Void Shockwave Cyclone Slayer League Starter to Endgame Guide - Beginner Friendly

Remember to utilize the CRAFTING BENCH to fill one empty Affix slot on an item!

Weapon:

You're going to need a G-R-R-R-R-B 6L for Cyclone and a G-G-R-R-R-R 6L for General's Cry + Autoexertion + Sunder.

You're going to want an Ezomyte Staff, Maelstrom Staff, or Judgement Staff for the Base 25% Block Chance! 22% Bases are fine for early on but want to swap eventually!

Increased Physical Damage, Added Physical Damage, Attack Speed, Accuracy, and Critical Hit Chance are going to be the most important stats to look for. Remember that we use Brutality Support so we deal 0 Elemental Damage! There are a few special crafts that can go on a Warstaff but it's too complicated/intricate to explain here. See the crafting video.

Crafting a Warstaff -> Here or Here

Body Armor:

You're going to need a G-R-R-R-R-B 6L for and a G-G-R-R-R-R 6L for General's Cry + Autoexertion + Double Strike.

For this variant, we'll be using a Redeemer-Hunter Influenced Body Armor Craft to get a 10% Chance to Gain a Frenzy Charge on Hit and You can Apply an Additional Curse. This will save us 6 points on the Skill Tree AND an anoint on our Stranglegasp! See my Crafting Guide Here.

The Best Mods to look for will be -

- 10% Chance to Gain a Frenzy Charge on Hit

- You can Apply and Additional Curse

- Attacks have +% to Critical Strike Chance

- % Increased Effect of Non-Curse Aura's (Very Min-Max, will have to use LOTS of Beast Locks)

- T1 Res / Attribute / Block / PDR

Gloves:

Prioritize Life, Resistances, Attributes, Attack Speed, Accuracy, and Armor for Gloves. Don't bother with Added Damage to Attacks.

Influence your Gloves with Searing Exarch and Eater of Worlds, watch Here if you don't know what that means.

• For Eater of Worlds Influence, go for Increased Chance to Impale
• For Searing Exarch Influence, go for Increased Attack Speed

Helmet:

Prioritize Life, Resistances, Attributes, Accuracy, and Armor for Helmet.

Influence your Helmet with Searing Exarch and Eater of Worlds, watch Here if you don't know what that means.

• For Eater of Worlds Influence, go for Increased Mana Reservation Efficiency. This is needed if you want to run all of our Aura's!!!!
• For Searing Exarch Influence, go for Reduced Mana Cost of Attacks

Boots:

Now that we have Mageblood, we can take advantage of a Quicksilver Flask, Onslaught, Elusive, and Tailwind Boots to out speed the Movement Speed Penalty on Cyclone of Tumult!

Use Boots with 35% Increased Movement Speed, Chance to gain Onslaught on Kill, and Chance to gain Elusive and Tailwind on Crit Strike. This allows us to achieve anywhere from 200-250% Movement Speed. You can also choose to get Veiled Movement Speed which is a solid option depending on the cost of the Veiled Exalted Orb.

See how to craft them Here!

The Best Mods to look for will be -

- % Increased Movement Speed

- + to Maximum Life

- % Chance to Gain Onslaught on Kill

- % Chance to Gain Elusive on Critical Strike

- % You have Tailwind if you have Dealt a Critical Strike Recently

- % Increased Effect of Tailwind on You

- % Increased Attack, Cast, and Movement Speed while You have Onslaught

- T1 Res / Attribute / 4th Influenced Mod

Belt:

We'll be swapping over to Mageblood for Flask Automation which provides a ton of QoL and power increase. Expensive but for all the right reasons.

Amulet:

Once you have your Attributes and Resistances handled, you'll swap off a Rare Amulet to Stranglegasp. This Amulet can be Anointed 4 times and provides More Offense and Defense than almost every other Amulet for the build (Outside of Mirror tier).

I've anointed with Enigmatic Defence, Serpent Stance and Steelwood Stance for Block / DPS then Charisma for Mana Reservation Efficiency.

Rings:

Use your Ring Slots to fill out whatever needs to you may have. The only Required Affix is Channeling Skills have -3 to Total Mana Cost which can be crafted on from the Crafting Bench.

I've chosen the Cogwork Ring as this removes 1 Prefix, but gives us 1 Additional Suffix. This allows us to get extra Attributes, Resistances, Crit, and Curse. The Prefix on Rings outside of Max Life and - Mana Cost are pretty bad so this Ring is perfect for the build!

Rings:

Use your Ring Slots to fill out whatever needs to you may have. The only Required Affix is Channeling Skills have -3 to Total Mana Cost which can be crafted on from the Crafting Bench.

I've chosen the Cogwork Ring as this removes 1 Prefix, but gives us 1 Additional Suffix. This allows us to get extra Attributes, Resistances, Crit, and Curse on Hit. The Prefix on Rings outside of Max Life and - Mana Cost are pretty bad so this Ring is perfect for the build!

The Best Mods to look for will be -

- -3 Mana Cost of Channeling Skills

- + to Maximum Life

- + to Global Critical Strike Multiplier

- + to Accuracy

- T1 Res / Attribute

- Curse Enemies with Vulnerability on Hit

Jewels:

he most important thing for the Jewels at this stage is getting a solid Lethal Pride (Kaom Strength of Blood) and Large Cluster Jewel! There's tons of variations of Lethal Pride (Kaom Strength of Blood) that are good, just use the Find Timeless Jewel Tool provided in my PoB file or come by my stream and ask.

For the Large Cluster Jewel, get one with Overlord so we can have Fortification. Make sure it Adds no nore than 8 Passive Skills and good Notables like Martial Prowess, Feed the Fury, Fuel the Fight, Devastator, Brutal Infamy, Surefooted Striker, etc....

You'll want a Forbidden Flesh and Forbidden Flame with More Than Skill. The combo of these 2 Jewels give us Lucky Block for a HUGE EHP increase! These become more expensive as the league goes on so I try to buy early.

Next we'll use a Watcher's Eye Prismatic Jewel with Buffs when using Pride and Purity of Elements. I've gone with % Chance to Deal Double Damage, Impales Last 2 Additional Hits, and + Chaos Res. Increased Critical Strike Multiplier, Increased Physical Damage, and Increased Attack Speed are also really good so pick a 2 or 3 combo Jewel that's within your price range.

A Jewel that we're using this league that I didn't use last league is the The Light of Meaning (Physical Damage) for the massive Physical Damage spike. Be sure to put it as shown in the planner.

Flasks:

• I'll use 1 Quicksilver Flask with 25% Increased Effect and Increased Movement Speed During Effect. Make sure to Craft on with an Enkindling Orb "70% Increased Effect"
• I'll use 1 Diamond Flask for Critical Hit Chance with Reduced Effect of Curses to make us Immune to all Curses
• I'll use 1 Granite Flask for Armor and Additional Elemental Resistances during Effect to help cap our Resistances
• I'll use 1 Basalt Flask for More Armor and Increased Armor during Effect to raise our Phys Max Hit
• I'll use 1 Oriath's End for tons of clear speed but can optionally be swapped for either Progenesis / Bottled Faith / or The Writhing Jar (Life Leech in Boss Fights)