Fan of Knives
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Fan of Knives is a Tier 3 Demon Hunter skill, which requires a character level of 6. The Demon Hunter quickly whips around in a full circle, sending out a nova of blades.
Contents
Background
| Diablo III Skill [e] | |
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| Fan of Knives Active, 5 ranks | |
| Used by: | Demon Hunter |
| Send out a nova of blades to cut and slow your enemies. | |
| Type: | Damage |
| Quantity: | None |
| Effect: | Target |
| School: | Physical |
| Mana cost: | Low |
| Cast time: | Instant |
| Duration: | NA |
| Cooldown: | None |
| Synergies: | None |
| Requires: | N/A |
| Prereq of: | N/A |
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 Design
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.
Skill Rank Table
Rank: 1/5 Throw knives out in a spiral around you doing X-X damage to all enemies within X feet of you. Your knives will also slow enemies by X% for X seconds.
Skill Rune Effects
- None known.
Development
This skill was first shown at BlizzCon 2010 as one of the originals when the Demon Hunter was unveiled. 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.
Graphics
Fan of Knives is a relatively simple spell. The Demon Hunter whirls around in a complete circle, and the air around her is disturbed and distorted as numerous blades appear and fly out in a circular area.
Media
You can find pictures in the Diablo 3 screenshot and picture gallery:
Fan of Knives.
The knives do not appear to be dull.
FoK, another picture.
References
| The Demon Hunter - Demon Hunter skills - Demon Hunter traits - Discipline/Hatred - Demon Hunter skill archive[e] | ||||||
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| Tier One/Clvl 2 | Tier Two/Clvl 3 | Tier Three/Clvl 6 | Tier Four/Clvl 10 | Tier Five/Clvl 14 | Tier Six/Clvl 20 | Tier Seven/Clvl 26 |
| • Bola Shot
• Grenades |
• Entangling Shot
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• Vault | • Molten Arrow | • Shock Spike
Unknown Tier: |
None yet known | None yet known |