Best single target melee skill is...

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PhysoniumI написал:

Can Crits with cyclone crit twice? They can for SS. Yeah, cyclone may be superior single target noncrit, SS is better when adding crit. The conversion is a negligible impact on leech unless you are using Vaal Pact imo.

I agree though, with cyclone being one of the best melee clearing skills, best being a proper flicker strike.

Are you joking? I have an insane dual doryani char that does 125k cyclone and like 250k+ static strike. Static strike loses. Every time. Note that I have tested this against super high hp bosses like atziri and palace dominus. Your logic of static strike being able to crit twice makes no sense, as its much simpler to treat it as a 1.7x multiplier skill with a single crit chance. That being said, if you get stuck in a non crit multistrike, that's basically 3 attacks gone to waste. Whereas cyclone has no such limitations.

I find that actually testing out such things in game in a variety of situations is far more reliable than looking at the numbers. And so I will say that with equal gear levels, cyclone is the best single target skill in the entire game.