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Comment by varenne

"Dark Ritual Treasure is located in Hallowfall zone
In Cave
Contains Shadowed Essence

Dark Ritual treasure is a part of Treasures of Hallowfall achievement.
/way #2215 59.63 59.32 2 Dark Ritual

Dark Ritual video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fqkoJxkMIM

All Hallowfall Zone Treasures:

id		Coordinates	Note	Reward	Video
1	Caesper	41.78 58.24	Buy Meaty Haunch at 69.25 43.95 give it to Caesper	Recipe: Exquisitely Eviscerated Muscle	https://youtu.be/RXt2-snD5pw
2	Dark Ritual	59.63 59.32	In Cave	Shadowed Essence	https://youtu.be/5fqkoJxkMIM
3	Illusive Kobyss Lure	4 areas	Loot and combine 4 items	Illusive Kobyss Lure	https://youtu.be/hc54bEZGXfk
4	Priory Satchel	30.22 38.77	Windswept Satchel	Arathor Courier's Satchel	https://youtu.be/UZ_BppHtWX4
5	Sunken Cache	4 areas	Speak with 4 captains that fly in the zeppelins in the sky Sky-Captain Dornald & Sky-Captain Onaro & Sky-Captain Aerthin & Sky-Captain Clairmonte	Silver Linin' Scepter	https://youtu.be/hOBxJG6IJ2k
6	Spore-Covered Coffer	75.99 53.53	In cave respawn is shared with other players	Craft reagents	https://youtu.be/qOLnPX_l8Rc
7	Smuggler's Treasure	55.13 51.93	Smuggler's Key is in the body near the shore, fly down from the Chest	Jar of Pickles	https://youtu.be/H6ZD5p5_ayo
8	Arathi Loremaster	6 books & 48.75 64.71	Collect 6 books from Biblo Archivist and solve Ryfus Sacredpyr riddles	Arathi Book Collection	https://youtu.be/mtT_bdS7wz4
9	Jewel of the Cliffs	55.79 69.54	Middle lvl of the mountain	Gem	https://youtu.be/l7PU3gaKv-E
10	Lost Necklace	50.09 13.86	Lost Memento	Lightbearer's Pendant	https://youtu.be/C4QP-9Juy5c
11	Illuminated Footlocker	57.48 27.46	57.48 27.46 Cave	Cave Spelunker's Torch	https://youtu.be/PYSH9g8xxEQ

/way #2215 69.25 43.95 1 Caesper - Buy Meaty Haunch
/way #2215 41.78 58.24 2 Caesper - give Meaty Haunch to Caesper
/way #2215 59.63 59.32 2 Dark Ritual
/way #2215 54.93 27.27 3 Illusive Kobyss Lure - 1 Loot Sunless Lure from Kobyss Shadeshaper
/way #2215 35.39 53.79 3 Illusive Kobyss Lure - 2 Ragefin Necrostaff drops from Ragefin Necromancer
/way #2215 49.15 48.33 3 Illusive Kobyss Lure - 3 Hungering Shimmerfin drops from Hungering Shimmerfin
/way #2215 48.23 17.50 3 Illusive Kobyss Lure - 4 Murkfin Lure drops from Murkfin Depthstalker
/way #2215 30.22 38.77 4 Priory Satchel
/way #2215 55.11 37.65 5 Sky-Captains' Sunken Cache
/way #2215 75.99 53.53 6 Spore-covered Coffer
/way #2215 55.13 51.93 7 Smuggler's Treasure
/way #2215 48.75 64.71 8 Arathi Loremaster - 1 Collect Palawltar's Codex of Dimensional Structure
/way #2215 69.36 43.98 8 Arathi Loremaster - 2 Collect Care and Feeding of the Imperial Lynx
/way #2215 64.21 28.09 8 Arathi Loremaster - 3 Collect Shadow Curfew Guidelines
/way #2215 56.56 65.18 8 Arathi Loremaster - 4 Collect Beledar- The Emperor's Vision
/way #2215 70.21 56.85 8 Arathi Loremaster - 5 Collect The Song of Renilash
/way #2215 48.11 39.56 8 Arathi Loremaster - 6 Collect The Big Book of Arathi Idioms
/way #2215 40.04 51.13 8 Arathi Loremaster - 7 Collect 6 books and Solve Ryfus Sacredpyr Riddle
/way #2215 55.79 69.54 9 Jewel of the Cliffs
/way #2215 50.09 13.86 10 Lost Necklace
/way #2215 57.48 27.46 11 Illuminated Footlocker"

Comment by BasedMike

Ever felt like your class needs a pet? Get this thing and have a pet shadow orb follow you all day long (as long as you stay in combat).

So what exactly does this fluffy ball of shadow and death do? He likes to do 3 things, here's a list for ya:

He likes to buff your crit with Dark Embrace.
He also likes to increase your main stat with Shadowed Essence.
Oh and he also likes to tickle your enemies with around 85k shadow dmg hits, which can also crit for almost double the damage.

All in all, this little guy will help you kill stuff and ask nothing in return, he's great like that.

I also named mine Grahgloar, wish I could pet him or something.

Comment by dillybar

Hunters, if you like use of camouflage and other abilities or steering clear of combat to get through objectives, avoid this trinket like the plague. It will pull out out of camo, it will keep you in combat while feigning death, it is a real mess to work with. Yes it is a nice trinket for when you actually NEED to be in combat, but if you aren't looking to be in combat, it will find a way to ensure you stay in combat. ***EDIT: you can click on the buff to remove it if you need to get out of combat while feigning, which is nice. ***EDIT 2: Actually it keeps putting the buff back on my character when I'm trying to feign, and even damages mobs I put an ice trap on, this is an all around disaster of a trinket LOL

Comment by ivanstrel

As Shadowed Essence buff only grants 1373 of your primary stat at L80, this trinket punches WAY below its ilvl of 571.

Not worth trading out a fully-upgraded Awakened trinket for at 528.

Comment by DrewBMeeks

iLVL is incorrect as of live, this now drops as Level 80 required, and while the mobs for the Dark Ritual will be scaled, the final fiend will be level 80.

Comment by TinyOctopus

Wanted to add that you don't have to click the book to start the ritual to get the item. As long as you are there, you can click the purple glowy orb. I assume you have to hit the end guy, but considering that the item isn't actually looted from the last spawn in the ritual, you might not even need to do that.

So, if you see other people there, everyone can get their own Shadowed Essence. Sharing is Caring.

Comment by Aurawyn

Any idea if upgrading this improves the damage?

Comment by trius0

UPDATE 30.08; I'VE MADE SOME OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THIS TRINKET, SHARED DOWN BELOW.

Upgraded to ilvl 580 and tested this on my frost DK (also 580), during a Darkflame Cleft HC run.

As a random sample from that run, it gave me these effects:

Shadowed Essence - Damages enemies (2.9% of my damage, 62 hits of which 11.3% critical hits)
Shadowed Essence - Gives main stat (It had 72% uptime, read below)
Dark Embrace - Gives Critical Strike chance (It had 80% uptime, read below)
All of these individually last for 30 seconds when active.

Here's the thing; i can't figure out if the amount of stats is random, or if it's conditional. But the main stat and crit seems to be different from time to time.

UPDATE: By chance and with some trial and error together with a friend I've been able to makes the findings below.

This trinket not only gives you, but the whole party the Dark Embrace crit buff when it procs for the wielder.

Testing with a friend primarily on target dummies, I have also noticed the following.

For each player in your group who also has Shadowed Essence equipped, the total Dark Embrace critical strike amount increases for everyone
For each player in your group who also has Shadowed Essence equipped, the total Shadowed Essence main stat amount increases for those using the trinket
When a player with Shadowed Essence procs Dark Embrace crit buff, it refreshes the duration for everyone
When a player with Shadowed Essence procs Shadowed Essence main stat buff, it refreshes the duration for all players who also use Shadowed Essence
EDIT:After testing several time over and over, It seems Shadowed Essence main stat always triggers when just about anything dies nearby, including critters which may have caused the confusion on previous test. HOWEVER, testing on target dummy continuously, it seems there might be some sort of interaction with unholy DK's pets dying as well. Trying repeatedly it seems to trigger off certain models from Apocalypse and Magus of the Dead minions when they die, but not consistently. Neither combatlog nor Details say anything else nearby got hit or killed. My friend was testing as unholy, and i replicated this solo when swapping to unholy myself. More testing required to say for sure.
I tried tracking this buff in Details to see uptime on party members without the trinket, but the buff only gets shown on those with the trinket equipped
Despite the buff not showing on Details, i have confirmed Dark Embrace actually increase everyones critical strike chance to the amount stated in tooltip.
This requires more testing, but as an observation it seems the active damage component of Shadowed Essence might cause it to be active more or hit more often?

Given that other trinkets give (possibly) more stats with 100% uptime, it's hard to value it appropriately given that this trinket also has the damage component on top of the crit it gives everyone and main stat it gives other trinket wielders. I want to test this with more players to see how much it might affect uptime and total stat gained by everyone. It wouldn't shock me if Blizzard intentionally made the trinket with the vaguest description the strongest for early game if used correctly. Who knows.

THIS WILL NINJA PULL! If you target an enemy that hasn't been pulled while the orb is out, it will start to damage it automatically. This happened to me when i stood alone near boss.

Sidenotes:
Dark Embrace will only give crit.
I read people say Dark Embrace triggers of critical strikes, this is false.

Comment by Khatun

The amount of times this trinket has pulled enemies from a distance, man. And also critters for whatever reason

Comment by mommyclz

Somehow managed to finish this event on a level 74 resto shaman . .. solo. of course i cant use the trinket until i'm 80?

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Shadowed Essence

Item Level 571
Binds when picked up
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Equip: Entering combat summons an orb of dark power to assist you.
Requires Level 70

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