Shadow

Skilltree: Nightblade
Description:

The Shadow skill-line is part of the Nightblade toolkit and has a focus on offensive abilities and stealth gameplay. In addition to powerful abilities, you can also select passives that increase your support capabilities even further. The Shadow skill-line is the second out of three Nightblade focused skill-lines.

Name	Effect
Ultimate Skills
Consuming Darkness	Conjure a ring of shadow, reducing the Movement Speed of enemies by 70% and granting you and your allies Major Protection, reducing your damage taken by 10%. Allies in the area can activate the Hidden Refresh synergy, granting them invisibility, increasing their Movement Speed by 70%, and healing them for 9110 Health over 4 seconds.
Bolstering Darkness	Conjure a ring of shadow, reducing the Movement Speed of enemies by 70% and granting you and your allies Major Protection while inside the ring and even after leaving it, reducing your damage taken by 10%. Allies in the area can activate the Hidden Refresh synergy, granting them invisibility, increasing their Movement Speed by 70%, and healing them for 9110 Health over 4 seconds.
Veil of Blades	Conjure a ring of shadow, reducing the Movement Speed of enemies by 70%, dealing 1079 Magic Damage to them every 1 second, and granting you and your allies Major Protection, reducing your damage taken by 10%. Allies in the area can activate the Hidden Refresh synergy, granting them invisibility, increasing their Movement Speed by 70%, and healing them for 9110 Health over 4 seconds.
Active Skills
Veiled Strike	Slash an enemy, dealing 2323 Magic Damage. Attacking with Veiled Strike from the flank stuns the enemy for 3 seconds and sets them Off Balance.
Surprise Attack	Slash an enemy, dealing 2323 Physical Damage and applying the Sundered status effect. Attacking with Surprise Attack from the flank stuns the enemy for 3 seconds and sets them Off Balance.
Concealed Weapon	Slash an enemy, dealing 2323 Magic Damage. Attacking with Concealed Weapon from the flank stuns the enemy for 3 seconds and sets them Off Balance. While slotted, your Movement Speed while Sneaking or invisible is increased by 25%.
Shadow Cloak	Cloak yourself in shadow to become invisible for 3 seconds.
Shadowy Disguise	Cloak yourself in shadow to become invisible for 3 seconds. Your next direct damage attack used within 3 seconds will always be a Critical Strike.
Dark Cloak	Shroud yourself in protective shadow to heal for 1472 every 1 second, over 3 seconds. This portion of the ability scales off your Max Health. You gain Minor Protection for 10 seconds, reducing your damage taken by 5%.
Path of Darkness	Create a corridor of shadows, granting you and allies in area Major Expedition, increasing movement speed by 30%. Effect persists for 4 seconds after leaving the path.
Twisting Path	Create a corridor of shadows, granting you and allies in area Major Expedition, increasing movement speed by 30% which persists for 4 seconds after leaving the path. Deals 612 Magic Damage to enemies in the target area every 1 second.
Refreshing Path	Create a corridor of shadows, granting you and allies in area Major Expedition, increasing movement speed by 30%. Effect persists for 4 seconds after leaving the path. Heals 674 Health to you and allies in area every 1 second.
Aspect of Terror	Summon a dark spirit to terrify up to 3 enemies, causing them to cower in fear for 2 seconds.
Mass Hysteria	Summon a dark spirit to terrify up to 6 enemies, causing them to cower in fear for 3 seconds.
Manifestation of Terror	Conceal two sinister traps, one at the targeted location and another next to you, which take 2 seconds to arm and last for 1 minute. When each trap is triggered, a dark spirit is summoned to terrify up to 6 enemies, causing them to cower in fear for 4 seconds.
Summon Shade	Summon a shade version of yourself to attack an enemy and fight at your side for 15 seconds. The shade slashes at an enemy, dealing 400 Magic Damage once every 2 seconds. The shade's attacks inflict Minor Maim, reducing the enemy's damage done by 5% for 4 seconds.
Dark Shade	Summon a shade version of yourself to attack an enemy and fight at your side for 18 seconds. The shade slashes at an enemy, dealing 830 Magic Damage and occasionally whirlwinds all enemies around it, dealing 830 Magic Damage once every 2 seconds. The shade's attacks inflict Minor Maim, reducing the enemy's damage done by 5% for 4 seconds.
Shadow Image	Summon a shade version of yourself to stay in place and attack an enemy from range for 18 seconds. The shade shoots at an enemy, dealing 414 Magic Damage every 2 seconds. The shade's attacks inflict Minor Maim, reducing the enemy's damage done by 5% for 4 seconds. While the shade is summoned, you can activate this ability again to teleport to the shade's location.
Passive Skills
Refreshing Shadows	Increases your Health, Stamina, and Magicka Recovery by 15%.
Shadow Barrier	Casting a Shadow ability grants you Major Resolve for 6 seconds, increasing your Physical and Spell Resistance by 5948. This duration is increased by 25% for each piece of Heavy Armor equipped. Current Duration: 6 seconds
Dark Vigor	Increases your Max Health by 3% for each Shadow ability slotted.
Dark Veil	Increases the duration of your non-invisibility based Shadow abilities by 2 seconds.