Yet another Soulwrest Reliquarian: 200M dps, 300% ms self-cast hexblast of contradiction with Enmity

Obviously I'm not the only one running this, but just to document the setup (I've been getting questions in-game).

The idea is to self-cast Hexblast of Contradiction instead of wardlooping anything, but still use Cast On Ward Break to automate the phantasms.

Stats:

• 220 million DPS with Greater Spell Echo, 96 million with Cooldown Recovery, which is smoother for mapping.
• 75/78 block, 90 fire res with 95% of cold/lightning and 40% of phys damage converted to fire.
• 300% movement speed with Umbral Army
• Max hit isn't amazing because of low life, but it's not too bad.
• Recovery is pretty good with lots of regen and overleech.
• Ignore all blue altar downsides

Mechanics:

• 62 Phantasms with Soulwrest + Summon Phantasm + Congregation + Dark Monarch, as usual
• Since all of our flat damage is from Phantasmal Might, we ignore the downside of Hexblast of Contradiction, but still get the 300% more Damage with Hits if Enemy is Hexed (we can also use level 1 hexblast for lower costs). Enemies are hexed by a huge Eldrich Blasphemy.
• The phys damage from Phantasmal Might is converted to fire, and we penetrate the fire res with the usual Enmity's Embrace + Foulborn Skin of the Lords combo.
• We get two ward pieces with Faster Restoration of Ward suffixes, which gets the ward recharge to just under 1s. This is more than enough to automate the phantasms with desecrate + volatile dead, and is almost enough to automate the hexblast as well, but maybe not quite
• We can break ward on demand by toggling Plague Bearer, which triggers Enmity's self hit. Plague Bearer is the lowest cooldown instant skill, so it can be toggled while running. This is only needed to keep up the phantasms during downtime, during active clearing hexblast and flame dash are enough.

Nuances/options:

• Xoph's Heart vs. Xoph's Blood: I don't know how nearby this nearby is, but it has to be more reliable than waiting to be hit to cover enemies in ash. Xoph's Blood is bit more life. Avatar of Flame is easy to just get on the tree
• Skin of the lords keystone: Elemental Overload is not required, it's right there on the tree. Going crit is also equally viable and gives more reliable ignites that can be spread
• Forbidden Jewels: I like the Slayer overleech, but most people are going Juggernaut for stun immunity. There are lots of other great options though
• Leech: I get it from a Vitality Watcher's eye, but there are also helmet / amulet corruptions and Doryani's Lesson.
• Block: mana-infused staff is fine early and opens the cluster for a Doryani's Lesson, but ultimately I don't think it's worth 30% mana
• Umbral Army / Prolonged Servitude: I like movement speed, but Prolonged Servitude makes a lot of sense for ubers / simulacrums, and saves some points from Blessed Rebirth. You do need a way to protect your phantasms though, because without them you do literally zero damage.
• The curse: I use Flammability for pack oneshotting, Punishment is probably better for Ubers. Defensive curses are also great
• I have capped cold/lightning resists just because I can, but it's not strictly required of course with the damage conversions. It's worth it with the blue altar downsides though

The three playstyles with a single gem swap:

• Greater Spell Echo is 2.5× damage, but locks you down for 0.8s, which isn't very nice for mapping.

• Cooldown Recovery is what I usually run, as it's still 90+ million dps. It locks you down for 0.4s, but you need to cast it once per pack

• Cast on Ward Break allows you to just run around pressing Plague Bearer / Flame Dash and cast a 40 million bomb every second. This is very smooth, but the casts are not frequent enough to not miss packs at this speed

• Rejected: Faster Casting is not fast enough to feel much better than Cooldown Recovery, but it makes Hexblast to actually be on cooldown sometimes, which is annoying

POB with Greater Spell Echo: https://pobb.in/OQUKkg3jBato

POB with Cooldown Recovery: https://pobb.in/6FS8w18aVBH0

Uber Cortex with a gem swap: https://youtu.be/oPD6eQiUwZ8

Uber Neglect: https://youtu.be/D_zDTOSVtKY

A random Fortress with Cooldown Recovery: https://youtu.be/EnuCNapXMOs

(I might be forgetting to Flame Dash, which would give me 40% more damage from Arcane Surge :|)