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

'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 Imbuement 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 40% damage to only that enemy. Cooldown: 13 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 33% Damage: Shadow Damage Tags: Imbuement, Imbueable Class: Rogue

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 all enemies hit. 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 x 5% for 4 seconds, up to x 15%. Skill
Core Tree
Twisting Blades Energy Cost: 30 Lucky Hit Chance: 33% Impale an enemy with your blades, dealing 70% damage and making them take 8%[x] increased damage from you for 1.5 seconds. After 1.5 seconds the blades return to you, piercing enemies for 86% damage. Damage: Physical Damage Requires Dual Wielded weapons Tags: Core, Cutthroat, Imbueable Skill
Barrage Energy Cost: 30 Lucky Hit Chance: 16% 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. Damage: Physical Damage Requires a Ranged weapon Tags: Core, Marksman, Imbueable, Chain 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 Energy Cost: 25 Lucky Hit Chance: 20% Unleash a flurry of stabs and slashes, striking enemies in front of you 4 times and dealing a total of 150% damage to each. Damage: Physical Damage Requires Dual Wielded weapons Tags: Core, Cutthroat, Imbueable 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 Casting Flurry dashes you to the target and Heals 10% of your Maximum Life. Skill
Rapid Fire Energy Cost: 25 Lucky Hit Chance: 20% Rapidly fire 5 arrows, each dealing 40% damage. Damage: Physical Damage Requires a Ranged weapon Tags: Core, Marksman, Imbueable, Chain 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%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage for 5 seconds after you Evade. Skill
Penetrating Shot Energy Cost: 35 Lucky Hit Chance: 50% Fire an arrow that pierces through all enemies in a line, dealing 95% damage, increased by 10%[x] per enemy it pierces. Damage: Physical Damage Requires a Ranged weapon Tags: Core, Marksman, Imbueable 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
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 Skill
Dash Charges: 2 Charge Cooldown: 12 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 25% Dash forward and slash enemies for 65% damage. Any enemies hit are Slowed (CC) by 30% for 3 seconds. Damage: Physical Damage Requires Dual Wielded weapons Tags: Agility, Cutthroat, Imbueable, Mobility Skill
Enhanced Dash Casting Dash increases your Critical Strike Chance by 10%[+] for 5 seconds. Skill
Disciplined Caltrops You have +10% Critical Strike Chance against enemies inside your Caltrops. Double this amount against Vulnerable enemies. Skill
Methodical Caltrops Caltrops now deals Cold damage and Chills (CC) enemies for 25% per second. 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
Trick Attacks Dazing or Stunning an enemy increases your Critical Strike Chance by 2%[+] and Critical Strike Damage by 2%[x] for 5 seconds, both up to 12%. Damage: Physical Damage Prerequisite: Can also reach Trick Attacks via Dash. Passive
Subterfuge Tree
Subverting Smoke Grenade Smoke Grenade now deals Poison damage and applies another 45% Poisoning damage over 5 seconds. Skill
Countering Smoke Grenade Hitting an Elite or Boss with your Smoke Grenade reduces its Cooldown by 5 seconds. Skill
Poison Trap Cooldown: 10 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 20% Place a trap that arms after 1.25 seconds. It activates when an enemy moves within range, applying 612% Poisoning damage over 9 seconds to enemies in the area. You can have 4 armed traps out at once. Damage: Poison Damage Tags: Subterfuge, Trap Skill
Subverting Poison Trap You deal x10% increased Poisoning Damage to enemies standing inside your Poison Trap. Skill
Malice You deal 3%[x] increased damage to Vulnerable enemies and 3%[x] increased damage to Knocked Down (CC) enemies. These bonuses can apply simultaneously. Damage: Physical Damage Prerequisite: Can also reach Malice via Smoke Grenade. Passive
Imbuements Tree
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
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
Precision Imbuement Imbued Skills gain 3%[+] increased Critical Strike Chance. Passive
Shadow Crash Lucky Hit: Shadow damage has up to a 10% chance to Stun (CC) for 0.5 seconds. Passive
Consuming Shadows Each time you kill an enemy with Shadow damage, you generate 10 Energy. Prerequisite: Can also reach Consuming Shadows via Shadow Imbuement. Passive
Ultimate Tree
Rain of Arrows Cooldown: 50 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 12% Arrows rain down over a large area dealing 450% damage and Knocking Down enemies for 3 seconds. Damage: Physical Damage Requires a Ranged weapon Tags: Ultimate, Marksman, Imbueable Skill
Prime Rain of Arrows Imbuement Skill effects applied by Rain of Arrows have x50% increased potency. Skill
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
Alchemist's Fortune Non-Physical damage you deal has a 5%[+] increased Lucky Hit Chance. Damage: Physical Damage Passive
Key Passives Tree
Precision When you cast a Marksman Skill, you gain a stack of Precision. When you reach 3 stacks of Precision, your next Marksman Ultimate or Core Skill is a guaranteed Critical Strike and deals x65% increased Critical Strike Damage, consuming all stacks of Precision. This damage is further increased by x 20% of your Critical Strike Damage bonus. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Marksman Passive
Victimize Lucky Hit: Dealing direct damage to a Vulnerable enemy has up to a 50% chance to cause an explosion, dealing [[80% weapon damage]] damage to them and surrounding enemies. Victimize's damage is increased by 150%[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 420 - 546 Poisoning damage over 3 seconds (DoT) to enemies within. While standing in the pool, your Poison Imbuement Skill has no Cooldown and no Charge limit. Gloves, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Rogue
Aspect of Corruption	Offensive	Your Imbuement Skill effects have 25 - 45% [x] increased potency against Vulnerable enemies. Gloves, 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 5 - 25% [x] increased damage for 9 seconds. Gloves, 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 Heals you for 10 - 30% of your Maximum Life. Helm, Chest, Pants, 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 20 - 40% [x] additional Poison damage to Frozen (CC) enemies. Helm, Chest, Pants, Gloves, Boots, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Rogue
Aspect of Siphoned Victuals	Defensive	Lucky Hit: Damaging a Vulnerable enemy with a Non-Basic Skill has a 5 - 25% chance to drop a Healing Potion. Helm, Chest, Pants, Amulet (+50%)	Leviathan's Maw (Map)	Hawezar	Rogue
Aspect of Unstable Imbuements	Offensive	When casting an Imbuement Skill you trigger an explosion around yourself, applying the Imbuement effects and dealing 83 - 175 damage of the same type. Gloves, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Whispering Vault (Map)	Dry Steppes	Rogue
Aspect of Volatile Shadows	Offensive	When a Dark Shroud shadow is removed you trigger an explosion that deals 113 - 173 Shadow damage and applies Shadow Imbuement to each enemy it hits. Gloves, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Ancient's Lament (Map)	Dry Steppes	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
Icy Alchemist's Aspect	Offensive	Lucky Hit: Shadow Imbued Skills have up to a 75% chance to release an explosion that deals 135 - 195 Cold damage to the target and surrounding enemies, Chilling (CC) them for 25%. If they were already Chilled (CC) or Frozen (CC), increase this damage by x100%. Gloves, 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 30 - 50% chance to Daze (CC) them for 2 seconds. Helm, Chest, Pants, Gloves, Boots, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Rogue
Ravenous Aspect	Resource	Killing a Vulnerable enemy grants you 55 - 75% [x] increased Energy Regeneration for 4 seconds. Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Shifting City (Map)	Dry Steppes	Rogue
Toxic Alchemist's Aspect	Offensive	Lucky Hit: Shadow Imbued Skills have up to a 75% chance to create a toxic explosion that applies 60 - 90 Poisoning damage over 5 seconds to the target and surrounding enemies. If they were already Poisoned, increase this damage by x100%. Gloves, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Rogue
Vengeful Aspect	Offensive	Lucky Hit: Damaging a Vulnerable enemy has up to a 25% chance to create an Arrow Storm at the enemy's location, dealing 156 - 486 Physical damage over 3 seconds. Your Arrow Storms deal 156 - 486% increased damage. Gloves, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Inferno (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: Unique Amulet Class: Rogue Description: Your Rain of Arrows is always Imbued with all Imbuements and receives your Arrow Storm benefits.	+25.0% Resistance to All Elements Affixes: 29 - 42.5% Rain of Arrows Cooldown Reduction +219 - 300% Ultimate Damage +67.5 - 90% Chance for Rain of Arrows Waves to Cast Twice +2 - 3 to Imbuement Skills
	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

Changes to Shadow Imbuement

There have been no changes to Shadow Imbuement to date.