Shadow Blades

Shadow Blades
	Shadow Blades; Row 2 Subtlety rogue talent; 2 min cooldown; Instant; Draws upon surrounding shadows to empower your weapons, causing your attacks to deal 20% additional damage as Shadow and causing your combo point generating abilities to generate full combo points for 20 sec.;
Properties
Class	Rogue
School	Physical
Cooldown	2 minutes
Talents
Talent required	[Find Weakness]
Related buff
	; Shadow Blades ; Attacks deal 20% additional damage as Shadow and combo point generating attacks generate full combo points. ; Duration: 20 seconds ;

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

Patch changes

Hotfix (2023-12-13): Damage dealt will now be logged correctly when buffed by an Augmentation Evoker.
Hotfix (2023-12-05): Extra Shadow damage reduced to 15% (base 20%) in PvP combat
Hotfix (2023-11-27): Fixed issues that caused it to unintentionally keep the Rogue and enemy player in combat.
Patch 10.2.0 (2023-11-07):
- Now causes all attacks (was combo point generating abilities) to deal 20% additional damage as Shadow (was 50%).
- Now causes abilities that generate combo points to generate full combo points (was 1 additional).
- Shuriken Storms triggered by [Shuriken Tornado] no longer generate bonus combo points from Shadow Blades.
- Moved to row 2 (was row 3).
Hotfix (2022-11-21): Cooldown reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes).
Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 3 Subtlety talent (was a level 42 Subtlety ability).
Hotfix (2021-11-04): Fixed an issue where Shadow Blades would continue to attack the enemy after the Rogue was under crowd-control effects.
Patch 9.1.5 (2021-11-02): Fixed an issue that prevented Shadow Blades gained from [Toxic Onslaught] to not affect certain off-spec abilities.
Patch 9.1.0 (2021-06-29): Fixed an issue that prevented [Serrated Bone Spike] from benefitting from Shadow Blades.
Hotfix (2021-03-09): No longer incorrectly affects [Flagellation].
Hotfix (2020-12-14): Shadow Blades now deals an additional 30% damage against enemy players (was 40%).
Hotfix (2020-12-08): No longer benefits from increased damage taken effects twice.
Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): No longer has a global cooldown. Now learned at level 42 (was 56).
Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Now causes combo point-generating abilities to deal additional shadow damage (was auto attacks).
Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now learned at level 56 (was 72).
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.
Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Removed.
Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Added.