Dark Pact

Dark Pact is a chaos spell that removes some life from one of your Skeleton minions near you or the targeted location to deal chaos damage in an area around it. This effect will chain to your other nearby skeletons. If you have no skeletons near you or the targeted location, it will sacrifice your own life to deal damage instead.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Life Removed: If self cast, Dark Pact will sacrifice 6% of the player's maximum life in a manner similar to spending life with the or the Blood Magic Keystone. Since this sacrificed life is not considered damage, it cannot be mitigated with chaos resistance and will not trigger .

Life Scaling: Dark Pact deals additional damage equal to the amount of life removed from the target of the spell. This means that Minion Life nodes and the will increase the damage dealt when cast on skeletons, while self-casting scales with the player's maximum life. Since the spell does not know whether a skeleton is in range until the moment of cast, the in-game tooltip will only consider the spell's base damage and any external sources of damage.

: Dark Pact can be supported by spell totem and will cast whenever there is an enemy is in close proximity. The totem will first attempt to target any skeleton in range. If none are found, the totem will sacrifice 6% of its own maximum life. This means that in order for a totem to cast on Skeletons effectively, the skeletons, totem, and enemy must all be in close proximity of one another. Totems that self-sacrifice will receive the more damage bonus.

Minion Instability and Beacon of Corruption: Dark Pact can be used to forcibly lower the life of your Skeleton minions to low life or death. Doing so will trigger the effects of the Keystone passive Minion Instability and the Necromancer Notable passive Beacon of Corruption. Using can effectively speed up the rate at which skeleton life is removed, in order to trigger these effects more rapidly.

Minion Supports: Despite having the minion tag, there are no minion specific support gems that impact Dark Pact. However, the Reanimator's and Summoner's mod found on helmets, as well as uniques that raise the level of socketed minion gems (The BaronThe Baron
Close HelmetQuality: +20%
Armour: 156Requires Level 26, 58 Str+2 to Level of Socketed Minion Gems
Minions have (10-20)% increased maximum Life
Half of your Strength is added to your Minions
+1 to maximum number of Raised Zombies per 500 Strength
With at least 1000 Strength, (1.5-2)% of Damage dealt by your Raised Zombies is Leeched to you as Life"The Emperor's trusted surgeons are not the only ones who practice the dark arts. Some of us are just more discreet.", Chober ChaberChober Chaber
Great MalletTwo Hand Mace
Quality: +20%
Physical Damage: (137.6-146.2) to (281.6-299.2)
Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
Attacks per Second: 1.25
Weapon Range: 13Requires Level 40, 104 Str30% increased Stun Duration on Enemies+1 to Level of Socketed Melee Gems
+1 to Level of Socketed Minion Gems
20% reduced Strength Requirement
(200-220)% increased Physical Damage
25% increased maximum Mana
Minions have (20-40)% increased maximum Life
15% increased Skill Effect DurationThe faithful may continue to serve, even after death., Femurs of the SaintsFemurs of the Saints
Primordial StaffStaff
Quality: +20%
Physical Damage: 66-198
Critical Strike Chance: 6.20%
Attacks per Second: 1.15
Weapon Range: 13Requires Level 58, 99 Str, 99 Int+18% Chance to Block Attack Damage while wielding a Staff+2 to Level of Socketed Minion Gems
Minions deal (60-80)% increased Damage
+1% Chance to Block Attack Damage per Summoned Skeleton
2% increased Attack and Cast Speed per Summoned Raging Spirit
Regenerate 0.6% of Life per second for each Raised Zombie
30% increased Mana Regeneration Rate per Raised Spectre"They spent a lifetime in the service of God,
only to spend eternity in the service of me."
- Kadavrus, Surgeon to the Umbra, etc.) will increase the level of Dark Pact.

Chaining: Dark Pact will chain from one skeleton to other nearby skeletons the designated number of chains. Each Skeleton used to chain Dark Pact will suffer the 6% life sacrifice from this skill. Additional chains can be added to help cover a larger area or return a chain to a previously targeted Skeleton using , Ricochet from the Deadeye Ascendancy, or items such as MjölnerMjölner
GavelOne Handed Mace
Quality: +20%
Physical Damage: (108-129.6) to (202-242.4)
Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
Attacks per Second: 1.15
Weapon Range: 11Requires Level 60, 412 Str, 300 Int15% reduced Enemy Stun ThresholdTrigger a Socketed Lightning Spell on Hit, with a 0.15 second Cooldown
Socketed Lightning Spells have no Cost if Triggered
+300 Intelligence Requirement
+200 Strength Requirement
(80-120)% increased Physical Damage
Skills Chain +1 times
(30-40)% increased Lightning Damage with Attack SkillsLook the storm in the eye and you will have its respect.. Note that Dark Pact is NOT a projectile and is not effected by projectile speed or other projectile modifiers, including the quality properties of . Also note that it is impossible to chain to or from the player in any way using Dark Pact as the chaining property of Dark Pact only triggers with Skeletons.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Chaos Damage	More Damage with Hits and Ailments	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	28	67	7	24 to 36	N/A	0	0
2	31	73	7	29 to 43	4%	199345	199345
3	34	79	8	35 to 52	8%	285815	485160
4	37	85	8	41 to 62	12%	401344	886504
5	40	92	9	49 to 74	16%	554379	1440883
6	42	96	9	55 to 83	20%	477437	1918320
7	44	100	9	62 to 92	24%	583786	2502106
8	46	104	10	69 to 103	28%	710359	3212465
9	48	109	10	77 to 115	32%	1355511	4567976
10	50	113	10	86 to 129	36%	1138877	5706853
11	52	117	11	95 to 143	40%	1368233	7075086
12	54	121	11	106 to 159	44%	1638338	8713424
13	56	125	11	118 to 177	48%	1956648	10670072
14	58	130	11	131 to 196	52%	3655184	14325256
15	60	134	12	145 to 218	56%	3017327	17342583
16	62	138	12	161 to 242	60%	7759995	25102578
17	64	142	12	178 to 267	64%	15138193	40240771
18	66	146	13	197 to 296	68%	26083825	66324596
19	68	151	13	218 to 327	72%	62620247	128944843
20	70	155	13	241 to 362	76%	211708088	340652931
21	72	159	13	266 to 400	80%	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	14	294 to 441	84%	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	14	324 to 486	88%	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	14	358 to 536	92%	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	15	394 to 591	96%	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	15	434 to 651	100%	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	15	478 to 717	104%	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	15	526 to 789	108%	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	16	578 to 868	112%	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	16	636 to 954	116%	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	16	667 to 1000	118%	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	16	699 to 1048	120%	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	16	733 to 1099	122%	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	17	768 to 1152	124%	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	17	805 to 1207	126%	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	17	843 to 1265	128%	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	17	884 to 1325	130%	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	17	926 to 1389	132%	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	17	970 to 1455	134%	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	17	1016 to 1524	136%	N/A	N/A

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Dark Pact.

Name		Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Dark Pact Area Of Effect 1	66	16% increased Dark Pact Area of Effect	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Dark Pact Area Of Effect 2	75	24% increased Dark Pact Area of Effect	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Dack Pact Cast Speed 1	66	8% increased Dark Pact Cast Speed	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Dack Pact Cast Speed 2	75	12% increased Dark Pact Cast Speed	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Dark Pact Damage 1	66	25% increased Dark Pact Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Dark Pact Damage 2	75	40% increased Dark Pact Damage	helmet 100 default 0

Version history

Version	Changes
3.1.0	Dark Pact cast using your life no longer has bonus radius. The damage bonus has been reduced from 95% more damage with hits and ailments when using your life to 76% more damage.
3.0.0	Dark Pact has been added to the game.