Vaal DominationSpell, Minion, Duration, Vaal, Attack, Melee, Strike Level: (1-20) Souls Per Use: 30 Can Store 3 Use(s) Soul Gain Prevention: 20 sec Cast Time: 0.50 secRequires Level 28This spell causes one of your existing Sentinels of Dominance to Ascend, becoming more powerful, gaining new attacks, and overriding its duration, while maintaining its monster modifiers and other bonuses, including from support gems. If you cannot have more Ascended Sentinels of Dominance, an existing one will be refreshed instead.Base duration is 30.00 seconds Modifiers to Skill Effect Duration also apply to this Skill's Soul Gain Prevention Maximum 3 Ascended Sentinels of Dominance Ascended Sentinels do not count towards the regular limits Ascended Sentinels deal 200% more Damage Ascended Sentinels take 70% less Damage
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Minions have (2-40)% increased Cooldown Recovery RateCorruptedPlace 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 Domination can drop from the Vaal Vessels found in Vaal side areas, or by corruptingDominating BlowDominating BlowAttack, Minion, Duration, Melee, Strike Level: (1-20) Cost: 8 Mana Attack Damage: (165-238)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (165-238)%Requires Level 28Attacks enemies with a melee strike, applying a debuff for a short duration. If a non-unique enemy dies while affected by the debuff, the enemy's corpse will be consumed and a Sentinel of Dominance with the same rarity, prefix and suffix modifiers will be summoned for a longer secondary duration.Base duration is 1.00 seconds Base secondary duration is 20.00 seconds Maximum 9 Summoned Normal Sentinels of Dominance Maximum 3 Summoned Magic Sentinels of Dominance Maximum 1 Summoned Rare Sentinel of Dominance 25% Chance to Summon a Normal Sentinel of Dominance on Hitting a Unique Monster
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/SkillGemVaalDomination
Vaal Domination is a MinionVaalspell that causes one of your Sentinels of Dominance to ascend into an giant Templar statue, causing it to gain new attacks, overrides its duration, and improves its damage and damage reduction. Monster modifiers from Magic or Rare Sentinels are kept. Using this skill while you have the maximum number of Ascended Sentinels currently active will refresh an existing one's duration.
Ascended Sentinels do not count towards your regular Sentinel of Dominance limit and instead has a unique limit of 3, 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 may refresh its duration if chosen.
Gem levels: unlike its base skill Dominating BlowDominating BlowAttack, Minion, Duration, Melee, Strike Level: (1-20) Cost: 8 Mana Attack Damage: (165-238)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (165-238)%Requires Level 28Attacks enemies with a melee strike, applying a debuff for a short duration. If a non-unique enemy dies while affected by the debuff, the enemy's corpse will be consumed and a Sentinel of Dominance with the same rarity, prefix and suffix modifiers will be summoned for a longer secondary duration.Base duration is 1.00 seconds Base secondary duration is 20.00 seconds Maximum 9 Summoned Normal Sentinels of Dominance Maximum 3 Summoned Magic Sentinels of Dominance Maximum 1 Summoned Rare Sentinel of Dominance 25% Chance to Summon a Normal Sentinel of Dominance on Hitting a Unique Monster
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., Vaal Domination is a spell, not an attack. As tags for Vaal skills also apply to their base skills in terms of additional gem levels, using the Vaal version of the gem enables a player to scale the base skill with +# to Level of all Spell Skill Gems on daggers, sceptres or staves as well as +1 to Level of all Vaal Skill Gems found on Sacrificial GarbSacrificial GarbArmour: (329-378) Evasion: (329-378) Energy Shield: (67-77) Movement Speed: -3%Requires Level 72, 66 Str, 66 Dex, 66 Int+1 to Level of all Vaal Skill Gems. This combination allows up to 3 additional gem levels.
Being a spell unlike Dominating BlowDominating BlowAttack, Minion, Duration, Melee, Strike Level: (1-20) Cost: 8 Mana Attack Damage: (165-238)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (165-238)%Requires Level 28Attacks enemies with a melee strike, applying a debuff for a short duration. If a non-unique enemy dies while affected by the debuff, the enemy's corpse will be consumed and a Sentinel of Dominance with the same rarity, prefix and suffix modifiers will be summoned for a longer secondary duration.Base duration is 1.00 seconds Base secondary duration is 20.00 seconds Maximum 9 Summoned Normal Sentinels of Dominance Maximum 3 Summoned Magic Sentinels of Dominance Maximum 1 Summoned Rare Sentinel of Dominance 25% Chance to Summon a Normal Sentinel of Dominance on Hitting a Unique Monster
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., Vaal Domination can be actively used with a non-melee weapon (e.g. wand or bow). Sentinels of Dominance can persist even when weapon swapping to a non-melee weapon, and will retain their Ascended status; it is possible to permanently maintain Sentinels of Dominance with a non-melee weapon through repeated use of Vaal Domination.
Vaal Domination can only be cast on Sentinels of Dominance created from the base skill granted by that specific gem.[1]
Gem level progression
Level
Exp.
Total Exp.
1
28
42
29
0
0
2
31
46
32
199345
199345
3
34
50
35
285815
485160
4
37
54
37
401344
886504
5
40
58
40
554379
1440883
6
42
60
42
477437
1918320
7
44
63
44
583786
2502106
8
46
66
46
710359
3212465
9
48
68
48
1355511
4567976
10
50
71
49
1138877
5706853
11
52
74
51
1368233
7075086
12
54
76
53
1638338
8713424
13
56
79
55
1956648
10670072
14
58
82
57
3655184
14325256
15
60
84
59
3017327
17342583
16
62
87
60
7759995
25102578
17
64
90
62
15138193
40240771
18
66
92
64
26083825
66324596
19
68
95
66
62620247
128944843
20
70
98
68
211708088
340652931
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 Domination has restrictions on where or how it can drop.
Vaal Domination can drop from the Vaal Vessels found in Vaal side areas, or by corruptingDominating BlowDominating BlowAttack, Minion, Duration, Melee, Strike Level: (1-20) Cost: 8 Mana Attack Damage: (165-238)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (165-238)%Requires Level 28Attacks enemies with a melee strike, applying a debuff for a short duration. If a non-unique enemy dies while affected by the debuff, the enemy's corpse will be consumed and a Sentinel of Dominance with the same rarity, prefix and suffix modifiers will be summoned for a longer secondary duration.Base duration is 1.00 seconds Base secondary duration is 20.00 seconds Maximum 9 Summoned Normal Sentinels of Dominance Maximum 3 Summoned Magic Sentinels of Dominance Maximum 1 Summoned Rare Sentinel of Dominance 25% Chance to Summon a Normal Sentinel of Dominance on Hitting a Unique Monster
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 Domination 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.