I must admit i greatly disagree with the first post at this subject about the "tricky/crap" skills.I believe that learning to use these skills effectively is what makes this class kinda tough to master and it does not make them garbage.After some consideration i worked a few shadow skills that let me waltz through the game on heroic level.The only times that i died(yep i did) was when my enemies were ganging on me and killed me on 1 round.

My BASE for this build are the following skills:
Implosion
Psycho for
Epiphany
Insecurity
Dark Echoes
Dark Infusion
And extended us of Free Will for survival

It works like this:Psycho Form + Epiphany + Insecurity + Dark Infusion + Dark Echoes (+Implosion if you don't have a healing enemy or know that he is not going to heal)

e.g:With instinct at let's say 250(not hard to get) we get
Psycho Form:Instinct goes to 325
Epiphany:384+10%=422 dmg
Insecurity:384*130%=499 dmg
Dark Infusion:(now I believe it does about 60% of your inst in dot so i will go with that) (384+150)*130%=694 dmg
Dark Echoes:(384+150)*154%=822 dmg
If you use the Implosion it jumps for one turn at 2500 dmg

So in 6 turns(7 if you count the form) with an instict of 250 you 422+499+694+822(+~2500)+(Echoes)500+(Infusion)+300=3300 dmg (or 6k with implosion.
This additional 10% was added cause of the overdrive.Because of that i personally throw a free will in there to stop the damage and in addition heal me

Tell me your thoughts people.It's not only that i like this build(if it's any good you will tell me) it's also fun to play

Any thoughts?

yeah, I recently found if you you use dark echos and insecurity +psycho form it can cause some major DoT. But the timming can be tricky with dark echos because it doesn't last long, and sometimes the move order changes. Plus thats alot of stuff to throw at a enemy. One can kill a enemy with that cheap kill move in the same number of moves. But then perhaps people don't want to play with that anyways.

Will power is a great move, but you only have so many slots. I find mostly 1 willpower and 1 terrify is more then enough for defensive purposes. Your allies take care of the rest. Plus terrify does damage and lasts much longer then willpower. Its the only one you need for yourself for the most part.

Whats implosion do for you?(don't want to have to load the game just to find out) And why should one use it?

thanks for the guide

good guide, but i refer phyhical i just like health.

@truepurple:Implosion triples the dot damage for one turn.If you have an enemy pumped with shadow dots it effectively kills him.whenever i have used it against an enemy that DOESN'T HEAL that turn...well he died the same turn

So there are a few good shadow psycho builds...

If it says "Increases" it's 110%. I don't see why it wouldn't be

Wraith form increases speed by 400%. The total comes to 500% when you add the 100% you do normally, just like in this case ^^. Same thing goes with implosion. 300% more means it quadruples DoT.

Stone devil, does it do more or less total damage to do another Dark Infusion instead of a Dark Echoes, then implosion?

Shadow is surprising me the more I use it. It's kind of tricky to see how all the moves work together and then come up with a build that's both powerful and versatile... but it's fun :).

How do you know it doesn't mean that it just increases the speed 400% rather then 400% more?

@Jerkoid:I really wouldn't know since seeing that i'm an absolute freak i only went with what i thought was originally a sound plan through the whole game.Maybe it would do more damage but the insecurity+echoes debuffing that i use made the whole DoT thing heavily damage even things resistant to shadow(as they both make enemies less resistant to shadow attacks)

@truepurple:are you sure we are talking about the same skill here mate?i'm talking about implosion not the wraith form

And i made a serious mistake at my first post.Overdrive is +100% damage not 10%.So take my calculation and add about 85% to see it(I think it goes at sth like 10k+ at the end).Sorry ppl