Vaal Reave
Vaal Reave is a vaal melee attack that deals damage in a small area all round the user, increasing the area of effect each time you hit an enemy.
Skill Functions and Interactions
Repeatedly attacks a large area: At the start of the attack the player is instantly granted 4 stacks of Reave. After striking the targeted area, the attack repeats 7 times, rotating 135 degrees (the angle of the cone) counterclockwise for each strike.
Stacks: If no enemy is hit with Reave within three seconds of Vaal Reave ending, all accumulated stacks of Reave are lost.
More Area of Effect: This is a local multiplicative bonus, it applies only to Vaal Reave and Reave. The maximum number of stacks that can be applied by Vaal Reave is 8, for a total of 240% more radius which ends up at about 41 units. This is in contrast to Reave which can only apply up to 4 stacks, but is capable of maintaining any number of stacks. Area of effect spreads out in a 135 degree arc.
Version history
| Version | Changes |
| 3.19.0 |
Vaal Reave now has 250% Effectiveness of Added Damage at gem level 1 (previously 200%), up to 350% at gem level 20 (previously 313%).
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| 3.15.0 |
Now deals 313% of Base Damage, and has 313% Effectiveness of Added Damage at gem level 20 (previously 250%).
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| 3.14.0 |
Now deals 200% of base Attack Damage at gem level 1 (previously 150%) and 250% of base Attack Damage at gem level 20 (previously 180%).
Now expends 25 Souls per use (previously 35).
Now stores up to 3 uses (previously 2).
Now has a Soul Gain Prevention duration of 2 seconds (previously 4).
Vaal Skill Gems can now only be obtained from a set of specific methods such as Corrupting Gems, Vaal Side Areas, Divination Cards (that specifically grant Vaal Skill Gems) and the Lapidary Lens in the Temple of Atzoatl.
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| 3.13.0 |
Now deals base weapon damage and has an added damage effectiveness of 150% at gem level 1 (from 135%), up to 180% at gem level 20 (from 155%).
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| 3.7.0 |
Now has an attack speed multiplier of 250% (rather than 150% more attack speed).
Now loses stages incrementally after a short period without hitting anything, rather than all at once.
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| 2.6.0 |
Vaal Reave gains 1 additional unit of radius every 5 levels.
No longer gain increased area of effect radius.
Now gains 50% more area of effect per stage, instead of 20% more radius per stage.
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| 2.4.0 |
Vaal Reave's area of effect has been updated to match changes to Reave.
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| 2.0.0 |
Maximum number of stacks is now 8. The base Soul Requirements have been increased to 24.
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| 1.1.3b |
Fixed a bug where Vaal Reave was not correctly identified as a Vaal Gem in some circumstances, such as recipes. The recipes affected won't update on town instances that were created before the hotfix.
Fixed a bug where Vaal Reave was not correctly identified as a Vaal Gem in some circumstances, such as recipes. On the client this will show as having the correct tags.
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| 1.1.3 |
Vaal Reave has been added to the game.
Changed Reave stacks so they are shared between multiple versions of the skill, if a player uses multiple copies of the Reave gem.
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