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For the non-Vaal counterpart, see Righteous Fire.

Vaal Righteous Fire is a vaal spell that expends your energy shield and all but 1 life to deal fire damage to surrounding enemies relative to how much life and energy shield was spent.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Low Life: As long as the player does not have Chaos Inoculation, then at the moment that Vaal Righteous Fire deals damage to enemies, the player counts as being on low life.[1] This means that modifiers related to being on low life, such as damage bonuses from Pain Attunement or Redbeak inventory iconRedbeakRedbeak
Rusted Sword
One Handed Sword
Quality: +20%
Physical Damage: 10.2-25.5
Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
Attacks per Second: 1.71
Weapon Range: 11
40% 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
+2 Life gained for each Enemy hit by Attacks
As battle calms, blood turns to rust.
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, will always apply to Vaal Righteous Fire.

Righteous Fire: If the player has the buff from Module Error: Too many skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Righteous Fire". Please choose only one of the following ids:
MonsterRighteousFireWhileSpectred - Deals 1.6 Base Fire Damage per second (page)
MonsterRighteousFire - Deals 1.8 Base Fire Damage per second (page)
active, then using Vaal Righteous Fire will immediately end the buff since it brings the player's life to 1. However, the % more Spell Damage modifier of Righteous Fire will still apply to the damage of 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. However; it does hit enemy mobs, and will trigger those type of on-hit effects. Which is why life leech works with this skill.

Strategy

To prevent the danger of having only 1 life point after use, Vaal Righteous Fire can be supported with Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Life Leech", in combination with the Vaal Pact keystone, to instantly replenish some or all of the life that was lost, assuming there are enough targets to leech from. With builds that primarily use energy shield, Ghost Reaver should also be taken in order to regain lost energy shield.

Gem level progression

LevelRequired LevelRequired StrengthRequired IntelligenceDamageExp.Total Exp.
1161826N/A00
2202231N/A4972549725
3242537N/A95714145439
4282942N/A169595315034
5313246N/A199345514379
6343550N/A285815800194
7373754N/A4013441201538
8404058N/A5543791755917
9434362N/A7550492510966
10464666N/A10165333527499
11494870N/A18986025426101
12525174N/A19640197390120
13555478N/A25737319963851
14585782N/A467643914640290
15605984N/A301732717657617
16626087N/A782300125480618
17646290N/A1526420840744826
18666492N/A2627284567017671
19686695N/A62872274129889945
20706898N/A212023122341913067
217270100N/AN/AN/A
2274N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
2376N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
2478N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
2580N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
2682N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
2784N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
2886N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
2988N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
3090N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
3191N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
3292N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
3393N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
3494N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
3595N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
3696N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
3797N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
3898N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
3999N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
40100N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A

Video Demonstration

Version History

Version Changes
1.1.5
  • Introduced to the game.

References

  1. CharanPlzMakeGudUniq (February 23, 2016). "Tested and Confirmed: Vaal Righteous Fire's explosion is always considered Low life". Path of Exile subreddit. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
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