Last Updated:February 4, 2025|Changelog
Introduction
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The Shadow's Mantle Impale is a classic for Demon Hunter, allowing since its redesign in Season 5 for a melee playstyle similar to Assassin in Diablo II. It used to be the Rift Guardian Killer of choice in Season 10 and remained a solid starter choice the Seasons following for its consistency and easy gearing.
Fast, easy to build, easy to learn, it can help you get started early on and help you push quite high without too much effort involved.
Focused on heavy single-target damage through the combination of Impale and the (6) Bonus providing 120,000% extra Weapon Damage to the skill for the first enemy hit, it allows you to dish out devastating damage. Point, click & kill is the philosophy of the set, and it's very effective at searching and destroying the right targets—especially Elites.
With the Season 25 update this set was buffed to now include 40,000% extra Weapon Damage for subsequent hits of Impale Ricochet and Overpenetration or another 120,000% extra Weapon Damage for the DoT effect of Chemical Burn, either greatly buffing the set's AoE or single target DPS potential depending on the setup. This rework has also made mobile ranged playstyles competitive with the old-school stationary facetank builds that traditionally dominated the set's leaderboards, offering a variety of choices in how to play it.
Along with that goes the (4) Bonus giving Shadow Power all runes and infinite duration. While the rune Gloom provides less damage reduction than other typical set bonuses, this is still a solid layer of protection through immense values of Life per Hit you get on top.
During Season 27, this build had a significantly different playstyle similar to the GoD DH thanks to Sanctified Powers with Sanctified Strafe and a mechanical change to Strafe allowing it to be used with Melee Weapons. This setup was exclusive to this season and no longer exists, although a Strafe based playstyle remains possible by weaving Impale between Strafe ticks while benefitting from supporting effects such as Mantle of Channeling and Taeguk.
Simple mechanics ✔
Strong season starter ✔
Unique melee playstyle ✔
Good single target damage ✔
❌ Close range
❌ Low AoE damage
❌ Positioning is important
❌ Inconsistent damage reduction
Core Setup
Items
- The Shadow's Mantle set provides huge damage bonuses: x61 through the (2) Bonus and x161 through the (6) Bonus, for a total of x9,821 damage with your Impale (against the first enemy hit only). This damage is doubled with Impale Chemical Burn or 1/3 of it is applied to other targets hit by Impale Ricochet and Overpenetration.
- Due to the (2) Bonus, you are required to use a Melee Weapon, which will be Karlei's Point. This item gives you effectively infinite Hatred in most scenarios on top of a 375% separate damage multiplier.
- Holy Point Shot is another key item, providing a 100% separate damage multiplier and 2 additional knives to Impale, effectively tripling your damage when you stand close enough to the target's hitbox to hit it with all of your knives. Additional knives will be thrown in a small cone-shape in front of you.
- Dawn is a staple cubed Weapon for Demon Hunters, in order to get a permanent Vengeance uptime without having to care too much about Cooldown Reduction.
Global Stat Priorities
The most important for almost any Demon Hunter build is reaching permanent Vengeance uptime. This is achievable through the 65% Cooldown Reduction effect provided by Dawn (Cubed) and having 37% Cooldown Reduction. What you will always use is the Flawless Royal Diamond in your Helmet, 10% from Paragon Points. Additional sources are Gogok of Swiftness, Captain Crimson's Trimmings and a roll on your shoulders if necessary.
There are two competing variations of the build, one using Cold and another using Fire. The Fire rune Chemical Burn applies the first-hit bonus twice (on impact & 2sec burn), effectively doubling single target damage. The Cold rune Overpenetration allows for some AoE damage.
Pay extra attention to Life per Kill as a Secondary Affix on your gear. Shadow Power Blood Moon turns 50% of that into Life per Hit. By stacking Life per Kill you can boost your sustain without sacrificing any important stats. This is why we want to use Bottomless Potion of Mutilation, as you can snapshot it (see Mechanics).
Apart from that, you want to stack damage stats wherever possible, especially Critical Hit Chance & Damage, Elemental Damage, Impale Damage, Attack Speed and lastly Area Damage (only for Solo Push). The rest goes to defense, especially All Resistance on Pants, Boots, Belt, Shoulders. We can add up some Vitality rolls and Elite Damage Reduction on Chest. Physical Resistance is also extremely useful, as you generally stand very close to your enemies and most of the incoming damage will be of that type. Because of that, you should always use Flawless Royal Diamond in your Chest and Pants sockets.
1. Do the Challenge Rift for the materials to cube Legendary Powers. You can complete this once a week for additional resources and we always update the guide for you!
2. Gather the full The Shadow's Mantle set. Each piece can be gambled from Kadala for Bloodshards. Do not salvage any duplicate pieces you find! Instead convert them to another part of the set with Recipe 4 in Kanai's Cube. If you have extra materials you can use Recipe 3 to craft the remaining pieces, but this is expensive and not recommended for new players.
3. Gamble from Kadala in this order:
- The full The Shadow's Mantle set
- Holy Point Shot
- Goldwrap and Chain of Shadows
- Warzechian Armguards and Wraps of Clarity
- Aquila Cuirass
- St. Archew's Gage and Stone Gauntlets
- Elusive Ring, The Compass Rose, Convention of Elements, Focus and Restraint
4. Craft using Recipe 3 in Kanai's Cube in this order:
- Daggers to get Karlei's Point
- Hand-crossbows to get Dawn
- Amulets to get Squirt's Necklace and The Traveler's Pledge
- Create a level 1 Witch Doctor and upgrade Maces to get Echoing Fury
- Anything from the Gamble list in Step 3 that you haven't already acquired.
5. Do Bounties to acquire several important items for this build:
- Act 1: Ring of Royal Grandeur
- Act 2: Gloves of Worship
- Act 3: Avarice Band
- Act 4: Can drop any bounty item from any act
- Bounty Turn In: Recipes for Sage's Journey, Cain's Destiny, Aughild's Authority, Captain Crimson's Trimmings and Guardian's Jeopardy
6. Use Primordial Ashes in Kanai's Cube with the new Curiosity of Lorath Nahr recipe to obtain a free Crafted Primal Ancient. Since you can only equip one of them, choosing the right item to focus matters! Great candidates are Weapons, Offhands, Jewelry or any item with an important multiplier. With that in mind, we recommend getting one of the following items:
- Karlei's Point
- Holy Point Shot
- Elusive Ring
| SLOT | ITEM | STAT PRIORITY |
| Main-Hand | Karlei's Point Dawn (Cubed) | 1. Damage Range 2. Socket Ramaladni's Gift 3. Attack Speed 4. Damage % 5. Area Damage 6. Elite Damage 7. Dexterity |
| Off-Hand | Holy Point Shot | 1. Elemental Damage 2. Critical Hit Chance 3. Impale Damage 4. Area Damage 5. Dexterity |
| Helm | The Shadow's Mask Aughild's Spike (Crafted) | 1. Socket Flawless Royal Diamond 2. Impale Damage 3. Critical Hit Chance 4. Dexterity |
| Gloves | The Shadow's Grasp St. Archew's Gage (Cubed) Stone Gauntlets (Cubed) | 1. Critical Hit Chance 2. Critical Hit Damage 3. Attack Speed 4. Area Damage 5. Dexterity |
| Shoulders | The Shadow's Burden Aughild's Power (Crafted) | 1. Dexterity 2. Cooldown Reduction 3. Area Damage 4. Vitality 5. Life % |
| Chest | The Shadow's Bane Aughild's Rule (Crafted) Aquila Cuirass (Cubed) | 1. Sockets Flawless Royal Diamond 2. Dexterity 3. Vitality 4. All Resistance 5. Elite Damage Reduction 6. Life % |
| Pants | The Shadow's Coil Captain Crimson's Thrust (Crafted) | 1. Dexterity 2. Sockets Flawless Royal Diamond 3. Vitality 4. All Resistance |
| Boots | The Shadow's Heels Captain Crimson's Waders (Crafted) | 1. Impale Damage 2. Dexterity 3. All Resistance 4. Vitality |
| Ring 1 | The Compass Rose Focus Ring of Royal Grandeur (A1 Bounties, Cubed) | 1. Socket 2. Critical Hit Damage 3. Critical Hit Chance 4. Average Damage 5. Area Damage 6. Attack Speed |
| Ring 2 | Elusive Ring Convention of Elements Restraint Avarice Band (A3 Bounties) | 1. Socket 2. Critical Hit Chance 3. Critical Hit Damage 4. Average Damage 5. Area Damage 6. Attack Speed 7. Dexterity |
| Bracers | Aughild's Search (Crafted) Wraps of Clarity Warzechian Armguards Nemesis Bracers | 1. Elemental Damage 2. Critical Hit Chance 3. Dexterity 4. Vitality 5. All Resistance |
| Amulet | The Traveler's Pledge Squirt's Necklace | 1. Socket 2. Critical Hit Damage 3. Elemental Damage 4. Critical Hit Chance |
| Belt | Chain of Shadows Captain Crimson's Silk Girdle (Crafted) Goldwrap | 1. Dexterity 2. Vitality 3. All Resistance 4. Life % |
| Potion | Bottomless Potion of Mutilation | To snapshot the increased Life per Kill with Shadow Power for permanently increased healing |
- Bane of the Trapped provides us with a 60% separate damage multiplier for close range combat.
- Gogok of Swiftness grants 15% Cooldown Reduction & Attack Speed and 30% Dodge. Typically this gem competes with Pain Enhancer, which is used for the highest Tiers.
- Esoteric Alteration provides massive amounts of toughness if needed, especially for stationary setups with Endless Walk.
- Bane of the Stricken is used as RGK or for Cold solo push variants.
- Zei's Stone of Vengeance, Bane of the Powerful or Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard (to protect Squirt's Necklace buff) can be used in speedfarm and even some push variants variants.
- Boon of the Hoarder is great for extra Gold and Movement Speed in T16 Rifts.
- Impale on the skill as our main damage dealer. Karlei's Point gives a huge damage boost and infinite Hatred.
- Shadow Power for defense, utility and healing.
- Vengeance along with Dawn and the necessary Cooldown Reduction provides a permanent x1.4 damage and most of the time also x2 toughness boost (through the Dark Heart rune).
- Vault, especially when paired with Chain of Shadows (and perhaps Tactical Advantage) gives you ridiculous mobility at all times.
- The last 2 skill slots vary a lot from version to version. Popular choices are Fan of Knives Bladed Armor, Companion Wolf Companion or Boar Companion, Marked for Death Valley of Death, Bolas (in the Bastions of Will setups) and Sentry Guardian Turret.
- Cull the Weak is the strongest Demon Hunter damage passive.
- Awareness helps you out in tough times and saves you a death.
- Ambush is another generic DPS passive that works in every build.
- Steady Aim and Thrill of the Hunt are used for the mobile ranged versions of the build.
- Other options can include Numbing Traps, Tactical Advantage, Blood Vengeance for most purposes like farming or pushing. As an Rift Guardian Killer (RGK) in groups, you should also choose Single Out.
| Core | Offensive | Defensive | Utility |
| 1. Movement Speed | 1. Cooldown Reduction | 1. All Resistance | 1. Area Damage2 |
| 2. Dexterity | 2. Critical Hit Damage | 2. Armor | 2. Life per Hit |
| 3. Vitality1 | 3. Critical Hit Chance | 3. Life % | 3. Pickup Radius |
| 4. Attack Speed | 4. Life Regeneration | 4. Resource Cost Reduction |
1 Add a bit of Vitality if you feel too squishy (a total of 800,000 Life is recommended in Solo Push, 600,000 Life otherwise).
2 Avoid any source of Area Damage for RGK variants as this is useless and it can lag the game.
Patch 2.7.0 revamped the follower system giving all 3 hirelings new powers and the emanate system. The first thing you should do is read our complete follower guide and remember the key takeaways:
- The emanation system allows followers to share certain legendary and set powers with you. The most important ones are: The Flavor of Time, Nemesis Bracers, Avarice Band, Sage’s Journey and Cain’s Destiny. Click the guide above for the full list.
- Follower’s powers are based on their main stat (maxed at 25,000, but they have a 2.5x multiplier so you only need 10,000). This means we stack Intelligence on the Enchantress, Dexterity on the Scoundrel and Strength on the Templar.
- Guardian's Jeopardy (2) Bonus works for followers by improving their inherent stat multiplier from x2.5 to x3.5, making it slightly easier to hit the 25,000 main stat threshold if needed.
- Followers share 20% of their Experience, Magic and Gold Find stats with you.
- Legendary gems do not work on followers, except Esoteric Alteration and Mutilation Guard.
- Enforcer can be equipped on the player to keep followers alive even without an immortality relic. The 90% damage reduction counts for them, too.
- Cooldown Reduction does not work for any follower skill except the Templar’s Heal.
- Followers never deal significant damage; you’re on your own to clear the content.
Select Follower
For T16 we recommend this Enchantress setup because she is the only follower that gives Cooldown Reduction, allowing you to spam your abilities more. Since this is T16 content, she’ll stay alive with Esoteric Alteration and Mutilation Guard and use Hand of the Prophet to gain all skills. This will give us Cooldown Reduction, Elemental Damage, Reduced Damage from Ranged Attacks, Armor, Attack Speed, and a Cheat Death.
Stat Priorities:Since we do not have the immortality focus, we need to stack survivability on our Enchantress.
Intelligence > Vitality > Life % > Armor > All Resistance > Life Per Hit > Attack Speed.
Key Items:
- The Flavor of Time: For double duration on Pylons.
- Nemesis Bracers: For extra Elites, Death’s Breaths and In-geom procs.
- Avarice Band: For the insane pickup radius.
- Ring of Royal Grandeur: To complete our sets.
- Gloves of Worship: For 10 Minute Shrine Buffs.
- Sage’s Journey: For double Death’s Breaths.
- Cain’s Destiny: For 25% more Greater Rift Keystones.
For speed Greater Rifts we recommend this Enchantress setup because she is the only follower that gives Cooldown Reduction, allowing you to spam your abilities more. Since this is speed content, she’ll stay alive with Esoteric Alteration and Mutilation Guard and use Hand of the Prophet to gain all skills. This will give us Cooldown Reduction, Elemental Damage, Reduced Damage from Ranged Attacks, Armor, Attack Speed, and a Cheat Death.
Stat Priorities:Since we do not have the immortality focus, we need to stack survivability on our Enchantress.
Intelligence > Vitality > Life % > Armor > All Resistance > Life Per Hit > Attack Speed.
Key Items:
- The Flavor of Time: For double duration on Pylons.
- Nemesis Bracers: For more progression from Elites.
- Oculus Ring: For 85% increased damage.
- Ice Climbers: To make your follower immune to Freeze and Immobilize effects.
- Hellfire Ring, Leoric's Crown and Cain's Destiny: For more Experience and Attack Speed.
For Greater Rift Pushing we recommend this Enchantress setup for the Slow from Temporal Pulse, Cooldown Reduction from Prophetic Harmony, Damage Reduction and Armor from Powered Shield, and the Attack Speed from Focused Mind.
Stat Priorities:Since we have the immortality relic, we do not need to stack survivability on our Enchantress.
Intelligence > Attack Speed.
Key Items:
- The Flavor of Time: For double duration on Pylons.
- Nemesis Bracers: For more progression from Elites.
- Oculus Ring: For 85% increased damage.
- Unity: For 50% damage reduction if you're also wearing one.
- Ice Climbers: To make your follower immune to Freeze and Immobilize effects.
- Mempo of Twilight and Cain's Destiny: For more Attack Speed.
The build is overall fairly easy to play once you understand the core concept. Most of the damage dealt is done to the first enemy hit of each knife. This puts a large focus on your and your target's positioning, you generally want to single out valuable targets and elites while ignoring small trash.
Whenever you enter a game or start a Greater Rift, make sure to activate Shadow Power once to receive the effects. Then, after you took some damage, activate Bottomless Potion of Mutilation and press Shadow Power again to snapshot the effect. The same applies after a death or in case you press the skill without the potion up for whatever reason. Keep your Vengeance up at all times (cast once every 20 seconds). If you are using Chain of Shadows, make sure to throw knives after every 4-5 uses of Vault to not run out of Discipline.
General Advice
Cold Rune - Impale Overpenetration: Focus more on gathering large packs of monsters to profit from the AoE part of The Shadow's Mantle (6) Bonus.
Fire Rune - Impale Chemical Burn: Focus more on hunting yellow elites to profit from your double damage to single targets.
Stationary Playstyle
For stationary setups with Endless Walk, find a valuable target (typically a yellow elite) and position yourself to hit it first with all three of your knives. If you spawn an Oculus Ring, run into it and repeat. Sometimes you may not be able to hit your main target this way, so try to stutter-step into the right place if you can or just prioritize other valuable targets nearby while waiting for the next Oculus Ring.
Mobile Playstyle
For mobile setups with Bastions of Will you can more freely move around the battlefield and gather large packs of monsters without having to worry about losing much damage. You don't have to fight only elite enemies and can use any spawned Oculus Ring more deliberately to just nuke down whatever is in your path. In situations with very few enemies around, stutter-step and dodge as much as possible to keep up Squirt's Necklace.
The build is overall quite tanky and a popular choice among Hardcore players. Additionally, you have permanent immunity to Crowd Control effects and high mobility to get out of dangerous situations with ease when you have to. Don't forget to replace Ambush with Awareness, if it isn't already included in the build.
Check out our dedicated Hardcore Survival Guide to learn more about how to succeed in this game mode!
Variants
The Shadow's Mantle is typically not really a very competitive Torment farming build, due to it's limited AoE coverage and way too high damage. It's mainly useful there in case this is the first set you complete and to start farming up others like UE Multishot or GoD, or when you get it as a season starter from the Haedrig's Gift.
Concept
The idea here is to stack lots of movement speed while still being able to kill most big enemies quickly as you are passing by. To achieve this, we use the whole arsenal: Avarice Band on our follower combined with Boon of the Hoarder and Goldwrap, Tactical Advantage, Hot Pursuit.
We add other damage and utility items such as Squirt's Necklace, which will be protected by Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard. Finally, we are using Vengeance Seethe, because in T16 all enemies die in one hit and Karlei's Point doesn't restore that much Hatred.
Gameplay
Hunt Elites, kill some of the big trash monsters on the way, ignore everything else. Impale is (in)famous for its simplicity and in Nephalem Rifts there's literally nothing you have to worry about.
Setups
While farming in groups, replace Warzechian Armguards and Pandemonium Loop with Nemesis Bracers and Avarice Band.
It is also possible to use Sage's Journey in groups for extra Death's Breath drops by wearing two pieces along with a cubed Ring of Royal Grandeur and cubing the Chain of Shadows.
Concept
In speedruns, both Cold and Fire version are possible. The former focuses more on AoE while the latter is stronger on single target. Additional Resource Cost Reduction rolls can help you out if you run low on Hatred or Discipline, but Blood Vengeance usually takes care of that.
Due to the heavy movement, we cannot use Endless Walk, and rather rely on Focus & Restraint. Because we have to use a Generator (Bolas) skill to activate them anyway, we also include Wraps of Clarity for the additional defense.
Finally, we use Squirt's Necklace for double damage. On top of standard Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard we use St. Archew's Gage. This item works wonderfully in speedruns, giving us a massive shield when we encounter an Elite pack—precisely when we need it most. 10 second duration is more than enough to kill the Elite and move on. With this setup you only lose the buff when you find multiple Elites in the same spot.
Gameplay
Keep up your buffs with one generator cast every 5 seconds, otherwise jump around and hunt mainly for Elites and big packs of monsters. When you find an Elite, try to kill it as fast as possible; if it has aggressive affixes, you might lose the shield after a few seconds, but by then Elites should be almost dead, and by the time you reach the next pack, your shield will regenerate.
Setups
At low Paragon (2000 or less), you can also run with Guardian's Jeopardy instead of Captain Crimson's Trimmings for similar damage output but better survivability.
If you don't want to worry about the small shield gained from Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard, replace it with Bane of the Powerful.
For an even faster but squishier version, also replace Dawn with Echoing Fury and swap Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard with Bane of the Powerful. This setup works best for very short runs (90-120sec).
Select Build Version
Concept
In pushing, both Cold and Fire versions are possible with nearly identical setups but different playstyles. The former focuses more on AoE while the latter is stronger on single target.
In order to survive facetanking monsters at higher tiers, we need to add more survivability to the setup. This is done through the Stone Gauntlets, Numbing Traps and Boar Companion. For damage we use the Endless Walk set.
Gameplay
You mostly want to hunt down Elites and kill them off, however not every one of them is necessarily worth it once you approach the limits of your setup, as you might simply require too much time to finish them. This applies especially to Illusionist packs, Champions packs, Juggernaut Rares or enemies that tend to run away and hide. While fighting Elites, try to gather trash monsters around you to kill through passive Area Damage procs from the attacks to your main target.
Setups
For the Fire variant, you can swap Bane of the Stricken with Esoteric Alteration for more toughness.
If you struggle to survive, you can replace Convention of Elements with Elusive Ring for a massive improvement in toughness.
At low Paragon (2000 or less), you can also run with Guardian's Jeopardy instead of Aughild's Authority for similar damage output but better survivability.
At high Paragon (3000 or more), you can make more offensive choices such as switching your Companion rune to Wolf Companion.
Concept
In pushing, both Cold and Fire versions are possible with nearly identical setups but different playstyles. The former focuses more on AoE while the latter is stronger on single target.
In contrast to the facetank playstyle you can also play with Bastions of Will, Captain Crimson's Trimmings and Squirt's Necklace. Here you can move around freely without losing damage but you are much more squishy than before. Instead of Gogok of Swiftness we go with Zei's Stone of Vengeance.
With the Cold version we use Bane of the Stricken for extra single target damage, with the Fire version Gogok of Swiftness. In case you are dying too much, go with Esoteric Alteration instead.
Gameplay
You mostly want to hunt down Elites and kill them off, however not every one of them is necessarily worth it once you approach the limits of your setup, as you might simply require too much time to finish them. This applies especially to Illusionist packs, Champions packs, Juggernaut Rares or enemies that tend to run away and hide. While fighting Elites, try to gather trash monsters around you to kill through passive Area Damage procs from the attacks to your main target.
Setups
For the Fire variant, swap Bane of the Stricken with Gogok of Swiftness or Esoteric Alteration.
At low Paragon (2000 or less), you can also run with Guardian's Jeopardy instead of Captain Crimson's Trimmings for similar damage output but better survivability. This may require additional CDR rolls on your gear.
At high Paragon (3000 or more), you can switch your Companion rune to Wolf Companion.
The set is quite strong as a Rift Guardian Killer (RGK), however typically not the prime choice. Regardless, it remains a decent option and capable of the highest tiers with a group that wants use it. The only viable choice here is the Fire rune, which effectively doubles your single-target damage.
Concept
As a RGK, you just need to get to the boss somehow, and then kill it. We optimize this setup for most Boss DPS possible, which will leave you quite squishy and helpless, especially during high tier pushing.
To achieve this, we add lots of DPS items at the cost of utility, such as Squirt's Necklace, Aughild's Authority set and we even drop Chain of Shadows for The Witching Hour. Also, we have to include Bane of the Stricken, it's the most important gem for a RGK.
Gameplay
It can be very difficult to reach the Rift Guardian without dying, so you have to be careful with your movement and defensive abilities such as Vault in order to not run out of Discipline. On the Rift Guardian, you hold down Impale until it's dead, potentially repositioning yourself sometimes in case they move or spawn adds, to make sure all 3 Impale projectiles are hitting the boss' hitbox.
You need to stay at least 10 yards away from the boss to activate Steady Aim. At the same time, you don't want to be much farther away than that to hit with all three knives. To get a good feel of how far away 10 yards actually is, you can play UE Multishot DH and pay attention to your (4) Bonus buff. It refreshes every 0.5 seconds, if there is no enemy within 10 yards of you—the same condition as Steady Aim.
Setups
At low Paragon (2000 or less), you can also run with Guardian's Jeopardy instead of Aughild's Authority for similar damage output but better survivability.
If you have trouble keeping your Squirt's Necklace buff, switch to an Endless Walk setup by dropping the amulet and Stone of Jordan. This setup is a lot more tanky, but deals a lot less damage.
Video Guide
Mechanics
- Hatred will only return starting on the second hit.
- Impale Ricochet can give you Hatred back on the first attack (due to bounces).
- With The Shadow's Mantle, the first enemy hit will take massive damage and other targets of Impale Ricochet or Overpenetration take 1/3 of that amount.
- Chemical Burn doubles your damage done against single-targets because the 2sec burn DoT applies the set's extra damage, too.
- Grievous Wounds adds extra Critical Hit Damage but is about 30-40% worse than Chemical Burn in any realistic scenario.
- The extra knives from Holy Point Shot spread out in a cone-shape, so standing close to the target is necessary to hit with all of them at once.
- Provides a buff for 2 seconds to vault freely after using Impale.
- Make sure to use Impale often enough while moving, so that you don't run out of Discipline.
- Use once to get the buff, it will stay on permanently thanks to The Shadow's Mantle (4) Bonus.
- Activating it again will only apply the Slow from Night Bane.
- Life per Kill from Bottomless Potion of Mutilation can be snapshot during its effect, as long as you don't use Shadow Power again without it. This will increase your healing overall and is very useful, especially for pushing.
- The snapshot has to be done again on death or when the skill is used without the potion up.
Summary
- Reach the necessary Cooldown Reduction for permanent Vengeance (37% including active Gogok of Swiftness).
- Choose to play either a stationary or mobile version using Fire or Cold damage.
- Stand close to your target, only the first enemy hit takes the big damage.
- Make sure to use Shadow Power at least once at the start of a run, preferably right after pressing your Bottomless Potion of Mutilation.
- Hunt down Elites and juicy trash mobs to progress, ignore small, stray enemies.
We hope you enjoyed this guide! Shadow Impale is an ideal beginner build, and if you're not familiar with it yet, just hop in and try it out!
Credits
Written by Northwar & wudijo
Contributions by Chewingnom
Updates by wudijo