Shadowknight Alternate Advancement Abilities







































Hate



Reaving



Decay

Enhance: Innoruuk's Caress - Improves the taunt
effectiveness of Dark Caress and its upgrades
Enhance: Grim Harbinger - Increases the trigger chance
of Grim Harbinger and its upgrades
Enhance: Blasphemy I - Blasphemy and its upgrades become
more effective at reducing opponents' disease resistance
Enhance: Blasphemy II - Reduces the resistibility of
Blasphemy and its upgrades
Enhance: Shadow Coil - Shadow Coil and its upgrades gain
in power as a portion of opponents' health is returned to you
Enhance: Cleave Flesh - Cleave Flesh and its upgrades
become more effective at reducing your opponents' wisdom
Enhance: Insidious Whisper - Reduces the
resistibility of Insidious Whisper and its upgrades
Leech Touch - Harm Touch and its upgrades gain the
ability to leech your enemies' life back into you
Enhance: Mortal Embrace - Reduces the reuse speed of
Mortal Embrace and its upgrades
Enhance: Rescue - Rescue and its upgrades become more
effective, focusing more of your opponents' attention on you
Enhance: Devour Vitae - Hastens the reuse speed of
Devour Vitae and its upgrades
Enhance: Doom Judgement - Hastens the reuse speed of
Doom Judgement
Enhance: Death March - Hastens the reuse speed of
Death March
Enhance: Unholy Blessing - Improves the healing
done by Unholy Blessing and its upgrades
Enhance: Siphon Strength - Siphon Strength and its
upgrades gain the ability to siphon enemies Stamina as well
Enhance: Hateful Slam - Increases the damage and taunt
effectiveness of Hateful Slam and its upgrades
Enhance: Mana Sieve - Hastens the reuse speed of Mana
Sieve
Enhance: Devouring Mists - Hastens the reuse speed
of Devouring Mists and its upgrades
Hateful Respite - Hateful Respite allows you to absorb
the next large incoming attack. Once the attack is absorbed, the
shadowknight does additional damage to targets in the areas and adds
additional hate to them.
Enhance: Tap Veins - Hastens the reuse speed of Tap
Veins
Alternate: Siphon Armament - You draw upon the
defenses of a fighter ally, effectively borrowing a part of their
mitigation
  Reaver - All hostile spells that damage a target also
heals the Shadowknight. This spell has a persistent health cost. Any
profession spell in the spell book will also have its damage increased.
Pools of Blood - While on the brink of death, your
bleeding slows dramatically

Shadows Advancement Abilities

These abilities are available once enough points have been put into the
Shadows General, Fighter, and Crusader lines.

Malevolent Tormenting Death March gains an additional effect which
increases the amount of hate taunt spells generate for the shadowknight
Unholy Voracity Unholy hunger and its upgrades will improve the
casting time and reuse speed of the shadowknight's allies.
Siphon Essence Increases the base damage of harm touch and the
heal amount added by the achievement Leech Touch.
Rancorous Spite Increases the base and critical damage of the
Malice line of spells.
Malevolent Protection The shadowknight gets a chance to lifetap their
attacker when they successful block an attack. In addition to the
lifetap, they will gain additional hate with the attacker.
Dark Knight's Protection The Dark Knight's Protection improves the
effectiveness of the shadowknight's shields and also gives them an
improved chance to strike their target with a weapon.
Shadowknight's Furor When this ability is used, the shadowknight
becomes furious and ripostes any attack made at them. While this ability
is active the shadowknight is also uninterruptable and does improved
damage with all spells. Each successful spell attack improves hate with
the target.
Essence Siphon A large direct damage spell which drains the
target's spell and combat art damage and also the target's strength and
intelligence. They are then returned to the group as a short term buff.

Sentinel's Fate Advancement Abilities

These abilities are only available for players with the Sentinel's Fate
expansion that are over level 81.

Dreadful Nightmares Dreadful Nightmares improves the base damage of
Dreadful Wrath and its upgrades
Essence Siphoning Essence Siphoning adds a component to Siphon
Strength that absorbs a small amount of Crit Bonus
Magical Pact Improves the reuse of Bloodletter and reduces the
amount of health taken from the Shadowknight's raid.
Unholy Absorption Improves all of the Shadowknight's heal components
on all of their class spells and Reaver.
Pooling Blood Pooling Blood Improves the amount of unconscious
hit points the shadowknight gains from Pools of Blood.
Unholy Sacrament Improves the threat and damage amounts of Grave
Sacrament.
Blood Siphon The Shadownkight siphons the blood of their group
and converts it into a ward.

 

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Last Updated: Mar 13, 2016

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