Vaal Detonate DeadSpell, AoE, Vaal, Fire Level: (1-20) Souls Per Use: 30 Can Store 1 Use(s) Soul Gain Prevention: 8 sec Cast Time: 0.60 sec Critical Strike Chance: 5.00% Effectiveness of Added Damage: 200%Requires Level 4Targets a corpse, and deals spell damage to enemies around the corpse, as well as causing the corpse to explode, dealing fire damage. The explosion is not affected by modifiers to spell damage and cannot be reflected. This will continue to target other corpses in the area, with an increasing delay between each one, until it runs out of corpses or has destroyed 22 corpses.Deals (23-1395) to (33-2092) Fire Damage Explosion deals base Fire Damage equal to (6-7.9)% of the corpse's Maximum Life Base radius is (2.4-2.8) metres
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (1.5-30)% chance to detonate an additional corpseCorruptedPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
Acquisition Drop restricted Drop level: 4 Vaal Detonate Dead can drop from the Vaal Vessels found in Vaal side areas.Vendor Offer 1x Scroll FragmentMetadata Item class: Skill Gem Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemVaalDetonateDead
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.
Now has "Explosion deals base Fire Damage equal to 6% of the corpse's maximum Life" at gem level 1, up to 7.9% at gem level 20 (previously 9% at all gem levels).
Vaal Skill Gems can now only be obtained from a set of specific methods such as Corrupting Gems, Vaal Side Areas, Divination Cards (that specifically grant Vaal Skill Gems) and the Lapidary Lens in the Temple of Atzoatl.
Would previously chain to other nearby corpses until there were no other nearby corpses left.
Now places a marker then detonates the nearest corpse, then after a short delay finds and detonates the next closest corpse in a large radius. It repeats this until there are no corpses in the large radius of the marker, or until it has detonated 22 corpses, with the delay growing slightly every time it repeats.
Now deals 15 to 21 fire damage at gem level 1 (up from 3-5), up to 1235-1852 at gem level 20 (up from 251-376), in addition to fire damage equal to 9% of the detonated corpse's maximum life (up from 8%).
Now gains 1% increased area damage per 1% gem quality (previously gained 1% increased cast speed per 1% gem quality).
Now prevents you from gaining Vaal souls for 8 seconds after use.
Now has an added damage effectiveness of 150% (up from 100%).
Vaal Skill soul counts were initially balanced for Merciless difficulty, where there are more monsters. We want them to be easier to use in Normal and Cruel difficulty. We have halved the number of souls required for each skill. In Cruel difficulty, skills require 50% more souls to uses. In Merciless difficulty, they require 100% more (which is the same as before the patch).