Level 98 Lightning Conduit Elementalist^3.23

Notes

IMPORTANT: Get at least 1 added cold damage to spells somewhere, this enables us to chill with the cold mastery at "Glacial Cage"

> PLAYSTYLE <
You place your Orb of Storms or Storm Brand, a lot of mobs get shocked, press Lightning Conduit on those mobs and they die.

On bosses you want to throw out Arcanist Brand to curse them or cast both your curses yourself if you're using Storm Brand.

> FAQ <
-- Storm Brand or Orb Of Storms? --
Orb of Storms tends to get you more clear and more consistent damage.
Storm Brand means you can deal damage from a distance. But it means you have to self-cast your curses instead of using Arcanist Brand.
TL;DR: if you're on Hardcore probably use Storm Brand, and Orb of Storms otherwise. But just play what feels the best to you.

-- How do I get Exposure? --
Exposure on gloves is the easiest way. Before you have those you'll want to replace Inc Aoe from your Storm Brand or Orb of Storms setup with Wave of Conviction.
Don't go without exposure, it enables a lot of your damage!

-- Can I get some leech? --
Yes, but it's not so easy that I included it in this guide. There's 2 main ways:
- Get it on your amulet(Shaper prefix or Temple suffix)
- Get it on your gloves implicit. This will require you to use Wave of Conviction to apply exposure though since it competes with the exposure mod on gloves.

-- Why do we need at least 1 cold damage to spells? --
The cold mastery we get at "Glacial Cage" on the tree means that ANY cold damage we have will apply at least 10% chill.
We can scale this 10% chill with ailment effect. This means we chill all enemies, including uber bosses, for 27%.
A huge defensive layer and an enabler of our Hypothermia support

Endgame we get this on our helmet implicit, this means you don't have to get it on any other gear, including jewels.

-- What about the transfigured gem? --
The main point of this build is scaling shock, the transfigured gem doesn't scale with shock. This means it's not really an option for this build.

-- What about X gem that has +xx% max shock effect? --
Orb of Storms and Storm Brand will just be better, since their tickrate perfectly matches up with our Lightning Conduit cast speed

-- How are you getting 40% chance to avoid being stunned on the helmet? --
This comes from a Deafening Essence of Scorn. This together with "Perfectionist" on the tree makes us stun immune!

> LEVELING <
We start out with Stormblast Mine and Orb of Storms. Throw Stormblast Mine while standing in your Orb of Storms.
We unfortunately have to use this setup until level 28, Spark might work better but it lost some projectile speed and wasn't that amazing anymore to begin with.
Feel free to give Spark a try though.

At level 28 we can switch to Lightning Conduit. It should deal a good amount of damage, but be careful with the mana cost, you might have to use a combination of both Eldritch Battery and a mana flask!