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.
Dark Pact is a chaos spell that removes some life from one of your Summon SkeletonsSummon SkeletonsSpell, Minion, Duration Level: (1-20) Cost: (5-16) Mana Cast Time: 0.50 secRequires Level 10Summon Skeleton Warrior minions at the targeted location. They use a melee attack and die after a duration. If made aggressive, Skeleton Warriors will also dash towards nearby enemies.Maximum (5-7) Summoned Skeletons Base duration is 20.00 seconds Summons (2-3) Skeleton Warriors
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: +(0.05-1) to Maximum Summoned SkeletonsPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. 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.
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. 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, retaliation 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., Unleash SupportUnleash SupportSpell, Support Icon: q Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 150%Requires Level 38Supports spell skills, making their effect reoccur when cast. Cannot support skills with cooldowns, triggered skills, Brand skills, Vaal skills, channelling skills, skills with a reservation, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.Supported Spells gain a Seal every (0.90-0.71) seconds, to a maximum of 3 Seals Supported Spells are Unsealed when cast, and their effects Reoccur for each Seal lost Supported Skills deal (50-41)% less Damage when Reoccurring
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., Echoing Shrine, Summon Triggerbots), life is sacrificed for each repeated/reoccuring cast or trigger.
Because skills do not snapshot their stats when used, paying or sacrificing life will likely cause the player to not be on full life when the skill hits. Conversely, if a cast reduces the player to low life, hits may benefit from modifiers such as Pain Attunement (until life is recovered).
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 Prefix +2 to Level of all Minion Skill Gems found on helmets or modifiers that increase socketed Minion gem level, (e.g. The BaronThe Baron Close HelmetArmour: (130-150)Requires Level 26, 58 Str+2 to Level of SocketedMinion 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 Physical Damage: (129-137.6) to (264-281.6) Critical Strike Chance: 5.00% Attacks per Second: 1.25 Weapon Range: 1.3 metresRequires Level 40, 104 Str30% increased Stun Duration on Enemies+1 to Level of Socketed Melee Gems +1 to Level of SocketedMinion 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 Physical Damage: 55-165 Critical Strike Chance: 8.00% Attacks per Second: 1.15 Weapon Range: 1.3 metresRequires Level 58, 99 Str, 99 Int+25% Chance to Block Spell Damage while wielding a Staff+2 to Level of SocketedMinion Gems Minions deal (60-80)% increased Damage +1% Chance to BlockAttack 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) 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 GloomfangGloomfang Blue Pearl AmuletRequires Level 77(48-56)% increased Mana Regeneration Rate0.5% of Chaos Damage Leeched as Life Lose (15-10) Life per Enemy Hit with Spells Lose (25-20) Life per Enemy Hit with Attacks Skills Chain +1 times (30-40)% increased Projectile Speed Projectiles that have Chained gain (20-35)% of Non-Chaos Damage as extra Chaos DamageDarkness never stops feeding.. Dark Pact is not a projectile and is not affected by projectile speed or other projectile modifiers, including chains specific to projectiles (e.g. SnakepitSnakepit Sapphire RingRequires Level 68+(20-30)% to Cold Resistance(20-40)% increased Spell Damage (5-10)% increased Cast Speed Left ring slot: Projectiles from Spells cannot Chain Left ring slot: Projectiles from Spells Fork Right ring slot: Projectiles from Spells Chain +1 times Right ring slot: Projectiles from Spells cannot Fork Projectiles from Spells cannot PierceThey wrap around you until your blood turns as cold as theirs.).
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
Item acquisition
Dark Pact can drop anywhere.
Recipes
Dark Pact can be created from the following recipes:
Amount
Part
Description
Meta
3
The Bitter BlossomThe Bitter Blossom3Level 21 Chaos Gem Quality:+23% CorruptedThe pain you feel is of no consequence, it is evolution, to be made whole within something greater.
Random corruptedlevel 21 Chaos gem with 23% quality
A
6
The SummonerThe Summoner6Minion Gem Quality:+20%To own a piece of the Nightmare, you must first belong to the Nightmare.
Random Minion gem with 20% quality
A
13
The CataclysmThe Cataclysm13Level 21 Spell Gem CorruptedThe mighty warriors traded in blows, the nimble archers in arrows, yet it was the brazen thaumaturgists who would bring catastrophe to all.
Random corruptedlevel 21 Spell gem
A
6
The FoxThe Fox6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox." - Ezomyte Proverb
Random level 20 gem
A
3
Gemcutter's PromiseGemcutter's Promise3Gem Quality:+20%"I swore to use my position to help the people. What good is power when it just accumulates on the already-powerful?" - Erasmus, Imperial Gemcutter
Random gem with 20% quality
A
1
Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item Item drops after killing {0} monstersRight click this item then left click an item to apply it. The Incubated item drops after killing a specific number of monsters.
Random gem with 1–20% quality
A
1
The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.
Random divination card set exchange
A
Vendor reward
This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:
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.
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%).
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 Cloak of Tawm'r IsleyCloak of Tawm'r Isley Savant's RobeEnergy Shield: (287-396) Movement Speed: -3%Requires Level 56, 152 IntSocketedMinion Gems are Supported by Level 16 Life Leech (150-200)% increased Energy Shield Minions cannot be Blinded Minions have 15% chance to Blind Enemies on hit Found Magic Items drop IdentifiedRenowned by those distinguished, Exalted by the few. He skulks in darkness, and watches from beneath the city..
Summon SkeletonsSummon SkeletonsSpell, Minion, Duration
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.
Lifetap SupportLifetap SupportSupport, Duration
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
. 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.
Spell Echo SupportSpell Echo SupportSpell, Support
, 
Unleash SupportUnleash SupportSpell, Support
, Echoing Shrine, Summon Triggerbots), life is sacrificed for each repeated/reoccuring cast or trigger.
Pain Attunement (until life is recovered).
Minion Life SupportMinion Life SupportSupport, Minion
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]
The BaronThe Baron
, 
Chober ChaberChober Chaber
, 
Femurs of the SaintsFemurs of the Saints
) will increase the level of Dark Pact. Using Dark Pact is considered using a minion skill.
Chain SupportChain SupportSupport, Chaining, Projectile
, 
Ricochet from Deadeye, or items such as 
GloomfangGloomfang
. Dark Pact is not a projectile and is not affected by projectile speed or other projectile modifiers, including chains specific to projectiles (e.g. 
SnakepitSnakepit
).
The Bitter Blossom
The Bitter Blossom
3Level 21 Chaos Gem
The Summoner
6Minion Gem
The Cataclysm
13Level 21 Spell Gem
The Fox
6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox."
Gemcutter's Promise
3Gem
Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item
The Void
1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.
