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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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