Whirling Blades

Whirling BladesAttack, Movement, Travel, Melee
Level: (1-20)
Cost: 10 Mana
Attack Damage: (100-150)% of base
Effectiveness of Added Damage: (100-150)%Requires Level 10Dive through enemies, dealing weapon damage. Only works with daggers, claws and one handed swords. Cannot be supported by Multistrike.+0.6 seconds to Attack Time

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
0.5% increased Attack Speed3% increased Damage10% increased Evasion Rating while MovingPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Acquisition
Drop level: 10Vendor Offer
1x Scroll FragmentMetadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemWhirlingBlades

Whirling Blades is an attack skill. The player dives in a target direction, dealing damage to enemies they pass through.

Skill functions and interactions

Movement: Whirling Blades is a movement skill that makes the player move in a straight path in the targeted direction, passing through any enemies and dealing damage to them, after which there is a brief recovery period during which the player cannot move or perform any actions. Enemies cannot be hit more than once with the same skill use. Whirling Blades has both a minimum distance, which can be achieved by aiming the cursor close to the player, and maximum distance, neither of which can be modified.

Use time: Both local and global attack speed modifiers, including the attack speed bonus for dual wielding, decrease Whirling Blades' use time accordingly. If the player uses Whirling Blades to move less than the maximum distance, or if the player collides with an object during the movement, the recovery period is shortened, such that the use time is less.

Dual wielding: While dual wielding, hits are dealt with either the main or off-hand weapon, chosen at random.

Multistrike: Whirling Blades cannot be supported by or .

Venom Gyre: Caught returning projectiles from Venom Gyre spiral outwards when you use Whirling Blades and do not return.

Gem level progression

Level				Damage Effectiveness	Attack Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	10	18	0	100%	100%	0	0
2	13	22	15	103%	102.6%	9569	9569
3	17	27	19	105%	105.3%	28189	37758
4	21	33	23	108%	107.9%	59146	96904
5	25	38	26	111%	110.5%	111192	208096
6	29	43	30	113%	113.2%	193800	401896
7	33	49	34	116%	115.8%	320280	722176
8	36	52	36	118%	118.4%	359090	1081266
9	39	56	39	121%	121.1%	498508	1579774
10	42	60	42	124%	123.7%	682057	2261831
11	45	64	45	126%	126.3%	921777	3183608
12	48	68	48	129%	128.9%	1727879	4911487
13	51	72	50	132%	131.6%	1791769	6703256
14	54	76	53	134%	134.2%	2353679	9056935
15	57	80	56	137%	136.8%	3070912	12127847
16	60	84	59	139%	139.5%	9095466	21223313
17	63	88	61	142%	142.1%	16039890	37263203
18	66	92	64	145%	144.7%	29817117	67080320
19	68	95	66	147%	147.4%	62895056	129975376
20	70	98	68	150%	150%	212051599	342026975
21	72	100	70	153%	152.6%	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	155%	155.3%	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	158%	157.9%	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	161%	160.5%	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	163%	163.2%	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	166%	165.8%	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	168%	168.4%	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	171%	171.1%	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	174%	173.7%	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	176%	176.3%	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	178%	177.6%	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	179%	178.9%	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	180%	180.3%	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	182%	181.6%	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	183%	182.9%	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	184%	184.2%	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	186%	185.5%	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	187%	186.8%	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	188%	188.2%	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	189%	189.5%	N/A	N/A

Gem quality

Type	Additional Effects per 1-20% Quality	Weight
Superior	(0.5-10)% increased Attack Speed	1

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Whirling Blades.

Note that helmet enchantments are no longer obtainable since version 3.23.0 and can only be obtained in permanent leagues as already enchanted items from before this patch.

Name		Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Venom Gyre Chance To Retain Projectile On Release 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Venom Gyre has a 15% chance to keep each caught Projectile fired with Whirling Blades	helmet 0
Enchantment Venom Gyre Chance To Retain Projectile On Release 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Venom Gyre has a 25% chance to keep each caught Projectile fired with Whirling Blades	helmet 100
Enchantment Whirling Blades Attack Speed 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	10% increased Whirling Blades Attack Speed	helmet 100
Enchantment Whirling Blades Attack Speed 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	15% increased Whirling Blades Attack Speed	helmet 100
Enchantment Whirling Blades Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Whirling Blades Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Whirling Blades Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Whirling Blades Damage	helmet 100

Alternate skill effects

Whirling Blades has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Effect(s)

Version history

Version	Changes
3.18.1	Improved the behaviour of some travel skills when repeated through Echoing Shrine or the Echoist modifier gained by killing monsters. Flame Dash, Whirling Blades and Dash now repeat in the same direction as the initial use. Shield Charge is now able to repeat, though only the larger area attack performed upon reaching your target is repeated. Attacking in place with Leap Slam now repeats in the same direction as the initial use.
3.15.0	Now deals 150% of Base Damage, and has 150% Effectiveness of Added Damage at gem level 20 (previously 120%).
3.7.0	Now deals base damage equal to, and has an added damage effectiveness of, 100% at gem level 1 (from 80%), up to 120% at gem level 20 (from 99%). Now has a mana cost of 10 at all gem levels (from 15).
3.6.0	Can now affect up to 40 targets per attack (from 20).
3.5.0	Now uses weapon attack time +0.6 seconds, rather than overriding your base attack time. While base weapon speed will have some effect, this change is intended to reduce the travel speed difference between characters using weapons local attack speed modifiers and characters who are not.
2.3.0	Increased the attack time of by 18%. Its previous default attack time was 2.2 seconds. It is now 2.6 seconds.
2.2.0	Whirling Blades is now 10% slower.
2.1.0	Attack skills that have their damage based on the wielded weapon have their mana costs fixed in place from level 1 onwards.
2.0.0	Skill speed increased by 29%.
1.0.0	Reduced the mana cost.
0.10.0	Damage effectiveness increased from 60% to 80%.
0.9.12qq	Damage modifiers are now factored into Damage Effectiveness rather than being listed as separate stats. From 1% attack speed per quality point to 0.35%.
0.9.12f	Fixed a newly introduced bug where Whirling Blades would always get Critical Strikes.
0.9.12	Whirling Blades now checks Evasion properly, rather than always hitting.
0.9.10	Fixed two problems that prevented Whirling Blades from hitting its targets correctly.
0.9.9	Whirling Blades has been added to the game.