[2.6] Cast on Weapon Swap

Self-Damage
Two Heartbound loops means every minion death hits us for 700 phys. This build has 15% increased damage taken so that bumps it up to 805 damage. With three spirits we take a total of 2405 damage, which is just enough for lvl 16 CWDT. It is important for the character to have 0 armour or any sort of physical damage reduction.

The self-damage is also used to proc Cloaked in Savagery. The three spirit deaths hit separately, so we need 805 damage to remove 15% of our max health. That means our max health cannot be over 5366.

To improve our eHP we add ES and go hybrid. This works out perfectly for gearing because we cannot use armour bases and evasion bases are useless due to Unwavering Stance. So ES bases were already the best bases. Also we use a lot of blue gems so ES bases are easier to color.

Hybrid Leech
We need to sustain both life and ES. To do that we use Essentia Sanguis in one of the two weapon sets to get Ghost Reaver. Because we're weapon swapping to deal damage we'll be constantly switch between life leech and ES leech.

Crit
Due to the large amounts of spells we're triggering it is extremely likely for at least one of them to crit, proccing Elemental Overload. So there's not much need to stack crit.

Alternatively you can go crit if you think you can do it. I just personally dislike stacking crit.

Blood Magic
I'm taking Blood Magic solely for the life nodes behind it. Not reserving mana also allows us to use Clear Mind.

Alternatively you can not take Blood Magic and use Heralds and Anger. I'm not sure if they improve DPS because they take up sockets, reducing the number of spells we can trigger.

Elemental Equilibrium
I can't tell if EE boosts damage in theory, and I can't tell if EE boosts damage in practice, so I didn't take it.

Proc Rate
CWDT has a 250ms cooldown, which mean a max of 4 procs per second or 240 procs per minute. In practice you can only get to about 200 procs per minute due to the weapon swap lag. To help weapon swap at the optimal speed I turn off in-game music and sound effect, listen to music in the 190~200 bpm range, and weapon swap to the beat. Weapon swapping too fast or too slow will hurt your DPS.

Required Items


More DPS


Insanity Weapon Base
To dual wield with Essentia Sanguis, we need a 1H weapon. Opal Sceptre, Void Sceptre, and Sambar Sceptre have the best implicits. The other swap should be 2H so we can have a 6L. Staves is the only 2H base that can roll spell damage. Up to you whether you want to use block or crit implicit. You can use The Dark Mage divination cards to get a random 6L ilvl 55 staff.

My Items

Level 90:
https://www.pathofexile.com/fullscreen-passive-skill-tree/AAAABAECAQHnBLMHHgthDXwOPA5ID6sRLxGWFCAUTRa_FukYahiRHNwfGCGQJDckiyW8JpUo-io4KwospjLRN4M6UjwtPfxFR0V8SVFJsVBHUftUR1VLVbVWSFfJWAdYY13yXz9f0GHiZ5to8ngvfOV_xoKbg1-DzITFjDaMz48aj0aQ1pMnlS6Xl5hXmjuboZu1nsSezZ_LoS-iAKa-puunCKcwrj6vbLQMtDi3PriTvJ--ir8IwGbBBMM6xq7G2MrTzRbVptfP2CTYvdtP37_gw-Fz5FHlGeoQ6rrr7u087w7viPAf8NX2SPhf-Tf79fxL_go=

You'll need to adjust the %life on tree based on your gear to make sure you don't go over 5366 max life.

Bandits: life passive passive

fireball_______8049.25
vortex_______7485.5___(8196.7 dot)
ice nova_____7468.5
magma orb___7342.5
spark________3996.5*
ball lightning__1366.25

These are linked with penetration
flame surge___5894.5
frostbolt______5793*
arctic breath__5114*
shock nova___4892
ice spear_____4600.5*
arc__________4184.5
firestorm _____1859

*procs every other swap. spark has culling strike