Herald Stacking Ignite Penance Phrecia Tota Event Endgame Update - THE BETTER ELEMENTALIST?

DAY 2 NOTES ON PENANCE IGNITE GETTING HIGHER DAMAGE (WITHOUT ARCHDEMON HELMET) -Herald Buff Effect Tattos are quite cheap in this event, look to grab as many as early as possible for big damage increase. -Tattoos work best with Caspiro Elegant Hubris, this allows you to tattoo every single travel node. -Onslaught on Hit is great QoL on the +30 dexterity node. SQUIRMING TERROR VS STORMFIRE -After testing, it seems like Squirming Terror is better for bossing, conflux adds a lot of damage through shocks, and chills help quite a bit. -Stormfire is still a good mapping option, you can also technically drop ignite chance if you swap to Squirming Terror. AMULET ANNOINT -Early annoint should be Ash, Frost, and Storm. It gives a lot of easy damage and increases shock. -Later on Whispers of Doom is the best. You can technically put the 2nd curse in Squirming Terror if you want to automate one of them. BALANCE OF TERROR -Elemental Weakness Balance of Terror adds a bit of damage, make sure to self cast this one if you automate one. CLEAR SPEED BEFORE LOST UNITY -Swiftbrand + Cast Speed will make the Penance explode faster, making the character feel much better for mapping. LOST UNITY + OBLITERATION + IGNITE PROLIF ON GLOVES -Once you get Lost Unity you gain a lot of %more damage, but you also gain a pulsing AoE that surrounds your character, this damage CANNOT ignite BUT it can kill enemies. -Obliteration procs once you kill an enemy from Lost Unity, and this damage CAN ignite. -Elemental Conflux from Herald buffs the Lost Unity, making it deal more damage. (it gains stacks from applying Ailments) -It also gives 100% chance to ignite and this applies to the Obliteration explosions, allowing it to ignite. -The last piece of the puzzle is having a source of global ignite proliferation. (get this from Exarch implicit on gloves) -Once you have all of this together, the build becomes sort of an auto-bomber for mapping. IF YOU'RE STRUGGLING DEFENSIVELY -Most important stat for mapping is block. Attack block is very important for making the character tankier. -Enduring Composure on small cluster or annointing Agressive Bastion for endurance charges can help quite a bit. -Max Resists and more block nodes over damage can help. Nodes such as Sanctuary and Nomadic Teachings are within range. -Make sure to get damage taken as elemental on chest implicit. -Melding later on combined with Aegis and using Herald of Ice maximum resists is also an option. MANA RESERVATION WITH LOST UNITY -Mana becomes slightly annoying once you have both Lost Unity and Divine Sentinel -Currently I'm just dropping Arctic Armor, but you can gain some Reservation through Runegraft of Treachery, or Elegant Hubris notable. ASCENDANCY TATTOO -My character has Liege of the Primordial tattoo'd. This doesn't show on POB currently however. -This is the reason for using 4 golems, without this I would not take the golem nodes on the tree, I would however recommend using Lightning Golem still for Mana regen.