Guild Wars 2

After I put down a symbol of wrath and WW through it, I see cleansing blots go off in all directions with me at the center. Can any of them hit me? As in, if I’m in a spot and my condi clears are on cooldown, can I do the combo and clean a few conditions off myself?

Nope, they will not clense you

Natsu Dragneel.1625:

Nope, they will not clense you

Drat. Oh well!

Yeah, many’a times have I tried to clense myself with them, unless you can somehow jump into that clensing bolt as you are whirling around, as far as I know, it wont clense you.

bhagwad.4281:

After I put down a symbol of wrath and WW through it, I see cleansing blots go off in all directions with me at the center. Can any of them hit me? As in, if I’m in a spot and my condi clears are on cooldown, can I do the combo and clean a few conditions off myself?

Nope they don’t hit you, why? Because reasons I suppose

If the Cleansing Bolts work similar to Water/Whirl’s Healing Bolts – effect applied in a small radius upon colliding with an enemy or surface – then they should be able to cleanse conditions from you if used inside an enemy or at least a few if used against a wall.
Don’t have an easy way of testing this so cannot say with 100% certainty.

PurebladeProductions.4875:

If the Cleansing Bolts work similar to Water/Whirl’s Healing Bolts – effect applied in a small radius upon colliding with an enemy or surface – then they should be able to cleanse conditions from you if used inside an enemy or at least a few if used against a wall.
Don’t have an easy way of testing this so cannot say with 100% certainty.

According to the wiki, the bolts will only cleanse you if they hit a target for whom you are withing melee range, similar to how the water field’s bolts work.

As far as their effectiveness with WW, I cannot say offhand. I would need to explicitly test it. You would have to make sure that you are WW’ing right on top of your target to ensure that the bolts from the whirl will actually hit them (maybe more than once).

In any case, my opinion of whirl finishers are that they are simply terrible and should never be relied upon. If nothing else, I would simply consider that such a combination will not cleanse any conditions on you or anyone else, and thus not base any of your build or gameplan around that.

Yamsandjams.3267:

PurebladeProductions.4875:

If the Cleansing Bolts work similar to Water/Whirl’s Healing Bolts – effect applied in a small radius upon colliding with an enemy or surface – then they should be able to cleanse conditions from you if used inside an enemy or at least a few if used against a wall.
Don’t have an easy way of testing this so cannot say with 100% certainty.

According to the wiki, the bolts will only cleanse you if they hit a target for whom you are withing melee range, similar to how the water field’s bolts work.

As far as their effectiveness with WW, I cannot say offhand. I would need to explicitly test it. You would have to make sure that you are WW’ing right on top of your target to ensure that the bolts from the whirl will actually hit them (maybe more than once).

In any case, my opinion of whirl finishers are that they are simply terrible and should never be relied upon. If nothing else, I would simply consider that such a combination will not cleanse any conditions on you or anyone else, and thus not base any of your build or gameplan around that.

then youve never met an effective focus mesmer my friend their whirl finisher cleanses like crazy

PurebladeProductions.4875:

If the Cleansing Bolts work similar to Water/Whirl’s Healing Bolts – effect applied in a small radius upon colliding with an enemy or surface – then they should be able to cleanse conditions from you if used inside an enemy or at least a few if used against a wall.
Don’t have an easy way of testing this so cannot say with 100% certainty.

I managed to reliably test the Cleansing Bolts against Reef Drakes, due to the amount of confusion they can apply.

Cleansing Bolts…

• inside an enemy hitbox: 10/10 times my confusion would be cleansed.
• next to an enemy hitbox: 7/10 times my confusion would be cleansed.
• next to a wall: 3/10 times my confusion would be cleansed.

Another thing to note, the bolts of Whirl Finishers seemingly have a chance to be sent out towards your selected target. One case especially had all three Cleansing Bolts – from range – aim for a targeted reef drake.
I briefly tested this with Burning Bolts as well, and the maximum range for a targeted bolt to hit seems to be 900-1000 units. Any further and it will display the ‘Out of range!’ message.