Online:Consuming Darkness (skill)

	Consuming Darkness
Line		Shadow
Line Rank		12	Cost	200 Ultimate
Cast Time		Instant	Duration	13 seconds
Target		Area
Area		5 meters
Morphs
		Bolstering Darkness Major Protection persists after leaving the area.
		Veil of Blades Enemies in the area take damage over time.
Notes Values are based on Max Magicka/Stamina 12000, Max Health 16000, and Weapon/Spell Damage 1000.

Consuming/Bolstering Darkness visual, khajiit for scale

Consuming Darkness: Duration: [10 / 11 / 12 / 13] seconds.
Conjure a ring of shadow, reducing the Movement Speed of enemies by 70% and granting you and your allies Major Protection, reducing your damage taken by 10%. Allies in the area can activate the ​ Hidden Refresh synergy, granting them invisibility, increasing their Movement Speed by 70%, and healing them for 24897 Health over 4 seconds.

Bolstering Darkness: Conjure a ring of shadow, reducing the Movement Speed of enemies by 70% and granting you and your allies Major Protection for [7 / 8 / 9 / 10] seconds, reducing your damage taken by 10%. Allies in the area can activate the ​ Hidden Refresh synergy, granting them invisibility, increasing their Movement Speed by 70%, and healing them for 24897 Health over 4 seconds.

Veil of Blades: Conjure a ring of shadow, reducing the Movement Speed of enemies by 70%, dealing [3811 / 3853 / 3896 / 3936] Magic Damage to them every 1 second, and granting you and your allies Major Protection, reducing your damage taken by 10%. Allies in the area can activate the ​ Hidden Refresh synergy, granting them invisibility, increasing their Movement Speed by 70%, and healing them for 24897 Health over 4 seconds.

Consuming Darkness casts an aura of protection over the area and slows down enemy movement in the area. Allies can activate the ​ Hidden Refresh synergy, which grants them Invisibility, increases their movement speed, and restores their Health for 4 seconds. The Bolstering Darkness morph reduces your damage taken of you and your allies for a short duration after leaving the effect, while Veil of Blades adds damage over time to enemies in the area.

Notes

• Bolstering Darkness is a recommended morph for the Living Shadow build.

Gallery

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  Veil of Blades morph visual

Patch Notes

1.1.3

• Veil of Blades: This ability can now critical strike.

1.6.5

• Reduced the duration of this ability to 12 seconds.
• This ability will no longer provide an additional damage reduction for the caster.
• Hidden Refresh (synergy): This will now provide healing to allies, and will only be offered to allies under 50% health.
• Bolstering Darkness: This ability doubles the effectiveness of the Major Protection buff on yourself.
• Dark Resurgence (synergy): This synergy, offered by Bolstering Darkness, will provide more healing for the ally that activates it.

1.6.6

• Bolstering Darkness: Fixed an issue where the caster was only receiving a 30% damage reduction instead of the full 60%.

2.3.5

• Bolstering Darkness: Increased the healing from the Hidden Refresh synergy from this morph by 20%.

4.0.5

• Bolstering Darkness: This morph now causes the Major Protection buff to remain on you even after leaving the area. The buff will persist for the duration of the ability.

5.0.5

• Veil of Blades: Fixed an issue where this ability was not getting stronger as the ability ranked up. Total damage at Rank IV will be increased by 6.6%.

5.3.4

• Fixed an issue where the synergy granted from this ability and its morphs could only be activated when at a certain health threshold, which was not previously communicated. It can now be activated any time when you meet the listed requirements and are not on cooldown.

6.3.5

• Hidden Refresh's heal now ticks once every second, rather than half second, and adjusted the total healing to remain roughly the same.
• While this synergy is active, it now displays what it does when hovered over in your Active Effects tab.