Damage engine and purpose
The Vyr loop combines Chantodo, Swami and Fazula with Squirt’s newly enhanced 2.6.6 effect. Shields maintain the risky amulet.
Item, skill and rune names use their English game spelling for unambiguous lookup. Explanations, rotation and limitations are fully translated.
Six skills and runes
| Skill · rune | Function |
|---|---|
| Storm Armor · Power of the Storm | Maintain Karini condition and resource support. |
| Arcane Torrent · Static Discharge | Channel and repeated hits for linked effects. |
| Archon · Slow Time | Use Archon stacks in the correct timing window. |
| Magic Weapon · Deflection | Persistent buff; selected rune provides shielding or sustain. |
| Black Hole · Absolute Zero | Group enemies and build the elemental buff. |
| Slow Time · Time Warp | Time Warp zone supporting an additional enemy damage window. |
Four passive skills
Audacity / Evocation / Galvanizing Ward / Unstable Anomaly
Complete equipment slots
| Slot | Equipped items |
|---|---|
| Head | Vyr's Sightless Skull |
| Shoulders | Vyr's Proud Pauldrons |
| Amulet | Squirt's Necklace |
| Torso | Vyr's Astonishing Aura |
| Wrists | Nemesis Bracers |
| Hands | Vyr's Grasping Gauntlets |
| Waist | Fazula's Improbable Chain |
| Legs | Vyr's Fantastic Finery |
| Feet | Vyr's Swaggering Stance |
| Rings | Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac + Convention of Elements |
| Weapon | Chantodo's Will |
| Offhand | Chantodo's Force |
Kanai’s Cube: separate powers
| Category | Extracted effect |
|---|---|
| Weapon Power | The Furnace |
| Armor Power | The Swami |
| Jewelry Power | Halo of Karini |
Legendary and normal gems
Legendary gems: Bane of the Trapped / Gogok of Swiftness / Bane of the Powerful.
Normally use an Emerald in weapon sockets; choose the helm socket for cooldown or Life needs. Match armour sockets to missing main stat or toughness. Seasonal Soul Shards replace helm or weapon gems only in the explicitly identified seasons.
Stats, cooldowns and optimisation
Cold, CDR, critical stats and sufficient shielding. Fully charge Chantodo before the next Archon; do not count a broken Squirt buff as permanent.
Complete the required legendary powers, correct runes and full set bonuses first. Cooldown reduction combines multiplicatively; do not simply add percentage rolls. Weigh a boss gem against a farming gem according to actual boss-fight length.
Rotation: preparation, damage, refresh
Step 1
Activate Storm Armor and Magic Weapon, then charge Chantodo through Torrent.
Step 2
Use Black Hole and the appropriate Triune field; play Archon during overlapping Swami stacks.
Step 3
Protect shields outside Archon and trigger Zodiac through worthwhile hits.
Patch boundaries and verifiable context
Cratic published this version on 22 August 2019 for Season 18. Listed ring alternatives are treated as alternatives, not more than two equipped ring slots.
Check before the next equipment change
Count set pieces before replacing a free armour slot. Equipping and cubing an identical legendary power does not double it. Solo Unity requires a follower wearing the other ring with immortality equipped.
This archive describes the period configuration. A current item database may show new numbers under the same name; those live tooltips do not prove historical multipliers. Old seasonal powers cannot be replayed on current non-seasonal characters.
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Sources & editorial reference date
Independently written guidance. Linked sources support verification of game systems, versions and described changes. Editorial reference date: 2026-10-23.
- DiabloFans: dated loadout s18-vyr www.diablofans.com