[1.1.0] Facebreaker Cyclone in Endgame

Did you consider using blood rage gem for free life leech? i'm using it and don't have major problems.

@lvl 79 i have 2.9k hp, around 10k armour, cap/cap/cap/-60% chaos resist, but i do have 160 or so life regen(not using vitality).



I have done up to lvl 70 maps, worst one was 68 spider lair temp chains and -22 max resist combo along with some other nonsense. Dps is ~11k on infernal blow and ~7k on cyclone with 3 frenzy charges. I do have to move out from reflect mobs if i don't notice them soon enough to build endurance charges.

Fun mapping with you :) added coz fuck that dps is insane.

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Pivovar wrote:

Did you consider using blood rage gem for free life leech?

Considering blood rage as my "panic button". Haven't tested yet.

I'll probably also give Warlord's Mark a try. But again, haven't tested.

Have two spare slots I'm not sure what to do with anyway ^^

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My next project is to see if I can do reflect mobs without life leech gem for normal maps. Warlord's mark has potential. If I reach a mob first and cast, I can probably kill a few marked mobs before someone else interferes with another curse and hopefully gain a charge or two. After that I don't care any more if someone overwrites my curse? Not sure how well that works in real play. Or I could just cast enduring cry. The two seem pretty similar.

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I just realized Sacred Mana Flasks are better than Hallowed Mana Flasks for me because I want to drag out the mana regen effect.

In regards to Armor, Physical Reflect, Endurance charges, and forms of leeching.

You do not gain defense against 70% of physical damage simply because you have X armor at Y level. Armor and physical damage reduction formulas you can use to create your own spreadsheet can be found http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Armour.

After this % is calculated, assuming 6 endurance charges, 24% reduction is added to this value. The max reduction for physical damage absent immortal call is 90%

if a single attack you make hits for 3000 damage, on double reflect, you are likely going to take damage.

Your battle with vaal pact interests me, armed with this information I think you can work towards at least having a more direct goal.

Further on reflect - map mods like "increased monster damage" will also effect reflect

My Facebreaker has high chaos resistance, and now that you say you dropped the girdle, perhaps for a rare rustic, You should be able to pick up high chaos resist, run blood rage, and either drop the life leech gem for another socket (life on hit perhaps as someone else mentioned), or reach a leech near 15% easily, perhaps on a single reflect pack ud still be able to slide through without taking damage.

Went from 86->>88 this week since switching from abyss/cracass --> BotR, since you dropped your girdle, consider putting it back up and putting the helm on, 10k display on cyclone w/ room to grow to probably 13k, groups are already happy enough/want me to kill slower so the culler can get last hits.

I'll get you and Acosis to come around eventually. Add PureFace so we can run sometime.

@pure_jalexander, care to post your gear?
Thanks in advance.

I am indeed a fan of Blood Rage, since it does provide a solution towards leeching without the use of gems or mods from passives/gear, but the amount of pure gearing you need to maximise its potential is far beyond what currency I have available. Will keep a lookout on chaos res gear however. xD

Edit: Recoloured my Carcass back to 3R2GB because 4 red seems to be impossible for now. May attempt again if I regather enough currency to attempt it.
Back to Cyclone + Blood Magic + Life Leech + Melee Physical + Faster Attacks + Concentrated Effect.
No Added Fire funtimes :|.
15k cyclone dps atm again.

did cyclone get buffeD? Im pretty sure that i had 8k on 5l carcass, now its 13,5k ;o so i guess it would be like 18k on 6l ;o

Okay i know that there was a buff..

But i have no idea guys how u have problems with phys reflect:o

gear:



stats:

armour: 15,2k 63% reduction (without endrance)
all ress 80/-60
230 regen
10% run speed
4172 hp
Running 5 auras - purity, grace, hatred, vitality and determination
Never had trouble with phys reflect mobs, only with phys reflect maps

Ps. Im thinking of buying some belt with 130hp, armour, chaos ress etc but not sure if this will be better then meginords

@pure_jalexander I'll join you for a run later, but I probably need to get some final touches in. My build is not done yet (only 3 days old) and I need to get a nice mana leech ring first. Pretty major issue I have to solve first.

Gave up on Vaal Pact. Going to switch back to Regen based.

While in theory your dps will not be capped by Reflect any more with VP, it is quite difficult to get enough dps while trying to manage mana cost at the same time. I couldn't manage to get enough dps to make it worthwhile.

That plus I never realized Quality life leech actually raises my leech cap. If I could double it, the old build may be viable. I've always stubbornly refused to use LifeLeech in my pursuit of more dps, but now I realize I was wrong. The benefit of Quality LifeLeech (increased leech cap) is irreplaceable.

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got the orbs. tinkering. again.

Out of interest, how many auras were you running and how much mana leech did you use when you were using mana Cyclone?