal up to 50% more damage over time, based on the amount of damage of the initial hit.
What other info are you looking for exactly? Between the patch notes and the gem info, it seems pretty straightforward.



Yeah I didn't notice this in the patch notes.

I was looking at the gem itself, which honestly should be on the gem.
Bladestorm will be my League Start, still have to wait for PoB numbers, but could be worth it with Bloodstance changes.
It is on the gem I'm sure, but hidden in the alt tooltip info. As to why they don't use alt tooltips for their gem info posts to start with, since so many gems have important stuff hidden there, who knows?
I have a pretty good sense of humor. I'm not German.
all depends what the threshold is to get the 50% more multiplier. the way physical damage spells are scaling, it isn't too difficult to scale both the hit and DoT so it might just be a free 50% more multi, really

all depends on the threshold, which we're not told for whatever reason
None of the gem info or notes indicate any kind of restriction other than skills that hit. So my guess would be it scales off of the gem level and that's it.
I have a pretty good sense of humor. I'm not German.
It does seem stupidly strong. It's basically a DoT league to some extent though. So I figure they'll let people run around with absurd DoT's for a league then nerf stuff like this down to more reasonable levels in 3.15.

That's what I expect based on their track record, anyway.
I have a pretty good sense of humor. I'm not German.
callous indifference to or pleasure in causing pain and suffering
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At gem level 20, The Cruelty buff provides 15.85% more damage over time to skills supported by Cruelty when the hit does 0.01% of the monster's maximum life and 50% more damage over time to skills supported by Cruelty when the hit does 3.2% of the monster's maximum life.
Clarified on Reddit. Seems like a fairly low threshold for a variety of builds for that much more DoT.
I have a pretty good sense of humor. I'm not German.
3.2% max life, lol

how much hp does shaper have again? 74 million or something? yeaaaaah....

i absolutely fucking hate when GGG does anything with % of hp

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