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Whirlwind, is skill that works somewhat differently than other Barbarian skills. First of all, only weapon IAS affects whirlwind speed. Secondly, I noticed that items with a chance to cast on striking never cast when whirlwind is used. So I am wondering if an item that gives deadly strike, such as Highlord's Wrath, work with whirlwind?
Also, along the same lines, how about critical strike and crushing blow?
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CS, DS, and CB all work, yes.
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09-12-2004, 12:05 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-12-2004, 12:15 AM by rcrez.)
So what other things does whirlwind react to differently?
And is it worth using a Highlord's Wrath for a whirlwind barb? Isn't the 30% deadly strike just as good as having 30% more damage? For the barb doing 4000 damage, thats about 1200 more...raising it to 5200! Why isn't this ammy more popular?
Is there a reason why chance to cast items on striking don't function?
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30% deadly strike would normally be like an average of 30% more physical damage. However, you probably already have some critical strike from your mastery, and the two won't both trigger at the same time.
Let's suppose you already have 21% critical strike from your mastery. If you add the 30% deadly strike, your total chance of double damage is 44.7%. That means the 30% deadly strike really only increased your average physical damage by about 20%. That's still a quite nice boost, of course.
No chance to cast effects of any kind will trigger while you're in a WW animation. That means on CTC on attack, on striking, when struck, on kill, on death, or on level-up. That's just the way WW is.
