Do Reflex Skills (Blade) apply to Mantis Blades?

[ShinAkira00]

These vague descriptions were an issue pre update and unfortunately, they haven't addressed it with a tooltip or anything. Are we to assume the blade skills under reflex affect the Mantis Blade? It's rather confusing since it has "Blade" in the name and for some of the skills in the tree like Finisher: Bladerunner they actually have a Mantis Blade in the skill demonstration. That would lead me to believe that some blade skills apply but there is no way to determine which ones do and which ones don't.

 

[Sal8050]

Yeah, this is one of my complaints as well. Knives are blades....

 

[Jared0811]

I think they do, not 100% sure. They really do need to do a better job of making these things clear. I'm not sure if knives count as throwables as well as blades.

 

[MotionMoon]

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[Sal8050]

I think they do, not 100% sure. They really do need to do a better job of making these things clear. I'm not sure if knives count as throwables as well as blades.

For the cool skill tree, all of the skills in it (throwable weapons) works with knifes when SLASHING and THROWING. I've been using knife slashing and it works.
The reflex skill tree with the Blades affects swords, mantis blades.