Serrated Steel

Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Bleeding you inflict gains increased duration. — In-game description

Serrated Steel

Specialization

Firearms (trait list)

Tier

Adept

Type

Minor

Training cost

2 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Serrated Steel

Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Bleeding you inflict gains increased duration.

 Chance on Critical Hit: 33%

 Bleeding (3s): 66 Damage

 Bleeding (1s): 22 Damage

 Duration Increase: 33%

 Duration Increase: 15%

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Fragmentation Shot — Pistol
•   Refraction Cutter — Sword
•   Blunderbuss — Rifle
•   Puncturing Jab — Spear
•   Rending Strike — Spear
•   Amplifying Slice — Spear
•   Capture Line — Harpoon gun
•   Refraction Cutter Blade — Sword
•   Refraction Cutter — Sword

Bundle skills that are improved by this trait

•   Tranquilizer Dart — Elixir Gun
•   Shrapnel Grenade — Grenade Kit
•   Shrapnel Grenade — Grenade Kit
•   Box of Nails — Tool Kit
•   Box of Piranhas — Tool Kit

Transform skills that are improved by this trait

•   Withering Plague — Elixir X (underwater)

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Automatic Fire
•   Laser Disk — Exceed

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Flux State — Stance

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Booby Trap — Tool belt
•   Blade Burst — Tool belt
•   Rolling Smash — Tool belt, Mech Command
•   Offensive Protocol: Obliterate — Morph

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Drop Gunk — Streamlined Kits

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Firearms

• Serrated Steel — Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Bleeding you inflict gains increased duration.
• Sanguine Array — Gain might when you inflict bleeding on a foe.
• Hematic Focus — Gain fury when you inflict bleeding on an enemy. Fury gives an increased critical-strike chance.
• Modified Ammunition — Deal increased strike damage for each condition on a foe.
• Sharpshooter — Bleeding you inflict scales off of your power instead of your condition damage.

Traits that are improved by this trait

Explosives

• Shrapnel — Explosions have a chance to cripple and cause bleeding on hit.

Firearms

• Serrated Steel — Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding. Bleeding you inflict gains increased duration.

Mechanist

• Mech Arms: Single-Edge Cutters — Unlocks the Mech Command skill Rolling Smash. Your mech's attacks apply bleeding. This attack's effect may only affect a certain target once per interval.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
January 13, 2026	This trait also causes critical strikes to inflict bleeding and has moved to the adept minor slot.
February 14, 2023	This trait now functions with the mech when it is active.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced bonus bleeding duration from 33% to 15%.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Serrated Steel has been added to the game.