Revision 2

The Shadowstrix is the assassin of the six classes in Mistfall Hunter, a fast, evasive fighter that slips in and out of fights rather than standing toe to toe. The reveal videos spell it Shadow Strix, but it is the same class. Unlike a few of its siblings on the Classes page, it brings both of its weapons to launch: Daggers in one stance and Dual Blades in the other, each with two distinct playstyles.

Daggers

Daggers split into the Burst and Shadow Veil playstyles. The Burst Build hands the Shadowstrix a strong, short-lived damage boost and an energy recovery effect the moment it breaks stealth, which turns invisibility into a genuine threat. Layered with its crowd-control and mobility skills, it coordinates well with teammates for sudden ambushes. The Shadow Veil Build leans on Frequency Shift and Shadow Veil to cycle stealth on a loop, letting you duck back into hiding right after a strike and weave through opponents with a slippery, hard-to-pin playstyle.

Dual Blades

Dual Blades offer two approaches, Wound Burst and Damage Stacking. The Wound Burst Build piles up wound stacks through fast attacks, then detonates them for a huge instantaneous spike; it relies on high mobility to dart into a fight and clean it up. The Damage Stacking Build earns a damage multiplier after landing several hits, so every attack in that state grows more dangerous, making it well suited to sustained, grinding damage over a longer fight.

The class reveal named a slice of the kit across both weapons: Sneak, Crow Storm, Shadow Strike, Flurry Strike, Phantom Shift, and Bloody Blade Dance, alongside Shadow Veil and the afterimage effects that turn mobility into extra attack windows.

Archetypes at a glance

Between cycling stealth on the Daggers and stacking wounds on the Dual Blades, the Shadowstrix rewards players who like picking their moment and vanishing before the counterattack lands. For the dodge and energy mechanics that keep it mobile, see Combat and Weapons.

Balance at launch

The Shadowstrix came out of the June test overperforming, with the developers pointing at how much mobility and chained crowd control its skills offered for the cost. The response was targeted rather than broad: Crow Storm no longer stacks on an opponent who is already stunned, and its damage was reduced slightly. The aim was to cut the cheap lock-down chains without touching the class's core hit-and-hide identity. See Combat and Weapons for the wider tuning pass.

The launch pass went further than Crow Storm alone. Damage increases from weapon-specific skills and talents now only apply while the matching weapon is drawn. On daggers, Shadow Wheel Slash's damage hitbox was tuned for more consistent consecutive hits, the Lurking Blow talent's damage boost was cut slightly, a new Ambush Momentum talent grants a brief damage boost after casting Shadow Strike, and the Nimble talent's cooldown reduction now triggers only once when an afterimage hits several targets at once. On dual blades, Fang Rush's hitbox was tuned for landing consistency. Pursuit Strike and Jumping Pursuit Strike both had their mobility toned down, and the Heavy Strike Mastery talent was reworked: it no longer adds a cooldown to Pursuit Strike, keeping the zero-Energy cost behind its own internal cooldown instead.