Trickster
The Trickster is an Ascendancy class for Shadows.
Overview
The Trickster is a versatile hybrid class that mixes high speed, maneuverability, and slippery defenses. It is well-suited for Shadows that deal damage over time, as Swift Killer and Patient Reaper both grant significant enhancements to damage over time effects. Swift Killer also grants a reliable way to generate Power and Frenzy charges while increasing the maximum of both. Ghost Dance and Shade Form provide powerful hybrid defenses while further increasing the Trickster's speed. Finally, Weave the Arcane and Walk the Aether grant bursts of mana and speed, respectively.
Passive skills
Minor skills
This class has the following minor passive skills:
Notable skills
The class has the following notable passive skills:
Walk the AetherThis article describes historical game content.
Weave the Arcane is a notable Ascendancy passive skill for the Trickster. It increases maximum mana, removes mana cost from skills with the Movement tag, grants increased attack speed and cast speed if you have used a Movement skill recently, grants a chance to recover a percentage of maximum mana on active skill use.
Mechanics
Channelled skills: The modifier 20% chance to Recover 10% of Maximum Mana when you use a Skill only applies when one activates a channelled skill for the first time. It does not continue to grant mana recovery as one spends additional mana on channelled skills that are already activated.
Mines: When a Movement skill is supported by a gem which turns it into a mine (such as Blastchain Mine Support), the mana cost of the skill is converted to Mana Reserved before hand. This means that skills Like Lightning Warp will still reserve mana based on the original cost of the skill. "Movement Skills cost no Mana" has no impact on skills which are converted to Mines.
Repeated skills: When a skill is repeated, such as when supported by Multistrike SupportMultistrike SupportAttack, Melee, Support
Icon: 3
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 150%Requires Level 38Supports melee attack skills, making them repeat twice when used, targeting a random enemy each time. Cannot support Vaal skills, channelling skills or triggered skills.Supported Skills Repeat 2 additional times
Supported Skills have (35-44)% more Melee Attack Speed
Supported Skills deal (30-20)% less Attack Damage
First Repeat of Supported Skills deals 22% more Damage
Second Repeat of Supported Skills deals 44% more Damage
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Melee DamageThis 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 Spell Echo SupportSpell Echo SupportSpell, Support
Icon: k
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 150%Requires Level 38Supports spell skills, making them repeat when cast. Cannot support Vaal skills, totem skills, channelling skills, triggered skills, instant skills, blink skills, or skills with a reservation.Supported Skills deal 10% less Damage
Supported Skills Repeat an additional time
Supported Skills have (40-54)% more Cast Speed
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Spell DamageThis 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., the modifier 20% chance to Recover 10% of Maximum Mana when you use a Skill only applies once since the skill is only used once.
Blood magic: Any life spent by skills supported by Blood Magic does not count towards the total mana spent.
Eldritch Battery: When the keystone passive Eldritch Battery is allocated, any energy shield spent does not count towards the total mana spent.
Version history
Skill | Modifiers | Prerequisite | Preceding Passive |
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Attack and Cast Speed, Maximum Mana |
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3.19.0 |
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3.13.0 |
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3.2.0 |
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2.5.0 |
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2.3.0 |
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2.2.0 |
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Attack and Cast Speed, Maximum Mana
Every 2 seconds, gain a Ghost Shroud, up to a maximum of 3
When Hit, lose a Ghost Shroud to Recover Energy Shield equal to 3% of your Evasion Rating [1]
Ghost Dance is a keystone on the passive tree. It generates a Ghost Shroud every two seconds, up to a maximum of three Ghost Shrouds. When hit, a Ghost Shroud is removed and recovers energy shield equal to a percentage of your evasion rating.
Mechanics
The character must be hit in order for a Ghost Shroud to recover energy shield. Defensive mechanics that prevent hits such as evasion and dodge will also prevent the loss of Ghost Shrouds.
Self-hits will cause a Ghost Shroud to be lost normally. Reflected hits and blocked hits will not. Taking damage from blocked hits (e.g. through Glancing Blows) does not change this.
Location
Ghost Dance is located on the top-right side of the tree, on the upper outer parts of the Shadow's starting area.
Version history
Ghost Dance is a former Ascendancy notable passive skill of the Trickster.
Version | Changes |
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3.16.0 |
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3.13.0 |
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3.8.0 |
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3.7.0 |
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3.6.5 |
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3.6.0 |
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3.2.0 |
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2.2.0 |
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Attack and Cast Speed, Evasion and Energy Shield
Name | Shade Form |
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Skill Id | ShadeForm |
Icon | |
Cast Time | 1.00 sec |
Level Req. | 1 |
Attack Speed | 100% of base |
Attack Damage | 100% of base |
Effectiveness of Added Damage | 100% |
Stored Uses | 1 |
Cooldown | 40.00 sec |
Base duration | 3.00 sec |
Makes you immune to physical damage, and harder for enemies to detect, for a duration. | |
Base duration is 3.00 seconds 20% chance to Trigger this Spell when you Use a Skill Socketed in Equipped Body Armour This Skill's Cooldown does not recover during its effect 100% increased Stealth |
Name | Shade Form |
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Skill Id | ShadeFormWhenHit |
Icon | |
Cast Time | 1.00 sec |
Level Req. | 1 |
Attack Speed | 100% of base |
Attack Damage | 100% of base |
Effectiveness of Added Damage | 100% |
Stored Uses | 1 |
Cooldown | 40.00 sec |
Base duration | 3.00 sec |
Makes you immune to physical damage, and harder for enemies to detect, for a duration. | |
Base duration is 3.00 seconds Trigger this Spell when you're Hit This Skill's Cooldown does not recover during its effect 100% increased Stealth |
Shade Form is a skill granted by Shroud of the Lightless (skill id: ShadeForm), or a Replica Eternity ShroudReplica Eternity Shroud
Blood RaimentEvasion: (872-1252)
Energy Shield: (146-210)
Movement Speed: -3%Requires Level 65, 107 Dex, 90 IntTrigger Level 20 Shade Form when Hit
(100-150)% increased Evasion and Energy Shield
+(70-100) to maximum Life
+(17-23)% to Chaos Resistance
Gain (3-5)% of Physical Damage as Extra Chaos Damage per Elder Item Equipped
Hits ignore Enemy Monster Chaos Resistance if all Equipped Items are Elder Items"The form of this replica came to me in a troubled dream.
I do not believe we should ever allow it to be used."
- Researcher Arn (skill id: ShadeFormWhenHit).
The buff from this skill can also be granted via Omen of Death's Door.
Mechanics
Shade Form increases stealth by 100%, effectively reducing enemy aggro radius by 50%. It also grants immunity to physical damage, negating it completely.
By default, the skill has a cooldown of 40 seconds and is affected by modifiers to cooldown recovery rate. This skill begins on cooldown when entering a new area.
The buff has a duration of 3 seconds by default. Modifiers to duration like Increased Duration SupportIncreased Duration SupportSupport, Duration
Icon: D
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Requires Level 31Supports any skill with a duration.Supported Skills have (45-64)% increased Skill Effect Duration
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills have (0.5-10)% increased Skill Effect DurationThis 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. and Efficacy SupportEfficacy SupportSupport, Duration
Icon: a
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Requires Level 8Supports any skill that deals damage or has a duration.Supported Skills deal (15-24)% more Damage over Time
Supported Skills have (15-24)% increased Skill Effect Duration
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Damage over TimeThis 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. affect the uptime of the buff, as well as cursing yourself with Temporal ChainsTemporal ChainsSpell, AoE, Duration, Curse, Hex
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (16-33) Mana
Cast Time: 0.50 secRequires Level 24Curses all enemies in an area, lowering their action speed and making other effects on them expire more slowly.Base duration is (5.00-8.80) seconds
+(0-1) metre to radius
50% less Effect of Curse against Players
Cursed Normal and Magic Enemies have (15-29)% less Action Speed
Other effects on Cursed enemies expire 25% slower
Cursed Rare and Unique Enemies have (9-18)% less Action Speed
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
(1-20)% increased Curse DurationPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.. However, it is not possible to maintain permanent uptime of this buff as the cooldown will not begin until the buff expires.
Version history
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3.17.0 |
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3.12.0 |
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3.1.0 |
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Ghost Dance Attack and Cast Speed, Evasion and Energy Shield
This article describes historical game content.
Patient Reaper was a notable Ascendancy passive skill for the Trickster that grants increased life, mana, and energy shield recovery on kill. It also grants an increase to life, mana and energy shield recovery if the character has killed an enemy affected by one of his damage over time effects recently (within the past four seconds).
Mechanics
Damage over time effects such as poison or ignite are applied after the initial hit is applied, since they depend on the size of the hit. Therefore, hits that kill the enemy instantly will not trigger Patient Reaper.[1]
The increase in energy shield recharge rate will show on the character sheet, however passive regeneration (and, by extension, energy shield regeneration via Zealot's Oath) will not. The interaction has been confirmed by GGG[2] and through independent testing.[3][4]
Instant recovery sources such as Life Gain on Hit, and Seething Life flasks do not have a duration, and therefore are not affected by Patient Reaper.[5]
Version history
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3.19.0 |
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3.16.0 |
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3.13.0 |
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3.2.0 |
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3.0.0 |
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2.2.0 |
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References
- ↑ https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1819036/page/1#p14104293
- ↑ https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1676002/page/171#p13842615
- ↑ https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/post-reply/1594419/quote/13633884
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/4bgfwi/patient_reaper_trickster_doesnt_affect_manalife/d18ynwa/
- ↑ https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1593978/page/1#p12905686
Attack and Cast Speed, Damage Over Time
200% increased Charge Duration [1]
Swift Killer is a notable Ascendancy passive skill for the Trickster that grants two maximum frenzy charges and greatly increased charge duration.
Ruthless mode
200% increased Charge Duration
Swift Killer in Ruthless mode is unchanged.
Version history
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3.19.0 |
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3.6.0 |
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3.2.0 |
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3.0.0 |
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2.3.0 |
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2.2.0 |
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