Whirling Defense

Skill details

Whirling Defense

Campaign Core Profession Ranger Attribute Expertise Type Stance

10     60

Full: For 8...18...20 seconds, you have 75% chance to block attacks. Whenever you block a projectile in this way, adjacent foes take 5...10...11 damage.

Concise: (8...18...20 seconds.) You have 75% chance to block. Deals 5...10...11 damage to adjacent foes whenever you block a projectile attack.

Expertise	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Damage	5	5	6	6	7	7	7	8	8	9	9	9	10	10	11	11	11	12	12	13	13
Duration	8	9	10	10	11	12	13	14	14	15	16	17	18	18	19	20	21	22	22	23	24

Acquisition

Skill Quests:

• Prophecies
  • Stone Summit Beastmasters (Traveler's Vale)
• Factions
  • Free the Fur (Sunqua Vale)

Skill Trainers:

• Prophecies
  • Firstwatch Sergio (Lion's Arch)
  • Dakk (Ember Light Camp)
• Factions
  • Michiko (Kaineng Center)
• Nightfall
  • Tohn (Kamadan, Jewel of Istan)

Hero Skill Trainers

• Nightfall
  • Shiloh (Sunspear Great Hall)

Notes

• This skill deals physical damage.
• This skill will damage all adjacent foes and will trigger the AoE scatter effect on NPC's, if the damage frequency is high enough.
• Whirling Defense does not protect against projectile spells like Flare, since they are not attacks.
• Combine with Oath Shot to compensate for the long recharge.
• With Mark of Pain on an adjacent foe, Whirling Defense can produce very fast and deadly damage around the character given heavy fire.

Anomaly! Despite dealing physical damage, this skill's damage ignores armor and is not converted to fire damage by Greater Conflagration.

Related skills

• Deflect Arrows
• Gladiator's Defense (elite)
• Flashing Blades (elite)
• Sliver Armor

Related articles

• Blocking skills quick reference
• PBAOE skills quick reference
• Stance skills quick reference