Vaal skills are basically a giant noob trap.

How about making vaal skills link up with the other gems in an item even if there are no links on the item. :O

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

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Kenzorz wrote:

How awesome would it be if you could throw a trap that casts Vaal Fireball!?
Now that I think about it, this sounds too good and Vaal skills probably can't be supported, imagine Vaal Fireball with Chain/Fork.

/on topic.
Just give us a pants slot already, or socketed belts for CwDT links.

I'm fairly sure the video shows Chris showing off a 6L Searing Touch with a heavily supported Vaal Fireball.

Oh.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

Upon reflection, we know for sure that you cannot activate Vaal skills without the requisite soul/kill count, since Chris had to 'cheat' them up before he could show off the Vaal Fireball in the video.

me thinks he did that so as to not take up too much time and later we see just before he shows the linked sockets he has only one fireball icon in his skill bar yet it is about half way full of charges. so IMO when the camera was off his play he may have been using the Vaal fireball gem to get some charges on it.

so IMO I don't think we can say anything is for sure about this at this time, also things can and do change in the last 6 days left

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

That's fair enough. As stated earlier, ideal would be that a Vaal skill functions as 'normal' until charged, and then a hotkey can be used to unleash the fully charged. That said, we don't know if using a Vaal skill expends charges either, or if they're timed to expire if you don't keep killing a la Reave charges. I realised that was a conclusion *I* had jumped to too quickly.

i too am hoping for a hotkey to use with the gem, that would be very effective and save on sockets as well

if they are fun to use i will use them. guess i am a noob.

too long, didnt read.

Lets say im using lightning arrow, im just killing some monsters as usual, and sometimes the lightning arrow does some crazy cool shit.

Whats the problem?

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

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entomogant wrote:

I wonder if the Vaal skills work as their common versions until charged up? That would mean you could just swap your main skill with the vaal version and UBER now and then with the same support gems.

Would love to see the Vaal Fireball with chain. :-P

As earlier discussed, I don't think Vaal skills can be activated until you meet the kill requirement. The blood splat indicates a lock.

Maybe its the same gem but with two different keybinds. It gives you one for the normal use and one for the Vaal effect.

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Telzen wrote:

Maybe its the same gem but with two different keybinds. It gives you one for the normal use and one for the Vaal effect.

Unlikely. That would basically make the gem an "upgrade" which Qarl said it is not. Of course, I doubt the drawback is so huge it would prevent players from doing that if it were possible.

Assuming it isn't nerfed, righteous fire builds now have something to do other than just walking around. Spells will benefit more I'm guessing due to shotgunning.

I want to Quartz flask into Dominus and activate 10 of those vaal fireballs.

Well so far i'm waiting to see how it works with permanent skills such as pets, auras, or long duration ones, as they seem to be the only one worth using at first glance.

I hate spells on timers in all games, so not excited with this, i'd rather have something that works well all the time rather than a fancy spell to use once in a while. The "on kill" system is disappointing as well, it pretty much means they will be useless (mostly) on bosses, do we really need more aoe trash cleaning skills...