Dark Pact - Path of Exile

Dark Pact is an active skill gem.

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.

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.

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

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

Name	Additional Effects From Quality	Weight
Dark Pact	(0–10)% increased Area of Effect	50

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Related Gems

Name	Additional Effects From Quality	Weight
Dark Pact	(0–10)% increased Area of Effect	50
Anomalous Dark Pact	Sacrifices (0–1)% of Skeleton's Life to deal that much Chaos Damage	100
Divergent Dark Pact	Minions recover (0–2)% of Life on Hit	50

Level Effect

Level	Requires Level	Intelligence	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

Dark Pact is a chaos spell that removes some life from one of your Summon Skeletons 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 8% of the player's maximum life in a manner similar to spending life with the Lifetap 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 8% 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 8% 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 8% 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.

Item acquisition

Dark Pact can drop anywhere.

Recipes

Dark Pact can be created from the following recipes:

Amount	Part	Description
3	The Bitter Blossom	Random corrupted level 21 Chaos gem with 23% quality
6	The Summoner	Random Minion gem with 20% quality
13	The Cataclysm	Random corrupted level 21 Spell gem
6	The Fox	Random level 20 gem
8	Dying Anguish	Random level 19 gem with 19% alternative quality
8	The Hook	Random corrupted level 21 gem with 23% alternative quality
3	Gemcutter's Promise	Random gem with 20% quality
1	Gemcutter's Incubator	Random gem with 1–20% quality
1	The Void	Random divination card set exchange

Vendor reward

This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:

Class →	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Quest ↓	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa	✓
Sever the Right Hand Act 3 Clarissa	✓	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth	✓

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Dark Pact.

Name	Level	Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Dark Pact Area Of Effect 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	16% increased Dark Pact Area of Effect	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Dark Pact Area Of Effect 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	24% increased Dark Pact Area of Effect	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Dack Pact Cast Speed 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	8% increased Dark Pact Cast Speed	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Dack Pact Cast Speed 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	12% increased Dark Pact Cast Speed	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Dark Pact Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Dark Pact Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Dark Pact Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Dark Pact Damage	helmet 100 default 0