[3.7] INSPIRED HEADHUNTER CYCLONE - ULTIMATE 5 Way Emblem Legion Carry And Map Clear

You want to carry 5 emblem Legion fight
You want to annihilate maps with insane clear speed
You want to reach level 100

1. You are on budget – play pure physical impale cyclone instead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B38iYMe09cg). This build is made around Headhunter and it should be your priority getting it over other pieces of gear (like weapons or jewels).
2. You have low-end PC or if you suffer from epilepsy. If you get over 70 HH stacks there are a lot of blinking lights even without MTX.
3. You want to do bosses like Uber Elder, Uber Atziri or Aul. Pure Physical Impale builds are better when it comes to bossing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajqyaFQeZKU
45% increased curse effect for Temporal Chains is required to reach the cap for the slower expiry of buffs and debuffs on your character, which is 75%. In other words, if you reach 45% curse effect on Temporal Chains, buffs and debuffs will expire on your character 75% slower. This is with Shaper’s Presence from Solstice Vigil active. Shaper’s presence just helps us reach the 75% slower expiry cap, without it 127.5% Temporal chains curse effect would be required. These calculations are taking the reduced curse effectiveness on players into account.

The line on Temporal Chains gem that says "40% REDUCED EFFECT OF CURSE ON PLAYERS" is ADDITIVE and not multiplicative, meaning a 40% increased curse effect will nullify it.

With Temporal Chains helmet enchant (30%) and quality Curse on Hit support gem (10-11%) you get 41% Temporal Chains curse effect, which puts you very close to the cap (45%). It is possible to reach the cap with Conqueror's Potency, which also increases damage thanks to additional flask and aura effectiveness (only for Hatred).
1. Temporal Chains curse effect helmet enchant (30%)
2. Quality support gem Curse on Hit (10-11%)

Build works without the jewels, however they increase the effectiveness of Headhunter by 60% on average. Here is further explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBdhF0b3d4k

Damage is very important. Without it the ramp-up (or start-up) is slower. The faster the buffs are acquired after killing rare monsters, the sooner your character becomes virtually invulnerable and be able to one-shot any boss.

The affixes from rare monsters we steal that give us most damage are “Gain 25% of Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage“ and “ Gain 25% of Physical Damage as Extra Cold Damage“.

Headhunter
The character is built around it. Without is character doesn’t work. If you want budget cyclone, go for pure physical impale version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B38iYMe09cg

Shackles of the Wretched
Herald of Thunder with Curse on Hit reflects Temporal Chains on the player. Level or quality of Temporal chains doesn’t matter for the purposes of slower expiry of buffs / debuffs. The curse on hit implicit from corruption doesn’t work, the curse needs to be socketed in order to be reflected. The best lab enchant is “of reflection” to create clones of yourself. The best corruption is Elemental Weakness on Hit implicit (especially with Hatred cold conversion Watcher’s Eye), which requires +1 curse corruption on amulet. It is possible to have only one curse limit and still use Elemental Weakness Shackles, but you need to keep track of the duration remaining on your Temporal chains. When it runs out you stop cycloning to let the Herald of Thunder hit something. While doable, I don’t recommend this setup because it is not very enjoyable to play in my opinion.

Kaom’s Roots
They prevent the self-slow from Temporal Chains, however player keeps the slower expiry of buffs / debuffs. They also provide Chill and Freeze immunity. Best lab enchant and corruption are movement speed.

30% Temporal Chains curse effect enchant
Options here are either a rare helmet with life, resists and +1 range or The Gull. Rare helmet is generally better in 5 Emblem Legion fight and The Gull is generally better when mapping. It also depends on your personal preference if you want to click on the little shrines granted by The Gull. I personally don’t like The Gull because my clicking accuracy is low and when I finally hit the shrine, I could have cleared half of the map. Worth noting that there are new sextants which spawn additional shrines in the maps and The Gull increases effectiveness of all shrines. The important thing here is to get the 30% increased Temporal Chains curse effect enchant, regardless which helmet you choose.

Solstice Vigil
After killing a rare monster player gets Shaper’s Presence buff, which extends the duration of buffs and debuffs on player by 33%. It stacks ADDITIVELY with Temporal Chains, which means we need to reach 42% slower expiry of buffs on Temporal Chains to hit the 75% slower expiry cap (you can’t extend the buffs and debuffs on a player by more than 75%). That is achieved by reaching 45% curse effectiveness. The best corruption is +1 maximum curse limit to allow Elemental Weakness on Shackles.

Prismatic Eclipse
With 3 white sockets it gives GLOBAL +6 to weapon range, which gets added on top of our other weapon. White sockets can be obtained either through Vorici crafting table in Syndicate safehouse, double corruption in the Temple or Beastcraft.



Rare Essence-crafted Jewelled Foil
Use Deafening Essence of Dread on iLv 83 Jewelled Foil. This essence guarantees +3 LOCAL range on crafted weapon. Foils have 14 base range and the essence will create 17 range foil. After hitting the essence, you need to Annul bad mods and then multimod affixes that increase damage. You may get lucky and hit some high damage mod alongside the essence, in which case remember there is Beastcrafing, which allows item splitting or imprinting. Remember to use Perfect Fossil before crafting anything else (or you will have to corrupt your weapon with beastcraft to get 30% quality later). With 17 LOCAL range on the foil and +6 GLOBAL range on the Prismatic Eclipse, Cyclone will have 23 base range.

Carcass jack or Rare
Body armour slot allows for most variability and you can practically use whatever chest you want but I recommend Carcass or a rare body armor. Carcass Jack gives more AOE. Rare armor can have +1 curse mastercraft or -15 mana cost to socketed gems from Serrated Fossil, which would enable for better rings. Check https://poedb.tw/us/mod.php?cn=Body+Armour&an=str_armour for more details.

Rares
Rings are the only place on this build where you can fix your resists and Intelligence requirement. Without -15 mana cost body armor the rings must have open prefix for flat reduced mana cost. There is no way to get enough mana from mana leech or mana regen.

Lion’s Roar
More damage. Improves Molten Shell.


Cinderswallow Urn
Ignited enemies take 10% increased damage and grants Onslaught. Also grants up to 3% life and 3% ES recovery on kill, which is great defensive mechanic.


Atziri’s Promise
Multiplies all damage as extra chaos damage.


Alchemist’s Quicksilver Flask of Adrenaline
It may seem that the duration with the Alchemist’s prefix is very low, however remember Solstice Vigil and Temporal Chains increase also flask effect duration, which makes this flask last almost 15 seconds.

Sinvicta’s Mettle
Weapon swapping (default keybind X) into Sinvicta’s Mettle and killing at least one monster will start the Rampage counter. Swap back to main weapons and the rampage will still persist. At 1000 Rampage stacks character gains 50% movement speed and 100% increased damage. The AOE per Rampage from Sinvicta’s isn’t active once you swap back to swords.

3x Inspired Learning
3 Inspired Learnings will approximately multiply the effectiveness of Headhunter by 60%. More about it here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBdhF0b3d4k). Inspired Learnings also steal random modifiers and can steal same modifier multiple times. That can result in some very lucky starts in 5 Emblem fights if Inspired Learnings steal extra damage affixes from one monster multiple times, which will snowball into stealing more affixes faster.


Warlord’s Reach
Extra range. 5% extra AOE implicit corruption is best. Can’t get Corrupting Blood immunity on it, because it’s a quest reward jewel (iLv 1).


Transcendent Flesh
On the left side of the tree gives +75% crit multi and can be potentially used as Corrupted Blood immunity if corrupted. It is replaceable with high DPS jewel, like Watcher's Eye or a Timeless Jewel from Legion.


Corrupting Blood immunity jewel


Conqueror's Potency
Without it the curse effectiveness is 40 - 41% and the jewel helps reach the 45% cap. Increases Hatred effectiveness. increases flask effectiveness.


Timeless Jewel
Timeless jewels can be very powerful compared to regular (or abyss) rare jewels. Some examples of powerful modifiers are: chance to Intimidate on Hit, chance to deal Double damage, chance to inflict Cold / Fire Exposure, etc. More about Timeless jewels here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwwsXIjiUTs


Watcher's Eye
Best mod is Hatred with critical strike chance for fast startup. Hatred cold conversion is good especially with Elemental weakness Shackles. Berserker has one extra jewel slot and it is easier to fit in.

Cyclone – Infused Channeling – Pulverise – Rage – Fortify – Melee Physical Damage

Hatred – Blood and Sand – Herald of Ash – level 4 Enlighten
Level 4 Enlighten is necessary. Double level 3 Enlighten (in gloves) doesn’t work. Make sure to have all auras and heralds in gloves and helmet, otherwise it’s impossible to weapon swap.

Low level Herald of Thunder (as much as your Intelligence allows) – Temporal Chains – Curse on Hit – movement skill
Quality and level of Temporal Chains doesn’t matter for self-cursing, only the quality of Curse on Hit support gem matters.

Vaal Double Strike – Maim – Melee Physical Damage Support
Clones from Vaal DS help a lot during start-up in 5 Emblem fight to kill first few rare monsters as fast as possible to start stacking HH buffs and kill the generals even in the first round. They also provide protection from monsters when looting in maps. Maim support also increases Cyclone damage. Remember the clones are not classified as minions and are snapshots of your character instead and they copy HH buffs from your character (multiple auras don’t stack). Close Combat support instead of Melee Physical Damage is a consideration, but at the time of writing the guide I didn’t know how the radius scales with the clones.

Cast When Damage Taken level 1 – level 5 Punishment – high level Steelskin or Vaal Molten Shell
CWDT Punishment can occasionally give 27% MORE melee damage and 17% increased attack speed. The Punisher procs at the same time when CWDT procs, which means the enemy hits only once to grant you the buff. +1 curse on amulet or body armor Isn’t required for this curse, the Punisher buff stays on player even when the Punishment curse is overwritten with other curses

Vaal Molten Shell is better for mapping and Steelskin is better for 5 Emblem fight. Armour affixes can be stolen from rare monsters and you can end up with 30 000 shield. It also stacks with regular Molten Shell. In 5 Emblem conflict I prefer Steelskin, because VMS will share soul-gain with Vaal Double Strike, making Vaal Double Strike charge up slower. In my opinion it is important to proc VDS as soon as possible in the Timeless Conflict to start stacking HH buffs immediately and then you can kill the generals even on the first round. There is no way you would die after getting enough stacks and Steelskin in theory provides better initial shield against the first few packs compared to the regular Molten Shell.