Shadow damage

Shadow damage is caused by a number of necromancer skills but not by Necromancer staves and wands. Shadow damage ignores armor and there is no protection of any kind available specific to shadow damage. Note that global damage reduction, caused either by equipment with damage reduction bonuses or by enchantments such as Aura of the Lich, will reduce shadow damage also.

Related Skills
These skills cause shadow damage:
 * Dark Aura causes shadow damage when sacrificing health.
 * Dark Pact
 * Deathly Chill causes shadow damage if foe's health is above 50%.
 * Desecrate Enchantments
 * Feast of Corruption
 * Mark of Pain causes shadow damage whenever target takes physical damage.
 * Shadow Strike
 * Spiteful Spirit causes shadow damage whenever the target attacks or uses a skill.
 * Touch of Agony