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Vaal Flicker StrikeAttack, Melee, Strike, Movement, Vaal, Duration
Level: (1-20)
Souls Per Use: 30
Can Store 1 Use(s)
Soul Gain Prevention: 6 sec
Attack Speed: 300% of base
Attack Damage: (142-210)% of base
Effectiveness of Added Damage: (142-210)%Requires Level 10Repeatedly teleports to enemies and hits them, inflicting a wound but dealing no damage. After the repeating finishes, each enemy is hit by the total damage of their wounds, which are removed.This Attack Repeats 25 additional times
10% increased Attack Speed per Frenzy Charge
70% less Damage with Ailments
30% chance to gain a Frenzy Charge on Hit

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
(0.5-10)% chance to gain a Frenzy Charge on Hit

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

Acquisition
Drop restricted
Drop level: 10
Vaal Flicker Strike can drop from the Vaal Vessels found in Vaal side areas, or by corrupting Flicker StrikeFlicker StrikeAttack, Melee, Strike, Movement, Duration
Level: (1-20)
Cost: 10 Mana
Cooldown Time: 2.00 sec
Can Store 1 Use(s)
Attack Speed: 120% of base
Attack Damage: (142-210)% of base
Effectiveness of Added Damage: (142-210)%Requires Level 10Teleports the character to a nearby monster and attacks with a melee weapon. If no specific monster is targeted, one is picked at random. Grants a buff that increases movement speed for a duration. The cooldown can be bypassed by expending a Frenzy Charge.Base duration is 3.00 seconds
10% increased Attack Speed per Frenzy Charge
15% chance to gain a Frenzy Charge on Hit
Buff grants 20% increased Movement Speed

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
(0.5-10)% chance to gain a Frenzy Charge on Hit

See Also

Poe Vaal Skills: A Comprehensive Guide

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket..Vendor Offer
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Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemVaalFlickerStrike

Vaal Flicker Strike is a Vaal melee skill that teleports the character to nearby enemies and hits multiple times, dealing no damage but inflicting a wound debuff. After completing all hits, it deals an additional hit which inflicts the combined damage of all the wounds applied to that enemy as a single hit and removing all wounds.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Hits that inflict the initial wound do not deal damage, but will still provide on-hit effects such as Life Gain on Hit. The damage is stored and inflicted in a single hit at the end of the attack. Each wound's damage is calculated separately, including ailments and crits. If even a single wound on a target was a crit, the combined final hit counts as a critical strike.^[1] Ailments are only inflicted by the final hit, and will inflict a single stack of that ailment^[2]. However, the ailment will deal damage based on the sum of all wounds that would cause the ailment (causing a single large Ignite, Bleed, or Poison), making it synergize well with Alchemist's MarkAlchemist's MarkSpell, Curse, Mark, AoE, Duration, Fire, Chaos
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (16-33) Mana
Cast Time: 0.50 secRequires Level 24Curses a single enemy, granting flask charges when you hit them and creating Burning Ground under them if your hit Ignites them, and Caustic Ground if it Poisons them. Damage modifiers do not apply to these ground effects. You can only have one Mark at a time.Base duration is 4.00 seconds
Burning Ground deals (20-26)% of the Fire Damage per Second of strongest Ignite on Enemy
Caustic Ground deals (60-79)% of the Chaos Damage per Second of strongest Poison on Enemy
Can create each Ground effect no more than once each second
Gain 1 Flask Charge when you Hit a Cursed Enemy, no more than once every 3 seconds

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
(0.5-10)% increased Effect of Mark

Flame SurgeFlame SurgeSpell, AoE, Fire, Duration
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (6-16) Mana
Cast Time: 0.50 sec
Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%
Effectiveness of Added Damage: 190%
AoE Radius: 30Requires Level 12Strikes enemies in front of you with a surge of flame. Burning enemies are dealt more damage. If you hit an ignited enemy, will create burning ground under them. Your damage modifiers don't apply to this burning ground.Base duration is 4.00 seconds
Deals (26-832) to (40-1247) Fire Damage
(50-88)% more Damage with Hits against Burning enemies
Cannot Ignite
+(0-9) to Area of Effect length
Hits on Ignited Enemies create Burning Ground, no more than once every 2 seconds
Burning Ground deals 25% of Fire Damage per second of Ignite affecting Enemy

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
+(1-20)% more Damage with Hits against Burning enemies

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

Impale will inflict a single stack of impale based on the final hit. This may have some synergy with The Impaler keystone, quintupling your impale damage.

Stationary: The character is considered to be stationary while flickering for the purpose of receiving buffs such as the Inexorable notable passive skill, and that they have moved each time they flickered. For this reason the character never benefits from "while moving" buffs and the timers for scaling stationary buffs are continuously reset.^[4]

Dual Wielding: Dual Wielding while using Flicker Strike will cause the player to alternate weapons each attack.

Melee Strike Range: Increases or reductions to Melee Strike Range have no special interaction with flicker, you will neither "land" farther from the target when you flicker, nor will you be able to initiate a flicker from father away.

Gem level progression

Level			Damage Effectiveness	Attack Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	10	29	142%	142%	0	0
2	13	35	146%	145.6%	9569	9569
3	17	43	149%	149.2%	28189	37758
4	21	52	153%	152.7%	59146	96904
5	25	60	156%	156.3%	111192	208096
6	29	69	160%	159.9%	193800	401896
7	33	77	163%	163.5%	320280	722176
8	36	83	167%	167.1%	359090	1081266
9	39	90	171%	170.6%	498508	1579774
10	42	96	174%	174.2%	682057	2261831
11	45	102	178%	177.8%	921777	3183608
12	48	109	181%	181.4%	1727879	4911487
13	51	115	185%	184.9%	1791769	6703256
14	54	121	189%	188.5%	2353679	9056935
15	57	127	192%	192.1%	3070912	12127847
16	60	134	196%	195.7%	9095466	21223313
17	63	140	199%	199.3%	16039890	37263203
18	66	146	203%	202.8%	29817117	67080320
19	68	151	206%	206.4%	62895056	129975376
20	70	155	210%	210%	212051599	342026975
21	72	159	214%	213.6%	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	217%	217.2%	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	221%	220.7%	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	224%	224.3%	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	228%	227.9%	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	231%	231.5%	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	235%	235.1%	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	239%	238.6%	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	242%	242.2%	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	246%	245.8%	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	248%	247.6%	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	249%	249.4%	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	251%	251.2%	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	253%	252.9%	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	255%	254.7%	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	257%	256.5%	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	258%	258.3%	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	260%	260.1%	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	262%	261.9%	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	264%	263.7%	N/A	N/A

Item acquisition

Vaal Flicker Strike has restrictions on where or how it can drop.Vaal Flicker Strike can drop from the Vaal Vessels found in Vaal side areas, or by corrupting Flicker StrikeFlicker StrikeAttack, Melee, Strike, Movement, Duration
Level: (1-20)
Cost: 10 Mana
Cooldown Time: 2.00 sec
Can Store 1 Use(s)
Attack Speed: 120% of base
Attack Damage: (142-210)% of base
Effectiveness of Added Damage: (142-210)%Requires Level 10Teleports the character to a nearby monster and attacks with a melee weapon. If no specific monster is targeted, one is picked at random. Grants a buff that increases movement speed for a duration. The cooldown can be bypassed by expending a Frenzy Charge.Base duration is 3.00 seconds
10% increased Attack Speed per Frenzy Charge
15% chance to gain a Frenzy Charge on Hit
Buff grants 20% increased Movement Speed

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
(0.5-10)% chance to gain a Frenzy Charge on Hit

Recipes

Vaal Flicker Strike 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 corrupted Vaal gem with 20% quality	A
1	The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.	Random divination card set exchange	A

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Vaal Flicker Strike.

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.

Name		Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Flicker Strike Cooldown Speed 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Flicker Strike has 20% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate	helmet 100
Enchantment Flicker Strike Cooldown Speed 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Flicker Strike has 30% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate	helmet 100
Enchantment Flicker Strike Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Flicker Strike Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Flicker Strike Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Flicker Strike Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Flicker Strike Damage Per Frenzy Charge 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	6% increased Flicker Strike Damage per Frenzy Charge	helmet 100
Enchantment Flicker Strike Damage Per Frenzy Charge 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	9% increased Flicker Strike Damage per Frenzy Charge	helmet 100

Alternate skill effects

Vaal Flicker Strike has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Description
Afterimage Flicker Strike EffectAfterimage Flicker Strike EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Flicker Strike becomes an Afterimage Effect.	Your Flicker Strike becomes an Afterimage Effect.
Demonic Flicker Strike EffectDemonic Flicker Strike EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Flicker Strike becomes a bloody mist.	Your Flicker Strike becomes a bloody mist.
Ghost Flicker Strike EffectGhost Flicker Strike EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Flicker Strike becomes a ghostly smoke.	Your Flicker Strike becomes a ghostly smoke.
Vapour Flicker Strike EffectVapour Flicker Strike EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Flicker Strike becomes a cloud of vapour.	Your Flicker Strike becomes a cloud of vapour.

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