Summon Darkness

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	[Special Active: Strength] Summon a demon of darkness to assist in combat. Automatically attacks nearby enemies, but shares some of the damage taken with the user.
	Dark Control HP: 100% of caster's (PvP: 35%) Blood Contract: Shares a certain amount of damage taken with the user. Immune to skill delay/buff/debuff. Pressing the skill key again will unsummon the demon and recover some MP. Duration: 30 seconds
	Switching Skill (Lu) Ciel will switch to Lu when skill is used. Gain 4 Combination Points after hitting the target when switching.
	Final Enhanced Skill Demon's HP and Skill Damage is increased by 1.5 times.

Requirements

Class	Level Required
Dreadlord	45

Skill Information

Mode	Self BuffDarkness			MP Recovery (When Unsummoned)	Combination Gauge Gain	MP Usage	Cooldown
Mode	Damage Shared	HP	Duration	MP Recovery (When Unsummoned)	Combination Gauge Gain	MP Usage	Cooldown
Normal
PvE	30%	100% of caster's	30 Seconds	1.95 MP x [Remaining Duration]	4	200 MP	20 Seconds
PvP	30%	35% of caster's	30 Seconds	1.95 MP x [Remaining Duration]	4	200 MP	20 Seconds
[Enhanced]
PvE	30%	150% of caster's	30 Seconds	1.95 MP x [Remaining Duration]	4	200 MP	20 Seconds
PvP	30%	55% of caster's	30 Seconds	1.95 MP x [Remaining Duration]	4	200 MP	20 Seconds

Darkness

Mode	Self BuffDarkness
	Damage (Physical)			Max Hits
	Multi Strike	Terror Eruption	Ground Strikes	Multi Strike	Terror Eruption	Ground Strike
Normal
PvE	198%	113%	295%	2	9	7 ~ 13
PvP	27%	15%	41%	2	9	7 ~ 13
[Enhanced]
PvE	297%	169%	442%	2	9	7 ~ 13
PvP	41%	23%	61%	2	9	7 ~ 13

Skill Traits

Killing Blow (1) Summon Darkness		Reversed Summon Darkness
Attribute Effect	Duration	Attribute Effect	MP Usage	Cooldown
Skill effect's duration increased to 150%	45 Seconds	MP Usage decreased to 60% Cooldown increased to 150%	120 MP	30 Seconds

Total Damage: Darkness

Mode	Base
Mode	Multi Strike	Terror Eruption	Ground Strikes
PvE	594%	1,521%	3,094% ~ 5,746%
PvP	82%	207%	427% ~ 793%

Related Skills

Tips and Details

The summon is affected by party buffs.
Combination Gauge is gained the first time Demon Darkness lands a successful hit. It can be gained from any given hit in the summon's attacks, such as grazing enemies with the later hits of a Ground Strikes, not just the initial hit of those attacks.
An invisible hit is triggered when casting this skill, applying the Enemy DebuffCreeping Terror debuff to enemies nearby.
- Unlike Power of Oriax, this skill's casting hit will never trigger Burst of Terror.
Demon Darkness's stats are identical to your own, including critical rate, maximize and additional damage.
Demon Darkness's attacks will not stack Enemy DebuffCreeping Terror nor cause a Burst of Terror. Additionally, none of its attacks will ever count as a back attack.
- The demon will most commonly use Multi Strike, less commonly Terror Eruption, and only sometimes use Ground Strikes.
- Multi Strike and the first hit of Ground Strikes count as command/active damage for certain dungeon obstacles like the thorns in Never-Ending Darkness, while Terror Eruption and the rest of the Ground Strike hits count as special active skill damage.
- The demon will always attempt to face in the direction of nearby enemies, even in the middle of an attack animation, to give the highest chance of its attacks actually landing.
Skill damage increase effects will apply to the summon based on your status when the skill was initially cast. For example, if the skill is in a Transcendent Skill Slot and the buff is active, or you have Power of Oriax active, it will gain the damage increase for its entire duration upon use. If you receive similar buffs while the summon is already active, they will not have any effect.
- Conversely, any Physical Attack increase or Critical Damage increase effects will apply based on your current status, rather than that at the time of casting. Using Dead Hands while the summon is already active will thus still increase its damage, even though the summon itself cannot receive buffs.

Updates

Date		Changes
KR	NA	PvE	PvP
02/12/2015	08/12/2015	Summon Darkness added.
02/26/2015	-	▲ Combination Point gain increased from 3 to 4. Fixed so cooldown decrease effect (Threat of Terror, Seal of Time) also works during skill's duration.
09/24/2015	03/03/2016	▲ If there are no targets in the direction where player is looking at, it doesn't turn around and continues attacking its target.
04/21/2016	05/18/2016	Tooltip error fixed.
04/27/2017	05/10/2017	▼ Damage decreased.
04/05/2018	04/18/2018	▲ Damage increased.
04/25/2019	05/22/2019	▲ Summon unit affected by Critical Damage and Physical/Magical Damage Increase effects.
04/25/2019	05/22/2019	-	▼ Damage decreased.
08/01/2019	08/28/2019	▲ Terror Eruption damage changed to physical damage.
03/26/2020	03/25/2020	Invisible hit removed. Can only gain CP when Demon Darkness lands a successful hit.
10/08/2020	11/04/2020	▲ Darkness action speed increased.	None

Alternative Names

Server	Name	Translation
South Korea	서몬 다크니스	Summon Darkness
Japan	サモンダークネス	Summon Darkness
China (Simplified Chinese)	黑暗召唤	Darkness Summon
Germany	Dämonischer Diener	Demonic Servant
Spain	Servidor demoníaco	Demonic Servant
France	Serviteur démoniaque	Demonic Servant
Italy	Servo demoniaco	Demonic Servant
Poland	Demoniczny Sługa	Demonic Servant
United Kingdom	Demonic Servant
Brazil	Invocar Trevas	Summon Darkness