[2.2][Trickster] Venu's Budget Low Life Evasive Caster (Trickster, Crit, Evasion,ES, Low Life, EK)

I always really liked the idea of an evasion based energy shield character. With the Ascendancy Launch, the Ascendancy class "Trickster" opened some new options. Combined with the unique ring i created a low life build which has high defenses and of course high damage output.

Defense:
With Lori's Lantern equipped, ennemies are unlucky when damging you (when you are low life), which means their attack is rolled twice and the lower damage roll is taken.

So you have high evasion and a high pool of energy shield and with boosted (witch nodes and belt) new flasks like Stibnite flasks (ceates smoke cloud),Jade flasks (+3000 to evasion),Quartz flasks (attack/spell dodge) you take very few hits from ennemies. And if you take one you have a high ES pool to tank big hits (higher than life) and high mobility to dodge further hits and fast and high energy shield recharge as well as vaal pact leech to get to full energy shield again. For every dot (damage over time) we have flasks to dispell (poison,burn,bleed)

I really like this mechanisms of defense and the gameplay with it.

Affordability:
I started this build myself as first character in Perandus League. Usually ES based builds are very expensive and hard as a first character. But with this build my ES comes from cheap uniques, the Trickster Class and the aura discipline. I went Low Life with a Solaris Lorica and had 6k ES, with spending not even 20 chaos. I did maps, malachai, merciless Izaro easily with that setup.

-very viable on a low budget
-endgame and atziri viable (with budget version also)
-Definetely Hardcore viable. But not as safe as some regen armour tank. You need to know the game and react to difficult encounters
-use the skill you like the most
-High Defense: So many layers of strong defense. Strong flasks, high evasion, high ES pool, instant leech.
-High dps: around 85k with charges in a 5l with ek
-special gameplay
-Fully benefits from Ascendancy Classes (or is even now enabled by Ascendancy)
-Run all map mods (a few are of course still a pain in the ass. For blood magic you maybe need to respec out of GR, for reflect you have to shuffle gemsetup)
-very fast movement
-very good at boss fights

-with this kind of playstyle you need a bit knowledge of the game. Which means not, you need to be more active to not die
-It can hurt to miss the 2k ES from Shav's on the budget version
-a bit vulnerable to spell damage (especially physical, because we have no armour). You have to be careful about reflect and need to dodge high damage spells (which is easy with this build)
-with my gear version of this build, resistances are only capped and not overcapped. can be a problem in elemental weakness maps
-very curse dependent. No mana sustain without warlords mark

My Current Tree at lvl 90

If your spell of choice is elemental or AoE, just change the shadow start to the upper elemental nodes and/or drop the "Sniper" for the witch AoE nodes

If you have a Prism Guardian you'll at least need one reduced Mana node to run two 50% and one 35% auras.

With higher levels you can:
-drop the +30 Strength node, if your gear compensates it
-take all remaining ES nodes (8 nodes for 46% ES and 20% evasion)
-go for the extra crit with "True Strike" through Harrier (5 nodes)
-go for "Leadership" for extra blasphemy range and aura effectiveness (4 nodes)
-take two more power charges (6 nodes)(That's what I'll do first)
-get the spell damage in the with area (5 nodes for 58% dmg)
-get more Jewel slots (3 more slost availible)
-take "Faith and Steel" (3 nodes)

And there are plenty of other options.
Decide what is best for you and maybe combine some options for point effectiveness.

My Jewels:

-Elemental reflect
Just swap hatred for haste, and swap all ele support gems (added fire, phys to lightning) for pure spell dmg ones (empower, faster casting etc)
-Phys reflect
This is one of the most difficult ones but doable. Swap Herald of Ash for Arctic Armour. Use phys to lightning and life leech and don't run increased critical strikes or increased critical damage. With rumi's up you should have no problem. Maybe take another granite flask with you and use flasks wisely.
Other option is, you swap in a high level spark with faster projectiles.
-I don't recommmend ele and phys reflect in one map
-Elemental weakness/-max res
Be very careful about elemental damage if you're not overcapped in elemental resistances. Know the boss before facing him and take the matching resistance flask with you (also in normal maps a good choice)
-Monsters poison on hit
Simply take a anti poison flask with you
-Blood Magic
Never did this but should be possible, drop a few auras, and maybe swap in life gain on hit to sustain life while casting(life leech and regen doesn't work because of vaal pact and ghost reaver)
-Curse immune
Turn off blasphemy and swap in clarity and life leech gem

I have many flasks to swap in for specific bosses and map mods. This is makes some situations so much safer

Atziri is very easy with this build.
Here is why and some tips if you face her the first time:

Vaal Duo:
-Try to trigger one and the other one ~4sec later, so they're not firing at you simultaneously
-Always whirl away, when they prepare to do their melee smash
-Have a topaz flask ready for tanking some lightning beams and balls. But should be easy to dodge most of them with whirling blades
-pop flasks and run/whirl around or vaal auras to recharge es
-get them both low hp at same time, if one dies the other one enrages

Trio:
-You have to focus one. Each time one dies the other ones enrage and get on full life. The range titty bitch is best to focus first. Then go for dual striker and then cycloner last.
-After you killed one, there is some strong dot on the ground. This is highly dangerous for this build. Try to kill them in corners, and always stay away from the area you killed them.
-They are all attack based, so its pretty easy to tank with flasks (prepare anti bleed) or whirl away to recharge

Atziri:
-Anti bleed and anti burn flasks are very important here. Better take a anti bleed ruby flask with you
-Always whirl around to dodge the flameblasts and storm calls. You can tank the smaller flameblast but will be ignited.
-Always immediately dispel bleed and burn to recharge ES
-In split phase try not to focus the one with the mirror (reflect). Focus one from the middle (such that no projectile can hit the mirror-one in the background).

WIth the super fast whirling blades movement you can easily dodge the high damage spells. And for attacks your flasks do the job. If you dispel all dots and use your flask charges for that wisely, this should be an easy run