Shadow Step

Shadow Step is a Rogue skill from the Agility skill tree. Its features are:

Grants Player	Exploits Condition
Physical Dmg	Critical Strike Dmg
Unstoppable
+ Movement Speed
+ Critical Strike Chance
Stuns (CC)
Agility
Cutthroat
Mobility
Imbueable

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

Shadow Step Cooldown: 9 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 100% Become Unstoppable and quickly move through the shadows to stab your victim from behind for 80% damage. Gain 50% increased Movement Speed for 2 seconds afterwards. Damage: Physical Damage Requires Dual Wielded weapons Tags: Agility, Cutthroat, Imbueable, Mobility

Upgrades

Enhanced Shadow Step Damaging an enemy with Shadow Step Dazes and applies Vulnerable to them for 3 seconds.	Disciplined Shadow Step Shadow Step deals 200%[x] more damage. Casting Shadow Step reduces its cooldown by 3 seconds.
	Methodical Shadow Step After Shadow Stepping , you gain 20% Damage Reduction for 3 seconds.

Other Skills that work with Shadow Step

The following skills either:

• Create a condition Shadow Step can exploit
• Exploit a condition Shadow Step creates

Basic Tree
Enhanced Puncture Gain 2 Energy when Puncture damages a Crowd Controlled enemy. Skill
Enhanced Invigorating Strike Damaging a Crowd Controlled or Injured enemy with Invigorating Strike increases its Energy Regeneration bonus to x 50%. Skill
Primary Invigorating Strike Invigorating Strike additionally grants 8%[+] Lucky Hit Chance. Hitting a Crowd Controlled or Injured enemy increases this bonus to +32% Lucky Hit Chance. Skill
Fundamental Heartseeker Heartseeker also increases the Critical Strike Damage the enemy takes by x 5% for 4 seconds, up to x 15%. Skill
Core Tree
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
Siphoning Strikes Lucky Hit: Critical Strikes against Close enemies have up to a 85% chance to Heal you for 1% of your Maximum Life (17). Damage: Physical Damage Prerequisite: Can also reach Siphoning Strikes via Flurry and Twisting Blades. Passive
Stutter Step Critically Striking an enemy grants 5%[+] Movement Speed for 4 seconds. Damage: Physical Damage Passive
Agility Tree
Enhanced Dash Casting Dash increases your Critical Strike Chance by 10%[+] for 5 seconds. Skill
Methodical Dash Dealing damage to Crowd Controlled enemies with Dash reduces its Charge Cooldown by 0.5 seconds, up to 4 seconds per cast. Skill
Weapon Mastery Gain a bonus when attacking based on weapon type used in your attack: • Daggers: 7%[x] increased damage to Healthy and Injured enemies. • Swords: 3%[x] increased damage. • Bows: 4%[x] increased damage to Vulnerable enemies. • Crossbows: 5%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage. Passive
Imbuement Tree
Shadow Imbuement Cooldown: 13 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 33% Imbue your weapons with festering shadows. Your next 2 Imbueable 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 60% damage to only that enemy. Damage: Shadow Damage Tags: Imbuement, Imbueable Skill
Enhanced Shadow Imbuement You have +15% increased Critical Strike Chance against Injured enemies infected by Shadow Imbuement . Skill
Mixed Shadow Imbuement Enemies infected by Shadow Imbuement take x12% increased Non-Physical damage for 8 seconds. Skill
Blended Shadow Imbuement Shadow Imbuement’s primary explosion makes enemies Vulnerable for 2 seconds. Skill
Cold Imbuement Cooldown: 13 seconds Imbue your weapons with frigid energies. Your next 2 Imbueable Skills deal Cold damage and Chill (CC) enemies for 25% per hit. Damage: N/A Tags: Imbuement, Imbueable Skill
Mixed Cold Imbuement Cold Imbued Skills deal x20% damage to Crowd Controlled enemies. Double this bonus against Frozen (CC) enemies. Skill
Blended Cold Imbuement Cold Imbuement applies to 2 additional Imbueable Skills and reduces their Energy cost by 35%. Skill
Poison Imbuement Cooldown: 13 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 33% Imbue your weapons with lethal poison. Your next 2 Imbueable Skills deal Poison damage and apply 100% of their Base damage as additional Poisoning damage over 6 seconds. Damage: Poison Tags: Imbuement, Imbueable Skill
Enhanced Poison Imbuement Casting Poison Imbuement generates 30 Energy, increased by 2 for each Nearby Poisoned enemy. Skill
Mixed Poison Imbuement Lucky Hit: Poison Imbued Skills have up to a 30% chance to reduce the Cooldown of Poison Imbuement by 2 seconds. Skill
Blended Poison Imbuement Critical Strikes with Poison Imbued Skills deal x75% increased Poisoning damage. Skill
Ultimate Tree
Trap Mastery When Poison Trap or Death Trap activates, you gain 4%[+] increased Critical Strike Chance against Vulnerable and Crowd Controlled enemies for 4 seconds. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Trap Passive
Key Passives Tree
Momentum Casting or Channeling a Cutthroat Skill grants a stack of Momentum. Casting a Marksman Skill removes a stack of Momentum. For each stack of Momentum, you gain: • 3% Damage Reduction • 3% Maximum Energy • 3%[x] Energy Regeneration • 3%[+] Movement Speed • 6%[x] Increased Damage Maximum of 10 Stacks. Tags: Cutthroat Passive
Close Quarters Combat Damaging a Close enemy with Marksman or Cutthroat Skills each grant a +15% Attack Speed bonus for 8 seconds. While both Attack Speed bonuses are active, you deal increased damage equal to x25% of your Damage vs Close bonus. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Marksman, Cutthroat Passive

Items that work with Shadow Step

The following items either:

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

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Surprise	Offensive	When you Evade or Shadow Step, you drop a cluster of exploding Stun Grenades that deal 90 - 270] total Physical damage and Stun (CC) enemies for 1 second. Your Stun Grenades deal 25 - 45% increased damage. Gloves, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Rogue
Aspect of Synergy	Offensive	Using an Agility Skill reduces the Cooldown of your next Subterfuge Skill by 20%. Using a Subterfuge Skill increases the damage of your next Agility Skill by 35 - 55%[x]. Gloves, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Rogue
Aspect of Uncanny Treachery	Defensive	Dealing direct damage with a non-Agility Skill after casting an Agility skill grants Stealth for 2 seconds. When Stealth breaks you gain 10 - 18% Dodge chance for 2 seconds. Helm, Chest, Pants, Amulet (+50%)	Demon's Wake (Map)	Scosglen	Rogue
Cheat's Aspect	Defensive	You gain + 5 - 15% Damage Reduction and + 10% increased Movement Speed. These bonuses are doubled while below 50% Maximum Life. Helm, Chest, Pants, Amulet (+50%)	Luban's Rest (Map)	Scosglen	Rogue
Frostbitten Aspect	Utility	Enemies hit by your Stun Grenades have a chance equal to your Critical Strike Chance to be Frozen (CC) for 2 seconds. You deal [10 - 25]%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage against Frozen (CC) or Stunned (CC) enemies. Helm, Chest, Pants, Gloves, Boots, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Rogue
Ravager's Aspect	Mobility	Shadow Step has an additional Charge. Killing an enemy with Shadow Step refunds a Charge and increases the damage of Shadow Step by 4.5 - 14.5% [x] for 2 seconds, up to 27 - 87% [x]. Boots, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	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

	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: Unique Gloves Class: Rogue Description: Lucky Hit: Damaging an enemy with a Marksman or Cutthroat Skill has up to a [24 - 44]% chance to summon a Shadow Clone that mimics that Skill.	Affixes: (Item Power 925) +[10.5 - 15.0]% Attack Speed +[6.0 - 8.0]% Lucky Hit Chance +[113.5 - 145.0]% Ultimate Damage +[2 - 3] to Core Skills
	Cowl of the Nameless "He is banished from the Guild, his name stricken from the Book. His punishment is to never have been." - Excerpt from a burned parchment Type: Unique Helm Class: Rogue Description: You gain x20 - 40% increased Lucky Hit Chance against Crowd Controlled enemies.	Affixes: +1 - 2 to Unstable Elixirs +1 - 2 to Trick Attacks +1 - 2 to Rapid Gambits +41.5 - 55% Crowd Control Duration

Changes to Shadow Step

Patch 2.0, October 8, 2024

• Disciplined Shadow Step
  • Previous: Damaging an enemy with Shadow Step stuns them for 2 seconds and reduces its cooldown by 3 seconds.
  • Now: Shadow Step deals 200%[x] more damage. Casting Shadow Step reduces its cooldown by 3 seconds.

Patch 1.5.0, August 6, 2024

• Damage increased by 11% (0.72 to 0.8).
• Previous – Damaging an enemy with Shadow Step increases your Critical Strike Chance against them by 8% for 3 seconds.
• Now – Damaging an enemy with Shadow Step Dazes and applies Vulnerable to them for 3 seconds.
• Methodical Shadow Step
  • Previous – Enemies damaged by Shadow Step are Stunned for 2 seconds.
  • Now – After Shadow Stepping, you gain 20% Damage Reduction for 3 seconds.
• Disciplined Shadow Step
  • Previous – Shadow Step's Cooldown is reduced by 3 seconds when it damages an enemy you have not hit with Shadow Step in the last 4 seconds.
  • Now – Damaging an enemy with Shadow Step Stuns them for 2 seconds and reduces its Cooldown by 3 seconds.

Patch 1.4.0, May 14, 2024

• Added Mobility tag.,,m