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This page is about the loot container. For the hideout decoration, see Vaal Vessel (Decoration).
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Vaal Vessel

A Vaal Vessel is a loot container found near the boss in all vaal side areas. It can only be opened after the boss has been defeated. It always contains Vaal Skill Gems or Vaal Fragments. Sometimes it contains corrupted gear.

A unique version, Atziri's Vessel, can be found in the Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. map. Opening it will complete the map objective and it will drop multiple Sacrifice Fragments or Vaal Skill Gems.

Drops[]

According to Chris,[1] the base spawn rate of loot is as follow:

  • a Vaal Skill Gem (50% chance) or
  • Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. (20% chance) or
  • Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. (15% chance) or
  • Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. (10% chance) or
  • Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. (5% chance)

However, this does not take into account on the introduction of Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. card in Version 3.7.0 as well as vaal side area rework in Version 3.10.0, so that the spawn rate may be outdated.

Depends on the modifiers of the vaal side area (in spawn weight table known as "secret_area"), there are additional loots from the vessel. It has a chance to drop the divination card Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. (does not require the mod mentioned below) as well as other cards that give corrupted items if the area has Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "mods.name"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. mod.

Related modifiers[]

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Version history[]

Version Changes
3.10.0
  • Added many new mods that can appear on Vaal side areas, including several that can influence the items and rewards found in those areas.
3.3.0
  • Vaal vessels found in Vaal side areas or by placing a Vaal fragment in the map device now drop more items.
1.1.0
  • Introduced to the game.

References[]

  1. chris_wilson (May 31, 2014). "Path of Exile: Sacrifice of the Vaal Full Information". Path of Exile Subreddit.