Vaal Righteous Fire

For the non-Vaal counterpart, see Righteous Fire.

Vaal Righteous Fire is a vaal spell that expends your energy shield and all but 1 life to deal fire damage to surrounding enemies relative to how much life and energy shield was spent.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Low Life: As long as the player does not have Chaos Inoculation, then at the moment that Vaal Righteous Fire deals damage to enemies, the player counts as being on low life. This means that modifiers related to being on low life, such as damage bonuses from Pain Attunement or RedbeakRedbeak
Rusted SwordOne Handed Sword
Physical Damage: 9-22.5
Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
Attacks per Second: 1.71
Weapon Range: 1.1 metres40% increased Global Accuracy Rating100% increased Damage when on Low Life
50% increased Physical Damage
Adds 2 to 6 Physical Damage
10% increased Attack Speed
+(20-30) to maximum Life
Grants 2 Life per Enemy HitAs battle calms, blood turns to rust., will always apply to Vaal Righteous Fire.

Righteous Fire: If the player has the buff from Righteous FireRighteous FireSpell, AoE, Fire
Level: (1-20)
Cooldown Time: 0.30 sec
Can Store 1 Use(s)
Cast Time: InstantRequires Level 16Engulfs you in magical fire that rapidly burns you and nearby enemies. Your spell damage is substantially increased while under this effect. The effect ends when you have 1 life remaining.Deals 70% of your Maximum Life as Base Fire Damage per second
Deals 70% of your Maximum Energy Shield as Base Fire Damage per second
You Burn for 90% of your Maximum Life per second as Fire Damage
You Burn for 70% of your Maximum Energy Shield per second as Fire Damage
Grants (20-39)% more Spell Damage
Base radius is (1.8-2.3) metres

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Base radius is (0.015-0.3) metresPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. active, then using Vaal Righteous Fire will immediately end the buff since it brings the player's life to 1. However, the % more Spell Damage modifier of Righteous Fire will still apply to the damage of Vaal Righteous Fire.

On-hit effects: The damage you do to yourself when Using Vaal Righteous Fire is not considered a hit on yourself. Thus it will not proc any when-hit effects such as the trigger from the Berserker's Cloaked in Savagery which requires taking a savage hit. However; it does hit enemy mobs, and will trigger those type of on-hit effects. Which is why life leech works with this skill.

Strategy

To prevent the danger of having only 1 life point after use, Vaal Righteous Fire can be supported with Life Leech SupportLife Leech SupportSupport
Icon: l
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 110%Requires Level 31Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing those hits to leech life based on damage dealt.Supported Skills have (2-3.9)% of Damage Leeched as Life

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Damage while Leeching LifeThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket., in combination with the Vaal Pact keystone, to instantly replenish some or all of the life that was lost, assuming there are enough targets to leech from. With builds that primarily use energy shield, Ghost Reaver should also be taken in order to regain lost energy shield.

Gem level progression

Level				Damage from Life/ES	more Spell Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	16	18	26	N/A	10%	0	0
2	20	22	31	N/A	10%	49725	49725
3	24	25	37	N/A	11%	95714	145439
4	28	29	42	N/A	11%	169595	315034
5	31	32	46	N/A	12%	199345	514379
6	34	35	50	N/A	12%	285815	800194
7	37	37	54	N/A	13%	401344	1201538
8	40	40	58	N/A	13%	554379	1755917
9	43	43	62	N/A	14%	755049	2510966
10	46	46	66	N/A	14%	1016533	3527499
11	49	48	70	N/A	15%	1898602	5426101
12	52	51	74	N/A	15%	1964019	7390120
13	55	54	78	N/A	16%	2573731	9963851
14	58	57	82	N/A	16%	4676439	14640290
15	60	59	84	N/A	17%	3017327	17657617
16	62	60	87	N/A	17%	7823001	25480618
17	64	62	90	N/A	18%	15264208	40744826
18	66	64	92	N/A	18%	26272845	67017671
19	68	66	95	N/A	19%	62872274	129889945
20	70	68	98	N/A	19%	212023122	341913067
21	72	70	100	N/A	20%	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	N/A	20%	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	N/A	21%	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	N/A	21%	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	N/A	22%	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	N/A	22%	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	N/A	23%	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	N/A	23%	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	N/A	24%	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	N/A	24%	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	N/A	24%	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	N/A	25%	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	N/A	25%	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	N/A	25%	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	N/A	25%	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	N/A	26%	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	N/A	26%	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	N/A	26%	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	N/A	26%	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	N/A	27%	N/A	N/A

Video Demonstration

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Version History

Version	Changes
1.1.5	Introduced to the game.