Hack and Slash

Hack and Slash ranks in Forever

1. Rank 1 Gives your melee weapon attacks a benefit depending on the weapon. |CFFFFFFFFAxe/Sword:|R Your successful melee attacks have a 1% chance to trigger an extra attack on the target. |CFFFFFFFFDagger/Fist:|R Increases your critical strike chance by 1%. |CFFFFFFFFMace:|R Your attacks ignore 3% of your target's armor.
2. Rank 2 Gives your melee weapon attacks a benefit depending on the weapon. |CFFFFFFFFAxe/Sword:|R Your successful melee attacks have a 2% chance to trigger an extra attack on the target. |CFFFFFFFFDagger/Fist:|R Increases your critical strike chance by 2%. |CFFFFFFFFMace:|R Your attacks ignore 6% of your target's armor.
3. Rank 3 Gives your melee weapon attacks a benefit depending on the weapon. |CFFFFFFFFAxe/Sword:|R Your successful melee attacks have a 3% chance to trigger an extra attack on the target. |CFFFFFFFFDagger/Fist:|R Increases your critical strike chance by 3%. |CFFFFFFFFMace:|R Your attacks ignore 9% of your target's armor.
4. Rank 4 Gives your melee weapon attacks a benefit depending on the weapon. |CFFFFFFFFAxe/Sword:|R Your successful melee attacks have a 4% chance to trigger an extra attack on the target. |CFFFFFFFFDagger/Fist:|R Increases your critical strike chance by 4%. |CFFFFFFFFMace:|R Your attacks ignore 12% of your target's armor.
5. Rank 5 Gives your melee weapon attacks a benefit depending on the weapon. |CFFFFFFFFAxe/Sword:|R Your successful melee attacks have a 5% chance to trigger an extra attack on the target. |CFFFFFFFFDagger/Fist:|R Increases your critical strike chance by 5%. |CFFFFFFFFMace:|R Your attacks ignore 15% of your target's armor.

What Hack and Slash does in Classic Era

Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.

1. Rank 1 Gives you a 1% chance to get an extra attack on the same target after dealing damage with your Sword.
2. Rank 2 Gives you a 2% chance to get an extra attack on the same target after dealing damage with your Sword.
3. Rank 3 Gives you a 3% chance to get an extra attack on the same target after dealing damage with your Sword.
4. Rank 4 Gives you a 4% chance to get an extra attack on the same target after dealing damage with your Sword.
5. Rank 5 Gives you a 5% chance to get an extra attack on the same target after dealing damage with your Sword.

Where Hack and Slash sits in the Combat tree

Hack and Slash is a Combat talent for Rogue. You need 20 points in Combat before the row it sits on opens.

• Same row: Blade Flurry

How often people take Hack and Slash

53 of the 146 public Rogue builds saved here — 36% — put at least one point in Hack and Slash. Counted across the 1498 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.

Builds that take Hack and Slash

8 of the public Rogue builds written up here spend points on Hack and Slash.

• Rogue Combat 13/33/0 — 5/5 , 40 up
• Rogue Combat 16/29/0 — 5/5 , 6 up
• Rogue Combat 13/33/0 — 5/5 , 4 up
• Rogue Combat 15/25/0 — 5/5 , 4 up
• Rogue Combat 12/33/2 — 5/5 , 2 up
• Rogue Assassination 26/25/0 — 5/5
• Rogue Combat 16/33/2 — 5/5
• Rogue Combat 18/33/0 — 5/5

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

• Forever client build 1.60.1.69893