Shadow Flare

Cantrip. Throw an orb of shadow magic that damages nearby foes at your targeted location. You may reactivate this skill to swap places with the orb. Deals increased damage to your marked target. — In-game description

Shadow Flare

   

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Specialization

Deadeye

Slot

Utility

Type

Cantrip

Sequence

 → 

Training cost

15 Hero points

Game link

API

41158

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0.75¾  

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30

 

Shadow Flare

Cantrip. Throw an orb of shadow magic that damages nearby foes at your targeted location. You may reactivate this skill to swap places with the orb. Deals increased damage to your marked target.

 Damage: 266 (1.0)^?

 Damage Increase against Mark: 50%

 Number of Targets: 5

 Duration: 4 seconds

 Radius: 240

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadeye

• One in the Chamber — When you cast a cantrip, gain a random new stolen skill. Stolen skills deal more damage. (Requires a marked target. Overwrites existing stolen skills.)
• Payback — When Renewing Gaze triggers, this trait restores a portion of the recharge time needed by your healing, utility, and elite skills. Excludes racial skills.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 18, 2023	Reduced power coefficient from 2.0 to 1.0.
June 27, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE only. This skill now only damages once when used instead of pulsing.
July 24, 2018	Fixed a bug that allowed a thief to have more than one flare out at a time.
May 08, 2018	This skill no longer scales damage with the amount of malice a thief has and instead deals 50% more damage to the marked target.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Shadow Flare has been added to the game.