Shadow Strike

Shadow Strike
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Skill details
Profession: Necromancer Attribute: Blood Magic Type: Spell Energy Cost: 10 Activation Time: 2 Recharge Time: 8

Description

Target foe takes 12...41 shadow damage. If that foe's Health is above 50%, you steal 12...41 Health.

Progression

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Acquisition

Skill Quests:

• Casualty Report (Piken Square)

Skill Trainers:

• Captain Osric (Yak's Bend)
• Dakk (Ember Light Camp)

Usage

• Like Deathly Chill, beware of relying too heavily on this skill as a primary source of damage. Though effective initially, once your foe's health becomes lower, this skill becomes far less useful.
• This skill deals less average damage over time than Vampiric Gaze, but costs less energy over time. At 12 Blood Magic Vampiric Gaze does an average of ~8.7 damage per second if cast continuously. Under the same conditions, Shadow Strike deals only 8.2 damage per second against a foe with greater than 50% health, and once that foe's health drops, the damage drops to just 4.1 damage per second. Vampiric Gaze costs ~1.7 Energy per second if cast continuously, while Shadow Strike costs 1.0 Energy per second.
• At 12 Blood Magic, Vampiric Gaze steals 5.2 damage per energy, and Shadow Strike offers 8.2 damage per energy against a healthy foe and 4.1 damage per energy against a weak foe.
• At 16 Blood Magic, Vampiric Gaze steals 6.3 damage per energy, and Shadow Strike offers 10.0 damage per energy against a healthy foe and 5.0 damage per energy against a weakened foe.
• Because this skill deals a large amount of armor-ignoring damage, especially to healthy targets, many Necromancers find it primarily useful as a spike skill.

See also

Shadow Strike vs Deathly Chill