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 Arrogance SupportArrogance SupportAura, Support
Icon: B
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: (220-201)%Requires Level 31Supports any non-blessing skill with a reservation.Supported Skills have (10-19)% increased Aura effect
Supported Skills Reserve Life instead of Mana

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills have (0.25-5)% increased Aura effectThis 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. Since this sacrificed life is not considered damage, it cannot be mitigated with chaos resistance and will not trigger . If 6% of maximum life cannot be removed (for example, maximum 1 life due to Chaos Inoculation) the spell will continue to function but with a smaller damage bonus.

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: 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. Using can effectively speed up the rate at which skeleton life is removed, in order to trigger this effect faster.

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 (, , , 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 . Note that Dark Pact is NOT a projectile and is not affected 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.

Divine Shrine: Dark Pact's damage will be applied through the divine buff

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

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
3.1.0	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.