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 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

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
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
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
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