Using this skill allows you to draw on your proficiency with slashing weapons. Slashing weapons are any weapons that you can slash with, such as knives, daggers, swords, scythes, chakram, blade knuckles, and claws. Any weapon that can have a slashing attack can be used with this skill. This skill provides the following:

• Increases damage of weapon by 1d4 + 1
• Increases attack value of skills used with weapon by 1d4 + 1
• Decreases difficulty of skills used with weapon by 3
• Causes 1d6 bleed damage per round to unarmored targets
• Causes 1d4 bleed damage per round to armored targets as long as they do not have a slash reduction greater than 30%

This skill cannot be used with Basic Slashing Proficiency or Novice Slashing Proficiency