Dark Pact
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% 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.
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 Module Error: No results found for item using search term "page = Summon Skeletons" 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 Lifetap SupportLifetap SupportSupport, Duration
Icon: T
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 300%Requires Level 8Supports any non-blessing skill. Minions cannot gain the Lifetap buff.Supported Skills Cost Life instead of Mana
Gain Lifetap after Spending a total of (23-273) Life on Upfront
Costs and Effects of a Supported Skill
Supported Skills deal (10-19)% more Damage while you have Lifetap
Lifetap lasts 4 seconds
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Lifetap lasts +(0.1-2) secondsThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. or the Blood Magic Keystone. This life loss is not considered damage and cannot be mitigated or trigger Cast when Damage Taken SupportCast when Damage Taken SupportSupport, Spell, Trigger
Icon: !
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 250%
Cooldown Time: 0.25 sec
Can Store 1 Use(s)Requires Level 38Each supported spell skill will track damage you take, and be triggered when the total damage taken reaches a threshold. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.This Gem can only Support Skill Gems requiring Level (38-70) or lower
Supported Skills deal (65-27)% less Damage
Trigger Supported Spells when you take (528-3272) total Damage from Hits
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills require (0.5-10)% reduced amount of Damage taken to TriggerThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.. 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.[1] 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. Module Error: No results found for item using search term "item_name = Spell Echo Support", Module Error: No results found for item using search term "item_name = Unleash Support", 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 Minion Life SupportMinion Life SupportSupport, Minion
Icon: n
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Requires Level 18Supports skills which create Minions.Supported Skills have (30-49)% more Minion maximum Life
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills have (1-20)% increased Minion maximum LifeThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. 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.[2]
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.[3]
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. Module Error: No results found for item using search term "item_name = The Baron", Module Error: No results found for item using search term "item_name = Chober Chaber", Module Error: No results found for item using search term "item_name = Femurs of the Saints") 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 Chain SupportChain SupportSupport, Chaining, Projectile
Icon: c
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 150%Requires Level 38Supports projectile skills, and any other skills that chain.Supported Skills Chain +2 times
Supported Skills deal (30-11)% less Damage with Hits
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills have (0.5-10)% increased Chaining rangeThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket., Ricochet from Deadeye, or items such as Module Error: No results found for item using search term "item_name = Gloomfang". Dark Pact is not a projectile and is not affected by projectile speed or other projectile modifiers, including chains specific to projectiles (e.g. Module Error: No results found for item using search term "item_name = Snakepit").
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. | ||
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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 |
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Superior | Sacrifices +(0.1-2)% of Skeleton's Life to deal that much Chaos Damage | 1 |
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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 | |
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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
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3.16.0 |
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