Cyclone duelist - What should I do?

Allright, as You said - i've got hematophagy and vitality void, i've changed my chest, belt, and sword (I'm doing something wrong or idk, but when i finally bought the Starforge and equipped it, my damage was still the same or almost the same), swapped some gems, got some new ones.

T7 maps are pretty easy now, but the sindicate bosses kills me every single time on t7+. I'm not sure, but i think my damage, or attack speed, or something is just too low.


What do You think about my char now?
http://poe-profile.info/profile/srankfinatra/PlxFreItanz



Oh and i have few more questions:

1.
In a shaper influenced maps i found 2 pretty weird rare items. I mean they have this weird cosmic background as the starforge, which i have equipped right now. Should I keep it? It's a sorrow pillar military staff and a storm ram vaal sceptre.

2.
In my build guide, in gem section, there is something like this:

GLOVES, BOOTS OR HELMET:
-Cast When Damage Taken (level 1)
-Increased Duration
-Immortal Call (level 3)
-Vaal Grace

So do I have to keep "cast when(...)" and "immortal call" gems at level 1 and 3? Can't I level them up? Why is that? I mean i don't really get how the gems works in this game. Why do I have to get 3 times "grace" gem in my gear? It's not a support gem or something.




Sorry for that many and probably pretty stupid questions, but i'm not a gamer, i don't really play games that much, and PoE mechanics are VERY new to me.

Thanks You Guys, You're helping me A LOT. Really.

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SrankFinatra написал:

What do You think about my char now?
http://poe-profile.info/profile/srankfinatra/PlxFreItanz

You should have Cyclone in six link body and totem in four link to buff damage significantly.

You can save some passive points with better pathing (required Path of building planner whic is just great tool to plan builds, see real dps and lot more)
https://pastebin.com/gE9UwBZd

You can invest saved points to an extra endurance charges to get an extra physical mitigation or the sockets nearby (fill them with life/damage in that case).
I would rather craft life on Viper turn ring (you can´t deal other type of damage with Starforge than physical)

Drop Sorrow of the divine flask and get smth useful.
just an example of good utility flasks.
One anti bleed, anti freeze flask is a must have


Gems:

Link leap slam with faster attack to move faster (enhance and such gems you can level on other weapon swap)

You can link fortify to cyclone directly and have permanent fortify
Consider using enfeeble blasphemy for extra mitigation (best defensive curse in game - you need to drop vulnerability in that case).

Syndicate - they might become harder than normal bosses so you can skip them on higher tier maps (or don´t enter searching laboratory again and don´t bother them)

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SrankFinatra написал:

1.
In a shaper influenced maps i found 2 pretty weird rare items. I mean they have this weird cosmic background as the starforge, which i have equipped right now. Should I keep it? It's a sorrow pillar military staff and a storm ram vaal sceptre.

It´s a Shaper item
https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Shaper_item
I´s a rare item with special affix mods
There are also Elder items (same thing with different mods
See more about mods:
http://poeaffix.net/

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SrankFinatra написал:

2.
In my build guide, in gem section, there is something like this:

GLOVES, BOOTS OR HELMET:
-Cast When Damage Taken (level 1)
-Increased Duration
-Immortal Call (level 3)
-Vaal Grace

So do I have to keep "cast when(...)" and "immortal call" gems at level 1 and 3? Can't I level them up? Why is that? I mean i don't really get how the gems works in this game. Why do I have to get 3 times "grace" gem in my gear? It's not a support gem or something.

See the description of Cast when damage gem
It´s auto proccing active skill gems according to total amount of damage taken and level of these active skill gems.
https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Cast_when_Damage_Taken_Support

Grace aura - Vaal Grace in that case is a Vaal skill that will boost your dodge/spell dodge chance once loaded with souls (it will buff your total chance to dodge attack/spells -- works well with your unique boots)
https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Vaal_Grace
Btw questions are fine don ´t worry:)