The core of this PoE 3.10 Duelist Cyclone build is using a pair of Facebreaker, 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)

Quick Jump

Pros & Cons

  • + Can handle almost all mapmods except for reflect physical
  • + EXCELLENT Boss killer
  • + Capable to do all endgame content (Sirus A8, Uber Elder, Uber Atziri)
  • + Perma fortify
  • + Impale mechanic
  • + 7k Life
  • + Chaos, elemental and physical reduction capped
  • + Cannot be frozen
  • + Easy leveling
  • + No gemswap
  • + Can be a leaguestarter
  • - Lack of AoE
  • - May look slow
  • - Can't do reflect physical

 

Skill Tree

Ascendancy

Unstoppable Hero > Fortitude > Master of Metal > First to Strike, Last to Fall

After picking Unstoppable Hero, link Fortify Support to your Cyclone, and drop it after getting Fortitude.

Bandit: Kill All (recommended)

Passive Tree & PoB

Path of Building Link: https://pastebin.com/De8kc6uB

 

 

 

 

Gems Setup

Body Armor

Cyclone - Melee Physical Damage - Brutality - Impale - Infused Channeling - Concentrated Effect/Increased Area of Effect

Cyclone will be our main damage attack. Boost its damages at much as possible. Use Impale to benefit from Impale nodes of the tree and Ascendency. Either use Concentrated Effect to get more damage or Increased Area of Effect to get more AoE

Shield

Herald of Purity - Blood and Sand - Empower

Herald of Purity will boost our damage up to the moon.

Other links

Flesh and Stone - Maim - Dread Banner - Molten Shell

Flesh and Stone permitts to Maim nearby ennemies, so it can boost our damages.

Dread banner will boost our Impale chance up to 99%/100%, while boosting Impale effect too.

Molten Shell will make us tank some damages.

Shield Charge - Faster Attacks - Vaal Ancestral Warchief - Blood Magic

Shield Charge is the main skill to move around map. We use Blood Magic, as our mana is quite low.

Vaal Ancestral Warchief is a MORE damage boost, use it just before attacking a boss, metamorph, or other. Only use the Vaal Ancestral Warchief, not the Ancestral Warchief

Blood Rage - Flame Dash - Faster Casting - Portal

Activate Blood Rage, it generates Frenzy charges, and boost our attack speed. We mitigate the damage easily. Use Flame Dash to cross some gaps, where Shield Charge can't. Portal is a good QoL gem. Use it, there is a free slot here.

 

Gear Setup

Helmet

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

Body Armor

Belly of the Beast

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

Other choice:

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.

Gloves

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.

Belt

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

Boots

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

Shield

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!

Amulet

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)

Rings

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

Flask

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.

Jewels

Use jewels to finish capping your elemental/chaos resistances, get "#% increased maximum Life", get "#% Attack Speed/#% Attack Speed while holding a shield".

If you don't use mana flask, put 1 or 2 jewels with "#% of Physical Attack Damage Leeched as Mana"

Consider using a Corrupted Blood corruption

 

For a more detailed selection of gear, please refer to the PoB Link.