Howdy folks. I've been tooling around with Energy Blade, spectral helix, crit, and gladiator, I cobbled together something moderately ok. As PoB'd it shouldn't be too outrageously expensive to build on leaguestart. It will also use the new Tempest Shield for +25% spellblock so I left some unreserved mana for it.

#The PoB

https://pastebin.com/QDppwNK5

#What it does ok

3-4m boss damage if you sit on them and cast.

Moderate ~5k ehp

Leeches both life and ES

Decent block and Evasion

#What it does bad

Clearspeed is garbage. Maybe flickerstrike/multistrike gemswap because that new sword mastery is busted.

If something big smacks you and you roll bad on the block and evasion you fall over

Probably more expensive than I'm guessing, replica soul tether is mandatory

Unknown how big shocks it will apply, I generously? guessed 30.

#Future growth:

It has good growth potential into stacking int + Mask of the stitched demon + shaper's touch. Mask takes away ES as a buffer but turns int into life and damage, shaper's touch lets you dump the accuracy passive tree nodes and precision, and gives a huge Eva bonus. Extremely expensive though, maybe a good league-long project.