PoE Vaal Smite

Vaal Smite is a Vaal melee attack where the user strikes an enemy or location, dealing area damage to several nearby enemies. Hitting an enemy grants an improved version of the Smite aura buff which has a longer duration and higher added lightning damage. The aura buff also causes the regular version of Smite to strike an additional target with lightning. Requires a Sword, Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed.

Vaal Smite is a Vaal skill gem.

Calls lightning down to infuse your weapon, then performs a melee attack and causes lightning to strike nearby enemies, dealing damage in an area around each. Hitting an enemy grants an aura, giving you and your allies additional lightning damage for a duration, and additional lightning bolts with Smite. Requires a Sword, Axe, Mace, Sceptre, Staff or Unarmed.

Lightning, Attack, AoE, Duration, Melee, Strike, Aura, Vaal. Level: 1–20. Souls Per Use: 20. Can Store 2 Use. Soul Gain Prevention: 6 sec. Attack Speed: 50% of base. Attack Damage: 300–430% of base. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 300–430%. Requires Level 1.

50% of Physical Damage Converted to Lightning Damage
Base duration is 8 seconds
Modifiers to Skill Effect Duration also apply to this Skill"s Soul Gain Prevention
+(0–6) to radius
Can"t be Evaded
Aura grants (10–19)% chance to Shock
Lightning strikes 30 targets
Aura makes Smite strike +1 target with lightning
Aura grants (1–17) to (7–330) added Lightning Damage
Corrupted

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Name	Additional Effects From Quality	Weight
Vaal Smite	(0–10)% increased Area of Effect	50

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Does Vaal Smite's buff increase single-target damage?

Vaal Smite has more damage than regular Smite and its aura has a longer duration that has higher added lightning damage. It also generates lightning bolts that strike another target.

Skill functions and interactions

Can't be evaded: Vaal Smite ignores accuracy and evasion rating for hit chance calculations.

The lightning damage area of effect caused by this skill does not count as a melee hit for purposes of effects like Fortify.

Unlike regular Smite, Vaal Smite targets an extremely high number of enemies; this means that although a few sources of Strike Skills target an additional nearby Enemy are helpful, Ancestral Call Support would be comparatively worse as it causes skills to deal less damage. Additionally, because of the Vaal Smite buff granting regular Smite an additional target, Ancestral Call may be unnecessary in general.

The area damage from lightning bolts can overlap, causing additional damage to a target if there are nearby enemies.

Related Gems

Type	Stats	Weight
Vaal Smite	(0–10)% increased Area of Effect	50
Anomalous Vaal Smite	(0–20)% increased Skill Effect Duration	100
Divergent Vaal Smite	(0–20)% increased Lightning Damage	100
Phantasmal Vaal Smite	Aura grants (0–5)% increased Attack and Cast Speed	20

PoE Vaal Smite Build

Here’s an preview of Vaal Molten Strike and Vaal Smite.

Why is Smite's text different, and what has changed about the skill hitting enemies?

There is no functional change to Smite's behaviour. The text on Smite primarily changed because the old wording only discussed hitting a target with both the lightning and melee, but did not explain that additional lightning bolts (already possible with an enchantment, and more common now from Vaal Smite's Aura bonus) also couldn't damage the same target twice (Note: Vaal Smite itself does not have this restriction). The new wording is also shorter, which is important because the Vaal Smite gem popup is quite big.

Smite currently has a case where an enemy can be hit by both the melee damage from an additional strike target (such as from Ancestral Call), and the damage of the lightning bolt which is associated with your primary strike. This goes against what the new wording of Smite says, but it also goes against the old wording, so the wording is the same amount of inaccurate. This behaviour is unintended and caused by a subtle timing issue relating to Smite's animations, but is not changed in 3.20.0 and we do not currently have specific plans to change it.

Level Effect

Level	Requires Level	Strength	Intelligence	Base Damage	Aura grants 1 to 7 added Lightning Damage	Aura grants 10% chance to Shock	# to radius	Experience
1	1	6	4	300%	1, 7	10	0	70
2	2	7	5	306.8%	1, 7	10	0	308
3	4	10	7	313.7%	1, 9	11	1	1,554
4	7	14	10	320.5%	1, 12	11	1	6,667
5	11	19	13	327.4%	1, 17	12	1	26,047
6	16	26	18	334.2%	1, 24	12	2	49,725
7	20	31	22	341.1%	2, 31	13	2	95,714
8	24	37	25	347.9%	2, 39	13	2	169,595
9	28	42	29	354.7%	3, 49	14	3	283,759
10	32	47	33	361.6%	3, 61	14	3	453,996
11	36	53	36	368.4%	4, 74	15	3	703,128
12	40	58	40	375.3%	5, 90	15	4	1,061,223
13	44	63	44	382.1%	6, 109	16	4	2,065,870
14	48	68	48	388.9%	7, 130	16	4	2,507,110
15	52	74	51	395.8%	8, 156	17	5	5,798,936
16	56	79	55	402.6%	10, 185	17	5	15,083,919
17	60	84	59	409.5%	12, 219	18	5	27,792,735
18	64	90	62	416.3%	14, 259	18	6	43,869,739
19	67	94	65	423.2%	15, 293	19	6	242,081,556
20	70	98	68	430%	17, 330	19	6
21	72			436.8%	19, 358	20	7
22	74			443.7%	20, 387	20	7
23	76			450.5%	22, 419	21	7
24	78			457.4%	24, 453	21	8
25	80			464.2%	26, 490	22	8
26	82			471.1%	28, 529	22	8
27	84			477.9%	30, 572	23	8
28	86			484.7%	32, 617	23	9
29	88			491.6%	35, 666	24	9
30	90			498.4%	38, 718	24	9
31	91			501.8%	39, 745	24	10
32	92			505.3%	41, 774	25	10
33	93			508.7%	42, 803	25	10
34	94			512.1%	44, 834	25	10
35	95			515.5%	46, 865	25	10
36	96			518.9%	47, 898	26	10
37	97			522.4%	49, 932	26	11
38	98			525.8%	51, 967	26	11
39	99			529.2%	53, 1003	26	11
40	100			532.6%	55, 1041	27	11

Vaal Smite Effect

Level 20 with 20% quality

Vaal Smite Level 20