Yo, guys. Does someone use Whirlwind Blades? Any tips or builds? Attachments? Due to description it should be aggressive weapon like daggers - without bleed stacks and with higher damage, but Blades feel a bit clumsy\slow. Or it just me?
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They’re a weapon I’d love to love.
The first thing to accept is that the Whirlwind blades are not an all-purpose weapon. They excel against targets with lots of hitpoints who can be staggered, so you can take full advantage of the “whirlwind” attack. Their issue is, the early strikes to get a combo going seem to miss often, so I think there’s something not quite right in the way the blades connect to NPCs. So it’s pretty easy to interrupt the combo before you get it running.
Anything that doesn’t stagger will hit you back while the blender is running, and we don’t want that. And things that don’t stagger but that have low hitpoints are faster to kill with other weapons.
So, in my opinion, they are a niche weapon that don’t usually justify bringing along, because the job they do well isn’t something other, more general-purpose weapons (including daggers), could not.
I main Whirlwind Blades and have ever since they were daggers.
Never go for the spin-to-win, it is a complete waste of damage. Never do light attacks except to dispatch unconscious enemies.
Sprint attack can add bleed, but even if you take the full bleed damage into consideration, it does less damage than the normal heavy opener. Sprint attack should only be used when closing distance is important, or if you can actually apply more bleeds (like while circling the Red Mother).
The first and second heavy attacks have the highest combo damage modifier, then third is lower, and every attack after is even lower yet. You just want to do 1, 2, occasionally 3, then disengage long enough to reset combo, repeat.
Whirlwind Blades are not a brute force weapon, they are a dodge and weave weapon.
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Enlightening. Will try.
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I love them for agility weapons. Kinda work like axe
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