The advantages of this build are
- very low cost to start. The first version cost me a grand total of 12c and the current version with all costs accounted for was 178 chaos (I didn't count the chromes and jewelers I spent). It could be even cheaper with a cheaper jewel, that 30c was unnecessary, I was playing with the new PoB tool, added my stat filters and saw this one, couldn't resist. For a few chaos, you'd get a jewel which delivers but 1-2% less DPS.
- It's so much fun -- to me at last. Never had a 200%+ movement speed build before that can map reasonably well. Permanent phasing, permanent phase run for increased stealth allow you to run through everything if you don't need to kill.
- There's enough DPS. It's not awesome of course but we have 1M chaos DoT DPS. I could do all my maps up and including corrupted 8 mod T16 maps. Haven't tried more juice yet.
- All map mods are viable. At first you'd think no leech wouldn't but I ran a no leech Ancient City and didn't have mana sustain problems, likely the two small "life and mana on hit" nodes flanking Clever Thief carried the day.
- Reasonably good survival. 40K evasion without flasks, 93% spell suppression, element ailment immune, chaos res is positive, we have a little armor. If we are not one shot then Ghost Dance provides the opportunity to get away from a second shot. During combat life leech and on hit gain from the aforementioned two small nodes ensures we are usually at full life or so.
Now the question: I have item rarity on the helmet and both rings. Does it make a difference? No idea. I was told a little will go far this league and so I have them. I already had a Divinarius drop. Who knows? If you do, please don't hesitate to tell me, though.
I went overboard with AoE. As per this post we only need 26% AoE which the gem and the amulet together happens to have. Getting to 37% resulted in a mere 2.2% DPS increase. I have not realized this until I wrote this up :)
Edit: one more realization about AoE: you can get a corrupted Ascent From Flesh with 10% AoE (10c) and a 23% quality level 20 pConc gem (4c) and that puts you at 37% with a max unveiled amulet. The crit on the amulet does nothing for us, we are DoT not hit based so don't bother with it. Before doing this I swapped to Devoto's Devotion with pConc damage enchant and I have taken down an Elder Guardian with it.