For the love of the Goddess

Academy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ufjuVoOA6I

Precinct
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0-KsTjEZAc

Crema with Zana nerco (sea witches and fracture yay!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5O-dEUJeJU

Dark forest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MPPxwNiL4c

gorge speed run
http://youtu.be/Hd9AaTLABhM

Helm- RRBB, links are reduced mana, increase AoE, ele prolif and Herald of Ash

This is what I feel is the optimal choice for AoE clearing. I tried mind gaze for the lvl 15 conc effect and whilst the burn got seriously sick, the AoE is lacking somewhat, but maybe could work once the AoE nodes by templar were picked up and using a carcass, I dont have a 6L carcass to try though.

go for life and as much resis as possible here, and try to bench craft WED on the helm.

Glove- RRRR, links are CwDT, enduring cry, immortal call and increase duration. The build survives through instant leeching and having this set up helps against spike physical damage. Alternative is to drop increase duration and use frost wall instead, to stop charging rhoas instant gibs you, since IC does nothing to protect you if they have started charging before IC is up I think.

Acuity is so nice due to the crit leech, Alternatively, malis are very big dps boost and just pick up vaal pact instead.

Chest - I would like ideally BBBRRR, for cleave, wed, conc effect, increased crit damage, added lightning, life leech

full damage gems here apart from life leech. It will be hard to get 3 off colours on a hybrid (I did get a BBBBRR on the belly tho... trolling much?) so I settled for added cold instead of added lightning, once I save up enough chroms I will try recolour.

Basically we get increased elemental damage from tree so I have gone for things that multiply our damage to boost the initial hit and make it single target viable. Due to the lower phys damage on the weapon, melee phys isnt as good, although this might change if the 3rd sword comes out.

Only start using this 6L if your mana regen can sustain, else drop 1 of the gem (added x) and use blood magic. I was using a tabula when levelling (see above)

Don't level up cleave because we do elemental damage and level only helps physical which on scorned is very little and not worth the increased mana cost.
Also get 20q on conc effect, the reduced mana multiplier helps alot for sustaining cleave.

Belly or Carcass would be my choice here, belly for the more defensive option and carcass for the more offensive option.

boots -RRBB, I have reduced mana, wrath, anger, ass mark.

the flat damage auras boosts our initial hit and couples with the gems we have, this leads to serious damage potential. Ass mark costs alot of mana so is linked here for reducing its mana cost, as I didnt have too much free mana after reserve.

Ass mark is choice because the extra crit chance, power charge generation and extra mana on kill which is important for this build here for sustaining the attack as there are no mana leech.

I have rare boots here, go for life, res and WED from master.

Belt - go for life, resist and WED, doryani's invitaion (fire version) is nice, but I feel you lose a lot of life for it.

amulet - go really offensive here, with exception of life mod and maybe mana regen. WED, Crit chance, crit multi, flat ele damage (fire/light preferred), accuracy, don't settle for resis here, make it up from other spot. WED and Multi would be the first 2 on the list.

rings, this is where you make up the rest of your resist, and then start picking up Life, WED, flat ele, fire damage, mana/regen and any attribute points if needed.

Weapon - The one and only goddess scorned, the links are flicker strike,whirling blade and PCoC

the fact that stuff burning 50% quicker means things are burnt for shorter time, meaning mobs die quicker! The crit chance is very important as allows us to play an effective crit build with high crit chance.

play style

Curse the pack of mobs with ass mark, pick the mob you dislike the most, flicker in and do a cleave, and if that happens to be a crit, watch most of the screen melt whilst getting mana and power charges. Simple as that

If there is no die totem, flicker in and destroy that first. No die means no overkill

Do to the fact that the high dps here isnt achieved through attack speed, but rather through sheer raw ele crit damage, this build doesnt have much of a single target problem on bosses. One does need to worry about taking too much damage but crit leeching helps. Also kite around the boss a little if face tank isnt possible, and use the burn overkill damage to finish off the boss, as we hit very hard, it is entirely possible to finish boss off without even touching it.

Reflect? Be a little smart about it. Non crit wont kill you, and as for crit as long as you don't 1 shot yourself, you will be ok from instant leech.

For pots, I run 3 instant recovery, a quicksilver and anti freeze. Instant recovery helps when you are not crit leeching and face tanking the boss.

This is very much a solo build, the effectiveness does go down the more life mob has. It's kind of hard to get the last kill on a mob with 6 people party anyway although your single target damage is still more than enough.

Possible mods to avoid for mapping, blood magic, and no regen and half regen, fire resis mob wasnt as bad as I thought, but just rather a bit annoying and takes a little longer to kill.


Variation and possibilities
Fire resistant mob can be annoying, but ass mark is rather too good to drop. We are 7 points away from whisper of doom so it is possible to pick that up and duel curse flammability with Ass mark. Windscream is also possible, the ele damage and resists are nice for the build too.

I would drop Pcoc on the sword to run extra curse, but make sure the mana is still sustainable as 1 of the curse wont be linked with reduced mana

Acro and Phase acro are good defensive options here since the build doesnt rely on armour and ES for survival anyway.
Although I choose the shadow to start, this build is equally viable as Templar