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
- Vitrica ✓
- War ✓
- Zenistar
✓ denotes weapon with matching Stance polarity
Combos
Combo Name | Button Combination | Length | Avg Dmg Multi/s | ||||||||||||||||||
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Crowd Fall | 2.25s | 533.33%/s | |||||||||||||||||||
Broken Bull | 5.7s | 298.25%/s | |||||||||||||||||||
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Drifting Stampede | 1.9s | 473.68%/s | |||||||||||||||||||
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Sundered Tusk | 2.7s | 555.56%/s | |||||||||||||||||||
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Crowd Fall | N/A | N/A%/s | |||||||||||||||||||
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Hell's Wave | 0.98s | 204.08%/s | |||||||||||||||||||
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Mountain's Chisel | N/A | N/A%/s | |||||||||||||||||||
(While In Air) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Flaying Home | N/A | N/A%/s | |||||||||||||||||||
(While Wall Latching) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Tunneling Spike | N/A | N/A%/s | |||||||||||||||||||
(On Knocked Down Enemy) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Notes[edit | edit source]
- 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.
- 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.
- Can be used while sprinting.
- The 6th attack in this combo is just a stagger animation, dealing no damage
- Hits twice in each spin.
Tips[edit | edit source]
- Broken Bull punishes mindless mashing 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. While under these buffs, spamming mindlessly is punished far less severely.
- 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[edit | edit source]
- 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 comes with a stagger penalty.
Gallery[edit | edit source]
Media[edit | edit source]
Patch History[edit | edit source]
- Added Sundered Tusk and Drifting Stampede combos to Cleaving Whirlwind.
- Introduced.
See Also[edit | edit source]
Rending Crane, another stance for Heavy Blades.
Tempo Royale, another stance for Heavy Blades.
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