Rogue Compendium

Table of Contents

1. Skills

2. Key Passives

3. Passives

4. Glyphs

5. Legendary Paragon Nodes

6. Class Specialization

7. Stats

8. Aspects

9. Uniques

1. Skills

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2. Key Passives

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3. Passives

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4. Glyphs

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5. Legendary Paragon Nodes

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6. Class Specialization

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7. Stats

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8. Aspects

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9. Uniques

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Table of Contents

1. Skills

2. Key Passives

3. Passives

4. Glyphs

5. Legendary Paragon Nodes

6. Class Specialization

7. Stats

8. Aspects

9. Uniques

1. Skills

Shadow Step

Unexpected Interactions
Two bugs related to Disciplined Shadow Step. One is that when used in combination with the Jah Rune, which turns your evade into Teleport, you can cancel the Shadow Step mid-cast, causing the cooldown not to be reduced. The second bug is that Shadow Step has a small "spam cast" protection of 30 frames to prevent you from accidentally using multiple charges of Shadow Step. However, these 30 frames are reduced by Disciplined Shadow Step which means you can spam Shadow Step anyway if your cooldown is below 2.5 seconds.

Rapid Fire

Unexpected Interaction
When you use Rapid Fire, the Jah rune that turns your evade into the sorcerer skill Teleport cannot trigger Advanced Rapid Fire. Any normal evade cast still trigger it though.

Flurry

Returning Bug
On the PTR, an old bug where Advanced Flurry dropped stacks from Lucky Hit triggers returned to the skill. We presume this to not make it to the live version of the game.

Twisting Blade

Lucky Hit Interaction Bug
The Lucky Hit Chance of Twisting Blades continues to differ from expectations. In a brief interaction test of 300 points of data for the base version of Twisting Blades and 500 points of data for Twisting Blades using Bladedancer's, overall Lucky Hit Chance was significantly lower than expected.

Each hit of Twisting Blades was expected to have the Tooltip Lucky Hit Chance% (in this case, 114%). The test was set up in a way where we tracked Doombringer triggers per hit and tracked all damage instances individually using recorded footage. Based on other spell functions, Twisting Blades was expected to have either a 114% Chance to Lucky Hit per hit, or 1-(1-1.14)^(1/2) = 100% chance to Lucky Hit due to the limitations of the formula when a skill has two damage instances on it (more on this in our Lucky Hit Mechanics article). However, it turns out that the data was distributed in the following way:

Without Bladedancer's

With Bladedancer's

As we can see, the Doombringer Triggers to Total Hits ratio is off by a significant margin compared to the expected ratio. We are getting roughly half the expected triggers, which makes Twisting Blades very poor in Lucky Hit Chance contexts.

Dance of Knives

Interactions

Snapshot
Channeled skills are notorious for snapshotting, so we investigated some potential snapshots to see how Dance of Knives behaved in certain contexts. For example, Fists of Fate aspect value snapshot for the entire duration of the channel (so if you roll a nat 1 and get 1%, your Dance of Knives does 1% of its original damage for the full channel). Other notable snapshots are Countering Concealment and Synergy. The full list of these is investigated when Season 6 hits the live servers.

Imbuement
Dance of Knives can be imbued, and it only loses one charge for starting the channel. This means that if you channel indefinitely, you only consume one charge in total.

Momentum
It appears to be getting roughly one stack per second of channeling and does not generate a stack when you are tapping the skill.

Inner Sight
During Inner Sight, Dance of Knives does not lose any charges.

2. Key Passives

Victimize

New Formula
Victimize% = (1 + 2.2 x ((1 + Vulnerable Additive) x [1.2 x Malice x (Vulnerable Legendary Glyph^Total)] - 1)) x 0.8

Double Dipping
Malice (triple dips during stagger), Legendary effects of Chip, Exploit, and Diminish.

Working Interactions

• Coldclip
• Elements
• Conceited
• Pitfighter's Gull
• Exploit
• Malice
• Trick Attacks
• Enhanced Caltrops
• Enhanced Smoke Grenade
• Inner Calm
• Frigid Finesse
• Vulnerable (individual target tracking)
• Control and its new legendary effect
• Combat and its new legendary effect
• Deadly Ambush
• Fluidity and its new legendary effect
• Pride and its new legendary effect
• Chip and its new legendary effect
• Diminish's new legendary effect
• Exploit's new legendary effect
• Unstable Elixirs

Non-functioning Interactions

• Edgemaster's
• Weapon Mastery
• Impetus
• Fists of Fate
• Versatility

Precision

Old Formula - New additions!
([1+ Crit Damage Additive] x [1.5 x Trick Attacks x (Crit Damage Legendary Glyph^Total)] - 1) x 0.15 + 0.5

Double Dipping
Precision continues its old double-dipping issues with the new Legendary Glyphs and Trick Attacks. These affect the precision multiplier and the final product, making any precision build multitudes better than it should be.

Close Quarters Combat

New Formula
Close Quarters Combat Multiplier: (1+[Close Damage Additive] x 0.15)

No Double Dipping
Close Quarters Combat is unique as the new Legendary Glyph effects do NOT double dip with the Close Quarters Combat scaling. It uses the true additive Close Damage value.

Alchemical Admixture

New Formula
Admixture Multiplier: ((Shadow DMG% x [Shadow Legendary Glyph^Total] x Eldritch Bounty [If Shadow Imbuement]) + (Poison DMG% x [Poison Legendary Glyph^Total] x Eldritch Bounty [If Poison Imbuement]) + (Cold DMG% x [Cold Legendary Glyph^Total] x Eldritch Bounty [if Cold Imbuement])) x (Non-Physical Legendary Glyph^Total) x (1+Elements) x 0.2 + 0.4

Double Dipping
We have certain multipliers double-dipping the final damage and Alchemical Admixture. Effects such as Elements, the new Legendary Glyphs, Eldritch Bounty all multiply the Additive Shadow, Poison and Cold damage you have and also affect the damage you deal with the imbuements themselves.

Momentum

Interaction
We confirmed that only Marksman skills now drop stacks, meaning utility skills such as Imbuements and Smoke Grenade no longer drop Momentum stacks.

3. Passives

Trick Attacks

Still Multiplicative
Trick Attacks should be additive to itself, resulting in a 36% multiplier when fully stacked. However, it compounds causing it to be 1.06^6 = 1.419 = 41.9%. This difference looks small but is large enough especially when combined with Precision to create a big difference.

Weapon Mastery

Description Change
It still does not work for non-direct skill damage sources such as Imbuements and items such as Andariel's Visage.

4. Glyphs

Devious

Description Change
Devious had its description changed from "When you hit an enemy with an attack that applies a Crowd Control effect ..." to "When you hit an enemy or Boss with an attack that applies Crowd Control effect". This was tested with normal Crowd Control sources (such as Smoke Grenade) and procs (from Fists of Fate). Testing shows it works in both contexts.

5. Legendary Paragon Nodes

Deadly Ambush

Previously Bugged Interaction
Deadly Ambush was previously bugged and increased the damage from all damage sources, disregarding its condition of it being a critical strike. This has been fixed during this PTR and no longer functions for non-critical strikes.

Danse Macabre

Interaction
Due to the new abilities such as Dance of Knives and potential archetypes such as Smoke Grenade spam, it was tested to see what happened if you spam a Mobility or Subterfuge skill. it turns out that it works on Smoke Grenade spam, making it a 50% damage multiplier for this build archetype.

Eldritch Bounty

Unchanged
It has been previously recorded that Eldritch Bounty did not get triggered when used in combination with Coldclip. This interaction is still broken, which is a shame due to the new interactions with Victimize and Alchemical Admixture.

6. Class Specialization

Preparation

Still Inconsistent
During testing, we kept running into an "overflow" functionality:

• Use Beastfall Boots + Pen shot, spend 233 energy, and get 5 seconds of Cooldown Reduction.
• Spend 28 energy, and get 5 seconds of Cooldown Reduction.
• Spend another 28 energy, and get 5 seconds of Cooldown Reduction.
• Spend another 28 energy, and get 5 seconds of Cooldown Reduction.
• Spend another 28 energy, and get 0 seconds of Cooldown Reduction.

Total Energy Spent: 345 Energy
How many triggers of Preparation should we get? (345)/75 = 4.6
How many triggers of Preparation did we get? 4

So it technically works, but it tracks how much energy you have spent over the cap and redistributes it over the next few skills instead of in one go (which is not how Preparation reads).

7. Stats

Tempering: Deals Double Damage

Functionality
Tempering manuals that state that they have a "Chance to deal Double Damage" were tested to see if they are capped at 100% like "cast twice" tempering manuals. This was the case for Blade Shift when it was tested, as well as Barbarian abilities when they were tested. It is presumed that this is the functionality for all skills.

Main Stats Doubled

Formula
The formula for main stat damage gain was changed on PTR to be double what we expected. This means that the formula for calculating the multiplier for main stat for rogue changed to:

Main Stat Multiplier = [1+(Main Stat/900) x 2]

It is unclear whether or not this was intended and will remain the case when Season 6 launches in October.

8. Aspects

Poisonous Clouds

Lucky Hit Interaction - The aspect of Poisonous Clouds does not have Lucky Hit Chance to pull from, yet it can trigger Lucky Hit effects.

Dark Dance

Tooltip Inaccuracies - Dark Dance still gives too little damage boost compared to what the tooltip suggests. It increases the damage done by 40% each time its effect is available instead of the suggested 80%.

9. Uniques

Paingorger

Working Interactions

• Vulnerable is individually tracked per dummy, damage is not transferred over
• Distance/Close works based on your relative positioning to the echoed targets
• Basic skill damage works
• Chip/Canny (if the target has it stacked, it doesn't automatically spread)
• Malice
• Exploit
• Moonrise
• Elements
• Conceited
• Penitent Greaves (all targets need to be affected by chill/frozen)
• Control (all targets need to be affected by the CC)
• Shard of Verathiel
• Ring of Starless Skies
• Retribution (checks the status of the enemy it echos to regardless if the original target is stunned)

Non-working Interactions

• Weapon Mastery
• Edgemaster's
• Crit Damage: not tracked at all since individual hits cannot crit, and the damage gained from crit does not transfer over
• Overpower: not tracked at all since individual hits cannot Overpower, and the damage gained from Overpower does not transfer over
• Adaptability
• Crown of Lucion

Crown of Lucion

Unchanged - Crown of Lucion was unchanged for this PTR and still breaks the gain from certain Core and Basic modifiers.

Attack Speed

The following Attack Speed % sources function for Blade Shift. For a more in-depth explanation of how attack speed works, please read our Attack Speed Mechanics article.

Interactions that work with Blade Shift

The following interactions have been verified through damage recording or footage to ensure they are functional. Anything not listed here has not explicitly been verified during the creation of this list.

Interactions that partially works with Blade Shift

• Uniques and Mythic Uniques
  • Crown of Lucion requires Shard of Verathiel
  • Paingorger's Gauntlets

Interactions that do not work with Blade Shift

Attack Speed

The following Attack Speed % sources function for Forceful Arrow. For a more in-depth explanation of how attack speed works, please read our Attack Speed Mechanics article.

Lucky Hit Chance

• Chance to Cast Twice Tempering retains full Lucky Hit Chance per damage instance, making it great at triggering effects such as Andariel's Visage and Victimize.
  
  More on Lucky Hit functionality in our Lucky Hit Mechanics article.

Interactions that work with Forceful Arrow

The following interactions have been verified through damage recording or footage to ensure they are functional. Anything not listed here has not explicitly been verified during the creation of this list.

Interactions that partially works with Forceful Arrow

• Uniques and Mythic Uniques
  • Crown of Lucion requires Shard of Verathiel
  • Paingorger's Gauntlets

Interactions that do not work with Forceful Arrow

Attack Speed

The following Attack Speed % sources function for Heartseeker. For a more in-depth explanation of how attack speed works, please read our Attack Speed Mechanics article.

Lucky Hit Chance

• The extra attacks from Primary Heartseeker retains the full Lucky Hit Chance of Heartseeker.
• Chance to Cast Twice Tempering retains full Lucky Hit Chance per damage instance, making it great at triggering effects such as Andariel's Visage and Victimize.
• Heartseeker Duration Tempering increases the duration of all Heartseeker durations, meaning Enhanced Heartseeker, Fundamental Heartseeker, and the base duration of Heartseeker.
  
  More on Lucky Hit functionality in our Lucky Hit Mechanics article.

Double Combo Points with Heartseeker

Using the tempering manual to cast Heartseeker twice, Heartseeker generates guaranteed two Combo Points instead of one. This interaction is independent of other pieces of gear, and solely something that occurs when you have Chance for Heartseeker Projectiles to Cast Twice on your gear. This is unique to Heartseeker and does not happen for other basic attacks.

Interactions that work with Heartseeker

The following interactions have been verified through damage recording or footage to ensure they are functional. Anything not listed here has not explicitly been verified during the creation of this list.

Interactions that partially works with Heartseeker

• Uniques and Mythic Uniques
  • Crown of Lucion requires Shard of Verathiel
  • Paingorger's Gauntlets

Interactions that do not work with Heartseeker

Attack Speed

The following Attack Speed % sources function for Invigorating Strike. For a more in-depth explanation of how attack speed works, please read our Attack Speed Mechanics article.

Interactions that work with Invigorating Strike

The following interactions have been verified through damage recording or footage to ensure they are functional. Anything not listed here has not explicitly been verified during the creation of this list.

Interactions that partially works with Invigorating Strike

• Uniques and Mythic Uniques
  • Crown of Lucion requires Shard of Verathiel
  • Paingorger's Gauntlets

Interactions that do not work with Invigorating Strike

Attack Speed

The following Attack Speed % sources function for Puncture. For a more in-depth explanation of how attack speed works, please read our Attack Speed Mechanics article.

Lucky Hit Chance

• Puncture is unique because each blade from Fundamental Puncture retains its full Lucky Hit Chance.
• Chance to Cast Twice Tempering also retains full Lucky Hit Chance per blade, making it an excellent driver for Lucky Hit Chance builds.
• When paired with Pestilent Points], each blade applies a fully functioning Poison Imbuement with its normal Lucky Hit Chance. However, if 2 or more blades hit the same target, you only get the Lucky Hit as if one Poison Imbuement was applied.
  
  More on Lucky Hit functionality in our Lucky Hit Mechanics article.

Interactions that work with Puncture

The following interactions have been verified through damage recording or footage to ensure they are functional. Anything not listed here has not explicitly been verified during the creation of this list.

Interactions that partially works with Puncture

• Uniques and Mythic Uniques
  • Crown of Lucion requires Shard of Verathiel
  • Paingorger's Gauntlets

Interactions that do not work with Puncture

Attack Speed

The following Attack Speed % sources function for Barrage. For a more in-depth explanation of how attack speed works, please read our Attack Speed Mechanics article.

Lucky Hit Chance

• Barrage has both Branching Volleys and High Velocity adding more damage instances per cast. All of these retain their full Lucky Hit Chance.
• Chance to Cast Twice Tempering also retains full Lucky Hit Chance per Arrow, making it an excellent driver for Lucky Hit Chance builds, such as Andariel Rogue.
  
  More on Lucky Hit functionality in our Lucky Hit Mechanics article.

Interactions that work with Barrage

The following interactions have been verified through damage recording or footage to ensure they are functional. Anything not listed here has not explicitly been verified during the creation of this list.

Interactions that partially works with Barrage

• Aspects
  • Dark Dance, which gives 40% damage instead of 80%

• Uniques and Mythic Uniques
  • Crown of Lucion

Interactions that do not work with Barrage

N/A

Attack Speed

The following Attack Speed % sources function for Flurry. For a more in-depth explanation of how attack speed works, please read our Attack Speed Mechanics article.

Lucky Hit Chance

• Flurry has both the Tooltip Lucky Hit chance per damage instance.
  
  More on Lucky Hit functionality in our Lucky Hit Mechanics article.

Flurry and Combo Points

When you use Flurry with Combo Points, the amount of Combo Points you spend snapshots for as long as you cast Flurry without the Attack Speed buff falling off. In practical terms, if you cast Flurry with 1 Combo Point, you only have 15% Attack speed until the buff runs out even if you refresh it with 3 Combo Points.

Interactions that work with Flurry

The following interactions have been verified through damage recording or footage to ensure they are functional. Anything not listed here has not explicitly been verified during the creation of this list.

Interactions that partially works with Flurry

• Aspects
  • Dark Dance, which gives 40% damage instead of 80%

• Uniques and Mythic Uniques
  • Crown of Lucion

Interactions that do not work with Flurry

N/A

Attack Speed

The following Attack Speed % sources function for Penetrating Shot. For a more in-depth explanation of how attack speed works, please read our Attack Speed Mechanics article.

Lucky Hit Chance

• Chance to Cast Twice Tempering also retains full Lucky Hit Chance per shot, making it an excellent driver for Lucky Hit Chance builds, such as Andariel Rogue.
  
  More on Lucky Hit functionality in our Lucky Hit Mechanics article.

Interactions that work with Penetrating Shot

The following interactions have been verified through damage recording or footage to ensure they are functional. Anything not listed here has not explicitly been verified during the creation of this list.

Interactions that partially works with Penetrating Shot

• Aspects
  • Dark Dance, which gives 40% damage instead of 80%

• Uniques and Mythic Uniques
  • Crown of Lucion

Interactions that do not work with Penetrating Shot

N/A

Attack Speed

The following Attack Speed % sources function for Rapid Fire. For a more in-depth explanation of how attack speed works, please read our Attack Speed Mechanics article.

Lucky Hit Chance

• Rapid Fire has its tooltip Lucky Hit Chance per arrow. This means increasing the number of arrows produced also increases the chance of causing Lucky Hit events per cast.
• Chance to Cast Twice Tempering also retains full Lucky Hit Chance per Arrow, making it an excellent driver for Lucky Hit Chance builds, such as Andariel Rogue.
  
  More on Lucky Hit functionality in our Lucky Hit Mechanics article.

Jah Rune Interaction

When you use Rapid Fire, the Jah rune that turns your evade into the sorcerer skill Teleport cannot trigger Advanced Rapid Fire. Any normal evade cast still triggers it though.

Animation Cancelling

When you play with Rapid Fire, you are incentivized to evade once the animation of your Rapid Fire begins to able to cast the next one significantly faster. This is a concept known as animation canceling. The more you practice this concept, the more you gain from it. To do this consistently, you need the implicit stat "Attacks Reduce Evade's Cooldown by 1.5 seconds" on your boots.

Interactions that work with Rapid Fire

The following interactions have been verified through damage recording or footage to ensure they are functional. Anything not listed here has not explicitly been verified during the creation of this list.

Interactions that partially works with Rapid Fire

• Aspects
  • Dark Dance, which gives 40% damage instead of 80%

• Uniques and Mythic Uniques
  • Crown of Lucion
  • Scoundrel's Kiss does not interact well with Repeating. The extra arrows from repeating do not get the unique effect or the damage increase.

Interactions that do not work with Rapid Fire

N/A

Attack Speed

The following Attack Speed % sources function for Twisting Blades. For a more in-depth explanation of how attack speed works, please read our Attack Speed Mechanics article.

Lucky Hit Chance

The Lucky Hit Chance of Twisting Blades continues to differ from expectations. In a brief interaction test of 300 points of data for the base version of Twisting Blades and 500 points of data for Twisting Blades using Bladedancer's, overall Lucky Hit Chance was significantly lower than expected.

Each hit of Twisting Blades was expected to have the Tooltip Lucky Hit Chance% (in this case, 114%). The test was set up in a way where we tracked Doombringer triggers per hit and tracked all damage instances individually using recorded footage. Based on other spell functions, Twisting Blades was expected to have either a 114% Chance to Lucky Hit per hit, or 1-(1-1.14)^(1/2) = 100% chance to Lucky Hit due to the limitations of the formula when a skill has two damage instances on it. However, it turns out that the data was distributed in the following way:

Without Bladedancer's

With Bladedancer's

As we can see, the Doombringer Triggers to Total Hits ratio is off by a significant margin compared to the expected ratio. We are getting roughly half the expected triggers, which makes Twisting Blades very poor in Lucky Hit Chance contexts. More on Lucky Hit functionality in our Lucky Hit Mechanics article.

Interactions that work with Twisting Blades

The following interactions have been verified through damage recording or footage to ensure they are functional. Anything not listed here has not explicitly been verified during the creation of this list.

Interactions that partially works with Twisting Blades

• Aspects
  • Dark Dance, which gives 40% damage instead of 80%

• Uniques and Mythic Uniques
  • Crown of Lucion

Interactions that do not work with Twisting Blades

N/A

Cold Imbuement is an imbuement that empowers abilities that can be imbued, such as core skills like Twisting Blades, and converts it to the cold element damage type. Although the imbuement has charges, if your imbued ability hits multiple times per cast, the skill applies the imbuement with every damage instance at the cost of only 1 charge. This implies that tempering that allows your skills to hit multiple times is excellent for frequently applying Cold Imbuement to the target.

Imbuement Potency

The game has a stat called imbuement potency, which can be found on things such as Efficacy and Corruption. Potency increases the effectiveness of the imbuement you use.

• Poison Imbuement: Increases the damage over time it deals.
• Cold Imbuement: Increases the amount of chill you apply to the target
• Shadow Imbuement: Increases the damage it deals.

A misconception within the community was that imbuement potency increased the passive benefits from the enhancement nodes such as Blended Poison Imbuement or Mixed Shadow Imbuement. This has been verified not to be the case, it only increases the functionality of the base skill.

Stagger and Chill Effect

The chill Crowd Control is a bit unique when it comes to staggering bosses. Increasing the Chill % does not increase the amount of stagger Chill generates as the stagger amount is only tied to the duration of the Crowd Control. However, if you reach 100% Chill per attack, each attack Freezes the enemy instead, which does increase the stagger you generate. Sadly, this only occurs if you have 100% Chill per attack, as attacking twice with 50% Chill does not generate the Freeze stagger.

Interactions that work with Cold Imbuement

The following interactions have been verified through damage recording or footage to ensure they are functional. Anything not listed here has not explicitly been verified during the creation of this list.

Interactions that do not work with Cold Imbuement

Poison Imbuement is an imbuement that empowers abilities that can be imbued, such as core skills like Twisting Blades, and converts it to the poison element damage type. Although the imbuement has charges, if your imbued ability hits multiple times per cast, the skill applies the imbuement with every damage instance. This implies that tempering that allows your skills to hit multiple times is excellent for frequently applying Poison Imbuement to the target. To understand how its damage is calculated and how DoT duration influences the damage dealt, refer to the Damage Calculations accordion below.

Lucky Hit Chance

The Lucky Hit Chance per damage instance for Poison Imbuement is calculated according to the following formula:

Because this formula has (100% - Tooltip LHC%) as a part of its calculation, it was theorized that you gain no more benefit from Lucky Hit once you reach 100% Tooltip Lucky Hit. If the theory was correct, as (100% - Tooltip LHC%) approaches 0, the chance to trigger Lucky Hit effects skyrockets until finally getting to 100% Lucky Hit per tick. At 203.03% Lucky Hit, we would have had 99.99% Tooltip Lucky Hit and an expected proc total of (1-(1-[0.33 x (1+2.03)])^(1/12)) x 0.75 x 792 = 318 X'fals triggers. This was not nearly the case, and similar tests were conducted at other Lucky Hit values to verify this functionality. Further testing has to be conducted, but based on this test, the following was true for Poison Imbuement

DoT Damage Instance LHC = (100% - (100% - 33%)^(1/12)) x  (100% + Sum of [+]Lucky Hit Chance)

More on Lucky Hit functionality in our Lucky Hit Mechanics article.

Imbuement Potency

The game has a stat called imbuement potency, which can be found on things such as Efficacy and Corruption. Potency increases the effectiveness of the imbuement you use.

• Poison Imbuement: Increases the damage over time it deals.
• Cold Imbuement: Increases the amount of chill you apply to the target
• Shadow Imbuement: Increases the damage it deals.

A misconception within the community was that imbuement potency increased the passive benefits from the enhancement nodes such as Blended Poison Imbuement or Mixed Shadow Imbuement. This has been verified not to be the case, it only increases the functionality of the base skill.

Imbuement Improvements

• Mixed Poison Imbuement can trigger per damage instance. This means that Barrage with High Velocity and Branching Volleys can trigger Mixed Poison Imbuement on each individual damage instance.
• Blended Poison Imbuement increases the poisoning damage by 75% with the condition that you caused a critical strike with the imbued skill applying Poison Imbuement. This does not mean that Poison Imbuement now scales with Critical Strike Damage.

Interactions that work with Poison Imbuement

The following interactions have been verified through damage recording or footage to ensure they are functional. Anything not listed here has not explicitly been verified during the creation of this list.

Interactions that do not work with Poison Imbuement

Shadow Imbuement is an imbuement that empowers abilities that can be imbued, such as core skills like Twisting Blades, and converts it to the shadow element damage type. Although the imbuement has charges, if your imbued ability hits multiple times per cast, the skill applies the imbuement with every damage instance. This implies that tempering that allows your skills to hit multiple times is excellent for frequently applying Shadow Imbuement to the target. However, unlike the other two imbuements, this does not increase the damage of the imbuement, making overlapping applications useless for Shadow Imbuement.

Imbuement Potency

The game has a stat called imbuement potency, which can be found on things such as Efficacy and Corruption. Potency increases the effectiveness of the imbuement you use.

• Poison Imbuement: Increases the damage over time it deals.
• Cold Imbuement: Increases the amount of chill you apply to the target
• Shadow Imbuement: Increases the damage it deals.

A misconception within the community was that imbuement potency increased the passive benefits from the enhancement nodes such as Blended Poison Imbuement or Mixed Shadow Imbuement. This has been verified not to be the case, it only increases the functionality of the base skill.

Interactions that work with Shadow Imbuement

The following interactions have been verified through damage recording or footage to ensure they are functional. Anything not listed here has not explicitly been verified during the creation of this list.

Interactions that do not work with Shadow Imbuement

The following interactions have been verified through damage recording or footage to ensure they are not functional. Anything not listed here has not explicitly been verified during the creation of this list.

• Enhanced Caltrops retains its max stacks of you overlap Caltrops without letting it fall off or letting the enemy walk out of the circle. Caltrops duration makes this easier.
• Enhanced Caltrops dynamically increases effects such as Poison Imbuement and Andariel's Visage.
• Methodical Caltrops freezes enemies in 4 seconds no matter how much Crowd Control duration you have.
• Caltrops always swaps to your ranged weapon. Because of this, your ranged weapon attack speed dictates how long its animation is.
• Caltrops has its size scaling quadratically with the size increase tempering. So a 100% radius increase results in a 300% area increase.

• Dance of Knives snapshots its state from effects such as Subverting Concealment, Danse Macabre, and Synergy as it is a channeled ability.
• During playtesting, no multipliers appeared to be broken for Dance of Knives.
• After Season 6 PTR, Dance of Knives got a new linear damage scaling from Attack Speed. So if you have 10% increased attack speed, it functions as a 10% damage increase.
• Dance of Knives does not have attack speed breakpoints. It is the same rate of attack regardless of attack speed.
• Inner Sight gives Dance of Knives infinite charges during its duration.
• Preparation restores all the charges of Dance of Knives.
• Star Shards appears to have some Lucky Hit Chance.
  
  Credits to M1PY for providing playtest information on Dance of Knives.

• Dash can be used twice in quick succession to get a guaranteed Impetus proc at the end of the second cast. This can be utilized for one-shot builds that aim to stack multipliers on top of each other.
• Shadowslicer interactions with dash are not entirely intuitive. Below is a list of things that work for it.
  • The damage is calculated as Dash % x 300% x ...
  • Poison Imbuement
  • Ultimate Skill Damage
  • No Witnesses bonus passively benefits it without it being active.
  • Fluidity
  • Versatility

• Below is a list of interactions that do not work with Shadowslicer
  • Supreme Shadow Clone
  • Synergy

• Shadow Step has multiple different instances of "durations" in its kit. These are all increased with the Shadow Step Duration Increase tempering manual.
• Shadow Step has a new Shadow Step damage tempering allowing it to cleave to two nearby enemies. This effect has full Lucky Hit inheritance from Shadow Step, making it a powerful choice for triggering effects such as Victimize.
• Shadow Step has a short 0.5-second cooldown to prevent spam usage in cases such as Ravager's. This window is also reduced by Disciplined Shadow Step, which means you can spam this ability with no cooldown if you reach 2.5-second cooldown on Shadow Step.

• The stealth from Concealment is weird like other stealth effects in the game. If activated while enemies can see you, the enemies still walks up to you and hit you once before becoming confused and not attacking.
• Concealment can be used to snapshot Countering Concealment for skills like Dance of Knives.

• The Damage Reduction from each active shadow is additive. This means at rank 1 you gain 8% x 5 = 40% Damage Reduction at max stacks. The sum of this Damage Reduction is then inverse multiplied by your overall damage taken.
• Dark Shroud does not work on Damage over Time effects.
• You do not need Dark Shroud on the bar for Umbrous to work.
• Enshrouding is a separate damage reduction that works like a small version of the normal Dark Shroud. When you have max stacks and aspect roll, you gain 4% x 5 = 20% Damage Reduction from this aspect.

Poison Trap should follow the usual damage over time formula which you can see below:

However, based on testing data, the calculation appears to be using 13 as the total ticks and not Duration x 2. You can find more information on Lucky Hit functionality in our Lucky Hit Mechanics article.

• Poison Trap triggers effects such as Alchemical Advantage and Debilitating Toxins.
• Poison Trap uses the weapon you have equipped to calculate its damage, but the tick rate remains the same (every 0.5 seconds).
• Poison Trap's poisoning effect counts as a trapped effect even when the physical trap is removed, triggering effects such as Exposure.
• Poison Trap has a cap on stuff affecting its arm time, such as Spring-loaded and tempering. This cap is 0.25 seconds.
• Subverting Poison Trap works on all poison damage as long as the target stays inside the trap.
• Deadly Ambush used to work for all damage and not just critical strike damage. This was fixed and now only affects critical strike damage.

• Smoke Grenade was changed in Season 5 to have Lucky Hit Chance and damage, causing Enhanced Smoke Grenade to work versus Bosses.
• Countering Smoke Grenade reduces the cooldown after Cooldown Reduction, and gives you the reduction based on Elite targets hit.
• Explosive Verve makes Smoke Grenade count as a trap effect. This means it works for effects such as Deadly Ambush and Exposure. The target is considered trapped for the duration of the effect on the skill.
• The damage increase on the target from Enhanced Smoke Grenade can be extended with the Smoke Duration tempering manual.
• Quickening Fog accurately makes the enemy take more damage when using Enhanced Smoke Grenade.

• Death Trap uses the weapon you have equipped to calculate its damage.
• Scoundrel's Leathers casts Death Trap that triggers No Witnesses. This happens frequently enough that 5 attacks per second generate permanent uptime of No Witnesses.
• Eyes in the Dark causes Death Trap to arm one more time without counting as a cast for effects such as No Witnesses and Preparation.
• Death Trap can self trigger the effect of Exposure.
• While Death Trap is visually on the ground, the target counts as trapped for effects such as Ambush.

• Rain of Arrows hits three times per wave, for a max potential of 12 times using a 100% Chance for Rain of Arrow Waves to Cast Twice.
• Using Word of Hakan with Rain of Arrows causes each hit to have one imbuement each. So each wave applies one cast of Poison Imbuement, Cold Imbuement, and Shadow Imbuement.
• Supreme Rain of Arrows only works on the first wave.
• Prime Rain of Arrows does not work with Word of Hakan.
• Prime Rain of Arrows does work with normal imbuements.
• Corruption does work with normal Rain of Arrows while imbued.
• Corruption does work with extra waves from tempering.
• Rain of Arrows does not use Imbuement charges if used with Word of Hakan.
• Word of Hakan now causes Rain of Arrows to benefit from Arrow Storm multipliers, such as Arrow Storms.

• Shadow Clone is notorious for its bugs and unintuitive interactions. Optimizing for its damage is difficult due to the lack of explicitly functioning interactions with it. Because of this, Shadow Clone is not heavily investigated.
• Shadow Clone uses the previously equipped weapon for its damage calculations. This implies that if you cast Puncture into Rapid Fire into Puncture, your Shadow Clone uses melee weapons to damage with Rapid Fire and ranged weapons with Puncture.

Interactions that work with Shadow Clone

The following interactions have been verified through damage recording or footage to ensure they are functional. Anything not listed here has not explicitly been verified during the creation of this list.

Interactions that do not work with Shadow Clone

The following interactions have been verified through damage recording or footage to ensure they are not functional. Anything not listed here has not explicitly been verified during the creation of this list.

Formula

Admixture Multiplier: ((Shadow DMG% x Nightstalker's Legendary Multi x Eldritch Bounty [If Shadow Imbuement]) + (Poison DMG% x Bane's Legendary Multi x Eldritch Bounty [If Poison Imbuement]) + (Cold DMG% x Eldritch Bounty [if Cold Imbuement])) x (Canny's Legendary Multi, Efficacy's Legendary Multi, and Infusion's Legendary Multi) x Elements x 0.2 + 0.4

If you have Eldritch Bounty, Elements,Poison Imbuement, Bane, Canny, and Efficacy the formula would be:

Admixture Multiplier: ((Shadow DMG%) + (Poison DMG% x [1.104] x [1.2]) + (Cold DMG%)) x (1.104^2) x 1.35 x 0.2 + 0.4

Double Dipping

We have certain multipliers double-dipping the final damage and Alchemical Admixture. Effects such as Elements, the new Legendary Glyphs, Eldritch Bounty all multiply the Additive Shadow, Poison, and Cold damage you have and also affect the damage you deal with the imbuements themselves.

New Formula

1+[Close Damage Additive] x 0.15

No Double Dipping

Close Quarters Combat is unique as the new Legendary Glyph effects do NOT double dip with the Close Quarters Combat scaling. It uses the true additive Close Damage value.

• Exposure can self trigger from abilities such as Death Trap
• Exposure works correctly with Explosive Verve.
• Using Explosive Verve, grenades from Exposure counts as trapped which causes Exposure to self trigger infinitely by continuing to use any ability.

• Only Marksman skills now drop stacks, meaning utility skills such as Imbuements and Smoke Grenade no longer drop Momentum stacks.
• Dance of Knives generates 1 stack of Momentum per second.

Formula

([1+ Crit Damage Additive] x [1.5 x Trick Attacks x Combat Legendary Glyph] - 1) x 0.15 + 0.5

Double Dipping

Precision continues its old double-dipping issues with the new Legendary effect on Combat and Trick Attacks. These affect the Precision multiplier and the final product, making any Precision build multitudes better than it should be.

Delayed Last Stack

The game does not know you will cause a Critical Strike in the future. Because of this, if you are at two stacks of Precision, even if you are 100% certain you will cause a Critical Strike, you do not get the fourth stack of Precision until after the hit has connected to the enemy. This can be avoided by doing 3 Basic attacks followed by a Core skill (something known as 3-1) as that makes it very probable that you have all 4 stacks for your Precision.

New Formula as of Season 6

(1 + 1.2 x ((1 + Vulnerable Additive) x [1.2 x Malice x (Vulnerable Legendary Glyph^Total)] - 1)) x 0.6 

Double Dipping

Malice (triple dips during stagger), Legendary multipliers of Exploit and Diminish.

Interactions that work with Victimize

The following interactions have been verified through damage recording or footage to ensure they are functional. Anything not listed here has not explicitly been verified during the creation of this list.

Interactions that do not work with Victimize

The following interactions have been verified through damage recording or footage to ensure they are not functional. Anything not listed here has not explicitly been verified during the creation of this list.