Whirling Blades

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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 Moving
Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
Acquisition
Drop level: 10
Vendor Offer
1x Scroll Fragment
Metadata
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 Multistrike SupportMultistrike SupportAttack, Melee, Support
Icon: 3
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 150%
Requires Level 38Supports melee attack skills, making them repeat twice when used, targeting a random enemy each time. Cannot support Vaal skills, channelling skills or triggered skills.Supported Skills Repeat 2 additional times
Supported Skills have (35-44)% more Melee Attack Speed
Supported Skills deal (30-20)% less Attack Damage
First Repeat of Supported Skills deals 22% more Damage
Second Repeat of Supported Skills deals 44% more Damage

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Melee Damage
This is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
or Melee Splash SupportMelee Splash SupportSupport, Melee, Attack, Strike, AoE
Icon: S
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%
AoE Radius: 14
Requires Level 8Supports melee strike skills, causing their melee strike to deal splash damage around each target hit.Supported Skills deal Splash Damage to surrounding targets
Supported Skills deal 40% less Splash Damage to surrounding targets
Supported Skills have (0-57)% more Melee Splash Area of Effect

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills have (0.5-10)% increased Area of Effect
This is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
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Venom Gyre: Caught returning projectiles from Venom Gyre spiral outwards when you use Whirling Blades and do not return.

Gem level progression

LevelRequired LevelRequired DexterityRequired IntelligenceDamage
Effectiveness
Attack
Damage
Exp.Total Exp.
110180100%100%00
2132215103%102.6%95699569
3172719105%105.3%2818937758
4213323108%107.9%5914696904
5253826111%110.5%111192208096
6294330113%113.2%193800401896
7334934116%115.8%320280722176
8365236118%118.4%3590901081266
9395639121%121.1%4985081579774
10426042124%123.7%6820572261831
11456445126%126.3%9217773183608
12486848129%128.9%17278794911487
13517250132%131.6%17917696703256
14547653134%134.2%23536799056935
15578056137%136.8%307091212127847
16608459139%139.5%909546621223313
17638861142%142.1%1603989037263203
18669264145%144.7%2981711767080320
19689566147%147.4%62895056129975376
20709868150%150%212051599342026975
217210070153%152.6%N/AN/A
2274N/AN/A155%155.3%N/AN/A
2376N/AN/A158%157.9%N/AN/A
2478N/AN/A161%160.5%N/AN/A
2580N/AN/A163%163.2%N/AN/A
2682N/AN/A166%165.8%N/AN/A
2784N/AN/A168%168.4%N/AN/A
2886N/AN/A171%171.1%N/AN/A
2988N/AN/A174%173.7%N/AN/A
3090N/AN/A176%176.3%N/AN/A
3191N/AN/A178%177.6%N/AN/A
3292N/AN/A179%178.9%N/AN/A
3393N/AN/A180%180.3%N/AN/A
3494N/AN/A182%181.6%N/AN/A
3595N/AN/A183%182.9%N/AN/A
3696N/AN/A184%184.2%N/AN/A
3797N/AN/A186%185.5%N/AN/A
3898N/AN/A187%186.8%N/AN/A
3999N/AN/A188%188.2%N/AN/A
40100N/AN/A189%189.5%N/AN/A

Gem quality

TypeAdditional Effects per 1-20% QualityWeight
Superior(0.5-10)% increased Attack Speed1

Item acquisition

Whirling Blades can drop anywhere.

Recipes

Whirling Blades can be created from the following recipes:

AmountPartDescriptionMeta
6The FoxThe Fox6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox."
- Ezomyte Proverb
Random level 20 gemA
3Gemcutter's PromiseGemcutter's Promise3Gem
Quality: +20%
"I swore to use my position to help the people. What good is power when it just accumulates on the already-powerful?" - Erasmus, Imperial Gemcutter
Random gem with 20% qualityA
1Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item
Item drops after killing {0} monsters
Right click this item then left click an item to apply it. The Incubated item drops after killing a specific number of monsters.
Random gem with 1–20% qualityA
1The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.Random divination card set exchangeA

Quest reward

This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:

Class →WitchShadowRangerDuelistMarauderTemplarScion
Quest ↓
The Caged Brute
Act 1

Vendor reward

This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:

Class →WitchShadowRangerDuelistMarauderTemplarScion
Quest ↓
The Caged Brute
Act 1
Nessa
A Fixture of Fate
Act 3
Siosa
Fallen from Grace
Act 6
Lilly Roth

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.

NameFor generated item/monster modifiers the minimum item/monster level respectively. Some generation types may not require this condition to be met, however item level restrictions may be raised to 80% of this value.LabyrinthStatsSpawn Weighting
Enchantment Venom Gyre Chance To Retain Projectile On Release 166Merciless LabyrinthVenom Gyre has a 15% chance to keep each caught Projectile fired with Whirling Bladeshelmet 0
Enchantment Venom Gyre Chance To Retain Projectile On Release 275Eternal LabyrinthVenom Gyre has a 25% chance to keep each caught Projectile fired with Whirling Bladeshelmet 100
Enchantment Whirling Blades Attack Speed 166Merciless Labyrinth10% increased Whirling Blades Attack Speedhelmet 100
Enchantment Whirling Blades Attack Speed 275Eternal Labyrinth15% increased Whirling Blades Attack Speedhelmet 100
Enchantment Whirling Blades Damage 166Merciless Labyrinth25% increased Whirling Blades Damagehelmet 100
Enchantment Whirling Blades Damage 275Eternal Labyrinth40% increased Whirling Blades Damagehelmet 100

Alternate skill effects

Whirling Blades has the following alternate skill effects:

ItemEffect(s)
Faith Guard Whirling Blades EffectFaith Guard Whirling Blades EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Whirling Blades become a Faith Guard Effect.Your Whirling Blades become a Faith Guard Effect.
Ice Whirling Blades EffectIce Whirling Blades EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Whirling Blades become an Icy effect.Your Whirling Blades become an Icy effect.
Illusionist Whirling Blades EffectIllusionist Whirling Blades EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Whirling Blades becomes an Illusionist Effect.Your Whirling Blades becomes an Illusionist Effect.
Phantasmal Whirling Blades EffectPhantasmal Whirling Blades EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Whirling Blades become a Phantasmal Effect.Your Whirling Blades become a Phantasmal Effect.
Purple Whirling Blades EffectPurple Whirling Blades EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Whirling Blades become a purple effect.Your Whirling Blades become a purple effect.
Ringmaster Whirling Blades EffectRingmaster Whirling Blades EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Whirling Blades become a Ringmaster Effect.Your Whirling Blades become a Ringmaster Effect.

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 Whirling BladesWhirling 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. If dual wielding attacks with both weapons, dealing the damage of both in one hit. Only works with Daggers, Claws, and One-Handed Swords. Cannot be supported by Multistrike.When Dual Wielding, Deals 75% Damage from each Weapon combined
    +0.6 seconds to Attack Time

    Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
    (0.5-10)% increased Attack Speed
    Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
    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.

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