[2.3] Storm Call - a different approach vol.2 ft. Inquisitor

Storm call has an inherently large dps, but it has a flaw - it has a 1,5+ second delay before it hits, usually making hard to aim it properly. However, with the recent less duration gem buffs, it can easily be compensated - with a leveled up less dura, it only takes ~0,7 seconds for the storm calls to crash down, making it much more reasonable to work with.

Now about the advantages storm call has:
-decent base aoe
-high dps
-lightning - probably the best element to work with due to shock/conversions
-6% base crit, good base for crit builds

Since we are running a templar for the sake of Inevitable Judgement, you want to get as much crit as possible - non-crit storm calls wont get the crit multi, wont penetrate enemy resistances, and wont shock/freeze - all in all, non-crit casts are pretty much useless.

In my case, it was fairly simple - I have decided to make a pure MoM build, with an actual big mana pool, most of it unreserved. Since we are planning on massing up huge amounts of mana anyway, the actual storm call cost is like a drop in the sea, and we will regen it up almost instantly anyway. I am sure that u can make it work with either blood magic, or EB + MoM + ZO, but I have no experience in those.
Additionally, we will be using warlord's mark, (partly) for some additional manaleech - it is only really needed when you take a big hit, and your manapool drains, otherwise its overkill.

In order to survive, you have to have high base life/ES, and preferably some kind of mitigation. My char has ~5k HP with ~2k unreserved mana for MoM, giving me a decent overall pool to work with.
On the mitigation front, we take acro/phase acro - it doesnt really take away anything, and gives us fairly high mitigation for just a few passive points.
Another layer of mitigation is the cwcd-immortal call setup - it is fairly basic, but since we are feeding endurance charges to the immortal call, it lasts fairly long.
And the final layer is actually the call of the brotherhood ring, allowing us to freeze most things, but I will be talking about that later.

Additional note on reflect: one of the main threats. Phase acro and our high healthpool helps, but it will still chunk you. One of the biggest threats to our build. When fighting against a reflect mob, space your storm calls out to allow your regen/leech to counteract the damage.

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Bandits: Normal:Oak - Cruel:Kill (possibly Alira, prefer the flexibility of the skillpoint tho) - Merci:Alira

Righteous Providence: Really good way to get crit multi. It also sets a soft-crit cap of 87% (assuming you use inc. crit strikes gem, and you should, more of that later.) Since the base crit-cap (without assassins mark) is 95%, and your first storm call will hit an opponent who is NOT effected by elemental status effect, you will receive an additional 100% chance to crit (8%), and that number is not counted on your character sheet. 95 minus 8 is 87, hence the soft crit-cap. You can totally go over this soft-cap, it's only wasted on your 1st storm call - opponents WILL be effected by status elements on your additional storm calls, and the crit multi is not wasted at all.

Inevitable Judgement: The reason why we roll inquisitor in the 1st place. Saves us a gem slot (lightning penetration), allows us to use Call of the Brotherhood (more of it later), and just generally makes our damage extremely consistent on every mob.

Instrument of Virtue: Decent cast speed/spell damage node if you use leap slam to move around. It also speeds leap slam up. Buffed in 2.3, was decent before, pretty good now.

Augury of Penitence: Additional safety (mostly against reflect) and damage source. The "nearby enemies take 16% increased damage" works as a pseudo-shock (so kinda like a more modifier), pretty decent. The range is pretty short tho (as far as i know, "nearby" in the ascendancy's aura case means 40 range), but still decent.

Unique items:

Weapon:

Pledge of hands. We really need the mana, the huge spell damage increase is amazing (and it is something we lack from the passive tree, making it even MORE amazing), and an additonal link.
Honorable mention to Divinarius - If you make this build with EB-ZO-MOM, you can totally use this, possibly 2 of them.

Chest armor:

Carcass jack fits the theme, the aoe increase is amazing, and, most of all, fun. If you use Divinarius, or just want to be tanky, possible to use other chests as well - like a Lightning coil.

Ring:

Call of the brotherhood is simply amazing. It allows us to freeze whole screens, making everything much safer, while still having the ability to shock.
Its biggest downside used to be the fact that converting half of your damage to an other element makes you lose half of the effectiveness of the (used-to-be-mandatory) penetration gem - however, since we simply ignore elemental resistences as a whole, thanks to the Inevitable Judgement ascendency point, this downside just flies away.

Rares:
Fairly usual stuff - hp, resist, mana (dont skip base mana out - your unreserved mana should be around ~42% of your HP pool if you want to take full advantage of MoM). Try to get crit on your other ring slot and amulet if you can.
The rares that i currently use:

Nothing out of the ordinary.

Storm call


Vaal storm call


Mobility (Leap slam)


Herald of thunder curse-setup


CwDT setup

You can use whatever flasks you want, it really is a personal preference, this build does not depend on any specific flask. I will share mine tho, if anyone is interested.
Silver flask is good for mobility (faster movement speed and attack speed - faster leap slams), and can be used while dps'ing - it gives castspeed as well, after all. Thanks to this flask, I dont use quicksilver at all.
The "reduced flask charges used" mod allows us to use this flask 2 times without recharging.

Quartz flask is probably not a popular choice - however, with acro/phase acro, it gives ~17%/~14% damage reduction against dodgeable/spell dodgeable stuff. Good for conserving endurance charges (since its a binary, CwDT wont even pop if you dodge), and good against reflect (the nerf to resistance flasks, and the use of Call of the brotherhood makes it hard to mitigate reflect with potions aside quartz.)
It should be rolled to "increased duration" to match with the other 3 potions, but i was unlucky with it so far :(

Every mitigation so far has been binary, meanig if something actually DOES hit you, it's going to hurt. You can make it hurt less with a basalt. Should be rolled to "reduced flask charges used", like the silver flask.

Fairly standard instant HP flasks. You have decent regen and leech for sustain, you only really need it for "oh shit" moments. Since i have -60% chaos res, the poison removal flask is wellcome.

-res Arsenal (nuking the reflect mob was TOTALLY intentional, khm..)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA1QTgLa0go&feature=youtu.be
Courtyard (somewhat potato quality)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOwoyrithhg&feature=youtu.be