Electro-whirl

Spin around, reflecting missiles and hitting enemies. — In-game description

Electro-whirl

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Specialization

Scrapper

Weapon

Hammer

Activ. type

Channeled

Damage type

Lightning

Game link

API

30088

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Electro-whirl

Spin around, reflecting missiles and hitting enemies.

 Damage (2x): 1,210 (3.0)^?

 Damage (2x): 548 (1.36)^?

 Damage (2x): 606 (1.5)^?

 Number of Impacts: 2

 Number of Targets: 5

 Explosion

 Radius: 180

 Reflect Missiles

 Combo Finisher: Whirl

— In-game description

Related traits

Explosives

• Short Fuse — Gain fury when you hit a foe with an Explosion.
• Steel-Packed Powder — Explosions cause vulnerability.
• Explosive Temper — Explosions grant stacking ferocity when they hit.
• Shrapnel — Explosions have a chance to cripple and cause bleeding on hit.
• Big Boomer — Deal increased strike damage to foes with a lower health percentage than you. Hitting with an Explosion heals you over a few seconds.

Scrapper

• Kinetic Accelerators — Grant boons to nearby allies when you successfully combo a field with a blast, leap, or whirl finisher. Your function gyro is now a blast finisher. Whirl finishers can only trigger this trait once per interval.

Mechanist

• Mech Fighter — New combat subroutines enable your mech to use Rocket Punch when you activate Skill 3 on your equipped weapon. Your mech gains a greater percentage of your own toughness and vitality stats.

Notes

Anomaly:

An undocumented change has caused this skill to play a sharp, generic electric sound effect on top of the original sound.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 29, 2022	Increased power coefficient from 0.68 to 0.75 in PvP only.
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Damage multiplier increased from 2.4 to 3.
March 31, 2020	This skill is now considered an explosion for the purposes of traits.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per strike from 1.2 to 0.68. Increased cooldown from 6 seconds to 8 seconds.
October 01, 2019	Increased damage by 9%.
February 06, 2018	Increased the number of targets struck by this skill from 3 to 5.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Electro-whirl has been added to the game.