Bane of the Stricken Legendary Gem Diablo 3

Last Updated on July 20, 2022 by Sam

Diablo III’s Bane of Stricken is a Legendary Gem that was supposed to be included in patch 2.2.0 but was ultimately pushed until patch 2.3.0. It only drops from Greater Rift Guardians and may be socketed into Amulets and Rings. It was removed from the 2.2 release and Mutilation Guard took its place. This gem was exclusively accessible to players that took part in Season 4, however after the conclusion of that Season, it has started to drop for regular characters as well.

With each successful assault the character makes, it increases the damage that is suffered by foes from the player and stacks indefinitely. Its brief internal cooldown is connected to attack speed. No of how many foes are hit by a character’s assault, only one stack of Bane of the Stricken will ever be applied to a single adversary. Because of this, Bane of the Stricken is mostly only effective against lone enemies like Rift Guardians. The damage boost rises with advancement.

The multiplicative damage boost against bosses, including Rift Guardians, is added at level 25. Players and all other elites are unaffected by this benefit.

This gem was created to help builds that focus on area damage and fast attack speeds deal with more difficult adversaries quickly instead of having to use a lot of lesser strikes. It is much less effective for builds that have fast attacks but powerful defences.

Gem Properties

• This item is exclusive to Season 4 and will drop in other game modes once season 3 completes.

• Only found in Greater Rifts.
• Legendary effect displayed above is of a Rank 1 gem.
• Damage bonus is increased by 0.01% per rank

Bane of the Stricken Mechanics

Each attack you perform against an enemy increases the damage it takes from your attacks by 0.80%. You can level this Legendary Gem all the way up to rank 150. Every upgrade will increase the damage gain by 0.01% up to a maximum of 2.30% per stack. The stacks are additive with themselves and multiplicative with all other damage bonuses. The secondary effect increases damage against Rift Guardians and Act Bosses by 25% multiplicatively.

• First enemy hit with a Skill that can proc Bane of the Stricken receives a stack of debuff that increases all damage you do to that particular enemy.
• After applying a debuff to an enemy, Bane of the Stricken goes on Internal Cooldown equal to “0.9/Skill APS”, where “Skill” is the Skill that was used to apply the debuff.
• The above formula is only true for all non-channeling skills and Whirlwind, all other channeling skills make Bane of the Stricken go on longer cooldown than their attack rate would imply.
• Generally only skills with a proc coefficient can proc Bane of the Stricken, meaning that Pets and item procs will give you no stacks. However, this is not a hard rule and there are exceptions.
• Normal enemies and Elites lose all Bane of the Stricken stacks when they leave combat. Rift Guardians never lose stacks even if you as the Player die.
• For a deeper look into Stricken mechanics and RGKs, read this guide from Chewingnom.

Bane of the Stricken Best Use

The only way to kill a Rift Guardian at higher Greater Rifts: Nearly every Solo Push build and every Rift Guardian Killer uses this gem to kill the Rift Guardian in an adequate amount of time.

Legendary Gem in Diablo 3

Legendary Gem Creation:

If you need extra Legendary Gems to level up, you can make the Rift Guardian in any Greater Rift drop a new Rank 0 Gem by removing all the Legendary Gems with the same name from your Equipment, Inventory and Stash.

The safest way to do that is to put them into the Inventory of different character.

List Of All 23 Legendary Gems:

Bane of the Stricken	Bane of the Trapped	Boon of the Hoarder	Boyarsky’s Chip	Enforcer
Esoteric Alteration	Gem of Ease	Gem of Efficacious Toxin	Gogok of Swiftness	Iceblink
Invigorating Gemstone	Legacy of Dreams	Mirinae, Teardrop of the Starweaver	Molten Wildebeest’s Gizzard	Moratorium
Mutilation Guard	Pain Enhancer	Red Soul Shard	Simplicity’s Strength	Taeguk
Wreath of Lightning	Zei’s Stone of Vengeance	Bane of the Powerful

Game Information

• Mode: Multiplayer video game
• Writer: Chris Metzen
• Composer: Russell Brower
• Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3,
• Official Site: Website