Cleaving Whirlwind

What it does

Cleaving Whirlwind is a standard Rare stance for Heavy Blades. Its description points to arcing cuts followed by a spinning finish, but no exact combo inputs, attack statistics, or rank-based attack effects are specified. It applies to Heavy Blades, so it is not a general melee stance.

Slot and stance comparisons

It occupies a stance slot, has Vazarin polarity, and lists a base drain of -2. Other listed standard Heavy Blade stances include Rending Crane, an Uncommon stance described as downward cuts with an impact combo, and Tempo Royale, a Rare stance described as sweeping strikes and twisting slashes. Noble Cadence is a Conclave variant; its description identifies it as a Conclave fighting form, so the supplied comparison does not establish it as an equivalent standard-variant choice.

Rank investment

The stance reaches rank 3. The listed per-step costs are 30 Endo and 1,449 Credits from rank 0 to 1, 60 Endo and 2,898 Credits from rank 1 to 2, and 120 Endo and 5,796 Credits from rank 2 to 3. Together, those steps cost 210 Endo and 10,143 Credits from rank 0 to 3. The inputs do not specify what gameplay effect ranking it provides, so weigh fusion against other needs rather than assuming a particular attack improvement.

Listed sources

Listed sources are Ancient Disruptor (chance 0.03), Deimos Therid (0.03), Tar Mutalist Moa (0.03), and Lua/Pavlov Spy, Rotation C (2.01). The facts provide these numeric values but do not define their scale or unit, so they should be retained as listed rather than treated as interpretable percentages.

Limitations and tradeoffs

• It is limited to Heavy Blades and competes for the stance slot.
• Its style description does not provide exact combo inputs or numerical attack properties.