Traveling Knife Skill - ESO

Traveling Knife is a skill in the Dual Wield skill line under the Weapon category in ESO (the Elder Scrolls Online)

Dual Wield
Traveling Knife Icon icon Traveling Knife
Maximum range: 15 meters
Cost Determined by Highest Max Resource
Effect
Twirl and throw an enchanted dagger at an enemy, which returns to you after a short delay and hits additional enemies in the path.
This is a scribing skill
Try out this skill in the scribing simulator
Name: Traveling Knife
Found in: Weapon > Dual Wield
How to obtain: Reach Rank 25 in the Dual Wield Weapon Skill Line.


This skill is part of the scribing system.
Grimoires for this skill must be unlocked and bought from the Chronicler Firandil in The Scholarium.

Depending on which focus script you select, this skill can change into the following morphs: Bloody Knife, Chilling Knife, Dazing Knife, Leashing Knife, Magic Knife, Shattering Knife, Sundering Knife and Venomous Knife

Traveling Knife is a skill in the Dual Wield skill line under the Weapon category in ESO (the Elder Scrolls Online).

Traveling Knife - Scripts for Scribing

Here you can find a list of all scripts that can be used with the Traveling Knife skill using the scribing system.

Traveling Knife - Focus Script

Bleed Damage icon Bleed Damage Deals 2817 Physical Damage to an enemy and 4227 Physical Damage to enemies between you and them on return.
Frost Damage icon Frost Damage Deals 2817 Magic Damage to an enemy and 4227 Magic Damage to enemies between you and them on return.
Magic Damage icon Magic Damage Deals 2817 Magic Damage to an enemy and 4227 Magic Damage to enemies between you and them on return.
Multi-Target icon Multi-Target Deals 2817 Physical Damage to an enemy and 4227 Physical Damage to enemies around them.
Physical Damage icon Physical Damage Deals 2817 Physical Damage to an enemy and 4227 Physical Damage to enemies between you and them on return.
Poison Damage icon Poison Damage Deals 2817 Physical Damage to an enemy and 4227 Physical Damage to enemies between you and them on return.
Pull icon Pull Deals 2817 Physical Damage to an enemy and pulls them and enemies between you and them to you on return.
Stun icon Stun Deals 2817 Physical Damage to an enemy and stuns them and enemies between you and them for 3 seconds on return.

Traveling Knife - Signature Script

Assassin's Misery icon Assassin's Misery Increases the chance to apply status effects on enemies by 100% for 10 seconds.
Class Mastery icon Class Mastery Dragonknight: For each enemy within 8 meters, up to 6, gain 50 Weapon and Spell Damage and reduce your damage taken by 2% plus 1% per enemy for 5 seconds.
Sorcerer: Enchant your closest pet for 5 seconds to heal a nearby ally for 314 Health each time it deals damage, up to once a second. If you do not have a pet, you deal 709 Shock Damage to enemies within 8 meters of your target.
Nightblade: Restore 400 Magicka and Stamina if your target was above 50% Health. Increase your Critical Chance by 10% for 5 seconds if your target was at or below 50% Health.
Warden: Create an 8 meter area for 2 seconds under your target once every 8 seconds that snares enemies by 70%, and charms them for 3 seconds when it expires. If no enemies are charmed, you restore 1435 Magicka and Stamina.
Necromancer: Once every 3 seconds, increase your Health, Magicka, and Stamina by 2% for 10 seconds for each corpse within 12 meters, up to 10 times. If no corpses are nearby, create a corpse.
Templar: For 5 seconds, you gain 1320 Armor and 150 Weapon and Spell Damage. If Sacred Ground is active on you, these values are increased by 50%.
Arcanist: Create a Crux.
Fencer's Parry icon Fencer's Parry Deflects the next direct damage attack used against you within 3 seconds. This can occur once every 3 seconds.
Hunter's Snare icon Hunter's Snare Reduces the Movement Speed of enemies by 30% for 4 seconds.
Leeching Thirst icon Leeching Thirst Heals you for 26% of the damage done.
Lingering Torment icon Lingering Torment Deals 7260 Physical Damage over 20 seconds to enemies.
Warmage's Defense icon Warmage's Defense Grants you a damage shield that absorbs 6165 damage for 6 seconds.
Warrior's Opportunity icon Warrior's Opportunity Enemies hit take 8% more Martial damage for 5 seconds.
Wayfarer's Mastery icon Wayfarer's Mastery Enemies hit are susceptible to your Ruffian passive ability for 6 seconds.

Traveling Knife - Affix Script

Berserk icon Berserk Grants you Minor Berserk for 20 seconds, increasing damage done by 5%.
Brutality and Sorcery icon Brutality and Sorcery Grants you Major Brutality and Major Sorcery for 10 seconds, increasing Weapon and Spell Damage by 20%.
Expedition icon Expedition Grants you Minor Expedition for 20 seconds, increasing Movement Speed by 15%.
Force icon Force Grants you Minor Force for 20 seconds, increasing Critical Damage by 10%.
Lifesteal icon Lifesteal Afflicts enemies with Minor Lifesteal for 20 seconds, healing attackers for 600 Health every 1 second.
Maim icon Maim Afflicts enemies with Minor Maim for 20 seconds, reducing damage done by 5%.
Off Balance icon Off Balance Sets enemies Off Balance for 7 seconds.
Savagery and Prophecy icon Savagery and Prophecy Grants you Major Savagery and Major Prophecy for 10 seconds, increasing Weapon and Spell Critical rating by 2629.
Uncertainty icon Uncertainty Afflicts enemies with Minor Uncertainty for 20 seconds, reducing their Weapon and Spell Critical rating by 1320.
Vulnerability icon Vulnerability Afflicts enemies with Minor Vulnerability for 20 seconds, increasing damage taken by 5%.

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Dual Wield skills

Ultimate abilities
Lacerate icon
Lacerate
Slash enemies in front of you, causing them to bleed for 6960 Bleed Damage over 8 seconds and healing you for 50% of the damage done. Each tick applies the Hemorrhaging status effect.
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Rend icon
Rend
Slash enemies in front of you, causing them to bleed for 12942 Bleed Damage over 16 seconds and healing you for 50% of the damage done. Each tick applies the Hemorrhaging status effect.
Increases the duration.
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Thrive in Chaos icon
Thrive in Chaos
Slash enemies in front of you, causing them to bleed for 6965 Bleed Damage over 8 seconds and healing you for 50% of the damage done. Each enemy hit increases your damage done by 6% for 15 seconds. This effect can stack up to 6 times. Each tick applies the Hemorrhaging status effect.
Converts into a conal attack. Each enemy hit increases your damage done.
Scribing abilities
Traveling Knife icon
Traveling Knife
Twirl and throw an enchanted dagger at an enemy, which returns to you after a short delay and hits additional enemies in the path.
Active abilities
Flurry icon
Flurry
Flood an enemy with steel, battering them with four consecutive attacks that each deal 667 Physical Damage.
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Bloodthirst icon
Bloodthirst
Flood an enemy with steel, battering them with four consecutive attacks that each deal 689 Bleed Damage and heal you for 33% of the damage caused.
Converts into Bleed Damage and heals you for a percentage of the damage caused.
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Rapid Strikes icon
Rapid Strikes
Flood an enemy with steel, battering them with four consecutive attacks that each deal 689 Physical Damage. Each hit increases the damage of the subsequent hit by 5%.
Reduces the cost and each hit increases the damage of the subsequent hit.
Twin Slashes icon
Twin Slashes
Slice an enemy with both weapons to cause deep lacerations, dealing 580 Bleed Damage with each weapon and causing them to bleed for an additional 3470 Bleed Damage over 20 seconds.
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Blood Craze icon
Blood Craze
Slice an enemy with both weapons to cause deep lacerations, dealing 580 Bleed Damage with each weapon and causing them to bleed for an additional 3470 Bleed Damage over 20 seconds. You heal for 358 Health anytime this ability deals damage.
Whenever an enemy is damaged from the attack you are healed.
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Rending Slashes icon
Rending Slashes
Slice an enemy with both weapons to cause deep lacerations, dealing 718 Bleed Damage with each weapon and causing them to bleed for an additional 3470 Bleed Damage over 20 seconds. Enemies hit by the initial hit are afflicted with the Hemorrhaging status effect. You also reduce their Movement Speed by 30% for 4 seconds.
Increases the initial damage, applies the Hemorrhaging status effect, and reduces the enemy's Movement Speed.
Whirlwind icon
Whirlwind
Launch yourself into a lethal spin, dealing 1742 Physical Damage to nearby enemies.
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Steel Tornado icon
Steel Tornado
Launch yourself into a lethal spin, releasing a flurry of blades around you that deals 1742 Physical Damage to nearby enemies.
Increases the radius. Reduces cost as ability ranks up.
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Whirling Blades icon
Whirling Blades
Launch yourself into a lethal spin, dealing 1799 Physical Damage to nearby enemies. Deals up to 100% more damage to enemies with less than 50% Health.
Ability deals more damage the less Health enemies have.
Blade Cloak icon
Blade Cloak
Envelop yourself in a protective cloak of razors, gaining Major Evasion for 20 seconds, reducing damage from area attacks by 20%. Every 2 seconds the shrapnel will pulse, dealing 421 Physical Damage to all enemies within 5 meters.
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Deadly Cloak icon
Deadly Cloak
Envelop yourself in a protective cloak of razors, gaining Major Evasion for 20 seconds, reducing damage from area attacks by 20%. Every 2 seconds the shrapnel will pulse, dealing 566 Physical Damage to all enemies within 5 meters.
Increases the damage done.
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Quick Cloak icon
Quick Cloak
Envelop yourself in a protective cloak of razors, gaining Major Evasion for 30 seconds, reducing damage from area attacks by 20%. Every 2 seconds the shrapnel will pulse, dealing 422 Physical Damage to all enemies within 5 meters. You also gain Major Expedition for 4 seconds, increasing your Movement Speed by 30%.
Increases duration and grants Major Expedition for a short duration after casting.
Hidden Blade icon
Hidden Blade
Fire a secret dagger from your sleeve at an enemy, dealing 1392 Physical Damage and granting you Major Brutality and Sorcery, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 20% for 20 seconds. If the enemy hit is casting an ability they are interrupted, set Off Balance, and stunned for 3 seconds.
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Flying Blade icon
Flying Blade
Fire a secret dagger from your sleeve at an enemy, dealing 1438 Physical Damage and marking them for 5 seconds. If the enemy hit is casting an ability they are interrupted, set Off Balance, and stunned for 3 seconds. Reactivating this ability on them allows you to jump to a marked enemy free of cost, dealing 2160 Physical Damage. Casting grants you Major Brutality and Sorcery, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 20% for 40 seconds.
Casting the ability again against the same target causes you to jump to them. Extends the duration of Major Brutality and Sorcery.
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Shrouded Daggers icon
Shrouded Daggers
Fire a secret dagger from your sleeve that bounces up to 3 times to nearby enemies, dealing 1799 Physical Damage per hit. If enemies hit are casting they are interrupted, set Off Balance, and stunned for 3 seconds. You also gain Major Brutality and Sorcery, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 20% for 20 seconds.
Increases the damage, and the dagger now bounces up to a total of three times.
Passive abilities
Slaughter icon
Slaughter
Increases damage with Dual Wield abilities by 20% against enemies with under 25% Health.
Dual Wield Expert icon
Dual Wield Expert
Increases Weapon and Spell Damage by 6% of off-hand weapon's damage.
Controlled Fury icon
Controlled Fury
Reduces the Stamina cost of Dual Wield abilities by 15%.
Ruffian icon
Ruffian
Gives you a 15% damage bonus when attacking stunned, immobilized, or silenced enemies.
Twin Blade and Blunt icon
Twin Blade and Blunt
Grants a bonus based on the type of weapon equipped: Each axe increases your Critical Damage done by 6%. Each mace increases your Offensive Penetration by 1487. Each sword increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by 129. Each dagger increases your Critical Chance rating by 657.