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Name | Dread Shade |
Class | Necromancer level 30 skill |
Description | Target minion takes 3% max health per second for each second the shade has been active, but it and minions around it deal 25% more damage (multiplicative with other modifiers). |
Cooldown | No cooldown |
Mana cost | 30 |
Tags | SpellBuffIntelligence |
Scaling | Per Point of Intelligence:
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Skill Tree Nodes
Name | Max Points | Stats | Description | |
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Dread Shade | 0 | Target minion takes 3% max health per second for each second the shade has been active, but it and minions around it deal 25% more damage (multiplicative with other modifiers). | ||
Wisdom of the Dead | 3 |
| Dread Shade costs less mana. | |
Martyrdom | 1 |
| Dread Shade now grants minions armor based on your intelligence, but Dread Shade decays your minions faster. | |
Coterie | 1 |
| You can cast an additional Dread Shade. | |
Frenzied Phantom | 5 |
| Dread Shade now grants frenzy to affected minions for a fixed duration after being cast. | |
Scorching Brand | 1 |
| Dread Shade now grants the targeted minion Haste, but Dread Shade also applies a stack of ignite to the targeted minion each second. | |
Lingering Doom | 3 |
| Dread Shade decays your minions more slowly. | |
Spectral Distance | 1 |
| Dread Shade affects a larger area, but buffs minions outside of the area instead. | |
Pernicious Pact | 1 |
| Dread Shade no longer decays your minions' health, but instead inflicts a stack of Everlasting Poison each second. | |
Doomed Wrath | 3 |
| When used on an Abomination or Wraith, Dread Shade grants that minion more damage (multiplicative with other modifiers). | |
Egoism | 1 |
| The minion targeted by Dread Shade now always critically strikes, but Dread Shade now has a cooldown. | |
Deadlock | 1 |
| Dread Shade now roots the targeted minion and causes it to taunt enemies around it. | |
All For One | 1 |
| Dread Shade grants the targeted minion significantly more damage (multiplicative with other modifiers), but Dread Shade no longer buffs other minions. | |
Blind Fury | 1 |
| Dread Shade now increases the attack and cast speed of the targeted minion, but blinds it as well. | |
Dying Coven | 3 |
| Dread Shade grants affected minions increased attack and cast speed. | |
Duskheart | 4 |
| Minions affected by Dread Shade have a chance to inflict Damned to enemies they hit. | |
Dying Light | 3 |
| Dread Shade now inflicts Damned each second to all enemies and friendly minions in its area. | |
Spectral Presence | 4 |
| Dread Shade affects minions in a larger area. | |
Grim Fate | 4 |
| Dread Shade affects minions in a larger area and grants more damage (multiplicative with other modifiers), but the targeted minion's health decays more quickly. | |
Bane of Death | 3 |
| Dread Shade applies Mark for Death to nearby enemies and minions when it expires. Mark for Death is a curse that reduces all resistances by 25%. It cannot stack. | |
Final Grasp | 3 |
| When any of your minions targeted by Dread Shade dies, it casts Sacrifice on additional minions. | |
Enemy of My Enemies | 1 |
| Dread Shade now attaches to enemies instead, still buffing your minions, but Dread Shade now has a shorter duration. This does not buff or drain the health of enemies. | |
Symbiotic Apparition | 1 |
| You and your allies are affected by Dread Shade's aura. | |
Doom Brand | 1 |
| Dread Shade now drains the health of other minions, and marks them with Doom Brand. When they die, the brand explodes dealing necrotic spell damage to surrounding enemies. | |
Dark Binding | 5 |
| Doom Brand deals more damage (multiplicative with other modifiers). | |
Flesh Harvest | 3 |
| Dread Shade grants increased effect of all its buffs for each 3% of missing minion health. | |
Dread Plague | 1 |
| Dread Shade applies Spirit Plague to a nearby enemy whenever it expires. | |
Infernal Dread | 1 |
| Casting Dread Shade refreshes the duration of your Infernal Shades. |