[3.6] Storm Burst Occultist | All Content Viable |1.5m+ SDPS

PoB for my character (~15 ex invested, 1.7m ShapDPS): https://pastebin.com/xZQmT9mW
Thus far I've killed Shaper deathless (with ease) and plan to tackle UE later this league if I have time. I used this build to progress and clear my Atlas, and it was an absolute breeze.

Budget PoB (~1.5 ex invested, 1.3m ShapDPS): https://pastebin.com/duVjvktc
This should be enough to clear most of the Atlas. You may need a few slight gear upgrades to try and take on endgame bosses, but nothing above 3-4 ex.

+ Great clear speed in indoor maps and delves
+ Excellent sustain/recovery
+ Huge ES Pool
+ Tons of mitigation
+ Can facetank many things
+ Good single target
+ Ideal for delving and darkness exploring at deep depths
+ Crafting good gear is easy with fossils

- Storm Burst playstyle feels clunky, and takes some getting used to
- Not a league starter - requires around 1.5 - 2 Ex to get started.
- Mediocre clear speed in large, open maps (aka not Inpulsa's)

Storm Burst is extremely powerful because it can scale with so many modifiers. To understand how it scales, we must understand how it works. Everytime you cast Storm Burst (the cast "ticks" that occur while you channel) you summon an orb. Each Orb lasts a set duration and deals damage every .4 seconds. So by scaling duration in increments of 33% (1.2 base * .33 = .4), we can extend an individual orb's lifetime. Basically, this means more orbs active at once resulting in higher DPS. Scaling duration also boosts the damage of our release, which is very nice for our clear speed.

Additionally, we take advantage of generic damage mods, like physical/spell damage, cast speed, % as extra damage, etc.

Since we are ES based, we obviously have a huge HP pool, but we also have a bunch of recovery:
- Unstoppable ES recharge (Wicked Ward)
- ES Leech (gem)
- Huge ES regen while clearing (Vile Bastion)
- 2100 Instant ES leech per mob hit (Watcher's Eye)
- Super fast start of ES recharge (Apep's)

In addition to a 10k HP pool and huge recovery, we have a bunch of mitigation:
- ~55-60% Physical Mitigation (Infusion + Arctic Armour + Basalt + ToH)
- +3% to all Max Res (Apep's)
- 12% Fire Mitigation (Arctic Armour)
- 8% Lightning Mitigation (Infusion)
- 20% Cold Mitigation (ToH)
- Temporal Chains Aura
- 10% Less Damage from all sources (Malediction)
- Immune to Chaos damage (CI)
- Immune to bleed (Apep's + CI)
- Immune to stun

As a result the build is extremely beefy. The most dangerous things are ignites, freezes and shocks, so tweak your flask suffixes and Pantheons as you see fit.

Main Links: Whether you run Conc effect or not, is your call. If you choose not to, run Inc Crit Strikes. If you want to focus more on Elemental damage, you can drop Conc Effect and Controlled Destruction for Phys to Lightning and Ele focus.

Auras: Arctic Armour doesn't need to be linked by Enlighten.

PCoC/Onslaught Gen:

Buffs:

Flame Dash:

CWDT:

You can squeeze in a Vigilant Strike + Fortify setup for some extra tankiness. I was too lazy to do so.

This PoB link contains all the leveling passive trees as well as the final passive tree: https://pastebin.com/igP32LES

You can swap to CI whenever you feel most comfortable. I swap when I enter Blood Aquaducts, around level 60.

Grab the +30 attribute nodes as needed.

For Ascendancy Order:
Wicked Ward > Vile Bastion > Profane Bloom > Malediction

For Bandits:
Alira

General Leveling advice:
- Start with Freeze Pulse/Frost Bomb
- Swap to Storm Burst after Act 1.
- Axiom's, Tabula, Goldrim and Wanderlusts should last you until you can swap
to some better ES gear once you hit Blood Aquaducts
- Storm Burst - Onslaught - Infused Channeling - Increased Crit - Faster Casting - Controlled Dest should be your leveling links

Basically, just flame dash and phase run inbetween packs. Quickly dragging Storm Burst across a pack should be enough to blow it up. Profane Bloom does a great job of cleaning up due to Spiritual Aid.

For single targets, be sure to put your Storm Brand on them, and then just channel Storm Burst. Releasing is a DPS loss, so don't stop channeling unless you need to. Don't forget Storm Burst can be used at range, so don't be scared to kite bosses if you need to. Dead people don't do DPS.

Vaal Discipline is your oh-shit button.

Obviously we want big ES wherever we can get it. We do run a lot of rares, so just pick up resists wherever you can.
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