Whirling Defense

Stance. For 8...18...20 seconds, you have 75% chance to block attacks. Whenever you block a projectile in this way, adjacent foes take 5...10...11 damage.

Whirling Defense

• 10
• 60

Profession

Ranger

Attribute

Expertise

Type

Stance

Campaign

Core

Animation

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Stance. For 8...18...20 seconds, you have 75% chance to block attacks. Whenever you block a projectile in this way, adjacent foes take 5...10...11 damage.

Concise description

Stance. (8...18...20 seconds.) You have 75% chance to block. Deals 5...10...11 damage to adjacent foes whenever you block a projectile attack.

Progression
Expertise Duration Armor-ignoring damage	0 8 5 1 9 5 2 10 6 3 10 6 4 11 7 5 12 7 6 13 7 7 14 8 8 14 8 9 15 9 10 16 9 11 17 9 12 18 10 13 18 10 14 19 11 15 20 11 16 21 11 17 22 12 18 22 12 19 23 13 20 24 13

Acquisition

Skill quests

• Prophecies
  • Stone Summit Beastmasters (Traveler's Vale)
• Factions
  • Free the Fur (Sunqua Vale)

Skill trainers

• Prophecies
  • Firstwatch Sergio (Lion's Arch)
  • Dakk (Ember Light Camp)
• Factions
  • Michiko (Kaineng Center)
• Nightfall
  • Tohn (Kamadan, Jewel of Istan)

Hero skill trainers

• Nightfall
  • Shiloh (Sunspear Great Hall)
• Eye of the North
  • Gedrel of Ascalon (Eye of the North)
  • Kodan (Gunnar's Hold)
  • Tyr the Skaald (Gunnar's Hold)
  • Lexx (Rata Sum)

Related skills

• Deflect Arrows
• Flashing Blades (elite)
• Gladiator's Defense (elite)
• Sliver Armor

Notes

Anomaly.Although the damage is nondescript, it does trigger Mark of Pain and Winnowing, making it armor-ignoring physical damage.

Bug.The non-concise description is wrong, this skill will deal damage even if the projectile is blocked from another blocking source.

Trivia

• This skill was called "Bow Parry" in beta.