Whirling Blades

Whirling BladesAttack, Movement, Travel, Melee
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (6-10) Mana
Attack Damage: (136-314)% of base
Effectiveness of Added Damage: (136-314)%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.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 SpeedPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Acquisition
Drop level: 10Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemWhirlingBlades

Whirling Blades is an attack skill for one-handed swords, daggers, and claws. The player dives in a target direction, dealing damage to enemies they pass through. It uses both weapons to deal damage if you are dual wielding.

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: attacks with both weapons simultaneously, averaging the attack speed of both weapons and combining the attacks of both weapons into a single hit. Both weapons will roll their damage values and their accuracy and critical strike checks separately, then combine the expected damage of both weapons. It is possible to miss or crit with one weapon, but not the other.
  • On-hit effects will only check the result of the final hit.
  • Non-damaging ailments and effects like Cruelty SupportCruelty SupportSupport, Duration
    Icon: Y
    Level: (1-20)
    Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 140%Requires Level 18Supports any skill that hits enemies. Minions cannot gain Cruelty.Supported Skills deal (15-24)% more Damage with Hits
    Cruelty has a Base Duration of 4 seconds
    Hits from Supported Skills grant Cruelty
    (0-19)% increased Effect of Cruelty granted by Supported Skills
    
    Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
    (0.25-5)% increased Effect of Cruelty granted by Supported SkillsThis 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. scale off damage taken from the final hit.
  • Damaging ailment DPS is calculated per weapon, then combined into one debuff, similar to hit damage.
  • The final hit is considered a critical strike as long as one of the weapons rolled a crit.

• Whirling Blades cannot be repeated (ex. 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, travel skills, retaliation 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 DamageThis 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.) and cannot support melee splash effects.

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

Gem level progression

Level				Mana Cost	Damage Effectiveness	Attack Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	10	18	0	6	136.4%	136.4%	0	0
2	13	22	15	6	142.5%	142.5%	9569	9569
3	17	27	19	7	149.2%	149.2%	28189	37758
4	21	33	23	7	156.2%	156.2%	59146	96904
5	25	38	26	7	163.4%	163.4%	111192	208096
6	29	43	30	7	171%	171%	193800	401896
7	33	49	34	8	179%	179%	320280	722176
8	36	52	36	8	187.1%	187.1%	359090	1081266
9	39	56	39	8	195.4%	195.4%	498508	1579774
10	42	60	42	8	204.1%	204.1%	682057	2261831
11	45	64	45	8	213.3%	213.3%	921777	3183608
12	48	68	48	9	222.7%	222.7%	1727879	4911487
13	51	72	50	9	232.7%	232.7%	1791769	6703256
14	54	76	53	9	243.1%	243.1%	2353679	9056935
15	57	80	56	9	253.8%	253.8%	3070912	12127847
16	60	84	59	9	265.2%	265.2%	9095466	21223313
17	63	88	61	10	277%	277%	16039890	37263203
18	66	92	64	10	289.2%	289.2%	29817117	67080320
19	68	95	66	10	301.7%	301.7%	62895056	129975376
20	70	98	68	10	314.5%	314.5%	212051599	342026975
21	72	100	70	10	328%	328%	—	—
22	74	—	—	10	341.9%	341.9%	—	—
23	76	—	—	10	356.5%	356.5%	—	—
24	78	—	—	11	371.8%	371.8%	—	—
25	80	—	—	11	387.5%	387.5%	—	—
26	82	—	—	11	404.1%	404.1%	—	—
27	84	—	—	11	421.3%	421.3%	—	—
28	86	—	—	11	439.3%	439.3%	—	—
29	88	—	—	11	458%	458%	—	—
30	90	—	—	11	477.5%	477.5%	—	—
31	91	—	—	11	506.7%	506.7%	—	—
32	92	—	—	11	517.5%	517.5%	—	—
33	93	—	—	12	528.5%	528.5%	—	—
34	94	—	—	12	539.7%	539.7%	—	—
35	95	—	—	12	551.3%	551.3%	—	—
36	96	—	—	12	562.9%	562.9%	—	—
37	97	—	—	12	574.9%	574.9%	—	—
38	98	—	—	12	587.1%	587.1%	—	—
39	99	—	—	12	599.5%	599.5%	—	—
40	100	—	—	12	612.3%	612.3%	—	—

Item acquisition

Whirling Blades can drop anywhere.

Recipes

Whirling Blades can be created from the following recipes:

Amount	Part	Description	Meta
6	The 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 gem	A
3	Gemcutter'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% quality	A
1	Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item Item drops after killing {0} monstersRight 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% quality	A
1	The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.	Random divination card set exchange	A

Quest reward

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

Class →	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Quest ↓
The Caged Brute Act 1

Vendor reward

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

Class →	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Quest ↓
The Caged Brute Act 1 Nessa
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth

Ruthless mode

This item cannot be obtained in leagues with Ruthless mode enabled.

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	Description
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
3.25.0	Now has a Mana cost of 6 at gem level 1, scaling up to 10 at gem level 20 (previously 10 at all gem levels). Now has 136% Effectiveness of Base and Added Damage at gem level 1 (previously 100%), scaling up to 314% at gem level 20 (previously 150%).
3.22.0	If dual wielding when using Whirling Blades, you now attack with both weapons, dealing the damage of both in one hit. Whirling Blades now has "When Dual Wielding, Deals 75% of Damage from each Weapon combined" at all gem levels..
3.20.2	Updated the targeting behaviour for Whirling Blades in Controller Input mode to target monsters rather than location.
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 Blades 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.