Gard Hull

I tried to reply to this earlier thanking all of you, but I was on my phone and idk what happened when I clicked "submit". So here's me, thanking all of you guys. I wish I'd read through some of the info in this builds forum before I started playing a few weeks ago. Ah well.. Plenty of ideas now for the next playthrough which will be PotD. I think I'm going to retrain my fighter/monk (I guess the correct term is "Brawler") to have clear out. Not sure whether I'll drop mule kick for it or perhaps weapon mastery. Probably mule kick. Idk if I'd have enough discipline to effectively make use of both.

Yesterday I browsed a post by someone who was talking about Clear Out, and how it's AoE triggers attacks for AoE weapons like Whispers of the Endless Path. I can't find the post again here for the life of me. I don't see it in my google history. But I swear I read it! I want to visit it again, to understand how clear out works. It was a great post, too, with illustrations and everything. My question is, does this behavior apply to mule kick as well? I'm on the road and won't be able to do any testing for a few days. TIA!