Whirling Blades

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Vipermagi wrote:

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rsbennett00 wrote:

Just curious if this is slated to be fixed any time soon. I realize it's only been 4 and a half years and it's certainly not a priority skill, but eventually I would like to use it.

Very descriptive :/

I get the impression you don't follow this skill and how it's been pretty much broken it's whole life.

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Vipermagi wrote:

Your observation is incredibly wrong, but what else could one have expected.

If you want something fixed, one of a million god damn things, describe the problem. Otherwise, you're just static. Just more whiny non-descript comments, ready to be ignored.

Wow, this is the last place I expected such hostility. Hopefully there's a way to just mute you on these forums.

Or if WB can't be fixed, how about just allow Leap Slam to work with Daggers and Claws? I think that's all people really want, WB's movement to work as well as leap slam.

I would also liked if we were able to scale walls or leap over chasms using WB.
I mean I don't want to be forced to use lightening warp, (which is considerably slower) just to be able to get away from impending "doom" or critical blows.

I'm aware that this change would make WB very powerful, but at least it would make it viable.

Plus finally every class would have the same ability to scale the terrain without having to heavily invest in some other class's nodes.

Just died lvl98 during a lag spike cause this skill is ALWAYS going back when u lag.
Result instead escaped... I go back on bearers and BOOM !!! //feel so happy !

So I have some not quite useful feedback.

IMO it's the best movement skill the game currently has. Even after two attack time nerfs it still can be scaled to "enjoyable" speed while used by a caster.

I'd say the skill has two (abstract) general breakpoints 1.25 sec and 0.9sec attack time. Let's assume class-specific whirl animation has no negative effect on the skill overall speed. For some reason the skill "feels" differently depending on character type. A while ago the skill animation was non-interruptible by stun and knockback due to some bug, during that time (patch version 0.10-2.0? ) this behaviour became a skill feature, currently knockback able to interrupt WB movement and I'd say this is an awful interaction. WB is a slow "long animation" skill it's simply not compatible with such common thing as knockback. This skill would be a lot more pleasant to use if it had built-in "forced movement" immunity.

This skill doesn't directly benefit from movement speed (unlike Shield Charge, which takes less time to reach full distance/damage) right? Perhaps like how Shield Charge can be built around as a niche primary attack, Whirling Blades could be a niche primary attack for non-shield builds if it dealt more damage based on your walking speed.

Why can't this cross gaps and go over debris? It looks like the character is flying through the air.