Bloody Blade Dance
The dual-blade damage skill the stance is built around. Its fast repeated hits are what drive wound stacks to their threshold.
Creator-tested
- Class
- Shadowstrix
- Weapon
- Dual Blades
- Role
- Primary damage
- Applies to
- 23 September 2026 update
- Balance passes
- 1 line, latest 2026-09-15
When to use it
The payoff button: spammed after Spinning Slash lands, with talents feeding it energy so the loop sustains. A second source rates it the strongest talent in the tree for a reason the first does not mention — it reflects projectiles and returns energy per reflection, which turns a ranged opponent from a problem into the thing paying for your next cast.
Builds using this
- Shadowstrix bait-and-stun — Swanifier explains it at 02:00Rated the strongest in the tree: damage amp, a small step, and projectile reflection that returns energy per reflect.
What the balance passes changed
- 2026-09-15 · ChangedFixed: chaining a dodge right at the end of the skill could trigger server-side rubberbanding. The third consecutive pass to name this skill in a desync line.
Direction is the patch note’s own word, not a verdict on whether the skill is now good. Patch notes and update history.
Where this comes from
Opens at 01:30, where the skill is explained. Full citation below.
A second source describes it independently — 02:00 in the citations below.
Sources for this page
- FIDISTI — Shadowstrix Dual Blades Build — Launch build, published 31 July 2026. Source for the wound-stack threshold, the Crow Storm and Spinning Slash enhancement nodes and the Seeker/Elusive affix core.
- Swanifier — Best ShadowStrix Build — Launch build, published 4 August 2026. Chaptered abilities, talents and affixes with the skill panel open throughout; source for the Shadowstrix tooltip captures, energy-economy talents and the affix budget priced against a level-4 brew.
Other Shadowstrix Dual Blades skills
- Phantom Shift — Escape / repositioning
- Crow Storm — Area control
- Spinning Slash — Engage