[10.8] Aimlessgun's 1H/Shield Lightning Cyclone Guide (videos! spreadsheets!)

Added video with commentary doing a rundown of the build.

Hey Aimless, Great little guide and I enjoyed the videos. I recently shelved my 63 BM elemental cyclone duelist for the time being as he was starting to get his ass handed to him :( Anyhow lol, curious what you think of modifying your build for 2 hand sword use? I love two hand swords and would feel great taking that sword and using it on another cycloner(I really enjoy leveling up...so no biggie starting again) Thanks for the guide here!

Funny, that after writing all that I took real look at your build etc. It's nearly identical to mine minus BM lol. Do you think you could work enough mana regen/leech while being an elemental build?

What is the plan once GGG makes it so you cant run auras off hp with the covenant chest unique? Not sure when the change will be but they've said it's unintended and the plan is to remove it soon.

How viable is this build without 5 auras? How many auras would you run and which ones post change?

Also it might be worth mentioning- since you don't have IR and don't have the flexibility to run evasion chest hybrids, you are going to have one hell of a time getting a GGBBR 5link on a pure armor piece. Like 1k chromatics or more hell of a time.

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Grasswhistle wrote:

What is the plan once GGG makes it so you cant run auras off hp with the covenant chest unique? Not sure when the change will be but they've said it's unintended and the plan is to remove it soon.

How viable is this build without 5 auras? How many auras would you run and which ones post change?

When the Covenant is fixed, I think i'll drop Grace and swap one aura over to mana while running one aura on Blood Magic support. If I can get enough mana I can try to reinstate grace as well (only have +64 MP on my gear right now). Grace isn't integral to the build, just a nice bonus.

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Grasswhistle wrote:

Also it might be worth mentioning- since you don't have IR and don't have the flexibility to run evasion chest hybrids, you are going to have one hell of a time getting a GGBBR 5link on a pure armor piece. Like 1k chromatics or more hell of a time.

Yeah I got incredibly lucky with the colors on my chest. However, a pure armor chest isn't necessary to run the build. Also, GGBRR is a good setup as well, Life on Hit is quite amazing. Still not easy to get on a 5s, but not impossible.

Thanks for the replies man :)

I'm starting up your build in hardcore and gotta say its doing pretty well so far. I'm still in the early levels though. But, I dont know if i'm blind or i'm missing something, but where does your mana leech come from? i checked our gear and didn't see any on it. Nice guide! Thanks.

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Cronkey wrote:

I'm starting up your build in hardcore and gotta say its doing pretty well so far. I'm still in the early levels though. But, I dont know if i'm blind or i'm missing something, but where does your mana leech come from? i checked our gear and didn't see any on it. Nice guide! Thanks.

Updated the gear in the original post, I got a new ring with mana leech.

In HC I'd strongly consider, in the "lvl 54" link, of getting the marauder starting nodes instead of going for Static ^ ^

how do i keep up with the mana costs of cyclone whhile also running auras?

mana leech and mana flask, but it's really gear dependent, it's just easier to level up with Blood Magic.

I use a physical build, I don't really have any problem to leech. But it can be a problem with an ele build.

Anyway, the video Aimlessgun posted is crazy, dat damage :D