Level 13: Encounter Power
Choose one of the following powers
| Blade of Nihil | Duskblade Attack 13 |
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"Dark energy pulsates around your foe as you strike, draining any supernatural benefits and bringing it down to your level."
Encounter • Psychic, Shadow, Weapon
Standard Action Melee Weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Charisma modifier damage and until the end of your next turn the target does not benefit from any aura effects, bonuses from powers or monster traits, or saving throw bonuses for being an elite or solo monster.
| Necrotic Spines | Duskblade Attack 13 |
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"Black spikes of necrotic energy rise from the ground, skewering your foe and binding them in place."
Encounter • Necrotic, Shadow, Weapon
Standard Action Close Blast 3
Target: Each enemy in blast
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Charisma modifier necrotic damage and the target is immobilized until the end of your next turn.
| Nightshade Fangs | Duskblade Attack 13 |
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"You impale your enemies with toxic blades expelled from your own shadow, leaving them weak and suffering."
Encounter • Poison, Shadow, Weapon
Standard Action Close Burst 1
Target: Each enemy in burst
Attack: Charisma vs. Fortitude
Hit: 2[W] + Charisma modifier poison damage and the target deals half damage to your allies until the end of your next turn.
| Vampiric Talon | Duskblade Attack 13 |
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"Your Mark of Woe sets up a conduit between yourself and your enemy, allowing you to drain the lifeforce of your foe on impact."
Encounter • Necrotic, Shadow, Weapon
Standard Action Melee or Ranged Weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Charisma modifier necrotic damage and you or one ally within 5 squares of you may spend a healing surge to gain temporary hit points equal to their healing surge value.
| Nightwing Strike | Duskblade Attack 13 |
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"Your shadowy aura coalesces into dark wings which cast you forward through the wind to strike at your chosen foe."
Encounter • Shadow, Weapon
Standard Action Melee Weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Effect: Before the attack, you may fly up to your speed + 4.
Hit: 3[W] + Charisma modifier damage.
Special: You may use this power as a melee basic attack when charging. The flight allowed by this power is considered the movement portion of the charge.
Choose one of the following powers.
| Curse of the Softened Blade | Duskblade Attack 15 |
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The decay of the shadowfell is imparted to your foe's weapon as it strikes, and you follow-up its attack with a vicious counterstrike.
Daily ♦ Curse, Necrotic, Shadow, Weapon
Immediate Reaction Melee Weapon
Trigger: You are hit or missed by an attack
Target: Triggering creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Fortitude
Hit: 2[W] + Charisma modifier necrotic damage and the target takes a -2 penalty to damage rolls (save ends). Each time the target makes an attack that doesn't include you, the penalty increases by 2 (maximum -10).
Effect:Until the end of the encounter or until you end the effect as a free action, an enemy marked by your Mark of Woe becomes weakened until the end of its next turn when it makes an attack which doesn't include you as a target.
| Curse of the Shade Wall | Duskblade Attack 15 |
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Your Aura of Unluck becomes a tangible barrier infused with the power of your curse. Enemies which defy the barrier suffer the consequences.
Daily ♦ Curse, Force, Shadow, Weapon, Zone
Standard Action Close Burst 2
Target: Each enemy in burst
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Charisma modifier force damage.
Effect: The burst creates a zone which lasts until the end of the encounter or until you dismiss it as a free action. Whenever an enemy willingly leaves the zone, even by teleporting, it takes 5 + your Constitution modifier force damage. In addition,Until the end of the encounter or until you end the effect as a free action, an enemy marked by your Mark of Woe takes 5 + your Constitution modifier force damage when it makes an attack that doesn't include you as a target, and you may slide the target 1 square after its attack is resolved.
| Curse of the Skull Shields | Duskblade Attack 15 |
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Your Mark of Woe glows on the back of your hand, and you reach out, forming shields of purple flame to guard your allies from harm.
Daily ♦ Curse, Fire, Shadow, Weapon
Standard Action Ranged 5
Target: One, two, or three creatures
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + Charisma modifier fire damage and if the target attacks one of your allies before the end of your next turn it takes 5 + your Wisdom modifier fire damage.
Effect:Until the end of the encounter or until you end the effect as a free action, when an enemy marked by your Mark of Woe makes an attack that doesn't include you as a target, the target of their attack gains resist 5 all against that attack and the enemy takes 10 fire damage.
| Curse of Enveloping Death | Duskblade Attack 15 |
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Your shadow power floods outward like a wave, washing over enemies and binding them in sludgy darkness.
Daily ♦ Curse, Necrotic, Shadow, Weapon
Standard Action Close Blast 3
Target: Each enemy in blast
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Charisma modifier necrotic damage and the target is immobilized and takes ongoing 10 necrotic damage (save ends both).
Effect:Until the end of the encounter or until you end the effect as a free action, an enemy marked by your Mark of Woe takes 10 necrotic damage and is immobilized until the end of its next turn when it makes an attack that doesn't include you as a target.
| Curse of the Beast | Duskblade Attack 15 |
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Shadow power infuses your flesh and transforms you briefly into a monstrous horror of wispy shadows armored in solid darkness.
Daily ♦ Curse, Polymorph, Shadow, Weapon
Standard Action Melee Weapon
Effect: You transform into a shadow beast until the end of the encounter or until you return to your normal form as a minor action. While in shadow beast form you have a +2 power bonus to all defenses, a +4 power bonus to speed, and a power bonus to melee damage rolls equal to your Constitution modifier. You then make the following attack.
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 3[W] + Charisma modifier damage.
Effect:Until the end of the encounter or until you end the effect as a free action, when an enemy marked by your Mark of Woe makes an attack that doesn't include you as a target, you may make a melee basic attack against the target.
| Curse of the Vampire | Duskblade Utility 16 |
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As you strike, you leech some of the energy from a foe to heal yourself or an ally.
Encounter ♦ Healing, Shadow
Free Action Close Burst 5
Trigger: You hit an enemy
Target: You or one ally in burst
Effect: The target regains hit points equal to half the damage dealt by the triggering attack. If the target would regain hit points beyond its maximum, it keeps the remainder as temporary hit points.
| Curse of Shifting Shades | Duskblade Utility 16 |
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Darkness blankets the field and allows you to move unseen.
Daily ♦ Shadow, Zone
Move Action Close Burst 5
Target: You and each ally in burst
Effect: The burst creates a zone of magical darkness that lasts until the end of your next turn. While within the zone, enemies are blinded unless they have darkvision. In addition, each target may shift 1 square as a free action.
Sustain Minor: The zone persists.
| Curse of Obsidian | Duskblade Utility 16 |
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Your Mark of Woe flares with black light and it coats your body, turning your flesh and your weapon black and lustrous.
Daily ♦ Shadow, Stance
Minor Action Personal
Effect: Until the stance ends you can score a critical hit with weapon attacks on a roll of 18-20, and your weapon gains the High Crit property. However, until the stance ends, you gain vulnerable 5 to all damage.
| Curse of Unholy Endurance | Duskblade Utility 16 |
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You sacrifice your future vitality for the will to keep fighting now.
Encounter ♦ Healing, Shadow
Minor Action Personal
Effect: You regain hit points as if you had spent a healing surge. At the end of this encounter, you lose two healing surges.
| Spines of Niflheim | Duskblade Attack 17 |
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Blades of mist-shrouded bone erupt from your aura to seek the flesh of the living, impaling them and pinning them to the ground.
Encounter • Cold, Shadow, Weapon
Standard Action Area Burst 1 within 5 squares
Target: Each enemy in burst
Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex
Hit: 2[W] + Charisma modifier cold damage and the target is immobilized until the end of your next turn. While the target is immobilized by this power, it takes 10 cold damage at the start of its turn.
| Specter's Heart Strike | Duskblade Attack 17 |
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You raise your weapon and glowing eyes appear in the night. Your enemy is assaulted by the grief-filled visions of those which linger after death.
Encounter ♦ Illusion, Psychic, Shadow, Weapon
Standard Action Close Burst 2
Target: Each enemy in burst
Attack: Charisma vs. Will
Hit: Ongoing 20 psychic damage (save ends).
| Devil's Divide | Duskblade Attack 17 |
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You lunge forward with a brutal strike that cleaves the earth in front of you, leaving behind a gash of bubbling necrotic miasma.
Encounter ♦ Necrotic, Shadow, Weapon, Zone
Standard Action Melee Weapon + 1 Reach
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Charisma modifier damage + 2d6 necrotic damage. You generate a zone of difficult terrain in a close blast 3 using the target's space as the origin square. The zone lasts until the end of your next turn.
Brutal Avenger: Enemies which enter or leave the zone take 5 + your Constitution modifier necrotic damage.
| Pharoh's Chains | Duskblade Attack 17 |
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Iron chains erupt from your shadowy aura and coil around your foes, wrapping them tight and making them easy targets.
Encounter ♦ Conjuration, Necrotic, Shadow, Weapon
Standard Action Close Blast 3
Target: Each enemy in burst
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Charisma modifier necrotic damage. You conjure up to four iron chains in four unoccupied squares in the blast. Each chain lasts until the end of your next turn. Each chain grabs one enemy which was hit by this power (of your choice). The chains may only grab one creature at a time, and the creature remains grabbed while adjacent to the chain.
Valiant Defender: Creatures grabbed by the chains grant combat advantage.
| Bone Golem Rampage | Duskblade Attack 17 |
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Your Mark of Woe sucks in shadow power and your body is covered in protective plates of bone. Using these long bones, your reach is increased.
Encounter ♦ , Shadow, Weapon
Standard Action Melee Weapon + 1
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Charisma modifier damage and until the end of your next turn your reach increases by 1 and you can make opportunity attacks against any creature within your melee reach.
Enduring Warrior: You gain a +2 power bonus to all defenses until the end of your next turn.
| Curse of Fated Fall | Duskblade Attack 19 |
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Your enemy's downfall has been decided long before your steel tasted his blood, you only intend to see its fated end occur.
Daily ♦ Curse, Shadow
Standard Action Melee Weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 3[W] + Charisma modifier damage, or 5[W] + Charisma modifier damage if the target is bloodied.
Effect:Until the end of the encounter or until you end the effect as a free action, an enemy subjected to your Mark of Woe becomes takes 1[W] extra damage from weapon attacks until the end of its next turn when it makes an attack that doesn't include you as a target. If that attack's target is bloodied, the extra damage is 2[W].
| Curse of Despair | Duskblade Attack 19 |
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Your Mark of Woe echoes the sorrow of lovers parted and dreams lost to time. Your enemy hears its lamentations and grows morose and uncoordinated.
Daily ♦ Curse, Charm, Psychic, Shadow
Standard Action Melee Weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Will
Hit: 2[W] + Charisma modifier psychic damage and the target is slowed, weakened, can't spend action points, and can't regain hit points (save ends all).
Effect:Until the end of the encounter or until you end the effect as a free action, an enemy subjected to your Mark of Woe is slowed and weakened until the end of its next turn when it makes an attack that doesn't include you as a target.
| Curse of Hell's Grasp | Duskblade Attack 19 |
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The suffering awaiting damned souls echoes through your Mark of Woe, flooding into your foe's body and wracking them with pain.
Daily ♦ Curse, Fire, Shadow
Standard Action Melee Weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 3[W] + Charisma modifier fire damage and the target takes ongoing 10 fire damage (save ends). Each time it takes this damage, it also falls prone.
Effect:Until the end of the encounter or until you end the effect as a free action, an enemy subjected to your Mark of Woe takes 5 + your Charisma modifier fire damage and falls prone when it makes an attack that doesn't include you as a target.
| Curse of the Banshee | Duskblade Attack 19 |
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A sorrowful keening rings from your blade as you strike, afflicting your foes with fear and hopelessness as they see their end fast approaching.
Daily ♦ Curse, Fear, Thunder, Shadow
Standard Action Melee Weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Will
Hit: 4[W] + Charisma modifier thunder damage and the target is dazed (save ends).
Effect:Until the end of the encounter or until you end the effect as a free action, an enemy subjected to your Mark of Woe becomes dazed until the end of its next turn when it makes an attack that doesn't include you as a target.
| Curse of the Death Bringer | Duskblade Attack 19 |
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Your Mark of Woe seethes with power and its energy washes over you, giving you a brief boost of supernatural power.
Daily ♦ Curse, Shadow
Standard Action Melee Weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 4[W] + Charisma modifier damage and you gain temporary hit points equal to your healing surge value. Until the end of the encounter, when you have temporary hit points from any source, your shadow powers deal 1[W] extra damage to marked targets.
Effect:Until the end of the encounter or until you end the effect as a free action, you gain 10 temporary hit points each time an enemy marked by your Mark of Woe makes an attack that doesn't include you as a target.
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