Jul 06, 2007, 03:22 AM // 03:22
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: drifting between Indiana and NorCal
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Does anyone ever use Whirling Axe?
Cleave vs. Eviscerate has been debated to death, and Triple Chop sees a lot of action in farming situations. Heck, there's even a Decapitate build posted on PvXwiki. Is there any love out there for Whirling Axe?
I'm going out on a limb to assume that the answer is no. Perhaps a better question: what should the skill look like in order to compete for space on your skillbar?
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Jul 06, 2007, 04:09 AM // 04:09
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Administrator
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Triple Chop is good even when not farming aswell, I prefer it over Eviscerate most times. Anyway, Whirling Axe is the Hundred Blades of the Axe line. It drains adrenaline from other skills, has a nasty downside if blocked, has a lousy damage boost, and just doesn't compare to the effects of other Axe attacks. Its not good enough for a spike and not good enough for pressure, i.e crap.
Just for other peoples reference;
[card]Whirling Axe[/card][card]Cleave[/card][card]Eviscerate[/card][card]Decapitate[/card][card]Hundred Blades[/card]
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Jul 06, 2007, 12:15 PM // 12:15
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Grotto Attendant
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Beyond the Forest of Doom, past the Cavern of Agony... on Kitten & Puppy Island
Guild: Soul of Melandru [sOm]
Profession: W/E
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Well, the only time I've *EVER* used Whirling Axe was in a couple of Kournan missions...
1)It's low adrenaline cost means that 'lose all adrenaline' clauses don't hurt too much... I was packing Wild Blow to use on the Kournan archers.
2) Them same archers lay down Infuriating Heat... Whirling Axe on every attack is fun.
Now... if they bumped up its adrenaline cost by a strike or two, removed the horrid 'disabled' clause... and have it cause a condition on hit (Bleeding is weak... Cripple on 3a/4a would be broken... Weakness, perhaps?) then I might consider using it.
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Jul 06, 2007, 07:19 PM // 19:19
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Aug 2006
Guild: The Nights Watch [Crow]
Profession: Mo/
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Huh, I think I used it once in an old spider farming build in the Fissure, though I don't use it ever since "WY" no longer stacked with Phys Resistance, and when shards went below 2k.. -.-
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Jul 06, 2007, 08:13 PM // 20:13
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: May 2006
Profession: N/
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Elite Axe Attack. Whirling Axe strikes target foe 2 times for +1-12 damage each hit. (based on a 1-12 scale)
Works better with conjures/buffs, doesn't drain adrenaline, no crappy block downside.
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Jul 06, 2007, 08:13 PM // 20:13
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#6
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Frost Gate Guardian
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It's simply an adrenaline sink. It's bad under any circumstances except I'd say the one mentioned above
Quote:
Originally Posted by Stormlord Alex
It's low adrenaline cost means that 'lose all adrenaline' clauses don't hurt too much... I was packing Wild Blow to use on the Kournan archers.
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though I wouldn't take wildblow for those archers anyway. Using it with mark of/dark fury or infuriating heat is even worse than using it without relative to other attack skills.
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Jul 07, 2007, 12:20 AM // 00:20
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#7
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Jun 2005
Profession: W/
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i use it in low level area's, mainly cause you don't need deep wound to kill lvl10 foes :P it's a moderate, fast rechargable damage boost, nice for many weak enemies, but pretty crap everywhere else :P
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Jul 08, 2007, 08:12 PM // 20:12
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Academy Page
Join Date: Oct 2006
Profession: W/N
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mark of fury makes for an easy way to make it spammable. use warrior's cunning to avoid blocking. It still will be inferior to other elites, and I wouldn't use it over any build, but it's a use.
Last edited by The Mad Man; Jul 08, 2007 at 08:15 PM // 20:15..
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Jul 10, 2007, 09:01 PM // 21:01
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Furnace Stoker
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Planet Earth, Sol system, Milky Way galaxy
Guild: [ban]
Profession: W/
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I use it on Shiro with wild blow, and against Kournans, also with Wild Blow.
I also took it to FoW spider farming because it kills faster than Cleave, and I am bad at balling foes for Triple Chop.
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