Dance of Blades

Assassin skill · Blades line · tier 4

Beta 0.7.2

Blades of light spin through the horde, cut everyone and return to his hand.

It is only used in combat once it is placed on the hero's active bar, and its 9 s cooldown is before cooldown reduction.

Values by rank

Dance of Blades scales with Attack. Its value at each rank is 32 + 9.2 × rank:

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Value	41.2	50.4	59.6	68.8	78	87.2	96.4	105.6	114.8	124

The value is the game's internal number for this skill.

in combat = round(value × skill power × max(0.35, hero damage ÷ 600))
hero damage = Attack + all elemental damage
skill power = 1 + 1% per point in the other Blades skills + 2% per rank of each skill that boosts it

The damage factor has a minimum of 0.35 and no maximum. A hero with 600 damage and no line mastery or synergies gets the listed value; how it becomes damage or healing per hit depends on the skill's type and timing.

How to unlock it

1
Rank 5 in Double Cut or Slash Apart Tier 2 or tier 3 of the Blades line.
2
Hero level 22 at the earliest There is no level requirement, but a hero gets one skill point every 2 levels.
3
One skill point per rankUp to rank 10.

Rank 5 in Dance of Blades opens Thousand Cuts.

Mastery and synergies

Line mastery: every point in the other Blades skills makes Dance of Blades 1% stronger, up to +40% with all of them at rank 10. Its own points do the same for the rest of the line.

Dance of Blades has no synergies: no skill boosts it and it boosts no other skill.

Blades line

Skill	Tier	Type	Cooldown	Scales with
Stab	1	Direct damage	6 s	Attack
Double Cut	2	Direct damage	6 s	Attack
Slash Apart	3	Damage over time	8 s	Bleed
Dance of Blades	4	Area damage	9 s	Attack
Thousand Cuts	5	Ultimate	16 s	Bleed