Guild Wars 2

The one ability that i find myself rarely ever using is the WhirlWind Attack with my warrior when my GS is equipped. The only time i do is if i need to get out of the front, otherwise i find myself accidently using it on occasion and it screws up my attack patterns.

Anyone else see this skill as a problem?

Amazing attack. I use it on cd.

(truthfully).

Great damage, and it doubles as another dodge.

I remember I used to hate this skill with a passion (goes way back before the BWEs) due to the fact that it removes control over my warrior, but now it has become my favorite Warrior skill in the game (Shield Stance comes close second). It’s mobile and allows me to break the enemy lines and cause havoc, while at the same time providing me a very short duration of invulnerability. To me, it’s one of the best skills to use when charging the zerg swarm or any clusterf— of enemies. I also use it to finish people off, move quickly, or escape.

In any case, it’s one of the most versatile skills in the game.

Amazing skill, possibly my favorite great sword skill, specially when immobilized and in melee with a bunch of people. My god you see the bodies hit the floor with this attack.

^haha yes, it is great when you’re immobilized – I always laugh and say a silent “thank you!” to my opponent when it happens in PvP.

The only time this skill annoys me is when I’ve been mashing 3 to rez myself from downed state, and I waste “alive time” whirling off away from the fight.

Exactly what Defektive said.

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Amazing attack. I use it on cd.

(truthfully).

Great damage, and it doubles as another dodge."

I honestly wish the sword 3 cripple worked like whirlwind because I like it that much and miss not having it.

This is the best skill in boss fight. My first dungeon boss fight, both me and my buddy (yes we are just 2 player team and entered CM, silly us) forgot to equip ranged weapon in 2nd set, we fought the golem boss…. blade trail and whirlwind attack is the skill that kept us alive and defeat the boss. I love to use whirlwind attack to hit and go through boss into his back, that way if he targets me, he will turn around and my allies will be more safe. If he is not targeting me, i can use RUSH to quickly get close, and 100B.

Best Greatsword skill for Warrior.

Makes the master greatsword trait worth it on its own. From 10s cd to 8s is nice.. along with 6s hundred blades, 16 rush and 12s bladetrail. The greatsword is called underpowered by experienced players and overpowered by newbies, but I just love it above all other weapons regardless. My healing zweihander greatsword skin as a sylvari makes me look like an anime character with those huge rectangular blades, very cool.

It has a weak auto attack and a mostly useless #2 in pvp, but warrior isn’t meant to be dueling other players anyway, we rock at pve, sieges and group wvw with this weapon.

Not much to add that hasn’t already been said, but I’ll echo some of the sentiment:

When I first picked up a GS, I didn’t like Whirlwind. Once I got the hang of it, however, it became an essential ability in my repertoire. The mobility and damage it provides are obvious, but it also serves as a nice little defensive skill.

One of, if not THE best skill in the GS Warrior arsenal. It’s AoE, it deals high damage, it has range, and it gives evade frames.

Absolutely bloody amazing.

By the way, you must enable fast-cast ground target for this skill to be truly effective.

its also nice for if a mob is about to do a big hit instead of strafing or dodgeing just ww threw him and get to his back side keep on going an do dmg wile dodging.

WW does more DPS than Hundred Blades. Pew pew, pew pew.

this is the best gs skill imo…not only is it hugh burst but you also evade all attacks….running a high crit/power build and this is my main bursting skill…hb i only really use to finish off annoying classes like theifs

The fact that someone could question its usefulness completely boggles my mind. It does everything I could ever want, and I can use it in all sorts of situations to do things I probably shouldn’t be able to do. My current favorite use is nullifying any and all Blurred Frenzies from Mesmers, as WW breaks the immobilize (traited), dodges the damage, and potentially does damage to the surrounding illusions.

It’s my second favorite Warrior ability, out of all the Warrior abilities, right behind Earthshaker and way ahead of 3rd place.

I love this ability more than Hundred Blades. Keeps me mobile, invulnerable, and allows me to wreak havok on a cluster of enemies. In WvW I love using it for the “Mesmer Bomb” tactic.