[2.0] Empire Of Shock - Sire of Shards Build 2.0 - Empires Grasp - Triple Curse

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-Discipline
-Herald of Ice
-Herald of Thunder
-Arctic Armour

For offense we are triple cursing using a ball lightning with curse on hit. Our curses are:
-Temp Chains
-Elemental Weakness
-Projectile Weakness

Quality on all these gems is really a great thing to have.

Abyssal Cry is amazing with this build since the enemy struggles to even move towards your direction. When you have Empires Grasp pulling the mobs away from you they just try their hardest to approach you but they are soooo slow they never even make it to you.

I have found through testing that in many cases up until level 74'ish I didn't always even need to curse and instead relied on cunning and totem placement to handle the heavy lifting with ball lightning. Slower projectiles is very nice since it's MORE damage and not INCREASED damage. When things get tough or you are in a group , just hit your 'little curse' ball lightning and watch your team obliterate mobs. We also use the warcry 'Abyssal Cry' as well to further the movement speed reduction of the mobs making them essentially unable to move.

This is where we see the gold in the build. When the enemy is triple cursed and Abyssal Cry is applied they become almost immobile and struggle to even move around. We are also using Mind Over Matter from the passive tree. Our auras provide Arctic Armor as well as Discipline. We have some defenses at this point but I'm only level 80 with about 3k life and 3k Energy Shield. This will probably go up higher as I get better items. So far the defense combined with our triple curse is enough to let me charge in first in groups quite a bit.

You want to use shockwave totem since the new buff has been applied at all levels now to level with. This will take you through much of the early content and a single curse is fine for those level between say 1 - 60 or so. Shockwave totem (when used efficiently) has insane clear speed and the survival of it being a totem which is nice.

Make a mad dash towards Ancestral Bond and get your second totem ASAP! Hook up Shockwave Totem and you are gonna be clearing like crazy. Run hatred aura when leveling and also Herald of Ice / Ash. When you can hook up your Empire's Grasp gloves put your Shockwave Totem in them and get a 5 link and start leveling Ball Lightning.

When you start to not run out of mana you are good to go. We grab the Energy Shield nodes and also some aura nodes to help reduce the amount of mana reserved and to also help out with the effects of auras.