Cyclone

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kate778 wrote:

Hey all. Does Cyclone work with Dual Wield? I mean it is better than 2h or 1h + shield? And i heard its good to have higher attack speed and movement so it hits harder and better am i right?

When dual wielding, you get 10% More Attack Speed (multiplicative, rather than the usual "increased" which is additive). This scales absurdly well with cyclone, but be careful as you'll not only need 1, but 2 high physical damage weapons or else lightning thorns is eventually going to own you. Dual wield is the option for blink-tanks based around evasion/blind/dodge/spelldodge (spelldodge lightens the load of lightning thorns a lot actually). 2h is pretty much unbeatable when it comes to raw damage per cycle though (but not necessarily dps on paper since the attack speed is much slower). however, due to the armor formula, it's Effective DPS has the potential to surpass all other options due to how much armor it penetrates with each of its hits. the ability to eventually be able to use a kaom's and still have 6l on a life based build in the permanent leagues with this is a huge bonus. 1h + shield is the no-brainer tank option.

What about multistrike? What gems use with this skill?

besides the clear benefits, multistrike also makes the skill way less mana intensive at the cost of losing control of your character. sometimes this is important because there are situations where you can cap your leech rate and still not have enough mana to cast when you're done, which can lead to an interrupt from ccs you're otherwise immune to between casts. its really up to you if you want to run this or not because between the phys dmg scaling, attack speed bonus and long loss of control, it can spell suicide against lightning thorns.

What are other "hiden" tricks to improve dps of cyclone? Cyclone elemental dmg is better than pure physical? Or maybe hybrid? What do u prefer?

what you do to boost your cyclone really depends on if you care about being able to counter reflect or lightning thorns well. if you want to go yolo, stack attack speed and flat elemental dmg sources (especially lightning) and your dps will be absurd but at the cost of insta-death to either of those things (unless you're dual wielding, then spell dodge / blind will actually give you a ton of leeway). otherwise you want to boost your physical damage per hit to be as high as possible to leech more and then maybe use added fire and hatred as they scale well with that high physical damage you have.

I used this side but my english sux to understand everything well:
http://en.pathofexilewiki.com/wiki/Cyclone

ANyway i like part with While cycloning you are immune to Stun and Knockback. :D

REGARDS
Sweet Kate <3

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Myrthr wrote:

As for suggestions, please stop littering maps with invisible objects to snag our cyclone on. Or at least make it so we don't stop all the time even if we hit something. Could we at least "bounce off" or "slide around" these obstructions??

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killergut wrote:

I have a quick question, would cyclone become more powerful with facebreaker (damage wise), than you could possibly do with a 2-H sword per say? Or would cyclone with a weapon still be on par with facebreaker method