Raging Blades

General Information

• An active ability found on the second slot of Axes. It is unlocked at mastery level 70.

Raging Blades	Energy Cost	39	Create two magic blades that circle you in a ring for 3s. The ring starts at a 2.5m radius and ends at a 6m radius from you. The blades deal 84 magical damage every 0.5s. Increases all your damage by 4% per enemy hit (stacks up to 10 times) for 3s.
	Cast Time	instant
	Range	6m
	Cooldown	12s

Note: numerical values are based on gear with 1060 item power.

Equipment

Melee Weapon Elder's Battleaxe Elder's Bear Paws Elder's Carrioncaller Elder's Halberd Elder's Infernal Scythe Elder's Realmbreaker The Hand of Khor

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Related Patch Notes

Patch Link	Date	Patch Name	Patch Notes
Version 18.090.1	28 July 2021	Call to Arms Patch 9	Added four new icons to better represent the corresponding abilities: Blood Bandit (One-Handed Axe, E-slot) Protective Beam (Enigmatic Staff, E-slot) Arcane Orb (One-Handed Arcane Staff, E-slot) Ground Shaker (Maces, W-slot)
Version 18.040.1	6 May 2021	Call to Arms Patch 4 (Balance Patch)	Axes Axes have been overrepresented in a variety of content types. While the constant sustain damage and healing reduction is part of the weapon’s identity, the value axe weapons get from their Q abilities was a bit too overwhelming, making it hard for other melee weapon trees to compete. Additionally, the options of counterplay and skill expression for Rending Spin and Raging Blades have been improved with a sweet-spot damage ring to increase the importance of player positioning. The readability of visual effects was also improved for various axe abilities. Adrenaline Boost was changed to improve its ability to chase down a target offensively, while also reducing its use as an easy disengage. And a standtime was added to Razor Cut to add a bit more commitment to the ability and weaken its easy disengage potential. Vampiric Strike was reworked to the new ability Blood Bandit to make this weapon more dynamic and allow more skill expression during fights. Greataxes are now non-interruptible and have more upfront damage versus players, giving them a substantial buff in PvP. At the same time, their PvE damage has been toned down to bring it more in line with other weapons. Battleaxe Normal Attacks: Attacks per second: 0.9 → 1.1 Damage per attack: 50 → 41 Rending Spin (all Axes): Range: 6m → 5m Minimum distance for max Damage: 3m → 2.5m Rending Bleed stacks: now only applied via max distance effect (i.e. 2.5m or further away) Rending Rage (all Axes): Damage: 62 → 50 Rending Bleed Stacks (all Axes): Damage per Tick: 5.4 → 4.2 Healing Reduction on Max Stacks: 20% → 12% Adrenaline Boost (all Axes): Movement Speed Bonus: 50% → 40% Now also increases Attack Speed by 40% Max Duration: 5s → 7s However, if the caster doesn't hit an enemy with a Normal Attack for 2.5s, the Adrenaline Boost now ends early Energy Cost: 11 → 9 Internal Bleeding (all Axes): Improved detection of moving versus standing still on affected enemies Tick Interval: 1s → 0.5s Damage per Tick: 21.97 → 11 Raging Blades (all Axes): Now hits in a ring around the caster, instead of a solid circle (Inner Radius: 2.5m / Outer Radius: 6m) Vampiric Strike (Battleaxe) - reworked the ability; now called "Blood Bandit": Throw your axe in the targeted direction. Deals physical damage to all enemies hit and slows by 20% for 2s. Steal a percentage of the Health enemies lose based on Rending Bleed Charges on the targets. Throw Range: 22m → 17m Whirlwind (Greataxe): Channeling time: 4.5s → 2.5s Damage per tick vs Players: 50 → 75 (Damage per tick vs Mobs unchanged) Cooldown: 20s → 25s Channel is now uninterruptible Energy Cost on activation: 21 → 0 Instead the ability now consumes 4 energy per tick while channeling (total of 24 energy for full channel duration) Razor Cut (Bear Paws): Standtime: 0s → 0.3s
Version 1.16.396.166567	19 May 2020	Queen Patch 12 (Season 9 Balance Patch) and Hotfix 12.1	Axes Rending Strike (all Axes): Energy Cost: 2 → 1.6 Raging Blades (all Axes): Energy Cost: 15 → 11 Morgana Raven (Carrioncaller): Projectile Range: 15m → 20m Projectile Speed: 13.68m/s → 20.00m/s Hit Delay: 0.2 → 0.3 Standtime: 1s → 0.6s Healing Reduction: 35% → 40%