Whirlwind Leveling Guide

This will be the strongest Whirlwind leveling build out there. It's Fast, Fun and STRONG! Combining this with Lunging Strike will making this a very mobile build.

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For a complete and comprehensive leveling strategy, watch this video: The Ultimate Leveling Guide (All Classes)

Whirlwind Gameplay Loop

• Cast Lunging Strike to build Fury for Whirlwind
• Use your Shouts on cooldown. Rallying Cry War Cry
• Use Ground Stomp around multiple enemies to help reset the cooldown of Wrath of the Berserker
• Cast Wrath of the Berserker to gain Unstoppable, Fury Generation and to pull all your enemies to you.

Whirlwind Damage and Toughness

Arsenal Selection

This build will be running on a Two-handed Mace as your Arsenal selection

Defenses

• Aspect of Might will proc the Damage Reduction by hitting an enemy with Lunging Strike. This has to happen once every 2 to 10 seconds, depending on how good your Aspect of Might is.
• Aspect of Disobedience gives you armor by attacking enemies with any form of damage or by taking damage from enemies. You'll need to do damage at least once every 4 seconds to maintain the extra Armor it gives you.
• Aspect of Numbing Wrath gives you Fortify for each point of fury you generate over max. If you have 100 Fury and you use Lunging Strike and it generates 10 Fury you'll gain 10 Fortify. Fortify gives you 15% Damage Reduction. If you combine Lunging Strike with Rallying Cry any damage you do, will generate Fortify for the extra Damage Reduction
• To maintain all of your defenses, you'll need to cast Lunging Strike at least once every 4 seconds.

If you want to learn how to set your defenses up, watch this video: How to avoid getting one-shot

Offense

• Edgemaster's Aspect increases the damage of your next skill cast based on how much Fury you have.
• Aspect of Inner Calm gives you a pass buff to damage even if you are moving.
• Vehement Brawler's Aspect gives you damage whenever you Cast your ultimate skill.
• Needleflare Aspect is a fun combination with Death Wish Aspect until you find aspects to replace them.
• Aspect of Earthquakes will give you additional damage for your Dust Devils when you stand inside of an Earthquake and for 4 seconds after you leave that Earthquake.
• Bear Clan Berserker's Aspect will help reset your cooldowns of Ground Stomp, Warcry and Leap
• Aspect of Anger Management will allow you to maintain Berserking all the time, as long as you're about 50 Fury.
• Dust Devils will be your main source of damage with this build and will be generated from Whirlwind and Shouts.
• Dust Devil's Aspect will cause Whirlwind to generate Dust Devils
• Aspect of the Dire Whirlwind will increase your Critical Hit Chance as well as increase the damage that Whirlwind does.

If you would like to learn how to set your weapon selection watch this video: How to Select Weapons

If you want to learn the basics about Multipliers watch this video: Addative vs. Multiplicative Damage.

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Leveling Walkthrough Document

Season 11 Leveling Strategy

Testing and Research Documents

Dungeon Aspects

Aspect of Might: Dark Ravine
Aspect of Vocalized Empowerment: Sirocco Caverns
Aspect of the Umbral: Champion's Demise
Ghostwalker Aspect: Broken Bulwark
Slaking Aspect: Maulwood
Relentless Berserker's Aspect: Hakan's Refuge
Aspect of Bul-Kathos: Light's Refuge
Edgemaster's Aspect: Oldstones
Aspect of the Expectant: Underroot
Aspect of Inner Calm: Raethwind Wilds
Aspect of Ancestral Echoes: Ancient Reservoir
Aspect of the Dire Whirlwind: Garan Hold

Important Dropped Aspects

Aspect of Incendiary Fissures
Aspect of Earthquakes
Dust Devil's Aspect
Aspect of Fierce Winds
Aspect of Anger Management
Aspect of the Dire Whirlwind
Bold Chieftain's Aspect

Starting Leveling Build

https://youtu.be/ZejmxlOBkCk?si=DzeptTcOePN70uZs

Rune Combinations

Cir + Qax for extra damage
Cir + Ceh for stun, freeze, and vulnerable damage
Moni + Tec required

Updated and Optimized for Season 11