Dark Pact

Minion, Spell, AoE, Chaining, Chaos, Nova

Level: (1–20)

Cost: (7–13) Mana

Cast Time: 0.50 sec

Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%

Requires Level (28–70), (67–155) Int

This 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
Chains +2 Times
Sacrifices 8% of Skeleton's Life to deal that much Chaos Damage
Uses your Life if no Skeletons in range
(56–136)% more Damage with Hits and Ailments if using your Life

Additional Effects From Quality:

Sacrifices +(0–2)% of Skeleton's Life to deal that much Chaos Damage

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Quest /1

Act	Quest	NPC	Character
3	Sever the Right Hand	Clarissa	Scion · Shadow

Genus

Dark Pact

Level Effect /40

Implicit
Sacrifices 8% of Skeleton's Life to deal that much Chaos Damage Chains +2 Times Uses your Life if no Skeletons in range (Ailments that deal Damage are Bleeding, Ignited, and Poisoned)

Level	Requires Level	Int	Cost	Deals 24 to 36 Chaos Damage	56% more Damage with Hits and Ailments if using your Life	Experience
1	28	67	7	24, 36	56	199,345
2	31	73	7	29, 43	60	285,815
3	34	79	8	35, 52	64	401,344
4	37	85	8	41, 62	69	554,379
5	40	92	9	49, 74	73	477,437
6	42	96	9	55, 83	77	583,786
7	44	100	9	62, 92	81	710,359
8	46	104	10	69, 103	85	1,355,511
9	48	109	10	77, 115	90	1,138,877
10	50	113	10	86, 129	94	1,368,233
11	52	117	11	95, 143	98	1,638,338
12	54	121	11	106, 159	102	1,956,648
13	56	125	11	118, 177	106	3,655,184
14	58	130	11	131, 196	111	3,017,327
15	60	134	12	145, 218	115	7,759,995
16	62	138	12	161, 242	119	15,138,193
17	64	142	12	178, 267	123	26,083,825
18	66	146	13	197, 296	127	62,620,247
19	68	151	13	218, 327	132	211,708,088
20	70	155	13	241, 362	136
21	72		13	266, 400	140
22	74		14	294, 441	144
23	76		14	324, 486	148
24	78		14	358, 536	153
25	80		15	394, 591	157
26	82		15	434, 651	161
27	84		15	478, 717	165
28	86		15	526, 789	169
29	88		16	578, 868	174
30	90		16	636, 954	178
31	91		16	667, 1000	181
32	92		16	699, 1048	182
33	93		16	733, 1099	185
34	94		17	768, 1152	186
35	95		17	805, 1207	189
36	96		17	843, 1265	190
37	97		17	884, 1325	193
38	98		17	926, 1389	195
39	99		17	970, 1455	197
40	100		17	1016, 1524	199

Attribute /9

Key	Value
Cost	iLvl 1: Normal: 1xOrb of Chance
Acronym	Hit, Skeleton, Chain, Ailment
DropLevel	28
BaseType	Dark Pact
Class	Skill Gems
TargetTypes	Ground, Self,
Type	Spell, Damage, Mineable, Totemable, Area, Trappable, Triggerable, Multicastable, Chains, Chaos, Minion, CanRapidFire, AreaSpell, Nova
ItemType	Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemDarkPact
Reference	poe.ninja, Community Wiki

Crucible Weapon /2

Weight	Desc
1000 (T5)	Forbidden Rite and Dark Pact gains Added Chaos Damage equal to 12% of Mana Cost, if Mana Cost is not higher than the maximum you could spend
1000 (T5)	Forbidden Rite and Dark Pact gains Added Chaos Damage equal to 20% of Mana Cost, if Mana Cost is not higher than the maximum you could spend

Dark Pact Monster /2 ⍟

Name	Modifiers	Spectre
Baracus Phraxisanct	Chaos Damage taken does not bypass Energy Shield 99% of Maximum Life Converted to Energy Shield monster base type attack cast speed +% and damage -% final [33] 35% increased Cast Speed Regenerate 10% of Life per second You cannot Recharge Energy Shield Chill Effect and Freeze Duration on you are based on 100% of Energy Shield Stun Threshold is based on Energy Shield instead of Life 25% Chance to Block Attack Damage 25% Chance to Block Spell Damage You take 20% of Damage from Blocked Hits	Y
Baracus Phraxisanct	Chaos Damage taken does not bypass Energy Shield 99% of Maximum Life Converted to Energy Shield monster base type attack cast speed +% and damage -% final [33] 35% increased Cast Speed Regenerate 10% of Life per second You cannot Recharge Energy Shield Chill Effect and Freeze Duration on you are based on 100% of Energy Shield Stun Threshold is based on Energy Shield instead of Life 25% Chance to Block Attack Damage 25% Chance to Block Spell Damage You take 20% of Damage from Blocked Hits 100% increased maximum Life 100% increased Area of Effect 80% increased Character Size	Y

Labyrinth Enchantment helmet /10 ⍟

Level	Name	Mod	Weight
The Merciless Labyrinth	Enchantment Dark Pact Damage 1	25% increased Dark Pact Damage	100
The Eternal Labyrinth	Enchantment Dark Pact Damage 2	40% increased Dark Pact Damage	100
The Merciless Labyrinth	Enchantment Dack Pact Cast Speed 1	8% increased Dark Pact Cast Speed	100
The Eternal Labyrinth	Enchantment Dack Pact Cast Speed 2	12% increased Dark Pact Cast Speed	100
The Merciless Labyrinth	Enchantment Dark Pact Area Of Effect 1	16% increased Dark Pact Area of Effect	100
The Eternal Labyrinth	Enchantment Dark Pact Area Of Effect 2	24% increased Dark Pact Area of Effect	100
The Merciless Labyrinth		8% increased Dark Pact Cast Speed
The Eternal Labyrinth		12% increased Dark Pact Cast Speed
The Merciless Labyrinth		16% increased Dark Pact Area of Effect
The Eternal Labyrinth		24% increased Dark Pact Area of Effect

Supported By /88 ⍟

Active Type: Spell, Damage, Mineable, Totemable, Area, Trappable, Triggerable, Multicastable, Chains, Chaos, Minion, CanRapidFire, AreaSpell, Nova

Icon	Name
	Added Fire Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Added Cold Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Increased Area of Effect Support Supports any skill with an area of effect.
	Added Lightning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Increased Critical Strikes Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Increased Critical Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Knockback Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Life Leech Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing those hits to leech life based on damage dealt.
	Added Chaos Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Stun Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making it easier to stun enemies with those skills.
	Trap Support Supports spells, or attacks that use bows or wands. Instead of using that skill, you will throw a trap that will use the skill for you when an enemy walks near it. Traps cannot use channelling skills.
	Item Rarity Support Supports any skill that can kill enemies.
	Faster Casting Support Supports non-instant spell skills.
	Concentrated Effect Support Supports any skill with an area of effect, regardless of whether that skill deals damage.
	Cold to Fire Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Combustion Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Elemental Proliferation Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, or could otherwise apply elemental ailments.
	Culling Strike Support Supports any skill that hits enemies. If enemies are left below 10% of maximum life after being hit by these skills, they will be killed.
	Iron Will Support Supports spell skills, making the increase to physical melee damage from strength also increase their spell damage.
	Spell Totem Support Supports spell skills that are not triggered. Instead of casting that spell, you will summon a totem that casts the spell for you.
	Blastchain Mine Support Supports spells, or attacks that use bows or wands. Instead of using that skill, you will throw a mine that will use the skill for you when you detonate it. Mines cannot use channelling skills.
	Chance to Flee Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Blind Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Fire Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy fire resistance.
	Cold Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy cold resistance.
	Lightning Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy lightning resistance.
	Elemental Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy elemental resistances.
	Chain Support Supports projectile skills, and any other skills that chain.
	Spell Echo Support Supports 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.
	Power Charge On Critical Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Burning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, or can deal burning damage directly.
	Hextouch Support Must support both a skill that hits enemies, and a hex curse skill to work. The hex will be applied when enemies are hit by the other skill. Cannot support totems, traps, or mines. Minions cannot apply hexes this way.
	Cast when Damage Taken Support Each 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.
	Cast when Stunned Support Each supported spell skill will have a chance to be triggered when you are stunned. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.
	Block Chance Reduction Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Physical to Lightning Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Ice Bite Support Supports any skill you use to hit enemies yourself. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines.
	Hypothermia Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
	Innervate Support Supports any skill you use to hit enemies yourself. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines.
	Critical Strike Affliction Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Void Manipulation Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
	Controlled Destruction Support Supports attack skills, or spell skills that deal damage.
	Swift Affliction Support Supports any skill that has a duration, or can hit enemies to inflict ailments on them.
	Elemental Focus Support Supports any skill that hits or burns enemies, or inflicts elemental ailments.
	Ignite Proliferation Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Chance to Poison Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Deadly Ailments Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Decay Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Efficacy Support Supports any skill that deals damage or has a duration.
	Vile Toxins Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Immolate Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Unbound Ailments Support Supports any skill that hits enemies or inflicts ailments
	Brutality Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
	Arcane Surge Support Each supported spell will track how much mana you spend on it, granting a buff when the total mana spent reaches a threshold. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, mines or skills with a reservation.
	Summon Phantasm Support Supports skills that can hit enemies, or create minions. When those skills or minions kill enemies, or hit rare or unique enemies they will have a chance to summon a Phantasm minion, which uses a piercing projectile spell that deals physical damage.
	Bonechill Support Supports any skill that can chill enemies or create chilling areas.
	Energy Leech Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing those hits to leech energy shield based on damage dealt.
	Intensify Support Supports spell skills that you cast yourself. Cannot support triggered skills, Vaal skills, instant skills, channelling skills, skills with a reservation or which create minions, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines.
	Unleash Support Supports 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.
	High-Impact Mine Support Supports spells, or attacks that use bows or wands. Instead of using that skill, you will throw a mine that will use the skill for you when you detonate it. Mines cannot use channelling skills.
	Awakened Added Fire Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Awakened Brutality Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
	Awakened Burning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, or can deal burning damage directly.
	Awakened Fire Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy fire resistance.
	Awakened Added Cold Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Awakened Chain Support Supports projectile skills, and any other skills that chain.
	Awakened Cold Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy cold resistance.
	Awakened Deadly Ailments Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Awakened Swift Affliction Support Supports any skill that has a duration, or can hit enemies to inflict ailments on them.
	Awakened Void Manipulation Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
	Awakened Added Chaos Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Awakened Added Lightning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Awakened Controlled Destruction Support Supports attack skills, or spell skills that deal damage.
	Awakened Hextouch Support Must support both a skill that hits enemies, and a hex curse skill to work. The hex will be applied when enemies are hit by the other skill. Cannot support totems, traps, or mines. Minions cannot apply hexes this way.
	Awakened Elemental Focus Support Supports any skill that hits or burns enemies, or inflicts elemental ailments.
	Awakened Increased Area of Effect Support Supports any skill with an area of effect.
	Awakened Lightning Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy lightning resistance.
	Awakened Spell Echo Support Supports 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.
	Awakened Unbound Ailments Support Supports any skill that hits enemies or inflicts ailments
	Awakened Unleash Support Supports 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.
	Archmage Support Supports spell skills that deal damage with hits and have no reservation. Cannot support arcane skills, Brand skills, Orb skills, Vaal skills, or skills used by totems, traps or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
	Trinity Support Supports skills that hit enemies, causing them to gain bonuses while you have resonance of all three elements, and to grant resonance of elements other than the highest one in a hit. There is a maximum of 50 Resonance for each Element. Cannot support triggered skills, instant skills, orb skills, brands, skills with a reservation, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
	Cruelty Support Supports any skill that hits enemies. Minions cannot gain Cruelty.
	Overcharge Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Spellblade Support Supports spells that hit enemies. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
	Devour Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Sacrifice Support Supports spell skills that hit enemies and have no reservation. Cannot support brand skills, orb skills, channelling skills, Vaal skills or skills used by traps or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
	Sadism Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.

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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 Support or the Blood Magic Keystone. Since this sacrificed life is not considered damage, it cannot be mitigated with chaos resistance and will not trigger Cast when Damage Taken Support. 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 Minion Life Support 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.
Spell Totem Support: Dark Pact can be supported by spell totem and will cast whenever there is an enemy 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 Spell Echo Support 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 (The Baron, Chober Chaber, Femurs of the Saints, 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 Chain Support, Ricochet from the Deadeye Ascendancy, or items such as Mjölner. Note that Dark Pact is NOT a projectile and is not affected by projectile speed or other projectile modifiers, including the quality properties of Chain Support. 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: As Dark Pact sacrifices life rather than deals damage to the player, being affected by a Divine Shrine will not prevent life loss.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.17.0	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%).
3.16.0	Dark Pact now sacrifices 8% of Skeleton’s Life to deal that much Chaos Damage (previously 6%). Now has 40% more Damage with Hits and Ailments if using your Life at gem level 1 (previously 0%), up to 97% at gem level 20 (previously 76%).
3.6.0	Mana Cost at gem level 20 is now 13 (was 14). Now has a radius of 26 (from 24). Now deals 24 to 36 Chaos damage at gem level 1 (from 20 to 30) and 241 to 362 Chaos damage at gem level 20 (from 201 to 301).
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 Cloak of Tawm'r Isley.
3.0.0	Dark Pact has been added to the game.

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