[3.10] Cyclone Impale | Champion | Huge DPS | Huge Tankiness

Nothing changed, build still OP.
Cluster jewel even make this build more polyvalent by balancing tankiness and DPS (Impale node)

Facebreaker is a pair of unique gloves, which grants a huge boost to physical damage of unarmed attacks. That means we won't use any weapon but only a shield.

As it give up to 800% MORE Physical Damage with Unarmed Attacks, it scales up A LOT with flat Phyiscal Damage to Attacks (Amulet, Master of Metal, Herald of Purity, Circle of Guilt)

Impale is a "new" mechanic from Betrayal, which applies a debuff dealing additional physical damage to the affected target each time it is hit.

Without any change, Impale lasts 5 hits. But with the Master of Metal ascendecy, Impale lasts 7 hits.
If we've impaled an ennemy recently, we gain +1000 to Armor and 6 to 12 added Physical Damage for each impale on Enemy

And knowking Facebreaker ability to give 800% MORE damage, it scales up A LOT.

Thanks to the Fortitude ascendency, we are perma fortify, which scale with the previous Unstoppable Hero, we have 10% Attack speed, +1000 to Armor and Evasion Rating, 30% increased Attack Damage and Stun Immunity

75% Chaos Resistance
77%/76%/76% Maximum Elemental Resistance
90% Physical Damage Reduction
41% Chance to block attack damage
Around 30% Chance to Evade Attacks
10% Chance to Dodge Attack/Spells while Forbidden Taste is active

Don't use Abyssus, it will break your tankiness. Use a rare helmet, with maximum life, elemental resistances and chaos resistances.

Stats to look for:
+ Maximum Life
+ Elemental Resistances
+ Chaos Resistance
+ Armor

Possible enchants:
* Cyclone Attack Speed
* Cyclone Damage
* Herald of Purity has #% reduced Mana Reservation
* Blood and Sand has #% increased Buff Effect
* Dread Banner has #% increased Aura Effect

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Clearly the BiS armor. Offers a lot of tankiness and it's cheap.

Other choice:



Rare armor, negates the mana cost of Cyclone, which is a pretty good QoL upgrades, a bit less life, free the mana flask slot for a damage one.

Carcass Jack offers increased AoE, AoE Damage, but less tankiness than Belly of the Best
Loreweave Flat physical, life, max resist, all attributes. It's a good polyvalent armor.
Tabula Rasa Budget option to get a 6L. Switch to a proper armor when you have a 5L Belly of the Best or other armor.

Facebreaker are mandatory. Just buy the highest "#% more Physical Damage with Unarmed Attacks" you can afford.
If you want to min-max this build, use "Curse Enemies with Level # Vulnerability on Hit" corruption.

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MinMax version here

Use a rare belt, with maximum life, elemental resistances and chaos resistances.
About the implicit, either look for:
* +# to maximum Life
* #% increased Global Physical Damage
* Has 1 Abyssal Socket + jewel

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Use rares boots, with maximum life, movement speed, elemental resistances and chaos resistances.

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Use a Vix Lunaris shield. It gives us Freeze immunity, cold damage shield, armor, maximum life, level of socketed gem for our Herald of Purity.

If you wish to buy a corrupted one, pick either +1 Level of Socketed Gems or +2 Level of Socketed Duration Gems. It can brings your Herald of Purity to level 30!

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MinMax version here

Use a rare amulet with maximum life, elemental resistances, chaos resistances, flat physical damage to attacks, attributes (Dexterity and Intelligence to equip gems)

Allocate Master of Force (Black Oil x2 + Opalescent Oil)

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Circle of Guilt are the BiS rings. All attributes, flat physical damage to attacks, physical damage reduction, Herald of Purity buff effect (Flat physical again)

Implicits to look for:
* Elemental resistance
* Chaos resistance
* Maximum life
* Global physical damage

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Forbidden Taste will be our panic flask. Instant life recovery. Don't quality it as the chaos debuff will last longer. Chaos damage will be negligeable with our chaos resistance.

Our second flask is Lion's Roar is a DPS flask, which grants us up to 25% more damage.

Our third one is an Onslaught one, with "#% increased attack speed during flask effect" and "#% reduced charges used" so you can use it 2 times before running out of flask.

The movement speed flask is a basic Quicksilver Flask with "#% increased movement speed during flask effect" and "25% increased effect/33% reduced duration"

Last flask is up to you. I like to use a mana flask for QoL, because we don't cancel Cyclone mana cost and we can run out of mana. Use a mana flask with "Flask effect is not removed at full mana" and "Immune to Curses during Flask effect/Removes Curses on use".

Use a Sulphur Flask with "Immune to Curses during Flask effect/Removes Curses on use" and 'Maximum Charges" if you play with a "Socketed attacks have -15 to total mana cost" armor.

PoE Trade links:
* Forbidden Taste
* Lion's Roar
* Onslaught flask
* Movement speed flask
* Mana flask

* Sulphur Flask

Use jewels to finish capping your elemental/chaos resistances, get "#% increased maximum Life", get "#% Attack Speed/#% Attack Speed while holding a shield".
N.B: If you don't use mana flask, put 1 or 2 jewels with "#% of Physical Attack Damage Leeched as Mana"
N.B n°2: Consider using a Corrupted Blood corruption