Guild Wars 2

Whirling Wrath has two damage components, the swings themselves and the projectiles (the random blue light flying out of the whirls). Since the projectiles fire randomly in 360 degree, it creates quite a noticeable damage swing between having a few or a lot hit the target.

To minimize the randomness, the best way I’ve found is to use Whirling Wrath while inside the target (stacking on top or as close as possible). This will give you a higher chance to have more projectiles hit the target. However, there’s two things to keep in mind:

The first is mob repositioning. The target will try to reposition if you’re too close to them. This is not big of a deal since you can always move accordingly to their position. If the mob targets a different player/NPC, it will not try to reposition against you.

The second problem is target collision. In PvE, you will have target collision against the mob you targeted. I’ve found two ways to work around this. It’s either you deactivate your target (once you cancel it, you can stack on the mob) or you can just move in a spiral toward the mob.
Thanks to the info by Reihert, you can turn target collision off by unchecking Melee Attack Assist box under General Option tab.

The size of the mob is also a big factor. The bigger it is, the more projectiles it will hit. With this, I am now able to have a more consistent Whirling Wrath damage (and even extreme amount of damage like during Temple of Grenth event, I had a 19.7k crit). Give me some feedback if this is working for you or not (calculate how many hit per Whirling Wrath, not the overall damage).

Neat information! I’ll keep this in mind when I’m spinning.

Turn on walk through target. It’s in settings. No need to thank me.

Dont forget the combo field you can create with symbol of wrath and whirl.
Not related to the topic but many people dont realize that.

Removing one condition from yoirself and your nesr by allies is great.

Jahaudant.9267:

Turn on walk through target. It’s in settings. No need to thank me.

I knew there’s an option to turn it off but couldn’t figure out which. It’s Melee Attack Assist under General Option. I guess the name confused me.

it is just me or the projectiles of whirling wrath never do damage unless you are at melee range?

Reihert.1509:

Dont forget the combo field you can create with symbol of wrath and whirl.
Not related to the topic but many people dont realize that.

Removing one condition from yoirself and your nesr by allies is great.

Also spec so that symbols add vulnerability for even more synergy.

Leaumkitten

it is just me or the projectiles of whirling wrath never do damage unless you are at melee range?

The projectiles do work out of melee range; however, the range is really short. I’m pretty confident it works because I sometimes kill a critter randomly that’s not in my melee range.

Reihert.1509:

Dont forget the combo field you can create with symbol of wrath and whirl.
Not related to the topic but many people dont realize that.

Removing one condition from yoirself and your nesr by allies is great.

You can also use Purging Flames to drop the fire aoe and use Leap of Faith to generate a Fire Aura. Then Whirling Wrath and Binding Blade both will combo with the fire field to launch Fire Bolts everywhere. It is the best.