What is the lore reason for Demon Hunters using shadow magic?

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Going by that logic how can you fight something made of flesh with flesh.

why? flesh is physical

[WintersLegion]

why? flesh is physical

Yes but flesh can't hurt shadows and shadows can't hurt flesh but if flesh can hurt flesh than it stands to reason that shadow can hurt shadow

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Yes but flesh can't hurt shadows and shadows can't hurt flesh but if flesh can hurt flesh than it stands to reason that shadow can hurt shadow

sorry? I don't think it works the same when it comes to non physical entities. just as the water can't hurt water

[RedNight at MMOC]

Some demons use Shadow magic mainly the Nathrezim, or Dreadlords as most call them.

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but if two waves collide they affect each other, they don´t merge till they break.

they collide without a harm, as you have said

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you are not fighting the shadow itself, you are fighting the caster, so you can nullify his shadow and kill him.

voidxxx are pretty much a mass of shadows/void

[Aquamonkey]

On the Fel magic part: Fel magic used to be corrupted Arcane magic (Don't know if they retconned it as any modern source doesn't state it directly)

That was from the RPG, which Blizzard deemed non-canon.

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you disperse them like the waves.

sure, it might work, but then I don't know. they are condensed, shaped forms of shadow/void so when they got struck by the shadow bolt they might actually disperse as you have said, but it would still leave the pool the same, so either they disperse permanently or just temperoraily and reform as greater being of shadow(containing our bolt's energy)

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reforming takes energy, if the energy is not enough the void can't remain in this plane.

is void using energy tho? it is void after all

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http://wow.gamepedia.com/Void

And the chronicles state that the void can not manifest in the physical reality without energy.

but what is that energy, how should we understand it

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Energy : E = mc^2

I don't think it orks this way in fantasy setting, so many different kinds of energies

[Aucald]

Demon Hunters use a touch of Shadow magic in their abilities because they're partial demons, and demons have always dabbled in Shadow as well as Fel and Fire. While mostly they rely on raw Fel or chaos energies, the Vengeance specialization uses a good deal of Fire as well.