Twin Fangs

Deal increased critical damage, which is further increased when your health is above the threshold. Gain bonus critical-hit chance when hitting a foe from behind or the side or when they are defiant. — In-game description

Twin Fangs

Specialization

Critical Strikes (trait list)

Tier

Adept

Type

Major

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Twin Fangs

Deal increased critical damage, which is further increased when your health is above the threshold. Gain bonus critical-hit chance when hitting a foe from behind or the side or when they are defiant.

 Health Threshold: 50%

 Health Threshold: 90%

 High Health Critical Damage Increase: 2%

 High Health Critical Damage Increase: 5%

 Critical Damage Increase: 5%

 Critical Damage Increase: 2%

 Critical Chance Increase: 7%

— In-game description

Mechanics

Anomaly:

Instead of increasing the Critical Damage attribute like the tooltip implies, this acts as a 5/7% multiplicative strike damage modifier only applied to critical hits.

• The damage modifiers stack additively with each other, but multiplicatively with other damage modifiers.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 19, 2024	Reduced the health threshold from 90% to 50% in PvE only. This trait now gives base critical damage that is increased above the health threshold.
June 27, 2023	All effects that benefit when the player strikes from the flank or from behind now always apply their benefits when striking defiant foes.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This trait has been renamed to Twin Fangs and now causes attacks from behind or beside to have 7% bonus critical-hit chance in addition to its previous functionality.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Side Strike has been added to the game.