Surprising Strikes
Attacks that generate combo points deal 50% increased critical strike damage to Fazed targets.
Tree position
In the Outlaw Rogue talent tree, Surprising Strikes sits in the Trickster hero talent tree, row 3 of 7. It is a single-point node. Its row opens once 1 points are spent in Trickster.
Connected above
The tree draws a line into Surprising Strikes from Unseen Blade.
Unseen BladeTargets struck are Fazed for 10 sec. Fazed enemies take 5% more damage from you and cannot parry your attacks. This effect may occur once every 20 sec.
Connected below
Surprising Strikes leads on to So Tricky or Don't Be Suspicious.
So TrickyTricks of the Trade's threat redirect duration is increased to 1 min.
Don't Be SuspiciousBlind and Shroud of Concealment have 10% reduced cooldown. Pick Pocket and Sap have 10 yd increased range.
Same row
Also on this row: Hoodwink.
HoodwinkFazed increases damage taken by an additional 3%.
Talent trees
Surprising Strikes is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Rogue: Assassination (DPS), Outlaw (DPS), Subtlety (DPS).
Surprising Strikes Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)