Shadow Warrior

Summon a shadow of yourself that mimics your skills and fights by your side.

Shadow Warrior is a Shadow Disciplines summon (level 18, requires Cloak of Shadows and Weapon Block; it unlocks Shadow Master). It calls one shadow (petmax 1) that fights with a normal attack and with the two skills the Assassin has on her mouse buttons at the time. The numbers that decide it are the shadow's level-driven stats: +12% defense, +40 attack rating, +10 strength and +10 dexterity per level, and 4% to every resistance per level up to 75.

The numbers

• Mana is 54 ÷ 2 = 27 at level 1 and half a mana more a level (manashift 7, lvlmana 1): 36.5 at level 20, 41.5 at level 30. The skill can be cast in town (InTown 1).
• Defense is lvl*par3, Param3 being 12: +12% a level, +240% at level 20. Attack rating is lvl*par2, Param2 being 40: +40 a level, +800 at level 20, through the shadow's tohit stat (aurastat1).
• Strength and dexterity are lvl*10 each (aurastat3–4): +200 of each at level 20. The Basin's older page gives 12 a level and +100 attack rating a level; the current table's values are the ones above.
• Life is the tooltip's type-13 line, (lvl-1)*par1 with Param1 = 15: +15% life per level above the first, so +285% at level 20. The evaluator does not print this line as a column, so it is stated here from the calc.
• Resistances are the four passive calcs min(lvl*4,75): 4% a level to each of fire, cold, lightning and poison, reaching the 75 cap at level 19.
• Casting delay is localdelay 15 frames, 0.6 seconds, at every level. The Basin's page notes this is the D2R value; the 1.10-era delay was 6 seconds and global.
• The shadow's item level is Param5 (18) plus Param6 (2) a level, which the Basin says sets the items she equips: a cestus and blade talons, a helm and a body armor, better at higher levels.

Every line reads lvl, so +skills from items count toward all of them.

How it works

The shadow is a summon of pet type "shadowwarrior", one at a time, replaced by a recast. The Basin's page says she cannot exist at the same time as a Shadow Master: summoning either dispels the other. She fights in melee with her own weapons and uses the skills on the Assassin's left and right mouse buttons; the Basin has not seen her use Cobra Strike or Blade Fury, and she cannot summon a shadow of her own.

The level of a skill she uses is, by the Basin's page, the greater of 1 and [Assassin's level in that skill ÷ 2] + [Shadow Warrior's level ÷ 3], read when she uses it. Skill levels she has used are stored and provide synergy bonuses to the skills she uses afterwards, with no cap at 20. Traps are the exception: Blade Sentinel keeps using the Assassin's attack damage, and Charged Bolt Sentry, Wake of Fire, Lightning Sentry, Wake of Inferno and Death Sentry keep using the Assassin's own hard points for their synergies.

She does not use Claw Mastery or Weapon Block (Basin). The row's five item_pierce passive calcs read the Assassin's sundering stats, so her Monster Physical Immunity is Sundered, fire, lightning, cold and poison sunders are passed to the shadow, as the Basin's page says of D2R.

Only one shadow at a time: summoning a Shadow Master dispels the Warrior, and summoning the Warrior dispels the Master (Basin).

The Basin's page gives her base figures that the repo's bank does not hold: 376 life, 3 damage regeneration, 5% critical hit, 40% damage resist, −50% chill effectiveness, 0% drain effectiveness, and a 15-frame AI delay between attacks; it says Fanaticism and Increased Attack Speed on her own weapons raise her attack rate. See Defense Rating and Attack Rating for what the + and +% figures do to a unit's hit chance.

Synergies and +skills

No synergies: there is no dsc3 line and no synergy calc on the row, and Shadow Warrior feeds no other skill. All of her stats read lvl, so a +skill is worth exactly a hard point; the Basin says +1–3 Shadow Warrior can spawn on exceptional and elite claws. Her usable skill levels, though, depend on the Assassin's own level in each skill as much as on the shadow's.

Against players

A pet's hit on a player is cut to 17% of its value (difficultylevels.txt PlayerDamagePercentVSPlayer) before resistances, like the Assassin's own, see Player versus Player. The Basin's page says nothing else specific about players.

Build notes

• Level 20 is +240% defense, +800 attack rating, +200 strength and dexterity, +285% life and 75% to all resistances for 36.5 mana.
• Every third level is a skill level for the shadow's copies of your skills; every two hard points in a skill of your own is one more level in hers.
• Resistances cap at level 19; past that a level buys defense, attack rating, life and the attribute bonuses.
• One shadow only, and never alongside a Shadow Master.