Who is Cyclops in the game? A glass cannon without the cannon. And he needs prep time like his pupil, Batman. I mean, he needs to use his skills to boost his Signature before use and after that, through his Uniques and Talents.

  

 

Skills

 

 Ricochet Beam:  Wipe the trash mobs and help to fight some boss waves, but shine against two bosses at the same time, especially if they are close.

 

 Focused Beam: Main spender and consumes a lot of energy. If only it had the same damage as Punisher's main skills.

Focused Beam is a discount and a capped Silver Surfer's Electromagnetic Flux skill. Cyclops players have been asking for these skills to be identical for years, and Gaz has ignored them.

 

 Strike Team - The Beast: Beast is your best friend. He applies bleeding and physical for procs and then actively helps you in combat, but it doesn't stop Kurse from jumping straight on you. Thanks, Gaz.

Beast triggers the Closed Quarter's trait: "When *you hit with a melee power, +8% Damage reduction for 3s." 

 

  Strike Team - Jean Grey: 10% Atk buff and a small dmg bump.

 

 Visor Off: Your signature. There were better days pre-Bue, more precisely after the 52 rework.

 

 Overwatch: I'm too lazy to keep marking enemies for Master Tactician. Doom waves and vortex bosses make me mad.

 

 Combat Roll

 

The Last Skill is up to you

 

 Strike Team - Iceman: Dots and slows down our adversaries, nice.

 

 Shotgun Beam: Cool name. Since I chose Overwatch instead of Master Tactician, this skill applies vulnerability to this situation.

"Ideal for neutralizing close targets." I wish. It should be a high-risk, high-reward skill with auto-brut, and knockdown, or Stun.

 

  Explosive Blast: Vulnerability Proc, and safer than Shotgun Beam.

 

  Optic Beam: Wiggle? Yes, wiggle or weaving. Two skills to attempt the same damage as a top-ranged character.

  

 Optic Devastation: More power-hungry than the Shotgun Beam, a wider area, and a longer cooldown.

 

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 - All-New Strike Team - Emma Frost: Faster than Jean and a nice Phys and Mental Combo for Sinister's Diamond and Doop Enchant.

 

 Was it supposed to be a meme like Punchclops?

 

 She does not trigger procs. 

 

 Omega Mutant for Omega Mutant.

 

Leveling Build

Order of Importance

Before LV 30

>  >> > > > > 

 >  > > >  > > > 

Since the Focused and Ricochet beams are power hungry, the default skill Optic Blast is necessary before level 38 and Maximum Optics. A good catalyst with Energy Regen helps, but don't make miracles.

His beams are weak; you need the Strike team skills layers to help with the damage, to activate procs on the 3 and 4 uniques, and do Maximum Optics, Energetic Leadership, and Leader of the X-Men loop.

No, the other way around. That's how the char was designed in the game. A character with the polemic and debatable 10% XP synergy, before the premium options.

Richochet beams all day in the Shield Holo sim, grab some uniques, and use Odin Potion in MM Patrol before level 50. After that, start and finish the story, and good luck with Doom.

 

Rotations

  -  -  -  -   -   more than a second -   -  

 

Around 800 x 3 Critical Damage Rating with Blue Team Belt + 40% Dmg From Overwatch before the Signature. 25% Power Dmg after the Signature.

   -  -  -  -  -  to somewhere safe -   -   more than a second -  

 

Cosmic Trial

 

Minimal Gear 

Lv 70

Lv 60 or better

 You NEED the red rock anyway 

  A Cope option for Crossbones, farmable in a short terminal 

 or  Cope alternatives for Sling Ring, farmable in the Industrial Zone Patrol

 Rewarded upon completion of Chapter 10 - swap it for something better later

 

Finally: Something from my artifacts list in the section below

 

Uniques

 

Slot 1:

  - Bis

4 Energy for trait bonuses, atk speed, and Spirit and Spirit Recovery. (Our boy is a bit hungry.)

  7 int + Dmg vs Enemies not targeting you.

 Maybe this can help Beast.

  Good for leveling and that's all, spare some time on MM to grab some uniques.

 

Slot 2:

 5 Int + 6 Energy. Health, Move Speed, Survival Bonuses. (You need to be alive, but to give a damage buff to your buddies in shared quests.)

"When you drop 50%, gain +2,463 defense rating." It stacks with the Helm of Doom.

 

 Atk Speed + Int + Ener.

 

Slot 3:

 or  A tough choice. The belt has more defensive functions and we need this at the current stage of the game's revival. (V0..5.0). Beast and Iceman's offensive (around 1600 Critical Damage Rating) and defensive bonus stacks. Don't forget to command them into battle.

 

Slot 4:

  Bis

 It's not as bad as I thought it would be, but the credits affix could do with something better in the place. Some characters have uniques that are insane.

 2 Int CHR, BSR, and CDR

 

Slot 5:

 Bis

 

 Int + Energy + Energy Dmg + Phys Dmg + Survival Bonuses. 

  900 Dmg + 3 Int + and procs.

 Two affixes are wasted with SiF and RiF.

 Two affixes are wasted with SiF and RiF.

 

Rings:

 Bis 

 Cope Option 

 or  Nice, worth the time farming.

 

Artifacts

 

- 3 Int, 3 energy, 6% Dmg Against Bosses, 600 area dmg, but the focused beam isn't an area skill

  With Emma 

With Beast as Strike Team:

 

Gok, HoD, and Crossbones. The last artifact I'm testing to see which is the best.

   

Legendaries

 

In the game's current state, you need to be alive to avoid being a burden to your pals in the Shared Quests.

 

 - Like the Circlet proc on Rank 5, +5 attributes for 10s when the health is bellow 50%, this is not a difficult task for Cyclops in Cosmics. *Giggle. Use this to your advantage, use your Signature while in the force field, and ensure survival with a MedKit.

 

 - Bis 

 

 

 

70 lv: 

  

 

Relics

 

 or 

  

Traits

Concussive Force

Archetype Tactician:

Damage:  (4% Damage per Energy or Intelligence.)

 

Evasive Maneuvers:

Closed Quarter's trait: "When *you hit with a melee power, +8% Damage reduction for 3s." 

 

Infinity

 

The first 150 points will be dedicated to the mind gem.

Mind Gem: 6 Intelligence, 150 points. Plus: Increase your cost reduction by 100 points and + 1 to all attributes by 150.

Time Gem:  Temporal Loophole 152 points. 19,5% Atk speed and 19,5% Mov Speed. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”

Reality Gem: 6 Energy. 150 Points. 

 

 

Road Map:

Power Gem: Strike Through.

Time Gem: Finish Temporal Loophole. 

Mind Gem: Mental Focus 150 points.

Some 4 points wonders for procs.

 

Mind Gem: More INT. "To infinity and beyond."

 

Medallions

 

  + 3 Int and CDR

 - BSR - BDR and Spirit Recover

 

Team Up

 

Anyone who can tank. My favorites are Magik and Miss Marvel. Canon>Meta

Meta: Jessica Jones

 

Ins

 

Cyclops, of Course.

 

Catalyst

 

X-Gen with 3 Int, invisibility, 100 Spirit when you use your Med Kit, and Shield when you use your Med Kit.

 

Talents 

 

First Row: X-Man Stand By = Only worth it if Iceman is not on your skill bar; sometimes this skill triggers while you are using the Signature and beams.

If there is a way to swap Magik for Improved Optics on their respective rows, it will be a win-win for beam builds and for the bold ones who play as Punchclops.

 

Second Row

Improved Optics - More DMG against a single target. Our bane in this game. If you can't maintain spirit, with a catalyst/Skrull Medallion/Cyclops artifact/Advanced Generator artifact or while leveling, it's better to pick Maximum Optics.

or

Maximum Optics - Recover your spirit and more Pwr Dmg for 10 sec. Improved Optics only help the Focused Beam, and depending on the situation, it's better to buff the other beam skills. 

 

Third Row: Cutting Beam because of Ricochet Beam.

 

Fourth Row: Energetic Leadership - With this talent, Beast becomes almost a team-up 100% of the time and more uptime for Unique 3 procs.

 

Fifth Row: Leader of the X-Men - Team Strike spam for less Sig cooldown.

 

His talent tree is bad; three options are wasted by the choices of Strike team flavor. A notable combo is Maximum Optics, Leader of the X-Men, and Energetic Leadership, but you lose Emma.

It is possible to improve the situation offline.

 Finally, a Cyclops talent tree with synergy between them. Emma is a luxury here. 

 

Synergies 

 

Beast, Cable, Captain Marvel, Cyclops, Gambit, Iron Man, Squirrel Girl, Thor, Ultron, and Wolverine.

 

Starlord, Human Torch, and Hawkeye.