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 Impale an enemy with your blades, dealing 45% damage and making them take x 8% increased damage from you for 1.5 seconds. 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 Lucky Hit Chance: 33% Tags: Core, Imbueable, Cutthroat

Upgrades

Enhanced Twisting Blades Twisting Blades deals x 30% increased damage when returning.	Improved Twisting Blades Enemies are Dazed (CC) while impaled with Twisting Blades.
	Advanced Twisting Blades When your Twisting Blades return, your active Cooldowns are reduced by 0.1 second per enemy they passed through, up to 2 seconds.

Combo Points

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 30%. Skill
Primary Invigorating Strike Invigorating Strike additionally grants + 8% Lucky Hit Chance. Hitting a Crowd Controlled or Injured enemy increases this bonus to + 16% 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: Daggers: x 5%/10%/15% increased damage to Healthy enemies. Swords: x 3%/6%/9% increased damage. Bows: x 4%/8%/12% increased damage to Vulnerable enemies. Crossbows: x 5%/10%/15% increased Critical Strike Damage. Passive
Trick Attacks When you Critically Strike a Dazed (CC) enemy they are Knocked Down (CC) for 0.5/1/1.5 seconds. Point required in Concussive or Rapid Gambits. Passuve
Imbuement Tree
Shadow Imbuement Imbue your weapons with festering shadows. Your next 2 Imbeuable 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 40% damage to only that enemy. Cooldown: 13 seconds Damage: Shadow Lucky Hit Chance: 33% Tags: Imbuement 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 Imbue your weapons with frigid energies. Your next 2 Imbueable skills deal Cold Damage and Chill enemies for up to 25% per hit. Cooldown: 13 seconds Damage: Cold Tags: Imbuement Skill
Mixed Cold Imbuement Cold Imbued Skills deal 20% damage to Crowd Controlled enemies. Double this bonus against Frozen enemies. Skill
Blended Cold Imbuement Lucky Hit: Critical Strikes with Cold Imbued Skills have up to a 20% chance to instantly Freeze enemies for 3 seconds. Skill
Poison Imbuement Imbue your weapons with lethal poison. Your next 2 Imbueable Skills deal Poison Damage and apply up to 100% of their Base damage as additional Poisoning Damage for over 5 seconds. Cooldown: 13 seconds Damage: Poison Lucky Hit Chance: 33% Tags: Imbuement Skill
Enhanced Poison Imbuement Poison Imbuement’s Poisoning duration is increased by 1 second. Skill
Mixed Poison Imbuement Lucky Hit: Poison Imbued Skills have up to a 30% chance to reduce Poison Imbuement’s cooldown by 2 seconds. Skill
Blended Poison Imbuement Critical Strikes with Poison Imbued Skills deal x75% increased Poisoning Damage. Skill
Key Passives Tree
Momentum Cutthroat skills grant a stack of Momentum for 8 seconds if they either: Hit a Stunned, Dazed, or Frozen enemy Hit any enemy from behind While at 3 stacks if Momentum you gain: 20% increased Damage Reduction 30% increased Energy Regeneration 15% increased Attack Speed 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, your damage dealt is increased by 10%[x] of the total amount of your Damage vs Crowd Controlled bonus. While both Attack Speed bonuses are active, you deal x30% increased damage against Crowd Controlled enemies. 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 Core Skill has up to a 10 - 20% chance to drop a Healing Potion. Helm, Chest, Pants, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	Leviathan's Maw (Map)	Hawezar	Rogue
Aspect of Uncanny Treachery	Defensive	Dealing direct damage to a Dazed enemy with an Agility skill grants Stealth for 4 seconds. Breaking Stealth with an attack grants you 15 - 45% Control Impaired Duration Reduction for 4 seconds. Helm, Chest, Pants, Shield, 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 20–30% of Twisting Blade’s return damage per hit. Gloves, Offhand, 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 shipped off to die in the swamps with the rest of the godless murderers." - Witness to the murder of Sergeant Walcot Type: Dagger 'Class: Rogue Description: Your Core Skills deal 20% - 40% increased damage when spending 3 Combo Points. Your Basic Skills using this weapon have a 30% chance to generate 3 Combo Points.	+ % Damage to Close Enemies Affixes: + % Critical Strike Damage + % Damage with Dual-Wielded Weapons + % Core Skill Damage + % Basic Skill Attack Speed
	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: Gloves Class: Rogue Description: Lucky Hit: Damaging a Vulnerable enemy with a Marksman or Cutthroat Skill has up to a 24% - 34% chance to summon a Shadow Clone that mimics your attack.	Affixes: + % Attack Speed + # Dexterity + # Ranks in all Core skills + % Shadow Clone Damage

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 - Maximum Cooldown reduction reduced from 3 to 2 seconds.,,