Twisting Blades

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

Grants Player	Exploits Condition
Physical Dmg	Combo Points
+ Physical Dmg
- Cooldowns
Dazes (CC)
Core
Imbueable
Cutthroat

Twisting Blades Energy Cost: 30 Lucky Hit Chance: 33% Impale an enemy with your blades, dealing 70% damage and making them take 8%[x] increased damage from you for 1.5 seconds. After 1.5 seconds the blades return to you, piercing enemies for 86% damage. Damage: Physical Damage Requires Dual Wielded weapons Tags: Core, Cutthroat, Imbueable Siphoning Strikes Lucky Hit: Critical Strikes against Close enemies have up to a 85% chance to Heal you for 1% of your Maximum Life (17). Damage: Physical Damage Prerequisite: Can also reach Siphoning Strikes via Flurry and Twisting Blades.

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.

Combo Points

Twisting Blades works in tandem with the Rogue Specialization Combo Points. Building up Combo Points (3 Max) with a Basic skill and then using Twisting Blades will add the following bonuses to the attack.

Combo Pts	Movement	Damage
1	+20% Movement Speed	x 58.8% Damage
2	+ 40% Movement Speed	x 72% Damage
3	+ 60% Movement Speed	x 85.6% 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

Items that work with Twisting Blades

The following items either:

• Grant a bonus when using Twisting Blades
• Create a condition Twisting Blades can exploit
• Exploit a condition Twisting Blades creates

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Siphoned Victuals	Defensive	Lucky Hit: Damaging a Vulnerable enemy with a Non-Basic Skill has a 5 - 25% chance to drop a Healing Potion. Helm, Chest, Pants, Amulet (+50%)	Leviathan's Maw (Map)	Hawezar	Rogue
Aspect of Uncanny Treachery	Defensive	Dealing direct damage with a non-Agility Skill after casting an Agility skill grants Stealth for 2 seconds. When Stealth breaks you gain 10 - 18% Dodge chance for 2 seconds. Helm, Chest, Pants, Amulet (+50%)	Demon's Wake (Map)	Scosglen	Rogue
Bladedancer's Aspect	Offensive	Twisting Blades orbit for a short time after they return to you, dealing 60 - 80% of Twisting Blades' return damage per hit. Gloves, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Jalal's Vigil (Map)	Scosglen	Rogue

* Extraction means the Legendary Aspect can be removed from any Legendary item at the Occultist. A dungeon name means the Aspect will be added to your Codex of Power as a reward after completing that dungeon.

Unique Items

	Condemnation "I've never seen such ruthless butchery. He deserves to be be shipped off to die in the swamps with the rest of the godless murderers." - Witness to the murder of Sergeant Walcot Type: Unique Dagger Class: Rogue Description: Your Core Skills deal [50 - 70]%[x] increased damage when spending 3 Combo Points. Your Basic Skills using this weapon have a 50% chance to generate 3 Combo Points.	+50.0% Damage Affixes: (Item Power 925) +[16.0 - 25.0]% Basic Attack Speed Lucky Hit: Up to a +[20.0 - 24.0]% Chance to Make Enemies Vulnerable for 2 Seconds +[47.0 - 65.0]% Damage per Combo Point Spent +[99 - 135] Dexterity
	Grasp of Shadow Dark wisps creep hungrily across these gloves, like an assassin's blade seeking a life to steal on a moonless night. Type: Unique Gloves Class: Rogue Description: Lucky Hit: Damaging an enemy with a Marksman or Cutthroat Skill has up to a [24 - 44]% chance to summon a Shadow Clone that mimics that Skill.	Affixes: (Item Power 925) +[10.5 - 15.0]% Attack Speed +[6.0 - 8.0]% Lucky Hit Chance +[113.5 - 145.0]% Ultimate Damage +[2 - 3] to Core Skills

Changes to Twisting Blades

Patch 1.4.3, June 27, 2024

• Initial damage increased by 20%.
• Return damage increased by 20%.

Patch 1.0.2d, June 4, 2023

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