Cyclone, poe’s most popular skill has many iterations, shapes, forms, preferences and whatnot. Cyclone is a channeling attack skill that rapidly hits all enemies in a circular area around the player. Cyclone gains stages during channeling that increase its base radius. The player can move while channeling Cyclone. Let’s take a look at the builds method of Cyclone Block Berserker. Note that a large amount of poe currency may be needed when we build.
Pros And Cons
Pros
- Strong bosser with amazing clear
- Requires no uniques to function whatsoever
- Therefore reasonably SSF-Viable
- Sufficiently Tanky through Block, Life and Fortify
Cons
- Optimizing it for maximum damage can be hard in SSF
- Incredibly hungry for attributes
Gem Links
1.Cyclone – Main Link (6-Link)
Awakened Gems are needed to push beyond 20 Million DPS but honestly that isn’t even a necessity whatsoever. The good part about them is that they’re generally reasonably cheap!
- Cyclone
- Cyclone is a channeling attack skill that rapidly hits all enemies in a circular area around the player. Cyclone gains stages during channeling that increase its base radius.
- Infused Channelling Support
- Infused Channelling Support is a support gem that grants the supported channelling skill more damage, and grants damage reduction to hits from types matching the supported skill gem’s tags. It also grants the Infusion buff after channelling for a certain period of time, which grants more damage of types matching the supported skill gem’s tags.
- Awakened Brutality Support
- In addition to better numerical stats than the base version it does offer the benefit of reducing the enemies’ total physical damage reduction against supported hits.
- Awakened Melee Physical Damage Support
- In addition to better numerical stats than the base version it does offer the benefit of having a chance to intimidate enemies on hit.
- Fortify Support
- Fortify is a support gem. It causes the linked melee skills to apply the Fortify buff on the user, which reduces incoming damage from hits by 20%. This effect only applies to active melee skills and does not work with trigger gems.
- Impale Support
- Impale Support is a support gem which grants the supported skill a chance to impale, dealing a portion of the physical damage it dealt over the next 5 attacks. It also increases the effect of the impale effect and grant more physical damage.
2.Leap Slam Mobility
Leap Slam is the mobility of choice. We have a decent amount of Attack Speed so it definitely outperforms other options here. It is linked to Blood Magic to avoid using up too much mana or having to invest in some kind of mana sustain.
- Leap-Slam
- Leap Slam is an attack skill that performs a leap to a target area, damaging and knocking back enemies landed on. It is guaranteed to stun enemies at full life.
- Blood Magic Support
- Blood Magic is a support gem. It causes linked skills to be paid using life instead of mana, similar to the Blood Magic keystone, but at the expense of a very high mana multiplier.
- Faster Attacks Support
- Faster Attacks is a support gem that increases the attack speed of the supported skill.
- Steelskin
- Steelskin is a guard skill that grants the user a buff that absorbs incoming hits for a short period of time.
3.Cast when Damage Taken
Since you want as much mitigation as possible, you’re using a mediocrely leveled Cast when Damage Taken Support to mitigate some incoming damage.
- Cast when Damage Taken Support (8)
- Cast when Damage Taken is a support gem. It causes a linked spell to trigger when the player takes a certain amount of damage.
- Immortal Call (10)
- Immortal Call is a guard spell that consumes up to 5 endurance charges when used to apply a buff that lessens the physical and elemental damage taken by the player for a short duration. The duration and less physical damage taken improves with the number of endurance charges consumed.
- Increased Duration Support
- Increased Duration is a support gem. It will increase the duration of any effects produced by the supported skill.
- Berserk
- Berserk is a skill applies a buff that grants more attack damage, attack speed, movement speed, character size, and reduced damage taken. It requires rage to cast and expends rage while active. The effect lasts until you run out of rage.
4.Aura Setup 1
Besides your Amulet needing a Reduced Mana Reserved roll for Pride, you’re also going to need a bunch of Enlighten Supports of which one needs to be level 4. If you cannot acquire these, you will have to lower the level of Precision until you have them so you can reserve everything.
- War Banner
- War Banner is a banner aura skill. While the banner is active, it grants the user and nearby allies increased accuracy and causes nearby enemies to take increased physical damage. When placed, the Banner provides Adrenaline to nearby allies.
- Precision
- Precision is an aura that adds accuracy and critical strike chance to the caster and nearby allies.
- Enduring Cry
- Enduring Cry is a warcry skill that taunts enemies in an area around the character, grants a short burst of life regeneration, and grants a number of endurance charges based on the power of nearby enemies. Additionally, the skill also provides a buff that grants additional elemental resistance and physical damage reduction per endurance charge.
- Enlighten Support (3)
- Enlighten is a support gem that has no modifiers, and its sole function is having a mana multiplier less than 100%.
5.Aura Setup 2
These go in your 5-Linked Weapon. In case you have a 6th socket, Blood Rage can be socketed here. Blood Rage does not need to be linked to the other 5 Gems in here.
- Blood and Sand
- Blood and Sand reserves mana to activate Blood or Sand Stance. In Sand Stance, you have more area of effect, but less area damage. In Blood Stance, you have more area damage, but less area of effect. Activating the skill while it’s toggled on will alternate between stances.
- Flesh and Stone
- Flesh and Stone is an aura that activates Blood and Sand Stance. In Blood Stance (Flesh), the aura maims nearby enemies while increasing the physical damage they take. In Sand Stance (Stone), the aura blinds enemies in radius and grants the user damage reduction against enemies outside the aura.
- Maim Support
- Maim support is a support gem that grants a chance to maim on hit and these maimed enemies will then take increased physical damage.
- Pride
- Pride is an aura skill which causes nearby enemies to take more physical damage. The effect of the aura increases the longer an enemy stays within the aura’s radius.
- Enlighten Support (4)
- Enlighten is a support gem that has no modifiers, and its sole function is having a mana multiplier less than 100%.
- Blood Rage
- Blood Rage applies a buff that deals physical damage to the player over time, while increasing attack speed and life leech. Killing an enemy while this buff is active refreshes the buff duration, and has a chance to grant a frenzy charge.
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