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Whirling Slash Twister All Content and Leveling Guide For Deadeye

0.4 TLotD
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Updated on Dec 14, 2025
Dec 14, 2025

Build Overview

NOTE THIS WAS RECORDED AND WRITTEN 24 HOURS BEFORE LEAGUE LAUNCH. THINGS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AS GGG HAS CONSTANTLY BEEN CHANGING THINGS. THE VIDEO EXPLAINS IN DETAIL WERE TO PUT NODES ON THE TREE AND HOW TO SCALE DAMAGE/DEFENSE IF THE POB/ATLAS TREE IS MESSED UP.

After the craziness of league start I will revisit this to clean it up to the best of my abilities. I mostly just need GGG to release the passive tree and all that jazz to see where a lot of things change if they change at all.

DO NOT LEVEL UP YOUR Whirling Slash LEAVE IT AT LEVEL 1

PLEASE NOTE THAT Ghost Dance AND Wind Dancer GO ON WEAPON SET 1 AS YOU DONT ATTACK. YOUR Herald of Ice and Herald of Thunder GO IN WEAPON SET 2 SINCE YOU ATTACK WITH THAT.


Whirling Slash Twister is an absolute power house when it comes to mapping. This build is able to clear multiple screens and can 1 shot the boss utilizing its combo.

This build uses the following to make it an absolute monster:

Combat Frenzy allows us to create a large number of frenzy charges to power our skills

Barrage uses those frenzy to charge up our twisters to get a ton of extra damage

Whirling Slash lets us power us our twisters even more and doubles as a movement skill

Sniper's Mark allows us to mark big enemies for HUGE DAMAGE

and finally Twister. Once we use our Frenzy charges + Barrage and move to the boss using Whirling Slash we are able to unload a HUGE AMOUNT OF Twister devestating everything in our wake.

This build will be utilizing both Energy Shield and Evasion and when invested into should give us a very comfy defensive layer.

Note that we can do the following change to our glove slot:

We also get to utilize leech in our build thanks to Essentia Sanguis and help us sustain in harsher environments. <- These gloves might be on the more difficult side to obtain hence why I didnt talk about them too much in the video since it was designed more about league start

****HOW TO LEVEL THIS BUILD******


At level one grab a Spear from the gambling vendor or the one of the other vendor! When you can make the weapon rare! Note you will need to upgrade your spear a few times in the campaign so that damage doesnt fall off!

You are going to want to grab the following skills Whirling Slash Twister.

As you progress through Act 1 and level up you will eventually start to find some currency. When you do save it and try to buyWake of Destruction as fast as possible once your do youare good to go! From here just Whirling Slash and Twister when you have 3 Salvo charges and watch the magic happen!


WEAPON SET INFORMATION

WEAPON SET 1:

Whirling Slash

Ghost Dance

Wind Dancer

Barrage

WEAPON SET 2:

Twister

Ghost Dance

Wind Dancer

Herald of Ice

Herald of Thunder

Combat Frenzy

BOTH WEAPON SETS (I KNOW THERE IN BOTH CATEGORIES BUT YOU CAN USE THESE ON BOTH AND BE OK)

Ghost Dance

Wind Dancer

Barrage

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Above average movement speed
  • Multiscreen Clear
  • Easy to play
  • High Burst Damage
  • Deadeye - Has dead in the name you will probably die
  • Squishy until high end gear and leech (if you go the leech route)
  • Twisters may or may not blow up your computer

Equipment

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Equipment Priority
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Please note the following for the gear:

During the campaign you care about Life and Resistances

For your weapon you only want as high of damage as possible (ideally elemental damage and ideally cold or lightning for herals) and with attack speed!

Once you hit the mid campaign / early maps you can look into bigger spears! If you dont want to do the weapon set shenanigans right away just grab a big rare spear with elemental damage and attack speed!

All the gear in the early game is just life and resistance!

Dont take subterfuge mask until you have A REALLY BIG ENERGY SHIELD HELMET! You probably want to do this somewhat sooner then later because of defenses!

But mostly all the gear is life/resistance


If you choose to get a pair of Essentia Sanguis you will need a source of leech either on your gloves or ring! Without it they will not work!

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 35

Dex 85

Int 30

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Called Shots

Called Shots
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Purity of Ice

Purity of Ice
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Wind Dancer

Wind Dancer
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Twister

Twister
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Combat Frenzy

Combat Frenzy
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Whirling Slash

Whirling Slash
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Herald of Ice

Herald of Ice
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Herald of Thunder

Herald of Thunder
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Barrage

Barrage
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Ghost Dance

Ghost Dance
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Called Shots

Called Shots
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Spear Throw

Spear Throw
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Spear Throw

Spear Throw
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Purity of Ice

Purity of Ice
Gem Priority
+31

Passive Tree

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set 2:
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