Vaal Pact

Vaal Pact

Keystone

Life Leech from Melee Damage is Instant
Cannot Recover Life other than from Leech [1]

My ancestral pact was sealed. Forevermore, I would gain sustenance only from the ravaged flesh of my enemies.

Vaal Pact is a keystone passive skill that grants instant life leech to melee attacks, but prevents all other forms of life recovery.

Mechanics

Vaal Pact does not affect any other types of leech, such as energy leech or mana leech, as it applies exclusively to life leech. It also has no interactions with Ghost Reaver.

While only melee attacks gain instant leech from Vaal Pact, life leech from non-melee sources will function normally. By using Brutal Fervour and a skill that has both a melee and non-melee damage component (e.g. Molten StrikeMolten StrikeAttack, Projectile, AoE, Melee, Strike, Fire
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (6-10) Mana
Attack Damage: (126-329)% of base
Effectiveness of Added Damage: (126-329)%
Projectile Speed: 750Infuses your melee weapon with molten energies to attack with physical and fire damage. This attack causes balls of molten magma to launch forth from the enemies you hit, divided amongst all enemies hit by the strike. These will deal area attack damage to enemies where they land.Fires 4 Projectiles
60% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage
Projectiles deal 50% less Damage with Hits and Ailments

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Projectiles deal (0.5-10)% more Damage with Hits and AilmentsPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.), you can benefit from both instant leech and overleech.

The Cannot Recover Life other than from Leech modifier prevents life recovery from sources that aren't leech or Temporal RiftTemporal RiftSpell
Level: (1-20)
Reservation: 10% Mana
Cooldown Time: 5.00 sec
Can Store 1 Use(s)
Cast Time: 0.25 secRequires Level 34Reserves mana to apply a buff and leave afterimages of your recent past. Cast the spell again to return to the oldest afterimage, teleporting to that location as well as resetting your Life, Mana and Energy Shield to the values they had then.(0-38)% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate
Buff makes you Unaffected by Temporal Chains
This Spell's Cast Speed cannot be modified

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Buff causes Debuffs on you to expire (1-20)% fasterPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.. This is checked when the player's life is modified; it does not remove life recovery stats from the character entirely. Accordingly, life recovery modifiers can still be used for other purposes through mechanics like Zealot's Oath or Pious Path.

Location

Vaal Pact is located on the middle layer of the south side, on the east side of the Duelist's area.

Class	Distance from start
Duelist	7
Ranger	10
Scion	14
Marauder	16
Shadow	18
Templar	24
Witch	24

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Version history

Version	Changes
3.25.0	The Vaal Pact Keystone Passive Skill no longer provides any of its current stats. It now provides "Life Leech from Melee Damage is Instant", and "Cannot Recover Life other than from Leech". Its previous stats were "Total Recovery per second from Life Leech is doubled", "Maximum total Life Recovery per second from Leech is doubled", and "You have no Life Regeneration".
3.14.0	The passive skill is reworded due to leech cap rework. Read Version 3.14.0 § Character Balance for details.
3.1.0	Vaal Pact has been significantly reworked. It no longer grants instantaneous Life Leech, and instead doubles the rate of your Life Leech as well as your maximum Leech rate. It has been moved into the Duelist's area.
3.0.0	Now only applies to leeched life.
2.0.0	Vaal Pact now no longer reduces the amount of life leeched. It has also been moved to between the Shadow and Ranger on the passive skill tree.
1.1.0	Vaal Pact no longer suppresses life recovery from flasks. It still prevents life regeneration and now also reduces your leech by 60%.
0.9.12	Introduced to the game.