Cleaving Whirlwind

Cleaving Whirlwind
Transmutable
Tradeable
Max Rank Description
Arcing cuts with spinning finish.
General Information
Type	Heavy Blade
Polarity	Vazarin
Rarity	Rare
Max Rank	3
Endo Required To Max	210
Credits Required To Max	10,143
Base Capacity Cost	-2
Trading Tax	8,000
Introduced	Update 13.0 (2014-04-09)
Drop Table Sources
Missions Enemies Conclave (Weekly Conclave Challenge Reward) Spy (Lua) Ancient Disruptor 0.03% Deimos Therid 0.03% Tar Mutalist MOA 0.03%
Vendor Sources

Cleaving Whirlwind is a stance mod for Heavy Blade melee weapons. It is a momentum-based stance whose slow, sweeping attacks deal high damage in coned or radial areas around the wielder.

Can be equipped on:

•  Dark Split-Sword (Heavy Blade)
•  Galatine ✓
•  Galatine Prime ✓
•  Gram
•  Gram Prime ✓
•  Masseter
•  Paracesis ✓
•  Scindo
•  Scindo Prime
•  Tenet Exec
•  Vitrica ✓
•  War ✓
•  Zenistar

✓ denotes weapon with matching Stance polarity

Combos

Default Combos of Stance or Weapon

Combo Name	Attack Multipliers and Forced Procs						Avg Dmg Multi/s	Length	Animation
Crowd Fall (While Not Moving)	300%	400%	500%    100%				533.3%/s	2.2s
Broken Bull (While Moving)	2x 100%	2x 100%	100%   200%	2x 200%	200%   200%	0%	263.2%/s	5.7s
Sundered Tusk (While Blocking & Moving)	500%    1%	300%   100%   100%   200%   100%   400%    100%					555.6%/s	2.7s
Drifting Stampede (While Blocking)	400%   100%	500%					473.7%/s	1.9s
Crowd Fall (Heavy Attack)	600%	600%					0.0%/s	N/A
Hell's Wave (While Sliding)	200%						204.1%/s	1.0s
Mountain's Chisel (While In Air)	200%	200%	200%				0.0%/s	N/A
Flaying Home (While Wall Latching)	200%						0.0%/s	N/A
Tunneling Spike (On Knocked Down Enemy)	1200%						0.0%/s	N/A
Slam Attack (Looking At Ground While In Air)	300%   100%						0.0%/s	N/A
360°/Spin Attack •  Slam Attack •  Ranged Attack •  Thrust Attack View Full Legend Key Inputs  Basic Melee  (PC default LMB or E; XBX, PSN, and NSW default right button)  Heavy Attack  (PC default MMB; XBX, PSN, and NSW default left trigger)  Block  (PC default RMB; XBX, PSN, and NSW default right trigger)  Forward Movement  (PC default W; XBX, PSN, and NSW default tilt up right thumbstick) Multipliers and Hits  200%  Attack does double damage   2x 100%  Attack hits twice  Forced Procs  Knockback  Frailty  Bleeding  Flashbang  Knockdown  Lifted  Stagger  Ragdoll  Finisher (front, back, or ground)   Impair (PvP only)  *Combos that are shared across all stances of the weapon type. Average Damage Multiplier per second only applies to single target DPS calculations. Note that hits marked as "Slam Attacks" will not apply at the epicenter of a single target hit so these will not be accounted for in avg dmg multi/s calculations. Combo animation lengths are approximate and are only accurate within a few tenths of a second.

Notes

• Both Sundered Tusk and Drifting Stampede do 25% bonus  Slash damage.
• The Broken Bull Combo involves spinning the blade in a 360 arc around the Warframe while moving forward with each press of the melee key. This can be used to hit multiple enemies in a large area.
  • Can be used while sprinting.
  • Hits twice in each spin.
    • There is actually a third hit at the end portion of the spins animation, just before another spin is started.
  • Attempting a 6th attack in this combo will stagger the player.
    • Stagger recovery time is not affected by  Pain Threshold.

Tips

• Broken Bull punishes mashing forward melee by causing the Tenno to lose their balance and stagger if they try to continue spinning after the 5th spin. Cancel the combo or chain into Crowd Fall to maintain combo momentum.
  • The stagger after the 5th swing is shortened dramatically with strong attack speed buffs such as Valkyr's Warcry and Volt's Speed.
• With careful timing, one could achieve the third hit within the Broken Bull spin by turning 90 degrees clockwise after the second hit has landed.

Trivia

• Crowd Fall is the standard combo for most Heavy Blade melee weapons without a Stance mod on.
• Cleaving Whirlwind is the only Stance Mod that has a stagger penalty.

Gallery

Old appearance

Media

Warframe - All Melee 3.0 Combos (Part 2 of 3)

Patch History

Update 29.10 (2021-03-19)

• Removed the Lifted proc from Crowd Fall's second attack.
• Added a forced Impact proc to Sundered Tusk's first attack.
• Removed the forced Impact proc from Drifting Stampede's first attack.

Update 13.5 (2014-05-28)

• Added Sundered Tusk and Drifting Stampede combos to Cleaving Whirlwind.

Update 13.0 (2014-04-09)

• Introduced.

See Also

•  Rending Crane, another stance for Heavy Blades.
•  Tempo Royale, another stance for Heavy Blades.