Editing Paragon Path (section)

===Soul Thief===
Compared to the Shadowblade, this path focuses more on the kill than the setup. ''Soul Killer'' may be just fluff that negates any attempts to resurrect your kills by lower-level casters, but it plays into ''Soul Theft'' which takes a kill and turns it into a gloom shard; these ones have more direct applications, stacking a new shroud, gaining +1 to any roll, or even regaining Shade Form for the cost of 3 shards. ''Soul Thief's Action'' uses an AP to give you a bonus to attack and damage equal to 2+gloom shard quantity, which could hinge to either meh to decent depending on your kills. ''Soul Reaper'' then lets any enemy who dies around you become a shard. Soul Shadow is a rather basic attack, though spending a shard allows it to maintain Shade Form in case you wanted the sneaking. Stalking Phantom is your Shade Form at-will that gives you the ability to full-speed shift and ignore enemy placement. Final Ending is a more impressive attack that curses an enemy so you can spend a shard for +2 to hit them.

This path gives you more direct ways to kill compared to the Shadowblade, though the other path does give better sneaks and gain easy Combat Advantage.