Vaal Righteous Fire

For the non-Vaal counterpart, see Righteous Fire.

Vaal Righteous Fire is a vaal spell that expends a percentage of your energy shield and life to burn surrounding enemies for a short period of time, relative to how much life and energy shield was spent.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Low Life: When Vaal Righteous Fire is activated, as long as the player does not have Chaos Inoculation and is at or below 65% life, the player counts as being on low life until the player's life exceeds 35%. 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 apply in addition to the spell damage granted by 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.

Spell Totem: Vaal Righteous Fire cannot be supported by Spell Totem SupportSpell Totem SupportSupport, Spell, Totem
Icon: T
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 200%Requires Level 8Supports spell skills that are not triggered. Instead of casting that spell, you will summon a totem that casts the spell for you.Supported Skills deal (49-40)% less Damage
Supported Skills will summon a Totem which uses that Skill
Totem lasts 8 seconds
Supported Skills have 40% less Cast Speed

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills have (0.5-10)% increased Totem Placement speedThis 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., as it is a Vaal Skill.

Duration Modifiers: Vaal Righteous fire now has the Duration tag, allowing it to be linked to and fully benefit from support gems such as Efficacy SupportEfficacy SupportSupport, Duration
Icon: a
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Requires Level 8Supports any skill that deals damage or has a duration.Supported Skills deal (15-24)% more Damage over Time
Supported Skills have (15-24)% increased Skill Effect Duration

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Damage over TimeThis 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., Increased Duration SupportIncreased Duration SupportSupport, Duration
Icon: D
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Requires Level 31Supports any skill with a duration.Supported Skills have (45-64)% increased Skill Effect Duration

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills have (0.5-10)% increased Skill Effect DurationThis 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. and Less Duration SupportLess Duration SupportSupport, Duration
Icon: d
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Requires Level 31Supports any skill that has a duration.Supported Skills deal (10-19)% more Damage
Supported Skills have (40-49)% less Skill Effect Duration

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills have (0.5-10)% less Skill Effect DurationThis 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..

Righteous Fire: The buffs and damage from Vaal Righteous Fire do not interfere with or stop Righteous Fire, both skills may be used simultaneously.

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

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Version History

Version	Changes
3.3.0	Now removes 30% of life and energy shield to deal damage over time, as opposed to removing all but 1HP and dealing instant damage. Now has the "duration" tag. All vaal gems now include their non-vaal counterpart. Now has a soul gain prevention period, preventing you from gaining souls for a short period of time after use.
1.1.5	Introduced to the game.