07 Jul 2006 at 17:56 - 6
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Originally Posted by narcissistic_fool
At 12 axe Cleave hits for +26. (cost 4 adrenalin)
At 12 axe Whirling hits for +18. (cost 2 adrenalin)
so using the same amount of adrenalin ur getting +36 from whirling and +26 from cleave
Lets look at 16 Axe Mastery instead, which is more common than 12. Cleave does 31, Whirling does 21.
If you are spamming ONLY the skills in question, cleave hits every 5th hit and whirling hits every 3rd. (you don't get adrenaline for the skill which you just used)
Cleave will hit 3 times in 15 strikes and Whirling will hit 5 times.
Cleave will do +93 damage while Whirling will do +105, a difference of 12.
Is that 12 really worth it? In PvP absolutly not - there are a lot of blocking skills going around. In PvE I don't know - I guess it's one of those "know your enemies" situations.
BTW Eviserate > cleave or whirling axe. It is a reason in itself for a factions only account to get prophecies.