Vaal AbsolutionSpell, Minion, Duration, Physical, Lightning, Vaal, AoE Level: (1-20) Souls Per Use: 40 Can Store 1 Use(s) Soul Gain Prevention: 30 sec Cast Time: 0.50 secRequires Level 12Causes one of your existing Sentinels of Absolution to Ascend, becoming more powerful, gaining new spells, and overriding its duration, while maintaining its other bonuses, including from support gems. If you cannot have more Ascended Sentinels of Absolution, an existing one will be refreshed instead.Base duration is 15.00 seconds Modifiers to Skill Effect Duration also apply to this Skill's Soul Gain Prevention Maximum 1 Ascended Sentinel of Absolution Ascended Sentinel does not count towards the regular limit Ascended Sentinels deal 200% more Damage Ascended Sentinels take 70% less DamageCorruptedPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
Acquisition Drop restricted Drop level: 12 Vaal Absolution can drop from the Vaal Vessels found in Vaal side areas, or by corruptingAbsolutionAbsolutionSpell, Minion, Duration, Physical, Lightning, AoE Level: (1-20) Cost: (9-26) Mana Cast Time: 0.75 sec Critical Strike Chance: 6.00% Effectiveness of Added Damage: 200%Requires Level 12Damages enemies in an area, applying a debuff for a short duration. If a non-unique enemy dies while affected by the debuff, the corpse will be consumed to summon a Sentinel of Absolution for a secondary duration, or to refresh the duration and life of an existing one instead if you have the maximum number of them.Deals (21-873) to (31-1310) Physical Damage Base duration is 1.00 seconds Base secondary duration is 10.00 seconds +(0-0.6) metres to radius 25% chance to Summon a Sentinel of Absolution on Hitting a Rare or Unique Enemy This Spell and Minions Convert 50% of Physical Damage to Lightning Damage Maximum 3 Summoned Sentinels of Absolution
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Minions have (2-40)% increased Cooldown Recovery RatePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket..Vendor Offer 1x Scroll FragmentMetadata Item class: Skill Gem Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemVaalAbsolution
Vaal Absolution is a MinionVaalspell that causes one of your Sentinels of Absolution to ascend into an apparition of Innocence, causing it to gain new spells, overrides its durations, and improves its damage and damage reduction. Using this skill while an Ascended Sentinel is currently active will refresh its duration.
The Ascended Sentinel does not count towards your regular Sentinel of Absolution limit and instead has a unique limit of 1 (meaning it's possible to have 3 regular sentinels + 1 ascended sentinel), and innately deals 200% more Damage and takes 70% less Damage. Any buffs and debuffs on your Sentinel before it is Ascended is retained when transformed. The chosen Sentinel's minion duration is reset when ascending, and recasting this spell refreshes its duration.
Because the entire state of the sentinel is retained when ascending, including all buffs and support gems, it is possible to use a separate Vaal Absolution gem in another socket to ascend one of your main 6-linked absolution sentinels. This can make it easier to utilize a lv 21 absolution gem without it having to be corrupted to lv 21 and provide Vaal Absolution (which would normally require a double corruption via Incursion).
Gem level progression
Level
Exp.
Total Exp.
1
12
21
14
0
0
2
15
25
17
15249
15249
3
19
30
21
41517
56766
4
23
35
24
81983
138749
5
27
41
28
147968
286717
6
31
46
32
250557
537274
7
35
51
36
405086
942360
8
38
55
38
447718
1390078
9
41
59
41
615318
2005396
10
44
63
44
834639
2840035
11
47
67
47
1570760
4410795
12
50
71
49
1633987
6044782
13
53
75
52
2151030
8195812
14
56
79
55
2812189
11008001
15
59
83
58
5099360
16107361
16
62
87
60
9400731
25508092
17
64
90
62
15273366
40781458
18
66
92
64
26286582
67068040
19
68
95
66
62890590
129958630
20
70
98
68
212046017
342004647
21
72
100
70
N/A
N/A
22
74
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
23
76
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
24
78
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
25
80
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
26
82
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
27
84
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
28
86
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
29
88
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
30
90
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
31
91
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
32
92
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
33
93
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
34
94
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
35
95
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
36
96
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
37
97
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
38
98
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
39
99
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
40
100
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
The Vaal skill portion of this gem does not scale with levels.
Gem quality
The Vaal skill portion of this gem does not scale with quality.
Item acquisition
Vaal Absolution has restrictions on where or how it can drop.
Vaal Absolution can drop from the Vaal Vessels found in Vaal side areas, or by corruptingAbsolutionAbsolutionSpell, Minion, Duration, Physical, Lightning, AoE Level: (1-20) Cost: (9-26) Mana Cast Time: 0.75 sec Critical Strike Chance: 6.00% Effectiveness of Added Damage: 200%Requires Level 12Damages enemies in an area, applying a debuff for a short duration. If a non-unique enemy dies while affected by the debuff, the corpse will be consumed to summon a Sentinel of Absolution for a secondary duration, or to refresh the duration and life of an existing one instead if you have the maximum number of them.Deals (21-873) to (31-1310) Physical Damage Base duration is 1.00 seconds Base secondary duration is 10.00 seconds +(0-0.6) metres to radius 25% chance to Summon a Sentinel of Absolution on Hitting a Rare or Unique Enemy This Spell and Minions Convert 50% of Physical Damage to Lightning Damage Maximum 3 Summoned Sentinels of Absolution
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Minions have (2-40)% increased Cooldown Recovery RatePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket..
Recipes
Vaal Absolution can be created from the following recipes:
Amount
Part
Description
Meta
9
Volatile PowerVolatile Power9Vaal Gem Quality:+20% CorruptedUnlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
Random corruptedVaal gem with 20% quality
A
1
The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.
Note that helmet enchantments are no longer obtainable since version 3.23.0 and can only be obtained in permanent leagues as already enchanted items from before this patch.