PoE Cyclone, Chaos builds

Hello everyone, I have been playing FR CI for a good portion of this league but am still learning a lot in regards to PoB and Poeninja. With this said I do not understand two things in this regard and was wondering if someone could help explain these in-depth to me. 1) Why are they playing Bottled Faith? 2) Why are they using Awakened Added Chaos Damage vs Increased Critical Damage? This is my current PoB and I have spent many hours effectively simming these two options. My current thought process is the following:

Hello, I've seen a lot of folks trying to make a CoC FR and I want to share some knowledge about the exact stat values you want to strive for. I think people understand the theory behind how cast on crit works but maybe don't have a mental picture of what that translates to stat requirement wise. I know there are many excellent guides out there and I would defer to them where possible. I want to crunch some numbers for you guys to digest but I apologize in advance for any inaccurate information (feedback welcome). &x200B; I just want to make it clear: I'm not saying these stats are

I've decided that I want to try and get to wave 30 for the first time but every time I get to wave 25-26ish I seem to hit a wall with either getting blow up too quickly or (more commonly) running into a boss that I pretty much can't damage. Does anyone else who has run into this problem know if this a just a problem I need to play better around or am I missing something. &x200B; My Build CoC FR:

Whats up :) &x200B; A few days ago I posted about my attempt of using melding of the flesh and aegis aurora to get very tanky on a forbidden rite occultist, using coc to get some decent damage, and I am finally done with my build. After about 150ish ex investment, + mageblood (which I think you can replace, although it is absolutely a loss in power; not enough to kill the underlying principles of the build though) I am now sitting at about 160k max hit taken, 6k es, 90 all res, 90k armor, 20 million sirus dps while dying sun is up, and am very happy with the build. Because a ton of peop

Hi, i theorycrafted a Forbidden Rite Deadeye, no one should probably ever play this but i liked the idea with the extra projectiles, and Tailwind. Here is the PoB if anyone is interested: &x200B; Still sane Exil?

With the new recoup nodes, I really want to take advantage of the Forbidden Rite. Any feedback is more than welcomed, thinking of making this my league start. What are your thoughts.

Can use lightning strike if don't want to use cyclone to stack instruments of zeal. Need to check to see if frenzy + hydrosphere works for stacking fanaticism and frenzy (because then that's bis imo) we don't want inc duration on arcane surge because it needs to be up every 4 seconds

I know we don't have patch notes and we don't know exactly how the skill works but I tried to draft up a build out of pure boredom. I am really bad at making builds,all feedback is appreciated. &x200B;

Config: Intimidate and negative resists is from Belt of the deciever+Eye of Malice (Animate guardian) Playing around with the resist-shredding capabilities of elementalist. Any thought? Anyone tried this? Is just Occulist better? Edit: My gripes with this concept are elemental ailments and the loss of something like The Stampede. But I consider doing this in softcore to switch things up abit.