Skill Revamps - Part 4

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Guldburkan wrote:
Can you get 21/20 vaal gems somehow? Else you might need the normal + the vaal gem anyway för high end builds


Level 21 gems are influential only in case of spells, attack-based skills get very little benefit from +1 gems. This is a disparity that was existing before and has nothing to do with Vaal skill rework. If you are so hell-bent on getting such benefit, you will have to run separate setups.

In most cases, people will still use standard skill gems because their Vaal variant is not viable or available.

I do share some of these concerns and would prefer if standard gems would provide also Vaal alternatives rather than the other way around but current proposal is still improvement. Few builds will probably suffer but those are outliers and general population is not using Vaal skills at all in their builds. GGG's current proposal should improve usage of these interesting skills across the board.
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A list of the current Vaal Skill gems, for those that don't have them memorized.

Spoiler
Skill gem Str. Int. Lvl.
Vaal Burning Arrow N/A N/A 1
Vaal Cyclone yes N/A 28
Vaal Detonate Dead N/A yes 4
Vaal Double Strike N/A N/A 1
Vaal Grace N/A N/A 24
Vaal Haste N/A N/A 24
Vaal Lightning Strike N/A yes 12
Vaal Rain of Arrows N/A N/A 12
Vaal Reave N/A yes 12
Vaal Spectral Throw yes N/A 1

Skill gem Dex. Int. Lvl.
Vaal Glacial Hammer N/A N/A 1
Vaal Ground Slam N/A N/A 1
Vaal Immortal Call N/A N/A 34
Vaal Molten Shell N/A N/A 4

Skill gem Str. Dex. Lvl.
Vaal Arc N/A N/A 12
Vaal Clarity N/A N/A 10
Vaal Cold Snap N/A N/A 4
Vaal Discipline N/A N/A 24
Vaal Fireball N/A N/A 1
Vaal Flameblast N/A N/A 28
Vaal Ice Nova N/A N/A 12
Vaal Lightning Trap N/A yes 12
Vaal Lightning Warp N/A N/A 10
Vaal Power Siphon N/A N/A 12
Vaal Righteous Fire yes N/A 16
Vaal Spark N/A N/A 1
Vaal Storm Call N/A N/A 12
Vaal Summon Skeletons N/A N/A 10

Skill gem Lvl.
Vaal Breach 10
finally Vaal lightning strike is a thing .Can't wait to test it on guardians .
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Vaal RF is gonna need instant leech or complete rework.
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Bex_GGG wrote:
Both Vaal Double Strike and Double Strike now deal additional damage against Bleeding enemies.

Please don't do this.

If you add explicit synergy between specific generic skills and specific mechanics which aren't related to that skills in any way, you'll actually reduce diversity of builds.
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Perhaps it should be called Vaal Spirit, in mythology there is only 1 soul per being, so if you're able to gain multiple souls from one mob it is really more akin to draining its spirit.

Just a thought.
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I must say, it's been some time since GGG has impressed me, and done something I'm very happy about. This is one of those things. Bravo guys. Fucking awesome thinking.
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