Thousand Cuts

Assassin skill · Blades line · tier 5 (ultimate)

Beta 0.7.2

Nobody counts how many. Not even him.

It is only used in combat once it is placed on the hero's active bar, and its 16 s cooldown is before cooldown reduction.

Values by rank

Thousand Cuts scales with Bleed. Its value at each rank is 55.7 + 15.9 × rank:

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Value	71.6	87.5	103.4	119.3	135.2	151.1	167	182.9	198.8	214.7

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 Dance of Blades Tier 4 of the Blades line.
2
Hero level 32 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.

Mastery and synergies

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

Skills that boost Thousand Cuts

Smoke

Each rank in one of these makes Thousand Cuts 2% stronger (+20% at rank 10).

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