Cyclone

The L79 reference is playing a Holy Hammers warcry slam, not Cyclone. The 6-link in the Saintly Chainmail runs Holy Hammers + Melee Physical Damage Support + Overexertion Support + Pulverise Support + Fist of War Support + Physical to Lightning Support, paired with Autoexertion Support + Seismic Cry + Intimidating Cry + Infernal Cry in the weapon. The Hegemony's Era Judgement Staff + Ashes of the Stars amulet + the warcry stack are classic exerted-slam Inquisitor mechanics. Cyclone is technically slotted elsewhere on the character but the picked reference builds around Holy Hammers' warcry exertion, not a channelled cyclone.

The Inquisitor ascendancy is still already at four nodes: Pious Path, Sanctuary, Inevitable Judgement, Righteous Providence — which means if you're actually trying to play Cyclone Inquisitor at this tier, the ascendancy scaffolding is where the median character sits, it's just the skill mix that varies. Inevitable Judgement is the defining ascendancy pick here; every crit lightning hit ignores enemy elemental resistance. For an actual Cyclone leveling plan, a 5-link or 6-link with Cyclone + Pulverise Support + Physical to Lightning Support + Increased Critical Damage Support + Melee Physical Damage Support is the template most of the tier's non-warcry builds use. The tierData shows Physical to Lightning at 60% meta share and Pulverise + Shockwave both at 60% — the supports list is closer to a Cyclone plan than the picked reference's gem layout.

28.6k EHP, 4.4k life, 68% block + 17% spell block, 36% physical damage reduction. The staff's +25% attack block implicit + +6% block while wielding staff + a Corrupted Soul (transformed from Mind Over Matter) keystone produces the block wall. Resists are all overcapped (+52/+77/+106 overcap on fire/cold/lightning) so curses and penetration can't break the cap. Chaos resist at -52% is the obvious hole — typical of this archetype at the transitional tier and closed later through The Ivory Tower or other uniques. Molten Shell via Cast when Damage Taken Support auto-guards. Pantheon is Brine King + Garukhan.

For the reference character: warcry slam. Walk up, trigger Autoexertion Support → Seismic Cry + Infernal Cry + Intimidating Cry, slam Holy Hammers, watch packs evaporate. For a player actually following a Cyclone Inquisitor plan at this tier, the feel is melee crit Cyclone with the Inquisitor's consecrated-ground auto-regen under Pious Path and resist-ignore on every crit via Inevitable Judgement — walk through packs holding left-click, stand on consecrated ground for the +100% crit chance bonus from Instruments of Zeal.

The 6-link in The Ivory Tower runs Lancing Steel of Spraying + Cast On Critical Strike Support + Increased Critical Damage Support + Spellblade Support + Eye of Winter + Ice Spear of Splitting. This is a CoC Lancing Steel / Ice Spear build using Cyclone as a secondary trigger option, not a pure Cyclone hit build. The Energy Blade one-handed weapon generates 233 to 4664 lightning damage on the weapon itself, Spellblade Support converts that weapon damage into the CoC spells, and Cast On Critical Strike Support triggers the spell payload on every crit tick.

Rathpith Globe off-hand adds +14% spell block, 10% max life, and +5% spell crit chance per 100 max life — the big life pool becomes the crit source. Crown of the Inward Eye adds 21% increased maximum Life, Mana and Global ES plus three Transfiguration lines that convert stats between pools, multiplying everything on the character. Shaper's Touch on gloves pumps accuracy + mana + ES from the Str/Int sheet. Kalandra's Touch on ring 2 mirrors a rare helical ring with +98 Int and +22% all ele res, doubling its value. Eyes of the Greatwolf amulet (88% aspirational meta via tierData — here appearing already at endgame) adds 32% increased attributes and 16% increased max life with doubled implicit magnitudes.

Ascendancy is Instruments of Virtue + Augury of Penitence + Inevitable Judgement + Righteous Providence. Instruments of Virtue adds +30% more spell damage while holding a melee weapon — which Energy Blade is — and spell-non-attack scaling. Inevitable Judgement means every CoC-triggered crit strips resist. Tree runs Pain Attunement + Zealot's Oath + The Traitor (from a Brutal Restraint timeless jewel) + Blood Magic + Iron Will + Eternal Youth — a huge keystone pile enabled by multiple Impossible Escape / Brutal Restraint jewels. Unnatural Instinct replaces small passives for unallocated bonuses. Spectres + Animate Guardian in the helmet tank hits and run auxiliary auras.

44k EHP, 9.1k life, 11k ES, 45% block, all resists capped with 27% chaos. The life + ES stack is fed by The Ivory Tower's +32 ES per 100 reserved life, Crown of the Inward Eye's triple-pool scaling, and Shaper's Touch's Int-to-ES + Str-to-mana conversion. The Ivory Tower's chaos-from-mana rule plus Coruscating Elixir during phase transitions blocks chaos one-shots. Arctic Armour + Discipline + Vitality + Precision + Purity of Elements all run via Eternal Blessing Support reservations. Sanctuary + Pious Path self-sustain consecrated ground for regen + bonus-crit. Pantheon is Solaris + Ralakesh.

Cyclone feeds the crit clock — every tick generates hits, hits generate crits, crits trigger the CoC payload. At 100% crit chance and 5.04 crit multi, every single attack is a crit, so CoC's cooldown (150ms default) is the actual rate-limit. The spell payload spreads Lancing Steel projectiles + Ice Spear shatters + Eye of Winter orbs across the screen. Inevitable Judgement makes every triggered spell ignore resist. Single target is stand-on-boss-and-channel because all three spells overlap their damage on a single-target position. Flame Dash covers mobility. Automation + Convocation keeps spectres / Animate Guardian on top of the player. The feel is aggressive CoC caster wearing Cyclone as the trigger.

The 6-link lives in the weapon: Frozen Legion + Elemental Damage with Attacks Support + Melee Physical Damage Support + Pulverise Support + Elemental Focus Support + Damage on Full Life Support. The body armour 6-link runs Cyclone + Pulverise Support + Fortify Support + Shockwave Support + Melee Physical Damage Support + Physical to Lightning Support — this IS a Cyclone hit 6-link, not a CoC trigger. The picked reference is running Cyclone as its own damage skill with Frozen Legion as a weapon-swap burst.

Golem Pole Judgement Staff rolls 196% combined increased phys damage, Adds 35-74 phys, 7% attack speed, +37% crit multi, and +40% crit multi vs rare/unique. Physical to Lightning Support on the Cyclone 6-link converts 50% of phys to lightning, enabling Inevitable Judgement's resist-ignore on the Cyclone hits themselves. Hatred + Herald of Ash + Herald of Purity + Precision all reserve simultaneously. Blood and Sand toggles to blood stance for melee damage. Mark On Hit Support + Assassin's Mark in gloves auto-curses. Leap Slam + Frostblink handle mobility.

Ascendancy is back to Pious Path + Sanctuary + Inevitable Judgement + Righteous Providence — the classic Inquisitor Cyclone stack without Augury of Penitence. The tree picks up Spiritual Aid, Endurance, Versatility, Butchery, Battle Trance, Holy Dominion, and Steelwood Stance — a two-hand melee package. Jewels are staff-specific rares with +3% block spell while wielding staff + +15% melee crit multi stacked across three sockets. Divine Shield keystone is the defensive spine.

71k EHP, 4.1k life, 17.6k armour, 65% physical damage reduction, 75% block, 50% spell block, all resists capped with 66% chaos. Divine Shield is the key — the keystone adds a ward-like buffer (-30% armour, gain ward) that absorbs hits before they touch life. The staff's +25% attack block + Counterweight tree notable + the block-from-res jewels push block to cap. Rumi's Concoction-equivalent block flask uptime covers single-target telegraphs. Molten Shell via CwDT auto-guards. Purity of Elements keeps ailment-immunity permanent. Chaos res at 66% is a big improvement over the endgame's -52% — aspirational gear density (rare helmet at +22% chaos res, chest at +26%, belt at +30%) closes that gap. Pantheon is Brine King + Ryslatha.

Two-hand staff Cyclone with a CoC-Frozen-Legion swap option. 2.3M DPS, 85% crit, 5.44 crit multi, 1.1 cyclone APS (which is slower than typical — the picked reference has a low APS relative to the tier's median). Walk forward, hold left-click, Cyclone ticks and every crit self-triggers Frozen Legion via Cast On Critical Strike Support on the weapon swap. Inevitable Judgement's resist-ignore means pinnacle bosses with elemental resist phases simply don't have resist phases. Mageblood-equivalent flask permanence pushes block + crit + action speed permanently. Herald of Ash's overkill-chain + Herald of Purity's minion army keep screens cleared. The feel is slower than the Slayer Cyclone (lower APS) but every hit lands harder and every crit is free damage through resist.