Dark Pact


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 * [[Image:Necromancer-icon.png]] ||Profession:|| Necromancer

Description
Sacrifice 10% Health to deal 10...40 shadow damage to targeted foe.

Acquisition
Skill Quests: Skill Trainers: Signet of Capture:
 * Death in the Ruins (Sardelac Sanitarium)
 * Captain Osric (Yak's Bend)
 * Dakk (Ember Light Camp)
 * ... to be added ...

Usage
This is one of the fastest casting and fastest recharging offensive skills in the game, and with a high Blood Magic attribute it can be very effective as a means to chip away at an enemy's health, especially interspersed with other skills such as Vampiric Gaze or Barbed Signet. It is a very effective "filler" spell for those times when your other skills are recharging and you don't want to resort to simply attacking. However, the fact that this skill is able to be cast so quickly and so often can make it danger to the unwary Necromancer, as the health sacrifice it carries is just small enough to be dangerous - that is to say, it's small enough that the user will often ignore it until it is too late. It is important to use skills such as Vampiric Touch, Vampiric Gaze, Barbed Signet, Shadow Strike, and so on to keep your health high if you plan on using this skill a lot, or you may do more damage to yourself than your opponents will be able to!

For this reason, this skill is a very effective one to bring along to fight the Doppleganger; if the monster uses it quickly and often enough, the health it sacrifices will far outweigh the damage you could do to it alone.