Whirlwind

Everything's going fine. The tank has solid threat on the boss. The melee DPS are properly behind the boss to avoid a Parry Gib. And then... he starts spinning like Wonder Woman, and the melee dies! What happened? The boss has used a Whirlwind.

Healers love it when melee is smart enough to run out of this. Melee loves it when healers are buff enough to keep them up through it. Tanks hate it because as a general rule they're stuck with the boss no matter where they go.

If the melee merely has to run out, this is a relatively low-risk danger. It gets worse if the boss is really a Spinning Top.

Examples

• Scarlet Monastery
  • Herod's "Blades of Light!" voice emote is an evocative reminder of this trope.
• The Nexus
  • The first boss (whose identity varies depending on your faction) uses this attack.