Shadow Imbuement

Shadow Imbuement is a Rogue skill from the Imbuements skill tree. Its features are:

Grants Player	Exploits Condition
Shadow Dmg	Critical Dmg
+ Non-Physical Dmg	Cold Dmg
Critical Strike Chance	Lightning Dmg
Vulnerable	Shadow Dmg
Imbuement	Fire Dmg
	Poison Dmg

'Grants Player' means this skill creates this condition i.e it could make a target Vulnerable. 'Exploits Condition' means this skill takes advantage of this condition, not necessarily of its own making. So for example another skill might Stun and this skill could take advantage of that.

Shadow Imbuement

Imbue your weapons with festering shadows. Your next 2 Imbeuable Skills deal Shadow Damage and infect enemies for 6 seconds. Infected enemies explode on death, dealing 40% damage to all surrounding enemies. If the infection expires before the enemy dies, it will deal 40% damage to only that enemy.

Cooldown: 13 seconds

Damage: Shadow

Tags: Imbuement

Lucky Hit Chance: 33%

Upgrades

Enhanced Shadow Imbuement

You have +15% increased Critical Strike Chance against injured enemies infected by Shadow Imbuement.

Mixed Shadow Imbuement

Enemies infected by Shadow Imbuement take x12% increased Non-Physical damage for 8 seconds.

Blended Shadow Imbuement

Shadow Imbuement’s primary explosion makes enemies Vulnerable for 2 seconds.

Other Skills that work with Shadow Imbuement

The following skills either:

Create a condition Shadow Imbuement can exploit
Exploit a condition Shadow Imbuement creates


Basic Tree
Primary Forceful Arrow Every 3rd cast of Forceful Arrow pierces through Vulnerable enemies. Skill
Enhanced Heartseeker When Heartseeker Critically Strikes, gain + 8% Attack Speed for 4 seconds. Double this amount if the enemy is Vulnerable. Skill
Fundamental Heartseeker Heartseeker also increases the Critical Strike Damage the enemy takes by + 5% for 4 seconds, up to + 25%. Skill
Core Tree
Twisting Blades Impale an enemy with your blades, dealing 45% damage and making them take x8% increased damage while impaled. After 1.5 seconds the blades return to you, piercing enemies for 72% damage. Combo Points increases movement speed and damage. Requires Dual Wielded weapons Energy Cost: 30 Damage: Physical Tags: Core, Imbueable, Cutthroat Lucky Hit Chance: 33% Skill
Barrage Unleash a barrage of 5 arrows that expands outwards, each dealing 22% damage. Each arrow has a 20% chance to ricochet off an enemy up to 1 time. Ricochets deal 40% of the arrow's base damage. Combo Points increase number of arrows and damage. Requires Ranged Weapon Energy Cost: 30 Damage: Physical Tags: Core, Imbueable, Marksman Lucky Hit Chance: 16% Skill
Enhanced Barrage Barrage's ricochet chance is increased to 100% for arrows that damage a Vulnerable enemy or Critically Strike any enemy. Skill
Flurry Unleash a flurry of stabs and slashes, striking enemies in front of you 4 times and dealing a total of 60% damage to each. Combo Points increase damage and attack speed. Requires Dual Wielded weapons. Energy Cost: 25 Damage: Physical Tags: Core, Imbueable, Cutthroat Lucky Hit Chance: 10% Skill
Enhanced Flurry Each time Flurry damages a Crowd Controlled or Vulnerable enemy, you are Healed for 1% of your Maximum Life up to 12% Maximum Life per cast. Skill
Improved Flurry If Flurry hits any Vulnerable enemy it will make all enemies hit by that cast Vulnerable for 3 seconds. Skill
Rapid Fire Rapidly fire 5 arrows each dealing 30% damage. Combo Points increase number of arrows fired and damage. Requires a Ranged Weapon. Energy Cost: 25 Damage: Physical Tags: Core, Imbueable, Marksman Lucky Hit Chance: 20% Skill
Improved Rapid Fire Gain 15 Energy per cast of Rapid Fire when it damages a Vulnerable enemy. Skill
Advanced Rapid Fire Rapid Fire deals 30% increased Critical Strike Damage for 5 seconds after you Evade. Skill
Penetrating Shot Fire an arrow that pierces through all enemies in a line, dealing 70% damage. Combo Points increase damage and improves Lucky Hit Chance. Requires a Ranged Weapon. Energy Cost: 35 Damage: Physical Tags: Core, Imbueable, Marksman Lucky Hit Chance: 50% Skill
Siphoning Strikes Lucky Hit: Critical Strikes against Close enemies have up to 85% chance to Heal you for 1 / 2 / 3% of your Maximum Life. Point required in Sturdy. Passive
Stutter Step Critically striking an enemy grants +5% / +10% / +15% Movement Speed for 4 seconds. Passive
Agility Tree
Shadow Step Become Unstoppable and quickly move through the shadows and stab your victim from behind for 72% damage. Gain 50% increased Movement Speed for 2 seconds afterwards. Requires Dual Wielded weapons Cooldown: 9 seconds. Damage: Physical Lucky Hit Chance: 100% Tags: Agility, Imbueable, Cutthroat Skill
Dash Dash forward and slash enemies for 37% damage. Requires Dual Wielded weapons Charges: 2 Charge Cooldown: 12 seconds Damage: Physical Tags: Agility, Imbueable, Cutthroat Lucky Hit Chance: 25% Skill
Enhanced Dash Enemies damaged by Dash take x15% increased Critical Strike Damage for 5 seconds. Skill
Disciplined Caltrops You have +5% Critical Strike Chance against enemies inside your Caltrops. Double this amount against Vulnerable enemies. Skill
Methodical Caltrops Caltrops now deals Cold damage and Chills enemies for 25% per second. Skill
Weapon Mastery Gain a bonus when attacking based on weapon type: Daggers: x 5%/10%/15% increased damage to Healthy enemies. Swords: x 3%/6%/9% increased damage. Bows: x 4%/8%/12% increased damage to Vulnerable enemies. Crossbows: x 5%/10%/15% increased Critical Strike Damage. Passive
Trick Attacks When you Critically Strike a Dazed (CC) enemy they are Knocked Down (CC) for 0.5/1/1.5 seconds. Point required in Concussive or Rapid Gambits. Passive
Subterfuge Tree
Subverting Smoke Grenade If an enemy is Vulnerable, Slowed, or Chilled then Smoke Grenade will Daze (CC) them for x 20% longer. Skill
Countering Smoke Grenade Lucky Hit: Dealing direct damage to enemies affected by Smoke Grenade has up to a 25% chance to reduce its Cooldown by 1 second, or by 3 seconds instead if the enemy is Vulnerable. Skill
Poison Trap Place a trap that arms after 1.25 seconds. It activates when an enemy moves within range, applying 396% Poisoning damage over 9 seconds to enemies in the area. You can have 4 armed traps out at once. Cooldown: 10 seconds Damage: Poison Tags: Subterfuge, Trap Lucky Hit Chance: 20% Skill
Subverting Poison Trap You deal x10% increased Poisoning Damage to enemies standing inside your Poison Trap. Skill
Malice You deal x 3% / 6% /9% increased damage to Vulnerable enemies. Requires point in Exploit. Passive
Imbuements Tree
Cold Imbuement Imbue your weapons with frigid energies. Your next 2 Imbueable skills deal Cold Damage and Chill enemies for up to 25% per hit. Cooldown: 13 seconds Damage: Cold Tags: Imbuement Skill
Poison Imbuement Imbue your weapons with lethal poison. Your next 2 Imbueable Skills deal Poison Damage and apply up to 100% of their Base damage as additional Poisoning Damage for over 5 seconds. Cooldown: 13 seconds Damage: Poison Tags: Imbuement Lucky Hit Chance: 33% Skill
Precision Imbuement Imbued Skills gain + 3%/6%/9% increased Critical Strike Chance. Passive
Shadow Crash Lucky Hit: Shadow Damage has up to a 10% chance to Stun for 0.5/1/1.5 seconds. Passive
Consuming Shadows Each time you kill an enemy with Shadow Damage, you generate 10/20/30 Energy. Requires point in Shadow Crash. Passive
Ultimate Tree
Rain of Arrows Arrows rain down over a large area 2 times, each wave dealing 100% damage. Requires a Ranged weapon. Cooldown: 55 seconds Damage: Physical Tags: Ultimate, Imbueable, Marksman Lucky Hit Chance: 2% Skill
Prime Rain of Arrows Imbuement Skill effects applied by Rain of Arrows have x30% increased potency. Skill
Trap Mastery When Poison Trap or Death Trap activates, you gain a 4% / 8% / 12% increased Critical Strike Chance against Vulnerable and Crowd Controlled enemies for 4 seconds. Passive
Alchemist's Fortune Non-Physical damage you deal has a 5% / 10% / 15% increased Lucky Hit Chance. Requires point in Innervation. Passive
Key Passives Tree
Precision Critical Strikes with Marksman skills grant you Precision. You gain x4% increased Critical Strike Damage per stack of Precision, up to a maximum of x20%. When you reach maximum Precision, your next Marksman skill is a guaranteed Critical Strike that deals x40% increased Critical Strike Damage, then consumes all stacks of Precision. Passive
Victimize Lucky Hit: Dealing direct damage to a Vulnerable enemy has up to a 45% chance to cause an explosion, dealing 23% of the original damage to them and surrounding enemies. Victimize's damage is increased by 120% [x] of your Vulnerable damage bonus. Passive

Items that work with Shadow Imbuement

The following items either:

Grant a bonus when using Shadow Imbuement
Create a condition Shadow Imbuement can exploit
Exploit a condition Shadow Imbuement creates

Legendary Aspects

Pestilent Points Aspect

Aspect of Bursting Venoms	Offensive	Lucky Hit: Poison Imbued skills have up to a 15% chance to create a toxic pool that deals [# - #] Poisoning damage over 3 seconds to enemies within. While standing in the pool, your Poison Imbuement skill has no Cooldown and no Charge limit. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Rogue
Aspect of Corruption	Offensive	Your Imbuement Skill effects have 20 - 40% increased potency against Vulnerable enemies. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Renegade's Retreat (Map)	Kehjistan	Rogue
Aspect of Imitated Imbuement	Offensive	Your Shadow Clones also mimic the Imbuements applied to your skills. Casting an Imbuement skill grants your active Shadow Clone 8 - 16% increased damage for 9 seconds. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Rogue
Aspect of Lethal Dusk	Defensive	Evading through an enemy infected by Shadow Imbuement grants Stealth for 4 seconds. Breaking Stealth with an attack grants you 1 - 5% Maximum Life on Kill for 6 seconds. Helm, Chest, Pants, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Rogue
Aspect of Noxious Ice	Utility	Chilled enemies Poisoned by Poison Imbuement will be further Chilled for 20% per second. You deal 14 - 29% additional Poison damage to Frozen enemies. Helm, Chest, Gloves, Boots, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Rogue
Aspect of Siphoned Victuals	Defensive	Lucky Hit: Damaging a Vulnerable enemy with a Core Skill has up to a 10 - 20% chance to drop a Healing Potion. Helm, Chest, Pants, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	Leviathan's Maw (Map)	Hawezar	Rogue
Aspect of Unstable Imbuements	Offensive	When casting an Imbuement skill you trigger an Imbued explosion around yourself, applying the Imbuement effects and dealing [# - #] damage of the same type. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Whispering Vault (Map)	Dry Steppes	Rogue
Aspect of Volatile Shadows	Offensive	When a Dark Shroud shadow would be removed you trigger an explosion around yourself that deals [# - #] Shadow damage. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Ancient's Lament (Map)	Dry Steppes	Rogue
Frostbitten Aspect	Utility	Chilled enemies hit by your Grenade skills have a chance equal to double your Critical Strike Chance to be instantly Frozen for 2 seconds. You deal 10 - 25% increased Critical Strike Damage against Frozen enemies. Helm, Chest, Gloves, Boots, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Rogue
Icy Alchemist's Aspect	Offensive	Lucky Hit: Damaging a Chilled or Frozen enemy with a Shadow Imbued skill has up to a 75% chance to release an explosion that deals [# - #] Cold damage to the target and surrounding enemies, Chilling them for 25%. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Rogue
Mangler's Aspect	Utility	Lucky Hit: Dealing direct damage to a Vulnerable enemy has up to a 25 - 45% chance to Daze (CC) them for 2 seconds. Helm, Chest, Gloves, Boots, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Rogue
Ravenous Aspect	Resource	Killing a Vulnerable enemy grants you 50 - 70% increased Energy Regeneration for 4 seconds. Ring	Shifting City (Map)	Dry Steppes	Rogue
Toxic Alchemist's Aspect	Offensive	Lucky Hit: Damaging a Poisoned enemy with a Shadow Imbued skill has up to a 75% chance to create a toxic explosion that applies [# - #] Poisoning damage over 5 seconds to the target and surrounding enemies. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Rogue
Vengeful Aspect	Offensive	Lucky Hit: Making an enemy Vulnerable has up to a 40 - 60% chance to grant + 3% increased Critical Strike Chance for 3 seconds, up to + 9%. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Inferno Dungeon (Map)	Kehjistan	Rogue

* Extraction means the Legendary Aspect can be removed from any Legendary item at the Occultist. A dungeon name means the Aspect will be added to your Codex of Power as a reward after completing that dungeon.

Unique Items

Word of Hakan

"Let the great gates of Caldeum be sealed. Let its proud walls stand fiercely defended. The rest of Kehjistan may suffer this plague, but my city, and my people, will not." - Proclamation of Hakan II

Type: Amulet

Description: Your Rain of Arrows is always Imbued with all Imbuements at once.

Affixes:

+ % Resistance to All Elements

+ % Movement Speed
+ % Ultimate Skill Damage
+ 1 - 2 Ranks to all Imbuement Skills
% Rain of Arrows Cooldown Reduction

Grasp of Shadow

Dark wisps creep hungrily across these gloves, like an assassin's blade seeking a life to steal on a moonless night.

Type: Gloves

Description: Lucky Hit: Damaging a Vulnerable enemy with a Marksman or Cutthroat Skill has up to a 24% - 34% chance to summon a Shadow Clone that mimics your attack.

Affixes:

+ % Attack Speed
+ # Dexterity
+ # Ranks in all Core skills
+ % Shadow Clone Damage

Changes to Shadow Imbuement

There have been no changes to Shadow Imbuement to date.