Twisting Blades

Twisting Blades is a Rogue skill from the Core skill tree. Its features are:

Twisting Blades Impale an enemy with your blades, dealing 45% damage and making them take x8% increased damage while impaled. After 1.5 seconds the blades return to you, piercing enemies for 72% damage. Combo Points increases movement speed and damage. Requires Dual Wielded weapons Energy Cost: 30 Damage: Physical Tags: Core, Imbueable, Cutthroat Lucky Hit Chance: 33%

Upgrades

Enhanced Twisting Blades Twisting Blades deals 35%[x] increased damage when returning.	Improved Twisting Blades Enemies are Dazed for 1.5 seconds while impaled with Twisting Blades .
	Advanced Twisting Blades When your Twisting Blades return, your active Cooldowns are reduced by 0.10 seconds per enemy they passed through, up to 2 seconds.

Twisting Blade works in tandem with the Rogue Specialization Combo Points. When used together the Combo Points will add the following bonuses to Twisting Blades.

Combo Pts	All Ranks	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3	Rank 4	Rank 5
1	+20% Movement Speed	x 58% Damage	x 64% Damage	x 70% Damage	x 76% Damage	x 82% Damage
2	+ 40% Movement Speed	x 72% Damage	x 79% Damage	x 86% Damage	x 94% Damage	x 101% Damage
3	+ 60% Movement Speed	x 86% Damage	x 94% Damage	x 103% Damage	x 111% Damage	x 120% Damage

Other Skills that work with Twisting Blades

The following skills either:

• Create a condition Twisting Blades can exploit
• Exploit a condition Twisting Blades creates

Basic Tree
Enhanced Puncture Gain 2 Energy when Puncture damages a Crowd Controlled enemy. Skill
Enhanced Invigorating Strike Damaging a Crowd Controlled or Injured enemy with Invigorating Strike increases its Energy Regeneration bonus to x 50%. Skill
Primary Invigorating Strike Invigorating Strike additionally grants 8%[+] Lucky Hit Chance. Hitting a Crowd Controlled or Injured enemy increases this bonus to +32% Lucky Hit Chance. Skill
Core Tree
Enhanced Flurry Each time Flurry damages a Crowd Controlled or Vulnerable enemy, you are Healed for 1% of your Maximum Life up to 12% Maximum Life per cast. Skill
Agility Tree
Methodical Dash Dealing damage to Crowd Controlled enemies with Dash reduces its Charge Cooldown by 0.5 seconds, up to 4 seconds per cast. Skill
Weapon Mastery Gain a bonus when attacking based on weapon type used in your attack: • Daggers: 7%[x] increased damage to Healthy and Injured enemies. • Swords: 3%[x] increased damage. • Bows: 4%[x] increased damage to Vulnerable enemies. • Crossbows: 5%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage. Passive
Trick Attacks Dazing or Stunning an enemy increases your Critical Strike Chance by 2%[+] and Critical Strike Damage by 2%[x] for 5 seconds, both up to 12%. Damage: Physical Damage Prerequisite: Can also reach Trick Attacks via Dash. Passuve
Imbuement Tree
Shadow Imbuement Cooldown: 13 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 33% Imbue your weapons with festering shadows. Your next 2 Imbueable Skills deal Shadow damage and infect enemies for 6 seconds. Infected enemies explode on death, dealing 40% damage to all surrounding enemies. If the infection expires before the enemy dies, it will deal 60% damage to only that enemy. Damage: Shadow Damage Tags: Imbuement, Imbueable Skill
Enhanced Shadow Imbuement You have +15% increased Critical Strike Chance against Injured enemies infected by Shadow Imbuement . Skill
Mixed Shadow Imbuement Enemies infected by Shadow Imbuement take x12% increased Non-Physical damage for 8 seconds. Skill
Blended Shadow Imbuement Shadow Imbuement’s primary explosion makes enemies Vulnerable for 2 seconds. Skill
Cold Imbuement Cooldown: 13 seconds Imbue your weapons with frigid energies. Your next 2 Imbueable Skills deal Cold damage and Chill (CC) enemies for 25% per hit. Damage: N/A Tags: Imbuement, Imbueable Skill
Mixed Cold Imbuement Cold Imbued Skills deal x20% damage to Crowd Controlled enemies. Double this bonus against Frozen (CC) enemies. Skill
Blended Cold Imbuement Cold Imbuement applies to 2 additional Imbueable Skills and reduces their Energy cost by 35%. Skill
Poison Imbuement Cooldown: 13 seconds Lucky Hit Chance: 33% Imbue your weapons with lethal poison. Your next 2 Imbueable Skills deal Poison damage and apply 100% of their Base damage as additional Poisoning damage over 6 seconds. Damage: Poison Tags: Imbuement, Imbueable Skill
Enhanced Poison Imbuement Casting Poison Imbuement generates 30 Energy, increased by 2 for each Nearby Poisoned enemy. Skill
Mixed Poison Imbuement Lucky Hit: Poison Imbued Skills have up to a 30% chance to reduce the Cooldown of Poison Imbuement by 2 seconds. Skill
Blended Poison Imbuement Critical Strikes with Poison Imbued Skills deal x75% increased Poisoning damage. Skill
Key Passives Tree
Momentum Casting or Channeling a Cutthroat Skill grants a stack of Momentum. Casting a Marksman Skill removes a stack of Momentum. For each stack of Momentum, you gain: • 3% Damage Reduction • 3% Maximum Energy • 3%[x] Energy Regeneration • 3%[+] Movement Speed • 6%[x] Increased Damage Maximum of 10 Stacks. Tags: Cutthroat Passive
Close Quarters Combat Damaging a Close enemy with Marksman or Cutthroat Skills each grant a +15% Attack Speed bonus for 8 seconds. While both Attack Speed bonuses are active, you deal increased damage equal to x25% of your Damage vs Close bonus. Damage: Physical Damage Tags: Marksman, Cutthroat Passive

Changes to Twisting Blades

Patch 1.0.2d, June 4, 2023

• Advanced Twisting Blades - Cooldown reduction per enemy hit reduced from .25 to .1 seconds.
• Advanced Twisting Blades - aximum Cooldown reduction reduced from 3 to 2 seconds.