tl;dr CI HoT Autobomber with Herald of Ice pops and Crest of Desire. My first mostly-self-made build, though it borrows better players' concepts (such as CWDT Crackling Lance). Note: the build is very vulnerable to oneshots and so not good for XP gain.
My build functions by using a decent Crest of Desire helm to add 100% more damage, +8 gem levels and ~40% hit frequency to Herald of Thunder, saving mana reservation to do a 4L Herald of Ice for clear and a Discipline aura. I use (i) two large clusters and a cold damage Light of Meaning, (ii) the "freeze duration" cold mastery ~~and Brine Bound Ascendancy notable (1s min freeze duration)~~, and (iii) 6L CWDT Crackling Lance to provide big shocks (usually 50-60%) to prop up single target DPS.
I enjoy how weird Crest of Desire (shoutout to Mathil's Tornado build from a while back) is, so I wanted to make this build work with that item while the autobomber mechanics are so accessible in this event. Objectively better builds have been posted here, but I wanted to share mine in case any other Celestial Herald Effect MTX enjoyers want out from under the thumb of Big Inpulsa.
Budget: probably 15-20 divine. I upgraded incrementally so it didn't feel expensive. Big-ticket item is a Crystal Belt with 154 ES, 109% resists, and crafted 17% damage - have you checked in on Rog lately?
(assumes. 5s freeze boost, 50% shock, 30% chill)
Very boring Chayula Breachstone [feat. 64% shock on the boss]
edit: why am I chugging a life flask? This was my solution to Corrupted Blood and bleed that was leftover from my leveling build... have we established that I'm lazy yet?
edit2: updated pobb.in to reflect a flask change not captured by the original.
edit3: updated pobb.in to ditch two nonfunctional masteries leftover from the life/ES build; net gain of ~2.5% DPS and some AoE.
edit4: ditched reservation cluster (it was providing mostly aura effect, which is not huge for this build) and two AoE nodes to path to Frost Walker. Net gain ~5% dps over the version in the video, net loss of some mana and ~100 ES.
edit5: changed Brine Bound Ascendancy notable to Glacial Wave for ~15% more damage and some survivability. Thanks u/byzz09!
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