Shadowblade is a preset Class in Divinity Original Sin 2 (DOS 2). The Shadowblade class focuses on Scoundrel and Polymorph abilities, they can deal significant physical damage to enemies with skills like Backlash. Their primary attributes are Finesse and Wits and prefer wielding one-handed weapons. The Polymorph abilities grants them one additional attribute to start with.
"A powerful assassin whose arsenal of both daggers and magic would terrify any enemy, if they ever saw it coming."
Divinity Original Sin 2 Shadowblade Talents
Guerilla: While sneaking, attack damage is increased by 40%
Divinity Original Sin 2 Shadowblade Starting Skills
Chameleon Cloak: Blend into the environment as if invisible
Backlash: Jump over an enemy, landing behind their back and backstabbing them
Chicken Claw: Turn a target into a chicken
Divinity Original Sin 2 Shadowblade Mercenary Recruitment
If you recruit a Shadowblade on the Lady Vengeance, you get Shanova, a female Undead Human starting with:
Sleeping Arms: Deal damage, set Atrophy, and disable target from using weapons
Spread your Wings: Gain the ability to fly over ground surfaces
Bull Horns: Gain the ability to rush at enemies, dealing Physical damage and setting Bleeding
Throwing Knife: Throw a knife at a target, dealing damage with the ability to backstab
Divinity Original Sin 2 Shadowblade Tips
- Consider choosing Elf (Flesh Sacrifice) or Dwarf (+1 Sneaking) as your race for this class
- Alternatively, consider choosing Undead Human (+2 Initiative & +5% Critical Chance, skeletal fingers as lockpicks)
AnonymousI can't find a single Shadowblade based build. Most "assassin" builds are based off of rogues. Any help would be appreciated
- Anonymous
If you don't start with thievery then pick this class for the earliest companion you can get. If you get this class for Fane or Red Prince on level 1, you can have 2 thievery in the joy (or even 3 with All Skilled Up) which helps a lot.
- Anonymous
As a tips : A cross classes that work very well based on DOS1 Shadowblade and ported to DOS2 is an Elf with 1 thieviery and 1 necromancy, 1 in Intel, Dext, and Wits, than max necr (with stuff and points) at around 5. Take the leech talent level 1 at the creation. You will obtain a character with an absurd sustain, high mobility and DPS, with minimal investment in term of points. Moreover, the cross-class build allow you to build up thief and mage armor, giving you high magic armor and mid phy armor. Combined with your high mobility, you can strike on any elemental surface without fear, then TP away or sneak. With the amazing dps of some Thief source skill, you can regen full life from one spell or combo. Try it, you'll enjoy it ;)
- Anonymous
The Shadow-blade has one more attribute point. so for mid maxers maybe this is the class to pick then change the ever living crap out of it to be a wizard or something.
- Anonymous
Interesting bug with Shadowblade. When recruiting an Origin character to your party as a Shadowblade, the attribute point they are supposed to get for having one point in Polymorph will be lost for the entirety of the game. I imagine this probably happens with any class that starts with a point(s) in Polymorph.
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