[3.9] Cyclone Summoner - Heralds of Agony and Purity, Summon Holy Relic - League starter

Andy,
You have any tips for leveling process? I am at 45 right now and having trouble switching from SRS to cyclone. I have the cyclone skill tree, but it just seems to do a lot less than SRS.

I am trying your Hatred + generosity setup but even with lvl 4 enlighten does not allow me to run hatred and HoA at same time due to mana reservation issues. What am I missing? Thanks

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KäptnSharky wrote:

My current setup:

including stuff to switch in:

PoB for skill tree with Elemental equilibrium: https://pastebin.com/3aa0GcaN

Current setup is for Delve bosses.
Kaom's Roots are switched in for Uber Elder.
Pierce instead of Vile Toxins, Qicksilver Flask instead of Forbidden Taste are for clearing.
Blood Magic instead of Withering Touch is for no regen maps.
High life shield is for deep delves, where frenzy charges for crawler are provided by Poacher's Mark anyway.

I have dropped HoP in favor of Hatred+Generosity with Elemental Equilibrium. For me, this was a significant DPS increase. I am at 3.9 mio shaper DPS (5.5 mio during focus) with just HoA. My fastest (deathless) Uber Elder was 2:04 min. I am at delve 800 now and I can kill any delve bosses up to depth ~700 except for Auls with too many offensive mods. 9872 life (10600 with other shield), 1728 ES, 200 lgoh, 30 ESgoh, 8.4 attacks per second (9.7 during focus).

I'd be happy to hear any suggestions on how to further optimize this build. Sadly my better claw

has cold dmg on it and is thus useless with the EE/hatred setup.

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neilkingmd wrote:

I am trying your Hatred + generosity setup but even with lvl 4 enlighten does not allow me to run hatred and HoA at same time due to mana reservation issues. What am I missing? Thanks

Are you using essence worm for your other aura? It adds a 1.4 multiplier to all mana reservation. Aul's uprising is required if you want to use both hatred+generosity and discipline or haste.

This build is great. I've been having fun with it and I think it'll become my go-to build.

Thank you for this build. Best working build I played so far.

Ran this build this week in prep for next league. I normally start the league with necro skeles because its cheap and can do all content. Tried a consecrated path build when it first came out and it was ok but stalled at red maps. Was looking for another league starter and came across this.

This build is a ton of fun to play once it hits 50 ish. Pre 50 meh... I think its better to just stick with smite completely till you can switch to cyclone. Tried it a few different ways.

Anyways after you switch to cyclone holy cow is it smooth. I was completely surprised. The PoB dps doesn't look that great but its silly good for the amount of chaos invested. I have maybe 30 chaos in my build atm with nothing but standard non quality gems as I simulated a league starter. I don't have the 6 link gloves and just a t2 attack speed claw. 5 link chest.

Its silly how good this is for as cheap as it is. Wish I had found this earlier. The fact that the crawler can't be hit is great. Purity's spawn so fast that even if they do get it it doesn't matter. You don't have to actively summon them. The relic's do die every now and then but it's no biggie keeping 2 up.

Looking forward to starting next league with this and seeing how the build changes with the new items. The upside is I don't see how they could nerf cyclone any more. The downside is I could see HoA getting balanced. However with HoA and HoP and relic being so new I don't really see them gutting them. I wouldn't be surprised if HoP and rellic get a slight bump to fit with the new holy skills coming out.

Looks like Im running this build for the third league in a row, nothing just comes close to the power, ease of use and cheapness as this.

Yup. Me too. Was either that or a Specters. Tested it on a dry run last week This one map clears white and yellow maps faster with SSF and lets face it, start of the league if you are moving fast is pretty much SSF.

I'm trying to figure out how to speed up leveling till you can switch to HoAG. Once you have a double claw and switch its off to the races. Getting to that claw is the trick.

Should be a slight buff with the phantasms. Thinking of jamming that into my initial Smite-Ancestral Call-Melee Physical Damage link as the 4th. Either that or take either Anc. Call or Melee out and replace if just a 3 link. Not sure.

When I tested it Dom Blow switch after smite was just slower than keeping smite on for speed leveling. Sucked too much mana with no way to replenish it without leveling uniques or hammering mana flasks.

So I think its Smite all the way till double claw then make the switch to cyclone and HoAG.

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ElectroHarmonix wrote:

So I think its Smite all the way till double claw then make the switch to cyclone and HoAG.

I have been thinking the same thing, kinda want to try out agony crawler right when I get it with molten strike and lesser poison but it probably doesnt ramp fast enough to compete with smite leveling.

I'm going with this build for the second league in a row except this time I'm planning on using the new Herald of Agony ring and running it without hatred just because I really don't want to use a 6-link the coming calamity :P