Shadow damage

Shadow damage is caused by a number of necromancer skills but not by Necromancer staves and wands. Skills causing shadow damage ignore armor, and protection specificly against shadow damage does not exist. Global damage reduction, from equipment with damage reduction bonuses or enchantments such as Aura of the Lich, does reduce shadow damage.

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