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Fan of Knives in action.

Fan of Knives is a Devices Demon Hunter skill unlocked at level 17. The Demon Hunter quickly whips around in a full circle, sending out a nova of blades that hit all targets in range, many of them multiple times.

Background

The Demon Hunter magically summons a wealth of blades, distributing them in a spinning arc, damaging and slowing enemies within close-range, similar to the nova spells from Diablo of yore.

Skill Rune Effects

The following is a very quick summary. See the Fan of Knives rune effects page for a more thorough description of rune effects, or any of the individual rune pages for numbers, screenshots, blue quotes, and much more.

Name	Level	Description

<skill class="DemonHunter">Fan of Knives</skill> <skill class="DemonHunter" rune="Crippling Razors">Fan of Knives</skill> <skill class="DemonHunter" rune="Retaliate">Fan of Knives</skill> <skill class="DemonHunter" rune="Hail of Knives">Fan of Knives</skill> <skill class="DemonHunter" rune="Fan of Daggers">Fan of Knives</skill> <skill class="DemonHunter" rune="Assassin's Knives">Fan of Knives</skill>

Skill Design

Fan of Knives may have the best D3 acronym yet.

Fan of Knives is a short-range area-of-effect ability that damages all of the enemies in range of the skill. This type of skill is best used either when surrounded by enemies or within close quarters where the enemies are bunched together to a point where the skill will penetrate deeply into the group. The knives also include a slowing debuff.

Video

A video of Fan of Knives can be seen below, courtesy of the Diablo.IncGamers.com You Tube channel.

Synergies

The following Demon Hunter passives provide a benefit to Fan of Knives, runed or not:

Name	Level	Description

<skill class="DemonHunter">Steady Aim</skill> <skill class="DemonHunter">Numbing Traps</skill>

Development

Faces. Knives. An uneven match.

Fan of Knives was first shown at BlizzCon 2010 as one of the originals when the Demon Hunter was unveiled. Flux gave it a whirl in the demo:[1]

The real limiting factor of this one is the very short range of the knives. They did good damage, but the range was barely beyond melee reach (not that the DH was using melee weapons), and it was fairly mana-expensive. As a result, this one was only worth using when you had at least two or three enemies at very close range. The perfect situation for it was a circle of Vessels, and I enjoyed killing all 6 or 8 Vessels in such scenarios several times with this skill. It took 2 or 3 FoKs to finish them all, but this was the fastest and most effective skill against those clusters of enemies in the entire demo.

Beta

Skill tiers were removed shortly before the beta started in September 2011, and Fan of Knives became a level 4 skill, but was soon bumped up to level 14. The skill system was once again overhauled for the Beta Patch 13, and Fan of Knives was classified as a Defensive skill and moved to level 16. For Beta Patch 14, it was re-classified as a Devices skill and moved to level 17.

In Other Games

As many fans noticed upon announcement of the Demon Hunter and getting to see her skills for the first time, Fan of Knives is a returning skill from previous Blizzard games, namely WarCraft III and World of WarCraft. In WarCraft III, it was an ability used by the "Warden" hero character, and in World of WarCraft it is a level 80 ability used by the Rogue class. Fan of Knives appears to be making a niche within the Blizzard pool of spells and abilities, such as other spells like Teleport, and Blizzard.

Media

Fan of Knives can be seen in action on video here:

Gameplay: Blizzcon 2010

You can find pictures in the Diablo III screenshot and picture gallery:

Fan of Knives.
Where does she get those wonderful toys?
FoK, another picture.

References

BlizzCon 2010 Demon Hunter PvM Hands-on Report
Zediono's translation of JudgeHype's pre-beta report — IncGamers 1st Aug 2011
HardRock's Demon Hunter Skills and Their Rune Effects — IncGamers 6th Sep 2011
Demon Hunter Active Skills — Blizzard's Official Diablo III Site

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 The following is a very quick summary. See the [[Fan of Knives rune effects]] page for a more thorough description of rune effects, or any of the individual rune pages for numbers, screenshots, blue quotes, and much more.
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+<skill class="DemonHunter" rune="Crippling Razors">Fan of Knives</skill>
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+<skill class="DemonHunter" rune="Hail of Knives">Fan of Knives</skill>
+<skill class="DemonHunter" rune="Fan of Daggers">Fan of Knives</skill>
+<skill class="DemonHunter" rune="Assassin's Knives">Fan of Knives</skill>
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-The following [[Demon Hunter passives]] provide a benefit to Fan of Knives:
+The following [[Demon Hunter passives]] provide a benefit to Fan of Knives, runed or not:
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-{{Demon Hunter Passive Steady Aim}}
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