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'''Area of Effect''' | '''Area of Effect''' | ||
Area of Effect affects both, the area in which lightning strikes enemies during the duration as well as the area of the final bolt. | Area of Effect affects both, the area in which lightning strikes enemies during the duration as well as the area of the final bolt. | ||
'''Area of Effect damage''' | |||
AoE damage modifiers, such as tree nodes, item modifiers or {{sl|Concentrated Effect}} will increase both the lightning strikes and the final bolt damage. | |||
'''Critical Strike''' | '''Critical Strike''' | ||
Revision as of 21:11, 12 February 2015
Template:Gem Infobox Vaal Storm Call is a spell that sets a marker at a location. While the marker remains, lightning strikes random enemies near it, dealing damage to them. After a short duration, a large bolt of lightning strikes the marker, dealing damage around it. When this happens, it will also set off the lightning at any other markers from this skill.
When Vaal Storm Call finishes its duration and strikes, it will set off any other markers made with the same Skill Gem. It will not set off any other markers made with a secondary Vaal Storm Call, nor any markers made with Storm Call.
Unlike the Storm Herald Nemesis Affix found on monsters, the lightning strikes made by Vaal Storm Call will always hit a random target and never miss.
It is speculated that the lightning strikes follow the same rules as the ones from 
Herald of Thunder's on-kill effect, meaning they will strike a target every amount of time but will not strike the same target again until a higher amount of time passes.[citation needed]
Interactions
Area of Effect
Area of Effect affects both, the area in which lightning strikes enemies during the duration as well as the area of the final bolt.
Area of Effect damage
AoE damage modifiers, such as tree nodes, item modifiers or Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Concentrated Effect" will increase both the lightning strikes and the final bolt damage.
Critical Strike
Because Vaal Storm Call is only a single spell, its critical strike chance is only rolled once. If it crits, every lightning strike including the final bolt will be a critical strike. If it doesn't crit, none of them will be.[citation needed]
Cast Speed
Increasing the spells cast speed only causes it to be cast faster. There is no effect on the time between lightning strikes.
Spell Echo
Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Spell Echo" will cause you to set two markers on the same spot. Both Vaal Storm Calls will randomly strike enemies, effectively doubling the rate at which the strikes occur. Once the duration of the first marker runs out, it will also set off the second marker.
Duration
As one would suspect, increased and reduced duration from Gems, Gear and Passives will increase or reduce the time until the final bolt strikes, thereby increasing or reducing the amount of possible lightning strikes.
Added Damage
It is assumed that the lightning strikes deal the same damage as the final bolt[citation needed] as shown in the tooltip, except that they don't receive bonuses from AoE-modifiers. If this is true, the spell benefits exceedingly well from added damage, as it has a 100% damage effectiveness but strikes very often.
Gem level progression
Template:GemLevelTable |- ! 1 | 4 || 16 || 4 || 1–16 || 841 |- ! 2 | 6 || 20 || 5 || 1–19 || 3,099 |- ! 3 | 9 || 27 || 6 || 1–24 || 7,433 |- ! 4 | 12 || 33 || 7 || 2–30 || 15,249 |- ! 5 | 15 || 39 || 7 || 2–38 || 41,517 |- ! 6 | 19 || 48 || 8 || 3–50 || 81,983 |- ! 7 | 23 || 56 || 9 || 3–65 || 199,180 |- ! 8 | 28 || 67 || 10 || 5–87 || 604,431 |- ! 9 | 33 || 77 || 12 || 6–115 || 631,832 |- ! 10 | 39 || 90 || 13 || 8–159 || 956,669 |- ! 11 | 43 || 98 || 14 || 10–194 || 1,426,490 |- ! 12 | 46 || 104 || 15 || 12–225 || 2,737,323 |- ! 13 | 49 || 111 || 15 || 14–261 || 3,289,072 |- ! 14 | 52 || 117 || 16 || 16–301 || 3,351,223 |- ! 15 | 55 || 123 || 16 || 18–347 || 9,936,192 |- ! 16 | 58 || 130 || 17 || 21–398 || 21,346,246 |- ! 17 | 61 || 136 || 17 || 24–457 || 50,693,883 |- ! 18 | 64 || 142 || 18 || 28–523 || 90,050,361 |- ! 19 | 66 || 146 || 18 || 30–572 || 147,034,294 |- ! 20 | 68 || 151 || 18 || 33–625 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 21 | 68 || 151 || 18 || 36–682 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 22 | 68 || 151 || 18 || 39–744 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 23 | 68 || 151 || 19 || 43-811 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 24 | 68 || 151 || 19 || 47-884 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 25 | 68 || 151 || 19 || 51-963 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 26 | 68 || 151 || 19 || 55-1049 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 27 | 68 || 151 || 19 || 60-1141 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 28 | 68 || 151 || 19 || 65-1241 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 29 | 68 || 151 || 19 || 71-1349 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 30 | 68 || 151 || 19 || 77-1466 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |}
Version history
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