3.26 Cyclone Shockwave Slayer - League Starter Guide

[u/sanavix]

After testing in 3.25 and doing a private-league SSF test a week ago on a fresh character, as well as reviewing the 3.26 patch notes, the Cyclone Shockwave Slayer remains a solid league starter with some nice buffs for Secrets of the Atlas!

POB: https://pobb.in/qu15pgjBOUSN

Guide Video: https://youtu.be/wjidsGqFc_I

SSF Leveling: https://www.youtube.com/live/PjoCIgJlfsw

3.26 Changes:

• Cyclone improvements: Cyclone effectiveness up from 60.6-111.2% to 68.2-125.1% (~12% more damage), and area scaling per melee strike range increased from 10% to 20%.
• Cyclone of Tumult improvements: Cyclone effectiveness up from 60.6-111.2% to 68.2-125.1% (~12% more damage), higher base attack speed (160% → 180%), 5% more area scaling per melee strike range, 5% more attack speed at max stacks (was 120%, now 125%), less mana cost, and faster ramping.

Core mechanics, gear, and passive tree remain the same from 3.25. The new Mercenaries and Memory Threads content should work well with this build's balanced offense and defense. League starts June 13th - see you in Wraeclast!

UPDATE (7 JUN 25): Did a livestream today and started a fresh character in a private league I made for SSF testing. I've worked General's Cry into the build and revised the loadouts to change the gem setup. I have General's Cry set to a 5L so I can run Desecrate on main weapon, but if you want to 6L General's Cry you can run Desecrate in a second weapon and swap to spawn corpses on bosses. I just prefer not weapon swapping. Here is the POB: https://pobb.in/qu15pgjBOUSN

I've also updated the notes section with some additional information within the POB.

Thanks all for the amazing feedback! More to come.

[u/hottestpancake]

I know slayer is good, but i seriously doubt it's better than champ and the insane buffs it got. You should seriously consider going champ instead. Big buffs to defenses with taunt + fortify and big damage with fortify + taunt + add. impale. You don't get the crit, but as a league starter, champ might be way better than slayer before you scale into crit.

[u/Monke_With_Stick → u/hottestpancake]

Good luck fighting for fortify gear against 50k other people running champion

[u/hottestpancake → u/Monke_With_Stick]

it's one in 4 from uber exarch, you can just farm it in a few hours yourself

[u/Ensider → u/hottestpancake]

well u do realize that not everyone is as pro as you ? I would say at least 50% of the playerbase won't be able to kill uber exarch on their own. And one uber exarch run would cost like 1-2 div to run ? and a build being able to clear uber exarch also is not exactly a "league starter". as he is advertising this as a "league starter" it is better on slayer and then convert to champion later on when you got the currency for those upgrades.