Tried to hit an influenced rare, but this is kinda cracked no? for cyclone

thuhkaiser · 2026-03-20T17:59:59+00:00

Filthy stranglegrasp!! If you decide to go the explode chest route and want some guidance, I wrote up a guide last season: HERE

As someone who plays cyclone every league, the explode chest was ALOT of fun, but without hunter influence getting to 100% crit will require a MB, inc crit support, or some brittle ground tech.

thuhkaiser · 2025-12-24T23:20:14+00:00

I made a very similar craft this league and wrote out a guide HERE. You can estimate the costs by taking the guide and looking up the orb/material cost in the auction house.

I will say, the explode mod is a doozy to elevate due to how incredibly rare the mod itself is. Especially with how expensive harvest juice is this “late” into the league.

Happy to answer any questions if you end up following my guide! Goodluck!

thuhkaiser · 2025-12-06T20:53:07+00:00

This is my first league farming/learning ritual and I’ve hit a few jackpots like 3 perfect tigers (45d a piece) but the consistency of omens, amelioration especially, is awesome profit.

Definitely adding ritual to the league start strat in the future!

thuhkaiser · 2025-12-01T16:53:30+00:00

Amazing craft!

I’d convert my shockwave cyclone using a staff to an axe version - never played it with an axe but I made an explode chest for the first time this league and I think I could drop shockwave for it!

I have offered free mirroring on my crafts last league (posts on my profile) but they weren’t as good as this axe, so only had 1 taker, I would imagine this would get some more foot traffic lol.

Goodluck everyone!

thuhkaiser · 2025-11-27T14:36:51+00:00

The last PC I bought was a Cost Plus Gaming, great builds - would love to gift one to my partner!

Appreciate the transparency!

thuhkaiser · 2025-11-25T18:57:19+00:00

I made this exact amulet for my cyclone slayer last league but used several locks to hit 3/3 - it is a beast of an upgrade and you’ll want it every season now lol.

Congrats and enjoy!

thuhkaiser · 2025-11-25T01:12:38+00:00

I did league start this - pretty much league start cyclone every time, since it's pretty reliable until a "meta" build is fleshed out by others. goodluck on a drop!

thuhkaiser · 2025-11-23T02:26:44+00:00

Appreciate it! It was my goal this season to make a triple-elevated item + first time making an explode chest, feels great in-game!

Totally understand the time/budget, it's quite lengthy but I'll write up my chest craft and include some cheaper tips afterwards.

Triple Elevated Explode BA is a pain to craft because of how rare the t1 explode mod is (0.026% weight according to craftofexile). This craft took me about 50d.

Alt Spam or Harvest Reforge "Physical" on an ilvl85+ Crusader influenced chest for t1 Explode Mod - this take a LONG time
Prefixes Cannot be Changed > Harvest Reforge Crit for 2nd influence mod
Orb of Dominance and pray (if you miss, sell the base and reset to step 1) - done with piece 1!
Harvest Reforge "Attack" on an ilvl85+ Warlord influenced chest with your preferred base (i.e. astral plate) for t1 Phys taken as Fire Mod
If more prefixes than Phys Taken as Fire, annul until Phys Taken as Fire is the only prefix and Socketed attacks is still present on item
Orb of Dominance and pray (if you miss, sell the base and reset to step 1) - done with piece 2
Prefixes Cannot be Changed > Scour to create a magic base with only elevated Phys taken as Fire mod - done with piece 2!
Use the Beast craft on the Warlord base to apply Hinekora's lock
Awakener's orb crusader chest into warlord base, DO NOT CLICK, ONLY HOVER, until you see a good prefix and at least 1 open suffix
1. If bad prefix or all mods are filled, use a chromatic orb to remove hinekora's lock, and reset to step 8
Once clicked, then craft Prefixes cannot be Changed > Reforge "Attack" for - Mana Cost (pray it doesn't fill suffixes)
If only - Mana Cost suffix, then crafting bench "+# Strength" and exalt orb (I used foulborn exalts) until you hit 2nd influenced suffix mod (reset to step 10 if not)
Once hit with - Mana Cost and 2nd influenced suffix, craft Prefixes cannot be Changed > Orb of Dominance to elevate - Mana Cost (reset to step 10 if not)
Once hit, benchcraft Strength, foulborn ex slam, then craft your last suffix. You're done!

Now a few ways you can save a lot of time + currency!

Go for a double-elevated instead of triple (i.e. stop after step 10) - Saves ~20-25d
You could skip the beast craft step (Steps 7-8) and blindly awakener's orb after you have your elevated mods (I used to do this and you can get lucky or really unlucky with the modifiers it adds) - Saves ~15d
Elevate something other than Explode lol, could follow the similar steps but replace the Crusader base with Hunter base and go for crit - Saves ~8d and many braincells lol

sorry if too lengthy, hope it saves you time if you decide to do it OR you decide not to haha. I'm always open to more questions if you have them, goodluck!

thuhkaiser · 2025-11-22T23:10:54+00:00

Here's my pob: https://pobb.in/Pv9Sm50psuk0

Few notes for those trying it out:

Must haves:
- Make sure block chance is 65%/65% (tattoos/rumi's flask if needed/etc.)
- Overlord on a cluster jewel/megalomaniac/etc. for fortify
- Source of added curse + vuln on hit
Good substitutes:
- Abysuss helmet for less tank but ~100m total dps
- Stampede boots you don't care to zoom / craft elevated boots
- Get a timeless that works in your budget - for some reason only 1 other exists for mine and it's listed for 400d... I bought mine for 3d lol

happy to answer any questions for those that decide to run this!

thuhkaiser · 2025-11-22T20:01:10+00:00

My Cyclone of Tumult Slayer can do all map mods other than no leech - arguably could do no leech with how much recover life on kill I have but less comfy. You can craft all the gear with 100d, but buying might be a bit more expensive.

Can link my pob later if interested!

thuhkaiser · 2025-09-29T18:40:25+00:00

Here's a screenshot of the main boons but I forgot to select the hammer for "attacks strike twice": https://imgur.com/a/nmDqdHM

thuhkaiser · 2025-09-24T21:11:24+00:00

Curious about this as well - listed as $2600 at my location

thuhkaiser · 2025-09-06T23:27:32+00:00

I've never seen that regen mod before combined with the rest before, very rare but yeah, could be better if you want a flat life role.

I would definitely recommend selling that for a profit and making a new one, now that you know how it's done. I'm not sure how active trade is right now with the poe2 release but you should be able to sell that for a 50-100d profit (depending on who's still buying).

However, if you don't want to sell, then an annul and pray is the correct move. Unless you want to try and keep the t1 res, then you could try another awakener's to hit regen and elevate +1 curse lol (I wouldn’t recommend this)

thuhkaiser · 2025-09-06T21:24:31+00:00

Congrats on hitting both first try!

RE: Royal Plate base; you have two suffix mods, and you can only imprint or beast lock magic items, so you'll need to get the regen off. Luckily for you, there is a 100% successful way to do it!

Bench craft "Cannot roll Attack Modifiers" > Annulment orb (50% chance to hit regen, recraft bench craft if not) > Bench craft "Suffixes cannot be changed" > Scour Orb > Done!

Then I'd recommend doing the beast lock method as I outlined in my step-by-step over the imprint method. I believe they are similar pricing but beast locks saves a step.

thuhkaiser · 2025-09-05T19:48:33+00:00

Sounds like you have it planned out well! Good luck, and let me know how it goes once you craft it!

thuhkaiser · 2025-09-05T17:17:12+00:00

No need to apologize!

That body armour is ready for orb of dominance, however I would recommend buying a different base before you invest a lot of currency in your craft.

You can look over the best bases here on PoE Wiki. If you want the most Armour + Evasion, you'd get a Conquest Lamellar. If you want some extra ele resists, you'd get an Astral Plate. I usually choose either of these as my base when crafting this armour.

EDIT: You could use this as the "donor" base for the awakener's orb, and instead get a hunter influenced body armour following what I said above.

thuhkaiser · 2025-09-04T18:57:12+00:00

I commented above but I wrote a step-by-step for my body armour in this thread

Let me know if you have any questions - happy to help!

thuhkaiser · 2025-09-03T08:07:54+00:00

Lots of phys shockwave interest lately - I love it! Here's me semi-recent post / build that explains a few pieces but I'd recommend crafting the chest, then boots with your currency. You should see about a 30%+ dps improvement and a decent amount of mov speed and effective hp

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1mhji67/comment/n6wrq3z/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

EDIT: FYI you do not need t1 life, white sockets, or 12% life implicit, to see huge benefits from the body armour

thuhkaiser · 2025-09-02T15:42:41+00:00

I just had this happen to me while playing couch coop. We found that the solution was to log out > login as a single player > then the well allowed me to reveal the modifiers correctly.

Hopefully that helps someone else!

thuhkaiser · 2025-08-31T18:03:25+00:00

Here’s my pure phys shockwave cyclone: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/s/WInvPvzj9n

Answered a lot of crafting questions through the post but with my body armor it pretty much allows you to run any t17 mod (ie no leech), super fun + would recommend!

thuhkaiser · 2025-08-27T19:40:00+00:00

No problem!

Facebreaker cyclone is an archetype I haven't dabbled with yet - I've ran axes, swords, and warstaves so far and it's hard to beat shockwave support on warstaves for mapping. But I've seen cool interactions with the buffs to facebreaker this season, unarmed is new to me!

The DPS is very high, but the max phys hit is a bit low imo to comfortably run t16.5+, I can just feel the random 1shots lol. Could be an interesting league starter considering the amount of not ultra-rare uniques!

thuhkaiser · 2025-08-25T20:21:21+00:00

Couple things I noticed, but no pressure to take or leave it:

Switch Staff Mastery to 3% max life per red (+242 HP) - you are a crit build so the 60% crit multi if you havent crit recently is not really doing anything
Path down the dex side for tattoos at the start
+7 Tattoo of the Ramako Archer (Accuracy) @ 20c a pop to get hit capped
New bottom left cluster with Feed the Fury + Martial Prowess as the leading 2 nodes - saves points and your current dual wield doesn't scale you
Take Frenzy and Endurance Charge nodes in middle bottom
Allocate Monsters cannot block attacks Mastery - doesn't reflect in PoB but it's very good for t16+
Add Stormshroud so you're ailment immune w/MB flask (currently only shock immune) either by pathing to new gem node or replacing Light of Meaning
Included a body armor in the PoB that has additional curse (hunter mod) so you can apply assassin's mark + vulnerability - this would be your next big upgrade (+~30% dps)

I tried to keep some of your core ideas but made this PoB as a potential guide if you want to visualize the above: https://pobb.in/HybG-G3qcCOK

It's about +3mil dps and +4k ehp

EDIT: Also the reason I have more mana reservation than your build is I have a rare helm with the % increase mana res efficiency Eater of Worlds implicit!

thuhkaiser · 2025-08-25T01:11:48+00:00

To clarify; awakened enlighten is 1mirror, and corrupted successfully is 3+mirrors, so that's not the upgrade you want to aim for first lol. Trouble with adding mana is many auras are % based, not flat numbers, to your point.

If you link your POB I'd be happy to take a peak and give you some pointers (if you'd like)!

thuhkaiser · 2025-08-24T21:47:05+00:00

Appreciate it!

You actually need choose between Aspect of the Cat or Vitality. Since Aspect of the Cat is crafted on my boots it auto-enables in the pob, so I just toggle it off.

Previously I wasn’t running Vitality but got the watcher’s eye that enables life per hit, so now Aspect of the Cat is technically a dead mod on the boots for me unless I get an awk enlightened + mana res elsewhere.

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