Vaal Pact how many of you have it?

Ive hit a wall or rather a break even point with my setup [ elemental ground slam]

if i try to swap out life gain for life leech i die instantly due to not recovering life fast enough in mobs. my life gain on hit is 90 per use of gs while gs cost is 72. dps nearing 5K.

Any thing i try to do further it increases my mana cost exponentially making it unviable to use life gain or life leech unless i have vaal pact. Anythign meaning try to get 6L and conc effect or try to get blood magic gem ( freaking 245% mana multplier cost ) i dont even know if the keystone bloodmagic has the same mana cost multplier as gem cost.

and i dont know how viable Vaal Pact is. considering if you dont try to face roll and get hit without doing any damage you die. if you do try to face roll and your dps does not topup the damage taken per sec you still die.

Personally id never use vaal pact (except for shits and giggles) without CI+ghost reaver. Those 3 keystones together are extremely powerful. Vaal pact with a life spec seems like suicide though.

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Apolyon34 wrote:

Personally id never use vaal pact (except for shits and giggles) without CI+ghost reaver. Those 3 keystones together are extremely powerful. Vaal pact with a life spec seems like suicide though.

yep

Imagine:
10k dps per target
3k life
6% Life Leech

Say we hit 3 critters a time -> 1800 life leeched per second
But then, comes 20% life cap per second -> 600 life leech per second

In such a case Vaal Pact will boost our Life Leech three times.

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So it is available in some cases even for life build. For your case? No idea.