Is anyone actually using Vaal Gems?

Clearing the whole map for using my vaal double strike which makes a clone of me for like 1 seconds is not worth it for me. Tried to save the gem up for Brutus, then he desynced to the other side of the room and my clone just disappeared without providing a single hit, so the charges were wasted.

Vaal gems are only good for advertising.

i only tried vaal-spark, so far. you need 96 (!!!) souls, the count almost always gets back to zero, once you enter a new zone :-(

"almost always" because i noticed when i cleared prison stage 2 and entered into that little chamber where you meet piety for the first time right b4 brutus, the count did not get back to zero. however, prison stage 2 didnt have enough mobs to fully load the gem, so it was useless for brutus :-(

this said: it looks cool, when you can use it, but it is definitely somehow useless the way it is right now

I am using this bad boy here.




I'm gonna use it on my high damage, always-hit-always-crit- build. OP as duck :)

Personally I think they should use a rage kind of mechanic where they charge up On Hit instead of On Kill (charge points modified by effectiveness of course).

That would have a normalizing catch-up effect; the weaker your character the more hits it takes to kill something.

Amount of souls and usable duration on most of these Vaal Skills need to be revised. Some are just flat out not worth the effort whatsoever to even activate. Though if Souls can be carried over in between zones that would make things much easier for everyone.

Coz of needing whole sets of links to make sense, vaal gems = bad. Hands down.

Really you should be able to use the gems normal function, but it should charge up too and have another skill to place in the bar for use when you wanted to unleash the augmented version.

They should make it so that corrupting a gem has the chance of turning it into a vaal gem. This is to make it so that lvl + 1 gems are not the new standard gems, sometimes you want the vaal gem, sometimes the +1, depends.

I don't think they should drop at all, i think they should literally be corrupted regular skills and nothing else.

And yes, give champions maybe 2 charges, and rares 4, or something like that. Restore all gems equally, not only send souls to one of them at a time.

Souls should be carried over in zones, when entering pvp zone it should be whiped.

The amount needs to be reduced, simple as that. 20-25 souls needed across the board of skills.

It doesn't matter how powerful they are if they can't be used more than once an area. No one's gonna waste links on these stupid things. So you save it do some damage to a blue pack that you otherwise can kill easily anyway? Save it for a boss to deal like at best 5% of their life?

These are the definition of cool and flashy, but I can't believe they dropped the ball this hard. They are utterly useless. Had they not wasted their time we probably could have had actual new skills to use and build around.

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Kiedel wrote:

I am using this bad boy here.

I'm gonna use it on my high damage, always-hit-always-crit- build. OP as duck :)

isn't anyone gonna comment on that gem?

I got hold of vaal spark, let it charge up in chamber of sins and almost insta killed that boss there, without any supports. But of course that was normal difficulty. Vaal spark is really funny. It shoots 150 projectiles in a short time.

Well I have them sloted and use them from time to time, because they are new.

But to be honest, they are way to week to take away one of the hotkeys.

I think it would good if you could cast the normal spell with the vaal gem, and when souls are full, you can unleash them. But this way, well they are nice to look at but some kind of useless.