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Ascendancy ThumbnailLevel 92 Herald of Thunder Elementalist3.17

Life: 4,900176%
ES: 232
Mana: 72
eHP: 29,582
Resistances: 76%/75%/76%/-52%
Armour: 5,421
DPS: 4,053,608
Hit Rate: 7.60
Config:
Shaper, 15% Shock, Custom Mods
Bandit: Kill All
Pantheon: Soul of the Brine King, Soul of Gruthkul

Gear

The Annihilating LightFluted BascinetInpulsa's Broken HeartTitan GauntletsTwoTonedEvEsCrystallised OmniscienceStorm SecretStorm SecretHeavy Belt
Divine Life FlaskBismuth FlaskGranite FlaskDivine Life FlaskQuicksilver Flask
Calamitous VisionsLarge Cluster JewelMedium Cluster JewelMedium Cluster JewelSplit PersonalityBrutal RestraintCobalt JewelCrimson JewelCrimson Jewel

Gems

Herald of Thunder
Hypothermia
Anomalous Cruelty
Awakened Added Lightning Damage
Elemental Focus
Energy Leech
Storm Brand
Hextouch
Enfeeble
Culling Strike
Anomalous Arctic Armour
Unbound Ailments
Elemental Proliferation
Enhance
Flame Dash
Summon Chaos Golem
Summon Flame Golem
Summon Stone Golem
Cold Snap
Crackling Lance
Lifetap
Cast when Damage Taken
Steelskin
Hydrosphere
>>>Check "Notes" for more info<<<

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Elemental OverloadElemental Overload
Iron ReflexesIron Reflexes
Attributes MasteryAttributes Mastery
  • 5% increased Attributes
Elemental MasteryElemental Mastery
  • 40% increased Effect of Non-Damaging Ailments
Life MasteryLife Mastery
  • +50 to maximum Life
  • 15% reduced Life Cost of Skills
Lightning MasteryLightning Mastery
  • Lightning Damage with Non-Critical Strikes is Lucky

Notes

---About Omniscience---
To make it easy to remember, i replace words Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence and Attributes with Omniscience.
You only have 1 attribute and that is Omniscience.
If item says +50 All attributes then it only gives +50 Omniscience. If something gives 10% increased all attributes then it is 10% omniscience.
If it says "+35 to str and dex" then it still only gives +35 to omniscience.
Black Sun Crest helmet rolls up to 15% str, dex, int, but as seperate lines, so it can give up to 45% increased omniscience.
Actum axe that says you have no intelligence makes you have no omniscience.

---About triple damage---
Crest of Desire or any other double damage mods would be wasted, because triple damage overwrites it.
Other sources of triple damage will not stack, because this staff already has 100% chance for triple.
Triple and double damage only fors for HITS, and not ailments.
Does not aply to minions.

---Why no other auras?---
Calamitous Visions cluster jewel that gives lots of damage to Heralds disables all aura skills, including Smite, Banners, Stance skills.
Can still use Arctic Armour, Aspects, Temporal Rift.

---How to survive damage from rings?---
Lightning resistance. Damage taken Recouped as life nodes above witch starting area. Leech, either Large cluster jewel with Doryani's Lesson for 0.2% elemental damage leeched as life,
or gloves implicit, which you can get by spamming Eldritch Ichor (even lesser one is enough). And then get more max life. Stone Golem helps a lot.
Early on it is not really worth focusing on Herald of Thunder until you can put on Inpulsa's Broken Heart body armour for explosions. 
Do not forget Cast when damage taken with either Arc or Crackling Lance.

---How to proc Elemental Overload---
New inplicit modifier can be added on boots that create Brittle Ground while moving. Higher tier lasts longer. It gives +5% base critical strike chance.
Can add it on boots with Eldritch Ember. You have to walk right next to bosses, but you only need to crit with Herald once, to gain EO for 8 seconds.
In Configuration tab i added +5% base critical strike chance because it did not calculate automatically.
You do not want too high critical chance because you start losing damage. Lightning mastery makes non-critical lightning hits lucky, which gives a lot of damage.
One of my medium cluster jewels have Self-Fulfilling Prophecy node which gives +1% base critical strike chance for Heralds. Added this for a bit of extra reliability.

---Pantheon powers---
Mostly depends on situation. Stun immune may not be mandatory, but i kept it. Smaller ones based on map mods.