Vaal Storm Call

For the non-Vaal counterpart, see Storm Call.

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.

Skill Functions

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.

Skill 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 passive skills, item modifiers or 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.

• 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: 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 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 | 12 | 33 | 13–25 | 0 | 0 |- ! 2 | 15 | 39 | 17–31 | 15,249 | 15,249 |- ! 3 | 19 | 48 | 22–41 | 41,517 | 56,766 |- ! 4 | 23 | 56 | 29–53 | 81,983 | 138,749 |- ! 5 | 27 | 64 | 36–67 | 147,968 | 286,717 |- ! 6 | 31 | 73 | 46–85 | 250,557 | 537,274 |- ! 7 | 35 | 81 | 57–105 | 405,086 | 942,360 |- ! 8 | 38 | 88 | 67–124 | 447,718 | 1,390,078 |- ! 9 | 41 | 94 | 78–144 | 615,318 | 2,005,396 |- ! 10 | 44 | 100 | 90–168 | 834,639 | 2,840,035 |- ! 11 | 47 | 106 | 105–194 | 1,570,760 | 4,410,795 |- ! 12 | 50 | 113 | 121–225 | 1,633,987 | 6,044,782 |- ! 13 | 53 | 119 | 140–259 | 2,151,030 | 8,195,812 |- ! 14 | 56 | 125 | 161–298 | 2,812,189 | 11,008,001 |- ! 15 | 59 | 132 | 184–343 | 5,099,360 | 16,107,361 |- ! 16 | 62 | 138 | 211–393 | 9,400,731 | 25,508,092 |- ! 17 | 64 | 142 | 231–429 | 15,273,366 | 40,781,458 |- ! 18 | 66 | 146 | 253–470 | 26,286,582 | 67,068,040 |- ! 19 | 68 | 151 | 276–513 | 62,890,590 | 129,958,630 |- ! 20 | 70 | 155 | 302–560 | 212,046,017 | 342,004,647 |- ! 21 | 72 | 159 | 329–611 | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 22 | 74 | | 359–666 | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 23 | 76 | | 391–726 | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 24 | 78 | | 426–791 | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 25 | 80 | | 464–861 | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 26 | 82 | | 504–937 | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 27 | 84 | | 549–1019 | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 28 | 86 | | 596–1108 | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 29 | 88 | | 648–1204 | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 30 | 90 | | 704–1307 | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |}

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Version history

Version	Changes
1.1.2	Vaal Storm Call has been added to the game.