Key Concepts

Utilize to extend the area of effect and Target Cap of your Shade Skills. Your inherit a lot of trait effects:

• grants Concentration and Expertise
• reduces incoming damage by 15%
• grants Barrier which in turn grants Alacrity.

Spend Life Force on Shade Skills (F1-5) for a variety of effects:

• to convert conditions into boons
• gives Alacrity due to and triggers
• inflicts Fear but costs a lot of Life Force
• grants Protection and Alacrity due to .

Gain Life Force by striking enemies with your weapons skills.

Dealing Damage

Despite not being listed on the tooltip, using any Shade Skill deals a strike around yourself and any manifested Shade. This strike applies Torment and and .

Some useful things to know about your Scepter / Torch set:

• Your Auto Attacks get stronger as you go through the chain
• Use as much as possible
• will converts boons to conditions and grant Life Force
• deals decent close-range damage and grants Life Force
• offers Defiance Break and Might.

Some useful things to know about your Pistol set:

• Use as much as possible
• can Pierce and offers decent damage.

Remember to Weapon Swap to access more of them so that you can avoid having to Auto Attack.

Try to use whenever available to maintain Protection, Alacrity and .

Use Well utility skills to give yourself Quickness via .

Defense

Use your Range and Mobile Casting to avoid hard hitting attacks

When fighting multiple enemies, spread your conditions equally across the group rather than focusing on a single target to gain the most benefit from

All Shade Skills can be cast while moving without the need to face a target, and with the exception of also while casting other skills

Remember that you have three sources of Alacrity, Barrier, Condition Removal and Might:

All these interactions are caused by and .

Crowd Control

Defiance Break values stated on 's tooltip are inaccurate, while other skills such as do not list any.