What the heck is the difference between confounding blades and slow reactions?

[KaptainKrunch]

Besides that Confounding Blades is confusingly an advanced talent.

Confounding Blades
Benefit: When a rogue with this talent hits a creature with a melee weapon that deals sneak attack damage, her target cannot make attacks of opportunity until the beginning of her next turn.

Slow Reactions
Benefit: Opponents damaged by the rogue's sneak attack can't make attacks of opportunity for 1 round.

It's like two writers had the same idea, and one was more wordy than the other and overestimated the power of the ability...

They're also both sneak attack talents, so it's not that one can be combined with other sneak attack talents...

What's the difference?

[TriOmegaZero]

Nothing worth mentioning. It was a editing mistake. We've brought it up before.

[StreamOfTheSky]

The difference is Slow Reactions also works with ranged SA and can be taken from level 2; confounding blades is melee only and requires level 10+.

So it's not true to call them the same. CB is plainly inferior. :p

[Quatar]

I think you got it there in the OP.
Two people had the same idea, and the second one (who made CB for UC) somehow didn't realise the same talent was in the CRB already, just better. And none of the editors noticed either.