Rating
+2

Fists of the Thundergod

Regular
Solo
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Skills

  • Crippling Wave Breaking Wave
  • Cyclone Strike Eye of the Storm
  • Dashing Strike Radiance
  • Epiphany Desert Shroud
  • Mystic Ally Fire Ally
  • Sweeping Wind Cyclone
  • Alacrity
  • Harmony
  • Seize the Initiative
  • Beacon of Ytar

Items

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  • Legendary Gems

    • Bane of the Stricken
    • Bane of the Trapped
    • Simplicity's Strength

Kanai's Cube

  • Flying Dragon
  • Spirit Guards
  • Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac

It's a pretty standard LoN Lightning Cyclone Strike build, built around the damage boosts of LoN, Won Khim Lau and any other Lightning pumps I can get. Combine that with the damage mitigation of Epiphany, cubed Spirit Guards and Lefebvre's Solilquay and I can tank fairly well while I stand in one spot and punch stuff. I've chosen to run Leoric's Crown over The Eye of the Storm for the cooldown reduction, which is vital in having Epiphany up all the time.


Crudest boots get you 20% increased damage passive from the Mystic Allies. That's pretty awesome. Straight damage pump is nice, especially since you have no need for the Spirit boost of Air Ally.

With Kyoshiro's Soul you get so much passive AoE damage from Sweeping Wind you melt T10 mobs without even attacking. Soooo good.


This could also go the fire route. You'll want to cube Aquila Cuirass if you do the fire build to run Cindercoat, and switch a few skills to fire rune, but it's doable. You could also consider swapping Leoric's Crown for Gyana na Kashu, but I've found it to have less survivability without the short cooldown on Epiphany and the heavy spirit expenditure of Lashing Tail Kick spam. It does a lot of damage in bursts though. You'd change the weapon suite to get the extra fire damage from Burning Axe and Devastator, run Magefist and Cindercoat and make sure you roll fire onto your Wrists and Neck. The downside to this is Vengeful Wind is mandatory to get the most out of Sweeping Wind because at ten stacks it does a lot of damage, and switching the weapon to get more fire damage really hurts the build. You could cube the Vengeful wind, since as is, Schaefer's Hammer just seems to be providing some added Thorns style damage to everything you cyclone strike and it won't be useful if all your runes go to fire.

Paragon Priorities

Core

Primary Stat
Vitality
Movement Speed
Maximum Resource

Offense

Attack Speed
Cooldown Reduction
Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage

Defense

Life
Armor
Resist All
Life Regeneration

Utility

Resource Cost Reduction
Area Damage
Life on Hit
Gold Find

Build Guide

LoN Lightning Build.


Step One:

Cast Sweeping Wind.


Step Two:

Dashing Strike into mob, pop epiphany.


Step Three:

Cyclone Strike to pull in mobs, increase your toughness through the roof and proc Schaefer's Hammer. Also, every use of Cyclone Strike knocks a second off the cool down of Epiphany.


Step Four:

Punch things