Vaal Caustic Arrow is a Vaalbowattack that fires a slow, piercing arrow dealing chaos damage and spreading a strong caustic ground along its entire flight path.
Can't be evaded: Vaal Caustic Arrow ignores accuracy and evasion rating for hit chance calculations.
Unlike Caustic ArrowCaustic ArrowAttack, Projectile, AoE, Duration, Chaos, Bow Level: (1-20) Cost: (6-10) Mana Attack Damage: (55-64)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (55-64)% Projectile Speed: 3260 AoE Radius: 20Fires an arrow which deals chaos damage in an area on impact, and spreads caustic ground. Enemies standing on the caustic ground take chaos damage over time.Deals (8.8-1927.1) Base Chaos Damage per second Base duration is 2.00 seconds Modifiers to Projectile Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect +(0-0.6) metres to radius 60% of Physical Damage Converted to Chaos Damage
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: +(0.01-0.2) metres to radiusPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket., Vaal Caustic Arrow attacks horizontally and is not ground targeted. It also pierces all enemies.
An enemy can only be affected by one caustic ground effect but if multiple are applied, the strongest effect will be the one that applies to the enemy.[1]
Gem level progression
Level
Damage Effectiveness
Attack Damage
Exp.
Total Exp.
1
1
0
280%
280%
0
0
2
2
0
286%
286.3%
70
70
3
4
16
293%
292.6%
308
378
4
7
22
299%
298.9%
1554
1932
5
11
31
305%
305.3%
6667
8599
6
16
41
312%
311.6%
26047
34646
7
20
50
318%
317.9%
49725
84371
8
24
58
324%
324.2%
95714
180085
9
28
67
331%
330.5%
169595
349680
10
32
75
337%
336.8%
283759
633439
11
36
83
343%
343.2%
453996
1087435
12
40
92
349%
349.5%
703128
1790563
13
44
100
356%
355.8%
1061223
2851786
14
48
109
362%
362.1%
2065870
4917656
15
52
117
368%
368.4%
2507110
7424766
16
56
125
375%
374.7%
5798936
13223702
17
60
134
381%
381.1%
15083919
28307621
18
64
142
387%
387.4%
27792735
56100356
19
67
148
394%
393.7%
43869739
99970095
20
70
155
400%
400%
242081556
342051651
21
72
159
406%
406.3%
N/A
N/A
22
74
N/A
413%
412.6%
N/A
N/A
23
76
N/A
419%
418.9%
N/A
N/A
24
78
N/A
425%
425.3%
N/A
N/A
25
80
N/A
432%
431.6%
N/A
N/A
26
82
N/A
438%
437.9%
N/A
N/A
27
84
N/A
444%
444.2%
N/A
N/A
28
86
N/A
451%
450.5%
N/A
N/A
29
88
N/A
457%
456.8%
N/A
N/A
30
90
N/A
463%
463.2%
N/A
N/A
31
91
N/A
466%
466.3%
N/A
N/A
32
92
N/A
469%
469.5%
N/A
N/A
33
93
N/A
473%
472.6%
N/A
N/A
34
94
N/A
476%
475.8%
N/A
N/A
35
95
N/A
479%
478.9%
N/A
N/A
36
96
N/A
482%
482.1%
N/A
N/A
37
97
N/A
485%
485.3%
N/A
N/A
38
98
N/A
488%
488.4%
N/A
N/A
39
99
N/A
492%
491.6%
N/A
N/A
40
100
N/A
495%
494.7%
N/A
N/A
Gem quality
Type
Additional Effects per 1-20% Quality
Weight
Superior
+(0.01-0.2) metres to radius
1
Item acquisition
Vaal Caustic Arrow has restrictions on where or how it can drop.
Vaal Caustic Arrow can drop from the Vaal Vessels found in Vaal side areas, or by corruptingCaustic ArrowCaustic ArrowAttack, Projectile, AoE, Duration, Chaos, Bow Level: (1-20) Cost: (6-10) Mana Attack Damage: (55-64)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (55-64)% Projectile Speed: 3260 AoE Radius: 20Fires an arrow which deals chaos damage in an area on impact, and spreads caustic ground. Enemies standing on the caustic ground take chaos damage over time.Deals (8.8-1927.1) Base Chaos Damage per second Base duration is 2.00 seconds Modifiers to Projectile Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect +(0-0.6) metres to radius 60% of Physical Damage Converted to Chaos Damage
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: +(0.01-0.2) metres to radiusPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket..
Recipes
Vaal Caustic Arrow can be created from the following recipes:
Amount
Part
Description
Meta
9
Volatile PowerVolatile Power9Vaal Gem Quality:+20% CorruptedUnlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
Random corruptedVaal gem with 20% quality
A
1
The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.
Note that helmet enchantments are no longer obtainable since version 3.23.0 and can only be obtained in permanent leagues as already enchanted items from before this patch.