(3.2) [Lighty] 2H RT Cyclone: Dope for Beast League & Lab™

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Lighty wrote:

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BlaydeX15 wrote:

Passive tree looks like it was nice to this build. Using the mace build, the changes are:

2.6% physical attack damage leeched as life instead of 1.4%.
20% extra damage while leeching instead of 15%.
15% radius of area skills instead of 20%. (Slight radius nerf)
20% increased area damage instead of 8%.
20% increased stun threshold, instead of 0.

Don't think they changed enough on the marauder/duelist areas to make a rebuild necessary (or beneficial), though the new mana leech circle in duelist does look tempting if you don't want to run your spells on blood magic.

I think its still not worth the headache of using mana; maybe if you had really good mana on hit jewels; but even then.

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Ridman wrote:

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Lighty wrote:

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BlaydeX15 wrote:

Passive tree looks like it was nice to this build. Using the mace build, the changes are:

2.6% physical attack damage leeched as life instead of 1.4%.
20% extra damage while leeching instead of 15%.
15% radius of area skills instead of 20%. (Slight radius nerf)
20% increased area damage instead of 8%.
20% increased stun threshold, instead of 0.

Don't think they changed enough on the marauder/duelist areas to make a rebuild necessary (or beneficial), though the new mana leech circle in duelist does look tempting if you don't want to run your spells on blood magic.

I think its still not worth the headache of using mana; maybe if you had really good mana on hit jewels; but even then.

First of all, thanks a lot for the guide Lighty! I used it as a benchmark in Darkshrine league and had the most fun playing any game I've had in awhile, love cylone :)

Really wanted to roll a cycloner for the 3 month league, so I was quite scared coming into patch 2.1 that they would nerf it too much. But comparing the cyclone dmg nerf and then the slight boost we'll get to the build from the passive tree, on the whole the changes to the build seem rather insignificant don't they? You reckon we'll see a noticeable change in end-game cyclone damage?

Cyclone damage gets nerfed by ~10% and the damage on the first hit gets reduced (not sure how much that impacts the damage/clear speed?) but instead we'll get +5% damage while leeching (which we are constantly doing) and 12% increased are damage while also substantially increasing our life leech.
Doesn't seem too bad!

Hope you'll keep playing a Cycloner and updating this guide :)

IC/PA/SRS and Surgeon all got a nerf. So hopefully cyclone will still remain as one of the strongest (and definitely one of the most fun) builds in PoE.

Really looking forward to the new season =)

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Lighty wrote:

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BlaydeX15 wrote:

Passive tree looks like it was nice to this build. Using the mace build, the changes are:

2.6% physical attack damage leeched as life instead of 1.4%.
20% extra damage while leeching instead of 15%.
15% radius of area skills instead of 20%. (Slight radius nerf)
20% increased area damage instead of 8%.
20% increased stun threshold, instead of 0.

Don't think they changed enough on the marauder/duelist areas to make a rebuild necessary (or beneficial), though the new mana leech circle in duelist does look tempting if you don't want to run your spells on blood magic.

I think its still not worth the headache of using mana; maybe if you had really good mana on hit jewels; but even then.

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anton2k4 wrote:

Hello Lighty, just want to thank you again for the wonderful guide. i had a level 80 maurader which was gathering dust in standard and i decided to build a cyclone after the fix to desync as i always loved the skill except for the rubberbanding and mishits due to desync issues back then. i'm posting my gear here so that maybe you and other more experienced individuals would be able to point me in the right direction for upgrades.

i currently have 44k dps with HOA and Hatred up and it can reach 64k with onslaught, 3 frenzy charges, bloodrage and fortify up. in terms of damage, i'm pretty happy with it as i'm clearing t12 rare maps with EE + monster life without difficulties. my only concern is that i'm pretty squishy, ripping at a dual boss courtyard map recently. i currently have capped resists with 5.3k life.

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RaPsKa wrote:

Thanks for your guide Lighty its really well kept an and like your commitment. Will you be playing this build in the upcoming latest ascendancy? And how does this build fair against the act 4 boss? I play casually and usually pay 1/2 c for act4 boss kill cause im a busy man and play HC and have small children distraction (my kids)

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dnb_elen69 wrote:

Maybe some older posts can answer my question but .... Tooooo many pages awready. So im thinking to play new ligue with this build should i start marauder or dualist ?