Shadow Knight

Shadowknights are unholy warriors who use fear, pain and disease to attack all that is good in the world. Shadowknights are primarily a melee class, able to wear plate armor and wield many kinds of weapons. Shadowknights are deadly opponents who use evil spells to slow and cripple their enemies. They steal the strength and life from their victims, using this stolen power to strengthen themselves and their allies. When needed, shadowknights use their powerful harm touch ability to greatly damage their opponents. Shadowknights can feign the appearance of death, fooling enemies into ignoring them. Combined with spells that degrade an enemy's ability to fight, a shadowknight becomes a fearsome foe. Shadowknights can use their dark powers to adventure solo for a time. The shadowknight's lethal abilities are best used, however, with the support of a larger group. Players who like offensive melee fights but want a variety of ways to inflict harm on their opponents will enjoy playing a shadowknight.

In EverQuest Legends every character combines three classes — Shadow Knight can be your primary (locked at level 11) or one of two swappable companion classes.

Skills by level (from the game client)

Level	Skill	Cap
1	1H Blunt	250
1	1H Piercing	250
1	1H Slashing	250
1	2H Blunt	250
1	2H Piercing	250
1	2H Slashing	250
1	Abjuration	250
1	Alteration	250
1	Archery	220
1	Athletics	250
1	Bash	225
1	Channeling	200
1	Conjuration	250
1	Defense	230
1	Divination	250
1	Evocation	250
1	Hand to Hand	195
1	Meditate	250
1	Offense	200
1	Strategy	250
1	Taunt	200
1	Throwing	250
9	Reave	210
10	Disarm	255
10	Dodge	205
15	Parry	180
20	Double Attack	225
20	Riposte	155
35	Hide	75

General & tradeskills (15)

1	Alcohol Tolerance	275
1	Begging	250
1	Bind Wound	275
1	Fishing	200
1	Sense Heading	200
1	Swimming	250
1	Alchemy	300
1	Baking	300
1	Blacksmithing	300
1	Brewing	300
1	Fletching	300
1	Jewelry Making	300
1	Pottery	300
1	Tailoring	300
16	Tinkering	300

Alternate Advancement (browse all)

Shadow Knight-specific

Archetype

Stances

Balanced stance

All incoming damage is reduced by 10% and your chance to hit is increased by 10%. Endurance regen excluding out of combat bonus regen is doubled. There is no endurance cost to upkeep this stance.

💬 You probably won't use this until you get a weapon with high base damage and then you'll see the offense and striking stances drain stamina fast. This is a good stance to sit in when you need to regain stamina during a long fight.
Offensive stance

Outgoing melee damage is increased by 100% and your chance to hit is increased by 25%. Every point of bonus damage dealt consumes an equal amount of endurance, with a reduction based on your Strategy skill.
When below 25% endurance, the chance to hit bonus is reduced based on the remaining percent of endurance.
Bonus damage from critical hits and similar effects do not cost endurance.

💬 The best stance for most cases when you're in melee. The 25% bonus to hit really helps you fight higher level mobs and double damage keeps you moving through all levels.
Defensive stance

All incoming melee damage is reduced by 50% and incoming magical damage is reduced by 20%. Every point of damage reduced consumes an equal amount of endurance, with a reduction based on your Strategy skill.

💬 You'll possibly use this in raids if you're main tank, but if you MC a caster, channeler stance may be better. If you have Evasive stance from another class, that's probably better also.
Mage Hunter stance

All incoming spell damage is reduced by 50% and incoming physical damage is reduced by 20%. Every point of damage reduced consumes an equal amount of endurance, with a reduction based on your Strategy skill.

💬 This stance sounds pretty good but you're often gonna take just as much damage from a casting mob's melee attacks, so evasive or channeler's stance is a net positive over this one in many cases.
Arcane Mastery invocation

Spell cast and recovery times are reduced by 20% plus 10% per additional intelligence class. The mana cost of detrimental spells is reduced by 10% plus 5% per additional intelligence class.

💬 Great if you're multi-classing with other int casters. Inversion is better otherwise, imo.
Recovery invocation

You regenerate mana twice as fast and spells have a 5% reduced mana cost.
Out of combat regen bonus is not affected.
While out of combat, the regeneration modifier of this invocation is active even if this invocation is not.

💬 You don't need to switch to this invocation to get the regen when you're not in combat! It's just free passive regen!
Inversion invocation

Shifts two-thirds of spell cast time into the global recovery time and 20% of the mana cost into half as much in endurance cost.

💬 The go-to for spellblade setup. You'll have less downtime if you kill enemies faster and spend more time with out of combat regen, so chain nuke them with inversion on!
Overchannel invocation

Cast spells have a -150 resist adjust plus another -15 for every non-hybrid caster class at a cost of 10% of the mana cost in endurance.

💬 Nice if you're hitting a wisp or a higher level mob that's resisting your nukes and dots.
Spellblade invocation

Treats the first spell-gem slot as a proc that consumes both mana and endurance on activation.
40% of the spell's mana cost is paid as mana and 20% as endurance.
The spell must have a reuse time less than or equal to its cast time.

💬 Put your best nuke into your first spell-gem slot. This is best when you're dual wielding with fast attack speed so you don't lose dps while casting spells. It's good to juggle this with Inversion invocation - when you've hit your procs and you know it'll be another minute before proc chance resets, or if you need to heal mid-fight, switch to inversion. This one's also good to throw on when you're in a long fight and you start running low on mana.