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Ascendancy ThumbnailLevel 96 Crit Frost Blades Trickster3.19

Life: 4,965118%
ES: 655
Mana: 55
eHP: 30,812
Resistances: 75%/75%/60%/-37%
Evade: 72%
Supp: 100%
Evasion: 21,092
DPS: 2,797,497
Speed: 3.53
Hit Chance: 96%
Crit Chance: 95.28%
Crit Multi: 316%
Config: Pinnacle, 2% Brittle, Frenzy, Power, 15x Wither
Bandit: Kill All
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Gear

Pneumatic DaggerImperial BucklerHeatshiverExpedition's EndSouthboundSlink BootsThe PandemoniusVermillion RingVermillion RingStygian Vise
Murderous Eye JewelLarge Cluster JewelMedium Cluster JewelMedium Cluster JewelHatred damageViridian JewelViridian JewelViridian JewelViridian Jewel

Gems

Frost Blades
Multistrike
Unbound Ailments
Ice Bite
Increased Critical Strikes
Cruelty
Precision
Grace
Hatred
Enlighten
Wither
Spell Totem
Multiple Totems
Faster Casting
Withering Step
Assassin's Mark

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Level 96 (119 passives)
Ghost DanceGhost Dance
Perfect AgonyPerfect Agony
Accuracy MasteryAccuracy Mastery
  • Precision has 100% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency
Cold MasteryCold Mastery
  • 60% increased Freeze Duration on Enemies
Critical MasteryCritical Mastery
  • 50% increased Effect of non-Damaging Ailments you inflict with Critical Strikes
Dagger MasteryDagger Mastery
  • Critical Strikes have Culling Strike
  • 8% more Damage with Hits and Ailments against Enemies affected by at least 5 Poisons
Damage Over Time MasteryDamage Over Time Mastery
  • 15% increased Duration of Ailments on Enemies
  • 15% increased Skill Effect Duration
Evasion MasteryEvasion Mastery
  • Grace has 25% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency
Evasion and Energy Shield MasteryEvasion and Energy Shield Mastery
  • +1 to Energy Shield per 8 Evasion on Boots
Life MasteryLife Mastery
  • +50 to maximum Life
  • 10% increased maximum Life
  • 10% reduced Life Recovery rate
Spell Suppression MasterySpell Suppression Mastery
  • Critical Strike Chance is increased by chance to Suppress Spell Damage
  • Prevent +3% of Suppressed Spell Damage

Notes

The idea is: freezing everything on screen is a defensive layer, probably very good in the Sanctum
Frost Blades is getting a huge increase to added damage % so let's try to build around it. Ailments don't care about resistances on hit and whatnot, just base damage, so high added damage is good.
Heatshiver gives up to 130% added cold damage as fire if we can freeze things. Hence Expedition's End for %as more damage freezes and Southbound + freeze duration stacking.
This all means we can inflict 1 second freeze on Pinnacle bosses with attacks.
Crit ailments medium cluster jewels also share an ailment duration notable in Circling Oblivion so that scales regular damage as well.
No need to spec Perfect Agony until very late - the extra multi is nice but not a massive part of the damage profile and the -30% hit dmg makes freezes harder.

Modifiers active: 
Assassin's Mark marks are permanent, reasonable to expect on Pinnacle dps
Frenzy charges (get on kill, lasts 30s, can be refreshed easily)
Power charges (get on non-crit strike from Windup cluster notable)
Wither (multitotem + Withering step makes the stacks feasible)
Chill enough effect to put Pinnacles on 16% (even without Freeze enabled)
Freeze enough duration to freeze Pinnacles (7.3 mil threshold for 0.3s freeze with 0.28s attack time without Freeze enabled, approx. 0.6s freezes once frozen)
5 poisons on enemy max stacks is 13 this is achieveable in dps windows

Custom:
Frost Blades higher level (I couldnt be bothered to simulate the higher %effectiveness more nicely)