Goratha's Archmage Shock Nova - THE FINAL UPDATE - The scaling on this is ABSURD

FINAL UPDATE & THOUGHTS ON THE BUILD TWO MAIN WAYS TO SCALE ENDGAME - ANATHEMA VS INVERT THE RULES ANATHEMA (highest boss DPS but has downsides) -Requires 4-5 Sockets for curses -Four ways to trigger the curses Bane, Arcanist Brand, Focus Helmet, or Kitava's Thirst to trigger them -Bane has less curse effect, but is one cast for all the curses -Arcanist Brand has a delay and can be clunky, but probably the best on bosses -Focus Helmet overall best most likely with super end-game setup -Kitava's Thirst has reduced cast speed and is a bad helmet slot, but is the best QOL -You'll want Exposure Mastery and need to get exposure somewhere (glove implicit, militant faith, use wave of conviction) INVERT THE RULES (less boss DPS but far less socket pressure and doesn't need to use Anathema or Kitava's Thirst) -Invert the Rules is the option if you want don't want to deal with curses at all -Make sure you take the invert mastery as well -DO NOT get exposure or use any -resist curses -Penetration still works -Easy way to remember what works is anything that debuffs the enemy is BAD, but anything that is on your character is good (curses vs pen) TWO WAYS TO SCALE DEFENSIVELY - BLOCK STAFF VS EVASION DUAL-WIELD (Dual-Wield is more damage with Min/max Wands + Focus set-up) -Early Game Dual-Wield is more damage -If you go Pledge you will not need to farm Greater Spell Echo, but if you use Dual-Wield you need to replace normal Spell Echo with this -Pledge goes Max Block with Staff nodes -Dual-Wield goes for Evasion/Suppression -Dual-Wield set-up requires FAR better gear (you need almost perfect suffixes) FOULBORN BEREK'S SWAP FOR MAPPING VS FOULBORN KIKAZARU FOR BOSSING -Berek's works well with Shock Prolif and gives explosions while mapping but isn't great for single target -Foulborn Kikazaru grants +2 mana per level and scales quite well for single target SHRINE BELT BIS FOR DPS / MAGEBLOOD PROBABLY BIS FOR DEFENSE WITH MELDING+LIGHTNING COIL -Echoing Shrine or Acceleration Shrine is BIS DPS -Mageblood can go easier suppression and/or max resists with Melding and then combine with Lightning Coil for super tanky version -Shrine Belt allows you to go for 3rd ring slot ascendancy and use another Foulborn Kikazaru FINAL THOUGHTS -Skill feels amazing to play and I had a blast playing it throughout -Visually can't see anything which sucks for Hardcore but Ice Nova was the same way -Ice Nova likely a better starting skill for damage but feels worse to play (1 button vs 2 button) and has a big opportunity cost with Kitava's Thirst and 4 extra sockets required -Shock Nova scales very well with gear and is pretty fun to min/max befcause of how ridiculous the cast speed gets