Dark Pact

Dark PactMinion, Spell, AoE, Chaining, Chaos, Nova
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (7-13) Mana
Cast Time: 0.50 sec
Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%Requires Level 28This spell 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.Deals (24-241) to (36-362) Chaos Damage
Sacrifices 8% of Skeleton's Life to deal that much Chaos Damage
Chains +2 Times
Uses your Life if no Skeletons in range
(56-136)% more Damage with Hits and Ailments if using your Life

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Sacrifices +(0.1-2)% of Skeleton's Life to deal that much Chaos DamagePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Acquisition
Drop level: 28Vendor Offer
1x Scroll FragmentMetadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemDarkPact

Dark Pact is a chaos spell that removes some life from one of your 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

Sacrifice life: Dark Pact sacrifices 8% of the player's maximum life in a manner similar to spending life with the or the Blood Magic Keystone. This life loss is not considered damage and cannot be mitigated or trigger . Dark Pact cannot kill a player as it cannot lower life below 1. If 8% of maximum life cannot be removed (e.g. maximum life is 1 due to Chaos Inoculation), the spell can still be used and will lower the player to 1 life, but will lose part or all of the additional base damage scaling from life. The more damage multiplier will always take effect when not casting on a skeleton, even if no life is actually sacrificed.

If Dark Pact is repeated (e.g. , , Echoing Shrine, Summon Triggerbots), life is sacrificed for each repeated/reoccuring cast or trigger.

Life scaling: Dark Pact deals additional base damage equal to the amount of life removed from the player or skeleton. If used on a skeleton, minion life modifiers and increase the damage dealt when cast on skeletons. The skill tooltip does not factor the base damage from sacrificed life into its calculation as it is conditional.

Proxy: Proxies will attempt to target an allied skeleton if one is nearby. If not, the proxy will use Dark Pact sacrificing its own life; totems can scale this with totem life modifiers. Proxies will get the more damage bonus from using life if not targeting an allied skeleton.

Minion Instability: Dark Pact can be used to forcibly lower the life of your Skeleton minions to low life. Doing so will trigger the effect of the Keystone passive Minion Instability.

Minion modifiers: Despite having the minion tag, there are no minion-specific support gems that can support Dark Pact, and modifiers that affect minion stats do not affect Dark Pact. However, modifiers such as Overseer'sOverseer's
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+2 to Level of all Minion Skill Gems found on helmets or modifiers that increase socketed Minion gem level, (e.g. , , ) will increase the level of Dark Pact. Using Dark Pact is considered using a minion skill.

Chaining: If targeting a skeleton, Dark Pact will chain from the skeleton to other nearby skeletons based on your number of chains. Each skeleton used to chain Dark Pact will lose 8% of its maximum life; this is not considered taking damage. Additional chains can be added to help cover a larger area or return a chain to a previously targeted Skeleton using , Ricochet from Deadeye, or items such as . Dark Pact is not a projectile and is not affected by projectile speed or other projectile modifiers, including chains specific to projectiles (e.g. ).

Divine Shrine: As Dark Pact sacrifices life rather than causing the player to take damage, being affected by a Divine Shrine will not prevent life loss.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Chaos Damage	More Damage with Hits and Ailments	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	28	67	7	24 to 36	56%	0	0
2	31	73	7	29 to 43	60%	199345	199345
3	34	79	8	35 to 52	64%	285815	485160
4	37	85	8	41 to 62	69%	401344	886504
5	40	92	9	49 to 74	73%	554379	1440883
6	42	96	9	55 to 83	77%	477437	1918320
7	44	100	9	62 to 92	81%	583786	2502106
8	46	104	10	69 to 103	85%	710359	3212465
9	48	109	10	77 to 115	90%	1355511	4567976
10	50	113	10	86 to 129	94%	1138877	5706853
11	52	117	11	95 to 143	98%	1368233	7075086
12	54	121	11	106 to 159	102%	1638338	8713424
13	56	125	11	118 to 177	106%	1956648	10670072
14	58	130	11	131 to 196	111%	3655184	14325256
15	60	134	12	145 to 218	115%	3017327	17342583
16	62	138	12	161 to 242	119%	7759995	25102578
17	64	142	12	178 to 267	123%	15138193	40240771
18	66	146	13	197 to 296	127%	26083825	66324596
19	68	151	13	218 to 327	132%	62620247	128944843
20	70	155	13	241 to 362	136%	211708088	340652931
21	72	159	13	266 to 400	140%	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	14	294 to 441	144%	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	14	324 to 486	148%	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	14	358 to 536	153%	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	15	394 to 591	157%	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	15	434 to 651	161%	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	15	478 to 717	165%	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	15	526 to 789	169%	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	16	578 to 868	174%	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	16	636 to 954	178%	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	16	667 to 1000	181%	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	16	699 to 1048	182%	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	16	733 to 1099	185%	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	17	768 to 1152	186%	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	17	805 to 1207	189%	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	17	843 to 1265	190%	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	17	884 to 1325	193%	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	17	926 to 1389	195%	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	17	970 to 1455	197%	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	17	1016 to 1524	199%	N/A	N/A

Gem quality

Type	Additional Effects per 1-20% Quality	Weight
Superior	Sacrifices +(0.1-2)% of Skeleton's Life to deal that much Chaos Damage	1

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Dark Pact.

Note that helmet enchantments are no longer obtainable since version 3.23.0 and can only be obtained in permanent leagues as already enchanted items from before this patch.

Name		Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
EnchantmentDarkPactCastSpeed1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	8% increased Dark Pact Cast Speed	helmet 0
EnchantmentDarkPactCastSpeed2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	12% increased Dark Pact Cast Speed	helmet 0
EnchantmentDarkPactRadius1__	66	Merciless Labyrinth	16% increased Dark Pact Area of Effect	helmet 0
EnchantmentDarkPactRadius2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	24% increased Dark Pact Area of Effect	helmet 0
Enchantment Dark Pact Area Of Effect 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	16% increased Dark Pact Area of Effect	helmet 100
Enchantment Dark Pact Area Of Effect 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	24% increased Dark Pact Area of Effect	helmet 100
Enchantment Dack Pact Cast Speed 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	8% increased Dark Pact Cast Speed	helmet 100
Enchantment Dack Pact Cast Speed 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	12% increased Dark Pact Cast Speed	helmet 100
Enchantment Dark Pact Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Dark Pact Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Dark Pact Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Dark Pact Damage	helmet 100

Version history

Version	Changes
3.23.0	Quality now provides "Sacrifices +0-2% of Skeleton's Life to deal that much Chaos Damage", instead of 0-10% increased Area of Effect.
3.17.0	Dark Pact now deals 56% more Damage with Hits and Ailments if using your Life at gem level 1 (previously 40%), up to 136% at gem level 20 (previously 97%).
3.16.0	Dark Pact now sacrifices 8% of Skeleton’s Life to deal that much Chaos Damage (previously 6%). Now has 40% more Damage with Hits and Ailments if using your Life at gem level 1 (previously 0%), up to 97% at gem level 20 (previously 76%).
3.6.0	Mana Cost at gem level 20 is now 13 (was 14). Now has a radius of 26 (from 24). Now deals 24 to 36 Chaos damage at gem level 1 (from 20 to 30) and 241 to 362 Chaos damage at gem level 20 (from 201 to 301).
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. Dark Pact now counts as being a Minion skill gem, and will thus interact with effects such as the one found on .
3.0.0	Dark Pact has been added to the game.