Vroom Vroom Pop Pop - (Shield Charge Cast on Melee kill Discharger)

GENERATING POWER CHARGES

I used a combination of Resolute technique + Romira's Banquet. Romira's makes it so every hit generates a power charge, and Resolute technique makes it so the power charges can't be cleared by crits, meaning that there will always be power charges available to be discharged.
After getting a 5 link, I added Endurance Charge on melee Stun, which helped with generating more charges, making the discharge even more powerful.


DOING DAMAGE

Because this build is inherently focused on the damage dealt by discharge, I decided to focus on making my shield charge maximize elemental damage to get the melee kills. To accomplish this I run Hatred, and all three heralds. While this doesn't leave much unreserved mana, one of the nice things about shield charge is it's low mana cost. I also use a Doryanai's Catalyst is the perfect weapon for this build, as it utilizes both the high physical DPS of the weapon, as well as the high increased elemental damage. When all is said and done, the vast majority of my shield charges damage is elemental damage.

When there are no mobs to AoE kill, single target DPS is accomplished by using Heavy Strike with Mulitstrike, Melee Physical Damage, and Weapon Elemental Damage linked to it.


SURVIVABILITY

This build uses Aegis Aurora and Iron Reflexes as it's main method of surviving. Items such as the vertex are used to give a decent sized ES pool. You can easily tailor the build to not need an aegis, and instead focus purely on stacking HP rather than going the route of the hybrid like I did.


LEVELING

When leveling, until you have a way of consistently generating power charges, I suggest using arc instead of discharge being linked to your cast on melee kill. Other than that,


MISCELLANEOUS THINGS WORTHY OF MENTION

-Because of the high number of unique items used by this build, getting the necessary resists can be a bit tricky. if your non unique items aren't giving you enough resistances, then I'd suggest dropping the vertex until you have the necessary resistances from your other slots.

-This build takes the +30 intelligence nodes because unless you get some crazy rolls on a necklace/ring, I'm pretty sure it's impossible to get enough intelligence without taking those nodes.

-This build can probably be hardcore viable, assuming you have the proper gear ready to go for it. My first death was at around level 75, and that was to me simply playing poorly.

-Because of the low single target DPS when there aren't mobs around to get killed by splash/discharge, this build will probably have a very hard time doing atziri. I haven't tested this though.

-If you intend to play in groups mostly, I'd suggest using a culling strike gem, otherwise it can be very hard to get the killing blow on mobs.