The Shadow Knight is a plate wearing fighter that can use all types of weapons. It has a mix of necromancer spells of a lower level than his own for boosting their damage output by casting damage over time spells on enemies or leeching hitpoints with life tap spells , while also having a number of spells unique to the class that allow the draining of attack power, armor class or other stats while buffing themselves with the power they stole for a short period of time. Also, the Shadow Knight has a few spells with a high aggression modifier that he can use to maintain an enemies attention. In addition, they get weak skeleton pets but they can control them. They also have a variety of utility spells, such as Feign Death, self only invisibility and find corpse.