Vaal Pact

Vaal Pact is a keystone passive skill that grants instant life restoration from life leech at lower effectiveness. It also causes life regeneration to have no effect.

Comparison to standard behavior

Without Vaal Pact, life leech occurs at a base rate of 20% of maximum life per second. The duration is the leech amount divided by the leech rate. Multiple hits do not stack; only the fastest leech at any point in time will recover life. The maximum leech rate is thus 20% of maximum life per second. With Vaal Pact, the amount leeched is reduced to 40%, but the leech is instant, so the full amount will be leeched regardless of timing or magnitude of hits. The leech rate is thus only limited by damage dealt.

Timing

The leech from Vaal Pact appears to be applied at the end of frames. Therefore, even if you have Vaal Pact and enough leech to offset the reflected damage and the reflected hits are individually smaller than your maximum Life, it is possible to die to reflect in a single frame since every hit in that frame will be taken from your Life before any leech is applied for that frame.

Interaction with Zealot's Oath

The Zealot's Oath keystone causes life regeneration to restore energy shield instead of life. Because Vaal Pact causes life regeneration to have no effect, taking it along with Zealot's Oath will prevent the character from regenerating energy shield. It will not prevent energy shield from recharging as it normally does.

Location

Vaal Pact is located left of the Duelist start, below Berserking.

Class	Distance from start
Duelist	8
Ranger	15
Marauder	9
Scion	9
Templar	14
Shadow	18
Witch	19

Version history

Version	Changes
1.1.0	Vaal Pact no longer suppresses life recovery from flasks. It still prevents life regeneration and now also reduces your leech by 60%.