Fiery Whirl

Advance forward, slashing foes in your way. — In-game description

Fiery Whirl

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Parent skill

  Conjure Fiery Greatsword

Bundle

Fiery Greatsword

Movement

Leap

Game link

API

5697

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0.25¼  5  

Fiery Whirl

Advance forward, slashing foes in your way.

 Damage: 308 (0.688)^?

 Cripple (3s): -50% Movement Speed

 Number of Impacts: 8

 Number of Targets: 3

 Radius: 130

 Evade: 10.25¼ seconds

 Combo Finisher: Whirl

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Water

• Flow like Water — Deal increased strike damage, which is further increased while your health is above the threshold. Blocking or evading an attack heals you.

Weaver

• Elemental Pursuit — Gain superspeed when inflicting inhibiting conditions on enemies.

Catalyst

• Evasive Empowerment — Gain Elemental Empowerment and vigor when evading an attack.
• Elemental Epitome — Gain an aura based on your current attunement when you combo. Gain Elemental Empowerment when you grant yourself an aura. Auras can be gained this way once per attunement per interval.
• Elemental Synergy — Gain a bonus effect when you finish a combo. Bonuses can trigger once per attunement per interval.

Notes

• Fiery Whirl will try to hit 4 times on its path, inflicting cripple on every hit.
  • A stationary enemy on its path will be hit 2-4 times depending on their size and distance from the starting point. Starting in melee range (130 units), player characters and smaller enemies will be hit 2-3 times, while bigger creatures will be hit all 4 times. The size of a creature usually matches their selection circle.
  • Used against an obstacle in an angle that prevents advance or while immobilized will allow you to deliver all 4 hits to enemies in range.

Bugs:

Tooltip damage displays ~5.8% higher than actual damage dealt.

 Damage: 231 (0.65)^?

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 02, 2023	Fixed an issue that prevented this skill from creating Combo Finisher: Whirl the correct number of times.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Movement-speed adjustments no longer affect the intended travel distance.
June 03, 2014	Added number of targets and number of impacts skill facts.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Fiery Whirl has been added to the game.