Optimizing my cyclone poison pathfinder?

Hey guys. I'm trying to finish off my cyclone poison pathfinder build in mapping with more DPS and wondering if I'm missing some obvious big bonuses. The character in my profile is "Pretty Princess" or use this POB for a "standard boss" setup without mapping damage reduction modifiers (e.g. curse effect):

https://pobb.in/fIAESQGhhdM7

She's in standard, not keepers league. The character was originally meant to be a typical viper strike (base gem, not mamba) build around 25-30 mil DPS but I quickly realized that the cyclone version is way better in most offensive and defensive situations of mapping, and way more fun to play. Her current damage scaling is set up as:

1) big phys weapon for hits to convert to poison
2) lots of attack speed sources for fast poison and wither application
3) 9 frenzy + 9 affliction charges
4) despair + temporal chains curse auras
5) various dot multi, faster dots, poison duration, etc. bonuses

Trying to optimize my few remaining points and been sitting in POB and the wiki for many hours trying to find anything big and obvious I'm missing. I'm aware of uniques like covenant and betrayal's string but I have no way to fit them into this build because there is already crazy pressure to get my resistances up.

Additional passive nodes beyond this point are only showing around 200k benefit at most so I'm thinking of fitting in a 4s medium channeling cluster jewel for some remaining bonuses.

Anything obvious I'm missing here for gimmicks to boost up the DPS of a standard (lots of stacks, no crit, no perfect agony) poison build?
Last bumped on Dec 25, 2025, 2:13:36 AM
In no particular order:

1) Cruelty is a sub-optimal choice for Cyclone as your hit damage is rather low. Awakened Deadly Ailment would bump your damage a great deal, especially vs. rares and bosses where you get minimal effect from Cruelty
2) You can remove the 2 passive points leading up to Master of Blades as your Thread of Hope covers that area. Those points could go towards Charge Mastery (39% damage)
3) Consider upgrading some of your rare items and including a unique such as Betrayal's Sting into your build (up to 40% chance to inflict an extra poison on the same target), this would be a massive DPS upgrade
4) You have 360 Dexterity. Consider buying some Tattoos to optimize your build further
5) You are playing Pathfinder but your flasks don't have good uptime. You could look into rolling them with Charge Recovery and look into investing some passives into Natural Remedies as well as a Medium Flask Duration Cluster with Alchemist's Genius
6) Consider dropping the Basalt Flask for a Wine of the Prophet (sick flask and very fun to use)
7) How much use do you get out of Fortify on your chest? Considering your average hit on Cyclone is quite low you could get some Malevolence aura effect here
8) You are shock immune from Tempest Shield, but your Quicksilver Flask has Shock Avoidance rolled. Both your Jade and your Basalt Flask have Block/Stun Recovery. It's not bad to have if you don't have stun immunity from other sources, but either one is fine as they don't stack
9) Get level 21 Cyclone
10) Consider using Cyclone of Tumult for boss DPS (way more damage)

In general, your flask slots are incredibly valuable and you should look into making the most use out of them

Hope this gives some inspiration ^^
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Anything obvious I'm missing here for gimmicks to boost up the DPS of a standard (lots of stacks, no crit, no perfect agony) poison build?
My impression from current game is that usually you would go for some kind of stacking (add chaos damage on amu, boots, body) or "ele->chaos conversion" or "ele can poison" if you want to maximize your DPS.
If you wait for league end you will also have more options on the "use ele damage for poisoning" variants due to new unqiues.

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3) Consider upgrading some of your rare items and including a unique such as Betrayal's Sting into your build (up to 40% chance to inflict an extra poison on the same target), this would be a massive DPS upgrade

+Catalyst for 48% max?
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