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Vaal BreachVaal, Spell
Level: 1
Souls Per Use: 100
Can Store 1 Use(s)
Soul Gain Prevention: 40 sec
Cast Time: 2.50 sec
Requires Level 10Creates a breach, making you vulnerable to its powerful inhabitants.Monsters from the Breach do not grant Experience or drop Items
Corrupted
Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
Vaal Breach skill iconVaal Breach inventory icon
Acquisition
Area level: 10
Vendor Offer
1x Scroll Fragment
Metadata
Item class: Active Skill Gems
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemVaalPortal

Vaal Breach skill screenshot

For the non-Vaal counterpart, see Portal (gem).

Vaal Breach is a vaal spell that creates a Breach portal at the player's location.

Skill functions and interactions

Vaal Breach is a colourless gem that can be placed into any item socket.

It can only be obtained in one of four ways:

  • By using a Vaal Orb inventory iconVaal OrbVaal OrbStack Size: 10Corrupts an item, modifying it unpredictablyRight click this item then left click an item to corrupt it. Corrupted items cannot be modified again.
    Shift click to unstack.
    Vaal Orb inventory icon
    on a Portal inventory iconPortalPortalSpell
    Level: 1
    Cast Time: 2.50 sec
    Requires Level 10Creates a portal to the current area's town.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3% increased Cast Speed0.01% chance to travel to Winding Pier instead while on a Ley Fishing LinePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
    Portal skill icon
    Portal inventory icon
    gem while in a map with the Breach Mod from the Map Device inventory iconMap DeviceMap DeviceHideout ItemCreates an object in your hideout2 VariationsMap Device inventory icon
  • By exchanging a set of the Divination card inventory iconGemcutter's PromiseGemcutter's Promise card artDivination card frameGemcutter's Promise3Superior Gem
    Quality: +20%
    "I swore to use my position to help the people. What good is power when it just accumulates on the already-powerful?" - Erasmus, Imperial Gemcutter
    Divination card inventory icon
    Divination Card.
  • As a drop from a Gemcutter's Strongbox with the "of Corruption" mod.
  • As a drop from any random monster inside a breach.

While monsters spawned through Vaal Breach grant no experience or item drops, it is still a very useful gem. It can be used to reliably proc effects suchs as "On Kill", "On Crit" or "On Hit" and if a rare monster is killed their mods can be gained if a Headhunter inventory iconHeadhunterHeadhunter
Leather Belt
Requires Level 40+(25-40) to maximum Life+(40-55) to Strength
+(40-55) to Dexterity
+(50-60) to maximum Life
(20-30)% increased Damage with Hits against Rare monsters
When you Kill a Rare monster, you gain its Modifiers for 20 seconds
"A man's soul rules from a cavern of bone, learns and
judges through flesh-born windows. The heart is meat.
The head is where the Man is."
- Lavianga, Advisor to Kaom
Headhunter inventory icon
or Inspired Learning inventory iconInspired LearningInspired Learning
Crimson Jewel
Radius: SmallWith 4 Notables Allocated in Radius, When you Kill a Rare monster, you gain 1 of its Modifiers for 20 secondsIf you do not learn from a won battle
then you have already lost the war.
Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.
Inspired Learning inventory icon
is equipped.

Gem level progression

LevelRequired LevelExp.Total Exp.
11000
210N/AN/A
310N/AN/A
410N/AN/A
510N/AN/A
610N/AN/A
710N/AN/A
810N/AN/A
910N/AN/A
1010N/AN/A

Version history

Version Changes
2.5.0
  • Vaal Breach has been added to the game.
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