Elemental casters with 1h+shield built out of a Templar would be a good example. Safeguard, Faith and Steel, Holy Dominion, and Sanctuary all within close proximity. Wearing a white Archon shield and adding Purity of Elements on top gets you to 53% all res without any other gear on. Would still stay away from ruthless until you have a greater understanding of the value/rarity of certain items. Maybe I'm just bad at video games, but I'm like 2.5k hours in and still learning new stuff all the time. 20 u/flierr13 • 8 hr. ago Ultimate tier list of league mechanics in ruthless I've played ~1700 hours in ruthless ssf, played all leagues and across these leagues I tested all mechanics. This is my tier list based on my experience during these hours. Don't get mad if your favorite league mechanics is not high enough, please. Keep having fun. :) LunarVortexLoL. • 9 mo. ago. Siosa technically still sells active skill gems, but you can only buy them with a ruthless-exclusive currency called Uncarved Gemstone which you can only get from doing the Siosa quest, and killing Innocence (1 each). So basically, you're allowed to buy two active skill gems per character. Feels kind of weird to create a boss kill event for a tiny part of an already very tiny part of the playerbase. From the perspective of a viewer it's not fun to watch Ruthless, imo. EDIT: Oh the rewards are design a new unique and ultra VIP tickets to ExileCon. EDIT 2: For the 40+ people who made the same comment "this doesn't affect the game CONS. Skill Balance. The game is balanced around non ruthless of course, and certain abilities work much better without gear or supports than others. As a heavy strike slayer, I especially suffer from the lack of leap-slam to engage and stun packs. Ranged monsters are extra difficult for true melee to deal with. Differences between regular game and ruthless. I just started my first ruthless ssf char in standard. I'm going for a heavy strike jugg. I want to know what differences are between the 2 modes. I know vendoring rares give you transmute shards and chromie recipe is the same. Npcs don't sell gems and movement skill not going over terrain is dumb. The weird thing about Ruthless though is if you find this as a duelist you pretty much reroll as witch (not a big deal considering how early this is, but imagine if it's deep act 3). 14. Dozens-of-chairs • 7 mo. ago. Imagine being deep into act THREE and realizing you’ve come way too far to reroll. Lmfao. You're 2 main mandatory takes are: Help Kraitlyn for 6% MS. Versatility for +5%. Thats all you get on left side, and you 100% want both because you have such low MS, +11% is pretty huge for ruthless and mandatory to not get shit on during some endgame fights (exarch ball phase, eater ball phase, infinite hunger, etc) Other than that, most folks Ruthless is suposed to be a casual game-style where there is no endgame or need for path of building, don't try to change it. RenegatedEvrae. • 1 yr. ago. Ruthless is meant to be a hard version of the default game, has the same complexity than the normal game, with the difference that on Ruthless you will have it harder to advance since you 4bk2PpE.