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Shadow Blades
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  • Shadow Blades
  • Row 3 Subtlety rogue talent
  • 2 min cooldown
  • Instant
  • Draws upon surrounding shadows to empower your weapons, causing your combo point generating abilities to generate 1 additional combo point and deal 50% additional damage as Shadow for 20 sec.
Properties
Class Rogue
School Physical
Cooldown 2 minutes
Talents
Talent required Rogue shadowfocus [Shadow Focus] or Ability warrior decisivestrike [Relentless Strikes]
Related buff
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  • Shadow Blades
  • Combo point generating abilities generate 1 additional combo point and deal 50% additional damage as Shadow.
  • Duration: 20 seconds

Shadow Blades is a Subtlety rogue talent that significantly increases damage and combo point generation.

Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2022-11-21): Cooldown reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes).
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 3 Subtlety talent (was a level 42 Subtlety ability).
  • Shadowlands Hotfix (2021-11-04): Fixed an issue where Shadow Blades would continue to attack the enemy after the Rogue was under crowd-control effects.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.1.5 (2021-11-02): Fixed an issue that prevented Shadow Blades gained from Ability ardenweald rogue [Toxic Onslaught] to not affect certain off-spec abilities.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.1.0 (2021-06-29): Fixed an issue that prevented Ability maldraxxus rogue [Serrated Bone Spike] from benefitting from Shadow Blades.
  • Shadowlands Hotfix (2021-03-09): No longer incorrectly affects Ability revendreth rogue [Flagellation].
  • Shadowlands Hotfix (2020-12-14): Shadow Blades now deals an additional 30% damage against enemy players (was 40%).
  • Shadowlands Hotfix (2020-12-08): No longer benefits from increased damage taken effects twice.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): No longer has a global cooldown. Now learned at level 42 (was 56).
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Now causes combo point-generating abilities to deal additional shadow damage (was auto attacks).
  • Legion Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now learned at level 56 (was 72).
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Re-added as a level 72 Subtlety ability (was a level 87 ability for all rogues). Now lasts for 15 seconds, up from 12.
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Removed.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Added.

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