[3.4 Updated-Inquis]Fire or Ice Cyclone Inquisitor!

Nothing core has been changed, build still works exactly the same just with a new bonus in Vaal Warchief and a few quality of life changes.

Instant skills are a thing now and if they work how I've heard them explained(not interrupting cyclone for example) that would be nice. Be fun to try out things.

Vaal Warchief will be very nice as a bonus damage. I personally only throw down warchief on bosses anyways so now it will be a vaal version for even more burst.

The only thing I am going to be testing out during 3.4 is the new Holy Dominion/Divin Fervour nodes near Templar. They are right near where the current path takes anyway and are a huge chunk of damage. could be nice!

For those who want the quick and dirty links and numbers!

PoB link of Max gems and a lvl 100 character
https://pastebin.com/V86K6cbf

PoB link of current standard character Frozen_Inquis lvl 89 https://pastebin.com/LPA7nLMU

Quick Look at Tooltip dps

Ignite/Added Fire with Herald of Ash and Flame Golem


With BloodRage/Flasks/On Consecrated Ground/Cast Spell Recently


Elemental Focus/Conc Effect with Herald of Ash and Flame Golem


With BloodRage/Flasks/On Consecrated Ground/Cast Spell Recently

Minotaur


Hydra


Phoenix


Shaper

Two quick maps just to show how it plays with both the fire and the cold versions.

Fire Version
Cold Version

As I said in the "The Story" section I originally made this build as a cold conversion build and it works just as well as a cold build.

A PoB link for example
https://pastebin.com/eMV690B4

The Damage of both versions are pretty equal to each other but the Fire edges out the cold slightly. The difference in the passive tree is 3 points, so you could be fire for awhile and then switch to cold for a change of pace. The gear is almost exactly the same except for using Daresso's Saulte instead of Xoph's Blood and no Pyre.

These are some of the various weapons I used leveling up in 3.1. Really you just need a high physical damage 2hander preferably with good attack speed. I am a axe guy so I choose axes but before taking any of the axe specific nodes swords are just as good. Terminus est is something I always get when leveling up. Kondo's will carry you into end game.

Disfavour is the end axe for this build because you can't do elemental damage with Starforge and the range/+ support gem levels are just strong. In 3.1 the new Shaped/Elder items may edge out Disfavour but it will be VERY hard to beat Disfavour and a shaped/elder axe that is better than Disfavour will be extremely expensive.

I have played with voidforge and it does work just fine but I feel that a build less focused on boosting a single elemental type would be better suited. I know Mathial did a voidforge raider and that tree can easily be a slayer start for those interested.



All of these chests are great and fill different needs. Belly/Kaoms are if you want to be tankier and Bronn's for good clear speed an damage. I personally go back and forth between Bronn's and Carcass Jack for maps. Queen of the forest could be used if you want to be just silly fast but would require abit of rework to get the maximum effect out of it. Shroud of the Lightless and Loreweave are also great choices once you can afford them.



Again, all personal choice for helms. I perfer devoto's but for pure damage Abyssus wins out.
Rat's nest and Starkonja's are also good options.



Darkray Vectors can be pretty amazing for this build giving damage, attack speed and more movement speed than any others because of 5 frenzy charges before corruptions just equipping these. However, while vectors are more damage, a well rolled pair of rare boots are my personal choice. Rare boots give us life, resistances and constant move speed increase without having to keep up frenzy charges.



Both of these can be used before Xoph's but Xoph's is what you will be aiming for if going fire. Daresso's Salute gives pretty much everything a cyclone build could want and is pretty cheap early league lately. Carnage heart is also great but seems to be the more expensive option early on and later should be saving for xoph's anyway.



Belt of the Deceiver on paper more damage than a rare belt but this build uses a lot of uniques at the end already making it hard to balance resists. If you can work it in Belt of the Deceiver is a fantastic choice and what I recommend for leveling. A fire version of Doryani's invitation is also pretty good but not as good as deceiver which is already pretty cheap.

For rare belts Resists > Life > WED. Cap(overcap for ele weakness maps) resists first then get others second.

Abyss league Stygian Vise
These are some that I've kept and used in Abyss league.


Rings

This is where you will fill whatever you are lacking resist/stat wise. There are some unique rings that are pretty good such as: Le Heup of All, Berek's Grip, Tasalio's Sign.

Damage wise The Taming wins out but is pretty expensive so I honestly don't include it. Also the fact that gaurdians/Shaper/Atziri aren't reliably getting shocked/chilled/frozen/ignited brings it down more. This build doesn't need more mapping damage and definitely not at the high price only to lose +life when a half decent opal ring does the job fine.

While leveling pick up every two-stone ring you find and throw alchemy orbs at them. If they roll shit hang onto them and vendor them for a Prismatic ring when you have 3 of each two-stone. If you're lucky the rare Prismatic you get back could be good.

Here are some examples of me doing this in Abyss league.


I look for resists or maximum life first. If it has Life and one resist roll with an open suffix you're good to go. Also 2 good resists rolls(t3-t1) and a open prefix and you're good to go.

Flat physical > flat elemental

Flat physical or WED are about equal at the same tier rolls. EG: T2 Flat Phys = T2 WED.

Helm: Cyclone attack speed - Cyclone Damage - Ancestral Protector added attack speed or Ancestral Warchief added damage - Flammability increased effect

I prefer a Cyclone specific one because it doesn't require me to drop a totem all the time. Totem/Flammability are about equal. Flammability probably best all around for leveling with Cyclone Attack Speed - Damage the end goal.

Weapon: +2 Range corruption

Gloves: Commandment of Force is my personal goto but there are a lot of good corruptions for gloves now.

Boots: Attack speed if killed recently is the best Lab enchant for 99% of things.

Amulet: Additional Curse corruption. Used with either enfeeble for damage reduction or Ele weakness/Punishment for more damage.

Aside from the typical leveling uniques such as Tanula, Goldrim, Limbsplit, Wideswing.. these are what I recommend getting.

Best leveling weapons for the money. Kondo's will be with you until Disfavour barring any crazy rare weapon drops. Only downside is having to regret sword node points later on.


Belt of the deceiver fantastic belt and usable at low levels. Good enough to stay with you for awhile to get moneys worth.


Great helm and not that pricey if you want to go faster sooner.

For Cyclone we'll start with a 4 link and work up.



Once you have a five or six link you can choose to go one of two ways. Boosting Ignite for more Pyre explosion fun or Using Elemental Focus for pure hard hitting elemental damage. Either way you'll run one of the 2 setups below. Later if you have two 6 link weapons you can run both. The ignite is great for clearing and the Ele Focus/Conc is amazing for bosses.

Ignite/Clearing

Massive Fire dmg but no ignite


If using a Watcher's eye with physical to cold while affected by Hatred this six link edges out the ignite setup above slightly.


Auras
This will be your basic aura setup


The end version while using a physical/cold conversion Watcher's eye replaces Herald of Ash with Hatred.

Movement

Pretty Standard, you can link in Fortify if you want to but I only rarely use Leap Slam while clearing myself.

CWDT


Choose a level that works for you to keep up Flame Golem as much as possible. You can also choose to self cast Flame Golem but for me I prefer it auto casting.

Misc

Upto you if you use Bloodrage or not. You can also put it in the CWDT setup which also works just fine. You lose a bit of damage but it isn't a massive loss.

Now that the build is set I am going to level another Templar to make sure these are all 100% but for now they are roughly what I had at each Lab run. The path offers plenty of room for you to make yourself more tanky.... as well as more glass cannon is that's what you want! :D

Because of how expensive Xoph's is I don't make the change to fire until quite late because cold items are just easier to get but depending on the person it can be made quicker.

41 points
(Ready to enter Normal Lab)

69 points
(Ready to do Cruel Lab)

93 points
(Ready to do Merc Lab)

109 points(axe)
109 points(sword)

Full 123 point(axe)
Full 123 point(sword)


123 Full Life example
273% Increased life and still damn good damage.

PoB with full life tree: https://pastebin.com/vsBMDNWi

Use anything you want until cyclone is available. I use cleave personally but anything works.

Having Spirit void will make Cyclone feel much smoother but cyclone will still DEVOUR your mana early on. If you don't feel like chugging mana flasks using Mana Leech Support will solve it. If you are having mana issues with Flammability/Herald of ash dropping one should even things out. Lower damage but not that big a deal over all.

Later on you will not need Spirit void to sustain mana during single target cyclone. It is just useful for leveling.

Using Brute Force Solution jewel will take care of any Int problems you have while leveling. Placing it in the socket right next to Golem's Blood will give 50 int + whatever is on the jewel.


At lvl 51 I highly recommend picking up Terminus Est. The movement speed alone will make everything just feel better... also it has a ton of raw physical damage.

At lvl 64 you will be able to use Kondo's Pride or Hezmana's Bloodlust. Either of them are fine but Kondo's is better damage wise. Using Hezmana's saves you having to regret points later on.

If you choose Hezmana's you can then regret the Spirit void if you want to free up points.

The first unique I purchase while mapping is a Bronn's Lithe but Carcass Jack is a better choice if you wish to be more defensive. Both are fantastic chests and gives us a nice all around damage boost. These let me focus on the more defensive passives each level while still doing great damage.

Following Bronns I tend to get a Carnage Heart for resists/all stats and then a Devotos. After that it is pretty much save for Xoph's then Disfavour!

Only real map mod that is 100% not doable is elemental reflect.

Cannot Leech maps and Reduced recovery maps are a pain in the ass but are doable. I've done plenty of them and it wasn't that big of a deal but it was a noticeable difference. Cannot Leech is pretty rare though so not a big deal.

Gear for Cold Version


123 point cold tree

As you see it's only a three point difference from the fire tree. Just move Lava Lash cluster over to Fangs of Frost and you're done.

Skill gems