Cleaving Whirlwind

Cleaving Whirlwind
Tradeable
Can be obtained from transmutation
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Max Rank Description
Arcing cuts with spinning finish.
General Information
Type	Heavy Blade
Polarity	Vazarin
Rarity	Rare
Compatibility Tags	HEAVY_BLADE_STANCE
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)
Vendor Sources
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

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
•  Masseter Prime
•  Paracesis ✓
•  Sarofang
•  Scindo
•  Scindo Prime
•  Tenet Exec
•  Vitrica ✓
•  War ✓
•  Zenistar

✓ denotes weapon with matching Stance polarity

Combos

Default Combos of Stance or Weapon (📝 Edit Stance Data)

Combo/Attack	Name	Attack Multipliers and Forced Procs						Avg Dmg Multi/s	Length @ 1.0 Attack Speed	Animation
Neutral (While Not Moving)	Crowd Fall	300%	400%	500%    100%				533.3%/s	2.2s
Forward (While Moving)	Broken Bull	2x 100%	2x 100%	100%   200%	2x 200%	200%   200%	0%	263.2%/s	5.7s
Forward Block (While Blocking & Moving)	Sundered Tusk	500%    100%	300%  100%   100%  200%   100%  400%    100%					555.6%/s	2.7s
Block (While Blocking)	Drifting Stampede	400%   100%	500%					473.7%/s	1.9s
Heavy (Heavy Attack)	Crowd Fall*	600%	600%					N / A	N / A
Slide (While Sliding)	Hell's Wave*	200%						204.1%/s	1.0s
Aerial (While In Air)	Mountain's Chisel*	200%	200%	200%				N / A	N / A
Wall (While Wall Latching)	Flaying Home*	200%						N / A	N / A
Finisher (On Knocked Down Enemy)	Tunneling Spike*	1200%						N / A	N / A
Slam (Looking At Ground While In Air)	Slam Attack*	300%   100%						N / A	N / A
Default "Sweep" Attack •  360°/Spin Attack •  Direct Slam Attack •  Radial 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  Weakened  Bleed  Inaccuracy  Knockdown  Lifted  Stagger  Ragdoll  Finisher (front, back, or ground)   Impair (PvP only)  Melee Attack Explanations A "sweep attack" is an arcing melee strike that intends to hit an enemy with the edge of the blade (the length of obround melee hitbox). A "thrust attack" is a melee strike that intends to hit an enemy with the tip of the blade (the rounded edge of obround melee hitbox). A "360/spin attack" is a sliding sweep attack that hits targets around the player (not always in a 360° arc, but is usually above 180°). A "direct slam attack" is a melee strike that hits a single target at the epicenter of a slam attack. A "radial slam attack" is the area-of-effect component of the melee slam attack. Affected by the Seismic Wave mod. A "ranged attack" is any melee attack that launches a ranged projectile or can hit targets beyond melee range. View Full Legend Average Damage Multiplier per second only applies to single-target DPS calculations. Note that hits marked as "Radial Slam Attack" 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. Each tile marking in stance preview gifs are 2m apart. Combos labeled with an asterisk (*) are shared between weapons within the same weapon type.

Drop Locations

Mission Drop Tables

Mission Type	Source	Rotations or Drop Table	Chance	Quantity	Avg. per roll	Star Chart Nodes
Spy	Lua Spy	C	2.01%	1	0.0201	Pavlov, Lua
Weekly Conclave Challenge Reward	Weekly Conclave Challenge Reward	A	2.27%	1	0.0227	Complete all weekly Conclave challenges to get this reward in your in-game inbox: Match Won: Win 6 matches of any game type. Match Complete: Complete 20 matches of any game type. Conditioning: Complete 10 Daily Challenges.

Enemy Drop Tables

Enemy	Drop Table Chance	Item Chance	Chance	Expected Kills	Quantity	Avg. per roll attempt
Ancient Disruptor	3%	1.01%	0.0303%	3300	1	0.000303
Deimos Therid	3%	1.01%	0.0303%	3300	1	0.000303
Tar Mutalist MOA	3%	1.01%	0.0303%	3300	1	0.000303

Sourced from the official drop table repository. See Module:DropTables/data to edit on the wiki.

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.
  • 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.