Bane of Stricken is a Legendary Gem in Diablo III. It can only be socketed into Amulets and Rings, and drops from Greater Rift Guardians.
Stats[]
Bane of the Stricken
Legendary Gem
Properties:
- Each attack you make against an enemy increases the damage it takes from your attacks by 0.8%.
- Upgrade: +0.01% damage per Rank.
- Max: 2.3% damage at Rank 150.
- Gain 25% increased damage against Rift Guardians and bosses (Requires Rank 25)
After the defeat of Malthael, Diadra the Scholar wandered the world. She studied the gem cutters of Xiansai, and brought their secrets back to Westmarch. Bane of the Stricken is the first gem to come out of her Westmarch workshop.
Notes[]
- The increased damage stacks infinitely.
- It has a small internal cooldown tied to attack speed. Each attack made by the character will always apply only one stack of Bane of the Stricken to one enemy, regardless of how many enemies are struck. This makes Bane of the Stricken mostly only useful when attacking a single, solitary enemy, such as a Rift Guardian.
- Rank 25 bonus bonus has no effect on players and all other types of elites.
Tips[]
- This gem is a good way for area damage and high attack speed oriented builds to deal efficiently with tougher enemies, which would otherwise take too long to defeat via lots of weaker attacks. For builds with strong but slow attacks, it is considerably less efficient.
History[]
- This gem was only available to players participating in Season Four, but drops for normal characters as well since that Season's end.
Development[]
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- This gem was originally scheduled to be added in patch 2.2.0, but was replaced with Mutilation Guard. It was later added in 2.3.0.
- Originally, this gem worked a little differently: it increased the weapon damage of attacks by 1% per stack (for example, from 200% to 201% as Physical per cast), and rank 25 bonus allowed it to affect attacks of allies (including pets and followers).
