Vaal Domination

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Dominating BlowDominating Blow of InspiringVaal Domination
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 sec
Requires 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 Rate
CorruptedPlace 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 corrupting 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 Rate
Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
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Vendor Offer
1x Scroll Fragment
Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemVaalDomination

Vaal Domination is a Minion Vaal spell 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.

Skill functions and interactions

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 Rate
Place 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 Rate
Place 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

LevelRequired LevelRequired StrengthRequired IntelligenceExp.Total Exp.
128422900
2314632199345199345
3345035285815485160
4375437401344886504
54058405543791440883
64260424774371918320
74463445837862502106
84666467103593212465
948684813555114567976
1050714911388775706853
1152745113682337075086
1254765316383388713424
13567955195664810670072
14588257365518414325256
15608459301732717342583
16628760775999525102578
176490621513819340240771
186692642608382566324596
1968956662620247128944843
20709868211708088340652931
217210070N/AN/A
2274N/AN/AN/AN/A
2376N/AN/AN/AN/A
2478N/AN/AN/AN/A
2580N/AN/AN/AN/A
2682N/AN/AN/AN/A
2784N/AN/AN/AN/A
2886N/AN/AN/AN/A
2988N/AN/AN/AN/A
3090N/AN/AN/AN/A
3191N/AN/AN/AN/A
3292N/AN/AN/AN/A
3393N/AN/AN/AN/A
3494N/AN/AN/AN/A
3595N/AN/AN/AN/A
3696N/AN/AN/AN/A
3797N/AN/AN/AN/A
3898N/AN/AN/AN/A
3999N/AN/AN/AN/A
40100N/AN/AN/AN/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 corrupting 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 Rate
Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
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Recipes

Vaal Domination can be created from the following recipes:

AmountPartDescriptionMeta
9Volatile PowerVolatile Power9Vaal Gem
Quality: +20%
Corrupted
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
Random corrupted Vaal gem with 20% qualityA
1The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.Random divination card set exchangeA

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Dominating Blow.

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.

NameFor generated item/monster modifiers the minimum item/monster level respectively. Some generation types may not require this condition to be met, however item level restrictions may be raised to 80% of this value.LabyrinthStatsSpawn Weighting
Enchantment Dominating Blow Additional Magic 166Merciless LabyrinthDominating Blow can summon 2 additional Magic Sentinels of Dominancehelmet 100
Enchantment Dominating Blow Additional Magic 275Eternal LabyrinthDominating Blow can summon 3 additional Magic Sentinels of Dominancehelmet 100
Enchantment Dominating Blow Additional Rare 175Eternal LabyrinthDominating Blow can summon an additional Rare Sentinel of Dominancehelmet 100
EnchantmentDominatingBlowAttackDamage166Merciless Labyrinth24% increased Dominating Blow Damagehelmet 0
EnchantmentDominatingBlowAttackDamage275Eternal Labyrinth36% increased Dominating Blow Damagehelmet 0

Related passive skills

The following passive skills are related to Vaal Domination:

NameStats
Disciples
Minions deal 20% increased Damage while you are affected by a Herald
Summoned Sentinels have 25% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate [1]

Alternate skill effects

Vaal Domination has the following alternate skill effects:

ItemEffect(s)
Celestial Dominating Blow EffectCelestial Dominating Blow EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Dominating Blow becomes a Celestial Effect.Your Dominating Blow becomes a Celestial Effect.

Version history

Version Changes
3.23.0
  • Quality now causes Minions to have 0-40% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate.
3.21.0
  • Introduced to the game.

References