[2.1] "Cyclonus" Crit Bino Cyclone by fiqst







This is a dual wielding build that specialises in dealing massive critical damage. It offers impressive DPS and clear speed, high mobility and great survivability in mapping. It's great fun in a group and offers fast paced gameplay.

The weapon focus is on Bino's Kitchen Knife for its powerful regen properties, as well as its crit performance.

The offhand can any 1H weapon, but the best back-for-buck is definitely Doryani's Catalyst as it is easy to attain and the dps displayed in this build is easily replicated with unique weapons.

The mobility of Cyclone, and the auto-cursing from Blasphemy, creates a character for those who love to mix constant movement with high damage, while being perfectly safe.

Defence is purely dodge based with the keystones Acrobatics and Phase Acrobatics being the main defence.


Current stats:

4800 life

230k dps with charges

99k dps in town

587k dps with charges, flasks, Vaal Haste, and Conc. Effect

741k dps using alternate ele version
1.66 million dps with mirrored dagger













Gem Groupings

6L:

RRGGBB
Cyclone
Melee Physical Damage
Added Fire
Faster Attacks
Increased AoE / Conc. Effect
Critical Damage

Alternative max-DPS version:
GRRBBB
Cyclone
Melee Physical Damage
Weapon Elemental Damage
Physical to Lightning
Inc AoE
Conc. Effect

(See Notes)



4L x3:

RRGG
Whirling Blades
Faster Attacks
Fortify
Blood Magic

GGGR
Ice Golem
Blood Rage
Vaal Haste/Grace
Increased Duration

BBBG
Hatred
Blasphemy
Assassin's Mark
Enlighten lvl 3

3L x2:

RRR
CwDT
Immortal Call
Increased Duration

xxx

Second 3L is completely open for now. Choose whatever you feel like

























Current 114 point tree and jewels



Bandits

All / Oak
Oak 16% phys
Alira power charge









Necropolis
Gorge showcasing the 2 variants










Cyclone in 2.1

In 2.1 the mana cost of cyclone had dropped significantly from 150+ down to 42.

This allows a full 6L cyclone running on mana alone.

The Soul Taker as a staple of this build since its beginnings as a Blender variant, but it's also the limiter of the build's potential.

We can now equip a more powerful weapon as secondary, whether it be the best bang-for-buck, the Catalyst, or a 360pdps sword, or even a mirrored dagger.


Bino and poison


Poison operates differently since last expansion. It now only factors in physical and chaos damage for the poison damage, and ele damage is ignored.

This means the potent P2L+WED combo of the past, although significantly more damaging, will hinder poison damage and the subsequent regen.

The Fatal Toxins cluster will double the poison damage and doubles the regen rate, but i think it's overkill and more of a luxury choice if you can spare the nodes.


Alternate Max DPS version


This version maximises ele damage for sheer dps.
The downside is less poison performance and regen.

GRRBB G/B
Cyclone
Melee Physical Damage
Weapon Elemental Damage
Physical to Lightning
Conc. Effect
Inc AoE / Faster Attacks



741k dps with 2 weapons worth 2-3ex each. Not bad.


Psychlonus


Obligatory ultra-dps version with a mirrored dagger:






So many strikes within one breath.
But only one strike needed, for certain death.
Last edited by fiqst#3681 on Dec 29, 2015, 12:43:05 AM
Last bumped on Mar 11, 2016, 8:42:58 PM
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aStrayGami wrote:
Decided to put together a dagger/shield melee tree on my scion and looked at my cyclone dps in similar conditions to yours after i slapped on some gear.
Maybe this post will be useful for somebody to compare to.

conditions were: hatred, herald of ash, ice golem, atziri's promise, taste of hate, vaal haste, blood rage, 3 frenzy charges, 5 power charges

DPS with rats nest
DPS with abyssus
Gear used for testing
Spoiler


So many strikes within one breath.
But only one strike needed, for certain death.
Last edited by fiqst#3681 on Dec 19, 2015, 5:18:30 AM
Updates?
An update soon. I spent the last week collecting final bits of gear.
So many strikes within one breath.
But only one strike needed, for certain death.
Last edited by fiqst#3681 on Jul 5, 2014, 3:37:02 AM
Added more detail including equipment and an amended tree

to do:
new screen caps of dps
upload merciless dominus clip
So many strikes within one breath.
But only one strike needed, for certain death.
Last edited by fiqst#3681 on May 20, 2014, 5:59:36 PM
- Added more screencaps displaying dps values with different gem setups.
- Formatting
- Added notes

to do:

Merciless Dominus Video.
High level map video
So many strikes within one breath.
But only one strike needed, for certain death.
Last edited by fiqst#3681 on May 21, 2014, 12:40:16 AM
Added Dominus video.


to do:

upload high level map
add screens of different attack gems
So many strikes within one breath.
But only one strike needed, for certain death.
Last edited by fiqst#3681 on May 23, 2014, 12:35:05 AM
Updated the details with new screens of the dps boost from 1.1.4.
Added updated equipment.

to do:
- start a new character to test the viability of this build from scratch.
- redo this entire guide into something this is useful to newcomers, including progressive trees, 4/5 link equipment, screens of dps and defense of lower levels.
So many strikes within one breath.
But only one strike needed, for certain death.
+3% lighting resistance

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgQAAdwDhwUtC2ER1RIgFx0YTRutG_odyiFgI_Yl3ycvKNsppTIJNJM1kj38QKBBdETnRmlHfkp9SshOKlPfVvpXDVeXWGNYr1jbWkhbr16LXzlfP2BBYEtjcGVNZ4BnoGoebEZuqnBycmxyqXTtdit4DXhJeWh673zZhNmE74d2iq-LT4zPkAqRzpVmmSubLZuDnrmkGaSsqBipbrXytkG77byfvYG-ir6nwA_BBMbYypDM28_40iHSTdN-3Q3d49_v45_uDu8O707veu_j7_DyL_ZI9zL3TfzF
Last edited by Sorcessers#1000 on May 31, 2014, 11:01:47 AM
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Sorcessers wrote:
+3% lighting resistance



great spot! thank you
So many strikes within one breath.
But only one strike needed, for certain death.

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