Dark Path

Shroud. Send out a claw. If it hits a foe, it inflicts bleeding and chill on nearby foes and you may cast Dark Pursuit to shadowstep to the initial target. — In-game description

Dark Path

 

Profession

Necromancer (skill list)

Parent skill

  Death Shroud

Slot

Transform

Type

Shroud

Sequence

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Game link

API

API

This skill has an underwater replacement: Dark Water

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0.75¾  8  

Shroud. Send out a claw. If it hits a foe, it inflicts bleeding and chill on nearby foes and you may cast Dark Pursuit to shadowstep to the initial target.

  Damage: 66 (0.25)^?

 ₂ Bleeding (8s): 352 Damage

  Chilled (3s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

  Number of Targets: 5

  Dark Pursuit Duration: 3 seconds

  Radius: 240

  Range: 1,200

  Unblockable

— In-game description

Related traits

Spite

• Bitter Chill — Chilling a foe inflicts vulnerability.

Curses

• Barbed Precision — Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Increases bleed duration.
• Plague Sending — Your first attack after entering shroud transfers conditions. Only activates if you have conditions.
• Path of Corruption — Shroud skill 2 now additionally converts boons into conditions.
• Target the Weak — Increases critical-hit chance for each condition on the foe. Gain condition damage based on your precision.
• Parasitic Contagion — A percentage of your condition damage heals you. Healing will not occur while life force replaces health.

Death Magic

• Corrupter's Fervor — Inflicting a condition on a foe grants carapace. Gain pulsing protection while at or above the carapace threshold.

Blood Magic

• Blood Bond — Cast Lesser Signet of Vampirism on your foe when you inflict bleeding on them that matches or exceeds the threshold.
• Vampiric Presence — You and your nearby allies siphon health with attacks. This effect increases while in Shroud.

Soul Reaping

• Sinister Shroud — Shroud skills gain reduced recharge.

Notes

• The projectile is homing.
• The target will be marked with a green skull above their character.
• Damage value is calculated with the weapon strength of the active weapon before shroud is activated. Wiki value assumes unequipped value of 690.5
• If the target is on non-teleport terrain, or the path of the target is otherwise obstructed, and the skill successfully hits your target, the chill and bleed effects will trigger, but you will not teleport using Dark Pursuit as you have 'No valid path to target'.
• Casting Dark Pursuit will increase the recharge of this skill by 8 seconds.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
September 17, 2019	Holding down the key that activates this skill will no longer immediately fire Dark Pursuit. Fixed an issue in which the projectile did not track its target.
July 16, 2019	Updated the icon for this skill. Reduced the recharge from 15 seconds to 8 seconds. Reduced chill duration from 5 seconds to 3 seconds. This skill now damages, chills, and inflicts bleeding on all foes in the area, rather than only damaging and inflicting bleeding on the first foe hit. * The projectile fired by this skill now travels in a straight line rather than following the slope of the ground. This skill no longer shadowsteps to the target by default. Instead it flips over to Dark Pursuit when the projectile hits.
October 02, 2018	The bleeding this skill inflicts has been modified from 3 stacks for 5 seconds to 2 stacks for 8 seconds.
July 01, 2014	Added a skill fact for number of targets (5).
December 10, 2013	Added a radius skill fact.
July 23, 2013	Fixed an issue that caused this skill to strike enemies further than 1200 distance away.
July 09, 2013	This skill will now cause the necromancer to shadowstep the full 1200-unit distance when hitting at max range.
June 25, 2013	Fixed an issue where the chill duration did not match the tooltip.
March 26, 2013	Now unblockable.
November 15, 2012	This skill now applies it recharge at the correct time instead of both during and after casting.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Dark Path has been added to the game.