Vaal_skill
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| 1 | - | # Contract: Records Office | |
| 2 | - | **Contract: Records Office** is a [[HeistContract]] base type. | |
| 1 | + | # Vaal skill | |
| 2 | + | **Vaal skills** are granted by **Vaal skill gems**, a special type of corrupt skill gem that grants an alternative version of the skill with powerful added effects fueled by the souls of slain enemies, as well as the regular version of the skill. | |
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| 4 | + | Vaal skill gems can be looted from vaal side areas, certain strongboxes, certain divination card, and bosses of corrupted maps. It is also possible to create a Vaal skill gem by using a [[Vaal Orb]] (or Lapidary Lens) on a corresponding normal skill gem (e.g. using a Vaal Orb on [[Spectral Throw]] has a chance of turning it into [[Vaal Spectral Throw]]). | |
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| 4 | 6 | ## Mechanics | |
| 7 | + | Vaal skill gems grant both the base version of the skill and the Vaal version of the skill. Anything supported to the Vaal skill gem will apply to both skills, as long as they're applicable. | |
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| 6 | - | ### Effects | |
| 9 | + | ### Souls | |
| 10 | + | To use a Vaal skill, its gem must first be charged by collecting souls. Souls can be obtained by killing enemies, granting 1 souls per kill. Souls can also be obtained when damaging Rare or Unique enemies (1 or 6 souls, respectively, per 2% life lost with a 1 second cooldown). Each soul gained will charge a random Vaal skill equipped on the character. Souls will never charge a Vaal skill in the character's secondary weapon set. Souls are also tracked per skill, not per gem. In other words, you cannot store multiple charges of the same skill by equipping multiple copies of the Vaal skill gem. | |
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| 8 | - | **Image** | **Image Name** | **Description** | |
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| 10 | - |  | **Lightning ball**<br>Spell attack | <ul><li>Certain monsters in this area shoot out a lightning ball.</li><li>To avoid taking damage, players need to run away from the ball, otherwise they will take high lightning damage.</li></ul> | |
| 11 | - |  | **Patrolling group**<br>Monster<br>Formation | <ul><li>This area contains many patrolling groups of monsters</li><li>Each patrol group includes many normal variety enemies, led by a magic/unique variety miniboss</li></ul> | |
| 12 | + | Collected souls cannot be transferred between zone instances; instead, each instance maintains its own soul counter for each gem. Therefore, entering a new instance will start a new counter for each gem but returning to a previously visited instance will restore each counter to its previous value. | |
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| 14 | + | Once a Vaal skill collects a sufficient number of souls, it is charged with one use. The number of souls per use depends on the skill. Some Vaal skill gems can store enough souls for more than one use. Once a gem's maximum soul capacity is reached, it can collect no additional souls until they are spent by using the skill. Once used, the Vaal skill will be unable to gain souls for a few seconds. The length of soul gain prevention time varies between skills, and effects that modify the duration of the skill will also modify the duration of the soul gain prevention time. The soul gain prevention is global, which means you will not be able to gain any souls for any vaal skill at all. | |
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| 15 | - | **Image** | **Name** | **Type** | **Image** | **Name** | **Type** | |
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| 17 | - |  | [[Security Enforcer]]<br>(Spellcaster variant) | Monster |  | [[Security Enforcer]]<br>(Halberd variant) | Monster | |
| 18 | - |  | [[Security Enforcer]]<br>(Sword variant) | Monster |  | [[Security Enforcer]]<br>(Sword variant) | <span class="rare">Rare</span> or <span class="magic">Magic</span> Mini Boss | |
| 19 | - |  | [[Thaumaturgy Officer]] | Monster |  | [[Thaumaturgy Officer]] | <span class="rare">Rare</span> or <span class="magic">Magic</span> Mini Boss | |
| 20 | - |  | [[Security Ranger]] | Monster |  | [[Security Ranger]] | <span class="rare">Rare</span> or <span class="magic">Magic</span> Mini Boss | |
| 21 | - |  | [[Guard Captain]] | Monster |  | [[Guard Captain]] | <span class="rare">Rare</span> or <span class="magic">Magic</span> Mini Boss | |
| 22 | - |  | [[Security Specialist]] | <span class="unique">Unique</span> Boss |  | [[Head Enforcer]] | <span class="unique">Unique</span> Boss | |
| 16 | + | A vaal gem that collected souls in an instance will keep these souls during a gem swap, a drop on the ground or putting it in the inventory afterwards. | |
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| 24 | - | ## Unique versions | |
| 25 | - | There are currently no unique items for this base item type. | |
| 18 | + | **Party** - All players near monsters killed gain the same number of vaal souls as if they had killed it alone. Therefore characters who do not kill can still gain vaal souls in a party. In a party all kills by a player with Soul Eater will not give vaal souls to the party. | |
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| 27 | - | ## Item acquisition | |
| 28 | - | Contracts drop from anywhere in the game except during a [[heist]] or [[grand heist]]. They also drop from [[Smuggler's Cache]]s. | |
| 20 | + | Soul Eater will prevent solo characters from gaining any vaal souls during the buff effect. | |
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| 22 | + | Sextants can apply the following modifiers to maps: | |
| 23 | + | - <span class="explicitMod">Players' Vaal Skills do not apply Soul Gain Prevention</span>. | |
| 24 | + | - <span class="explicitMod">Players gain an additional vaal soul on kill</span>. | |
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| 26 | + | ### Other mechanics | |
| 27 | + | Vaal skills cannot be supported with [[Multistrike Support]], [[Ancestral Call Support]], and [[Spell Echo Support]]. | |
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| 29 | + | Vaal skills themselves can not be activated by trigger effects, but they can be used as a trigger. | |
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| 31 | + | Any effects that modify the original skill, such as Helmet Enchantments and Threshold jewels, will also affect the Vaal version of the skill as well. | |
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| 33 | + | Even if a Vaal skill has a gem tag that doesn't apply it to the base version, both versions will have that gem tag. For example, a [[Vaal Impurity of Fire]] skill gem will have the Duration tag on both Purity of Fire and Vaal Impurity of Fire and are affected by modifiers such as <span class="explicitMod">+X to Level of Socketed Duration Gems</span>, while a normal [[Purity of Fire]] skill gem won't be. | |
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| 35 | + | Because a [[Gemcutter's Prism]] can't be used on corrupted gems, getting [[quality]] on vaal gems is substantially harder than it is on a regular gem. Vaal gems must either drop with quality or a normal gem already with quality must have a [[Vaal Orb]] used on it and be turned into a corrupted Vaal gem. | |
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