Whirlwind Attack

Whirl in a target's direction, slashing foes along your path. — In-game description

Whirlwind Attack

 

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Weapon

Greatsword

Movement

Leap

Game link

API

14447

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Whirlwind Attack

Whirl in a target's direction, slashing foes along your path.

 Damage: 268 (0.665)^?

 Damage: 134 (0.333)^?

 Number of Impacts: 4

 Number of Targets: 3

 Evade: 0.75¾ seconds

 Combo Finisher: Whirl

 Range: 450

— In-game description

Related traits

Strength

• Brave Stride — Movement skills grant stability when used.
• Forceful Greatsword — Gain power and a chance to gain might on critical strike. Double these bonuses while wielding a greatsword or underwater spear. Greatsword and underwater spear skills recharge faster.

Discipline

• Warrior's Sprint — Run faster while wielding melee weapons, and deal increased strike damage while you have swiftness. Movement skills break immobilization when used.

Bladesworn

• Swift as the Wind — Movement skills grant swiftness and increase flow rate.

Notes

• This skill cleaves.
• Whirlwind Attack will try to hit 4 times on its path.
  • A stationary enemy in its path will be hit 2-4 times depending on their size and distance from the starting point. Starting in melee range (130 units), player characters and smaller enemies will be hit 2-3 times, while bigger creatures will be hit all 4 times. The size of a creature usually matches their selection circle.
  • Used against an obstacle in an angle that prevents advance or while immobilized will allow you to deliver all 4 hits to enemies in range.

Bug:

Sometimes multiple seconds after casting hits enemies randomly far away from casting location or the user.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 02, 2023	Fixed an issue that prevented this skill from creating Combo Finisher: Whirl the correct number of times.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split)Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.665 to 0.333.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Movement-speed adjustments no longer affect the intended travel distance.
September 09, 2014	Lowered damage of each strike by 5%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Whirlwind Attack has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.