Shadow Maul is awesome. Low end cost, high damage and you can easily hit 3 mobs with practice, it's 'worth' its end cot and damage even if you hit one. Remember it's the only AoE in dark melee (I don't count soul drain or d. consumption as AoEs). It does more damage and costs less end and recharges faster than Siphon Life if you hit one mob. And you can hit 5 quite often after practice when you have lots of enemies in the cone.
Having practiced with Shadow Maul by taking a DM scrapper to 50 in i9/i10 when it took months to level also helped me a lot on my squishies on the lower levels after I got sands of mu, and also made me make good use of Jacob's Ladder from ELM.
Having practiced with Shadow Maul by taking a DM scrapper to 50 in i9/i10 when it took months to level also helped me a lot on my squishies on the lower levels after I got sands of mu, and also made me make good use of Jacob's Ladder from ELM.
Er, I mean, I agree with that.