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Bolstering Darkness Skill - ESO
Bolstering Darkness is a skill in the Shadow skill line under the Nightblade category in ESO (the Elder Scrolls Online)
Shadow
Cost: 200 Ultimate
Target: Area
Duration: 13 seconds
Radius: 5 meters
Effect
Conjure a ring of shadow, reducing the Movement Speed of enemies by 70% and granting you and your allies Major Protection for 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 9110 Health over 4 seconds.
New effect
Major Protection persists after leaving the area.
- Name:
- Bolstering Darkness
- Description:
- Bolstering Darkness is a skill in the Shadow skill line under the Nightblade category in ESO (the Elder Scrolls Online)
- Found in
- Nightblade » Shadow
- Unlocks at
- Shadow Rank 12 and Consuming Darkness Rank IV
Buffs
Champion Points that buff Bolstering Darkness
- Blessed
- Fighting Finesse (only while slotted)
- Precision
- Quick Recovery
- Rejuvenator (only while slotted)
- Soothing Tide (only while slotted)
- Swift Renewal (only while slotted)
- Untamed Aggression (only while slotted)
Unmorphed version
Shadow
Cost: 200 Ultimate
Target: Area
Duration: 13 seconds
Radius: 5 meters
Effect
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 9110 Health over 4 seconds.
Other morph
Shadow
Cost: 200 Ultimate
Target: Area
Duration: 13 seconds
Radius: 5 meters
Effect
Conjure a ring of shadow, reducing the Movement Speed of enemies by 70%, dealing 1438 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 9110 Health over 4 seconds.
New effect
Enemies in the area take damage over time.
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Other Builds & Guides that use the Bolstering Darkness skill
Shadow skills
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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 9110 Health over 4 seconds. |
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Conjure a ring of shadow, reducing the Movement Speed of enemies by 70% and granting you and your allies Major Protection for 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 9110 Health over 4 seconds.
Major Protection persists after leaving the area.
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Conjure a ring of shadow, reducing the Movement Speed of enemies by 70%, dealing 1438 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 9110 Health over 4 seconds.
Enemies in the area take damage over time.
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Active abilities |
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Cloak yourself in shadow to become invisible. When moving your Magicka Recovery is disabled and when not moving Shadow Cloak is half cost. When Shadow Cloak begins or ends, you gain Born From Shadow for 10 seconds, increasing your damage done to monsters by 10%. While slotted on either bar, you gain Major Prophecy and Savagery, increasing your Spell and Weapon Critical rating by 2629. |
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Shroud yourself in protective shadow to heal for 853 Health every 1 second, over 3 seconds, increasing by an additional 150% when you are not moving. This portion of the ability scales off your Max Health.
While slotted on either bar, you gain Minor Protection, reducing your damage taken by 5%.
No longer grants invisibility. Now heals over time based on your Max Health, and grants Minor Protection rather than Major Prophecy and Savagery.
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Cloak yourself in shadow to become invisible. When moving your Magicka Recovery is disabled and when not moving Shadowy Disguise is half cost. Your next direct damage attack will Critically Strike.
When Shadowy Disguise begins or ends, you gain Born From Shadow for 10 seconds, increasing your damage done to monsters by 10%.
While slotted on either bar, gain Major Prophecy and Major Savagery, increasing your Spell and Weapon Critical rating by 2629.
Guarantees a Critical Strike on your next attack after activating. Cost decreases as the ability ranks up.
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Surround yourself in a phantasmic aura to gain Major Evasion, reducing damage from area attacks by 20% for 20 seconds. While active, taking direct damage reduces the cost of your next Roll Dodge by 10%, up to a maximum of 100%. This effect can stack up to once every half second. |
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Surround yourself in a phantasmic aura to gain Major Evasion and Minor Resolve, reducing damage from area attacks by 20% and increasing your Physical and Spell Resistance by 2974 for 20 seconds.
While active, taking direct damage reduces the cost of your next Roll Dodge by 10%, up to a maximum of 100%. This effect can stack up to once every half second.
Grants Minor Resolve, increasing your Physical and Spell Resistance. Reduces the cost as the ability ranks up.
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Surround yourself in a phantasmic aura to gain Major Evasion, reducing damage from area attacks by 20% for 20 seconds.
Activating this ability removes all snares and immobilizations from you and grants immunity to them for 4 seconds.
While active, taking direct damage reduces the cost of your next Roll Dodge by 10%, up to a maximum of 100%. This effect can stack up to once every half second.
Grants snare and immobilization immunity for a short duration.
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Create a corridor of shadows for 10 seconds, granting you and allies in the area Major Expedition, increasing Movement Speed by 30%. Effect persists for 4 seconds after leaving the path. |
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Create a corridor of shadows for 10 seconds, granting you and allies in the area Major Expedition, Minor Endurance, and Minor Intellect, increasing Movement Speed by 30%, as well as Stamina and Magicka Recovery by 15%. Effect persists for 4 seconds after leaving the path.
Heals 435 Health to you and allies in the area every 1 second.
Path also heals you and your allies and increases their Magicka and Stamina Recovery.
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Create a corridor of shadows for 10 seconds, granting you and allies in the area Major Expedition, increasing Movement Speed by 30% which persists for 4 seconds after leaving the path.
Deals 377 Magic Damage to enemies in the target area every 1 second.
Reduces the cost and the path affects a larger conal area and deals damage.
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Summon a dark spirit to terrify nearby enemies, causing them to cower in fear for 2 seconds and be afflicted with Major Cowardice for 10 seconds, reducing their Weapon and Spell Damage by 430. |
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Conceal a sinister trap at the target location, which takes 2 seconds to arm and lasts for 20 seconds.
When the trap is triggered, up to 6 enemies in the area become terrified, causing them to cower in fear for 2 seconds and be afflicted with Major Cowardice for 10 seconds, reducing their Weapon and Spell Damage by 430.
Reduces the cost and creates a trap at your target location instead, which fears enemies when triggered.
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Summon a dark spirit to terrify all nearby enemies, causing them to cower in fear for 3 seconds and be afflicted with Major Cowardice for 10 seconds, reducing their Weapon and Spell Damage by 430.
The ability no longer has a cap of how many targets it can affect and the fear increases in duration as the ability ranks up.
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Summon a shade version of yourself to attack an enemy and fight at your side for 20 seconds. The shade slashes at an enemy, dealing 462 Magic Damage once every 2 seconds, and inflicts Minor Maim for 4 seconds, reducing the enemy's damage done by 5%. |
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Summon a shade version of yourself to attack an enemy and fight at your side for 20 seconds.
The shade attacks nearby enemies within 9 meters of it, dealing 623 Magic Damage once every 2 seconds and afflicting them with Minor Maim for 4 seconds, reducing their damage done by 5%.
The summoned shade's attacks now hit in an area and deal increased damage.
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Summon a shade version of yourself to stay in place and attack an enemy from range for 20 seconds.
The shade shoots at an enemy, dealing 478 Magic Damage every 2 seconds, and inflicts Minor Maim for 4 seconds, reducing the enemy's damage done by 5%.
While the shade is summoned, you can activate this ability again for no cost to teleport to the shade's location.
The summoned shade now is stationary and attacks from a range but costs more. Activating the ability again while the shade is active allows you to teleport to its position.
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| Passive abilities | |
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Increases your Health, Stamina, and Magicka Recovery by 15%. |
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Casting a Shadow ability grants you Major Resolve for 12 seconds, increasing your Physical and Spell Resistance by 5948. This duration is increased by 2 seconds for each piece of Heavy Armor equipped. Current duration: 12 seconds |
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Increases your Max Health by 5% for each Shadow ability slotted. |
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Increases the duration of your non-invisibility based Shadow abilities by 2 seconds. |