Hello, fello builders,I am a new player(joined in tota) and wanna try some new stuff this league, since you can easily print some crazy gear, it should make most of the off-meat stuff at least viable.

It all starts when I saw a few discussions about alt quality absolution gem and a build showcase form Matil, plus some experiment stream from Onemanaleft, a crazy idea just grow in my mind :

"What if I can play Archmage Absolution like stormcall back in the day?"

*Discalimer : I am a huge minion cuck, and all minion cucks are either weird, filthy rich, or both.

*Discalimer 2: I don't really recommand anyone try this build unless you hate your life or you like being mentally and visually tortured

So first, POB and some T16 semi mf(40 quant 130 rarity), T17 b2b barrel action so you don't have to watch all the disgusting walls of words before the good stuff.

POB

https://pobb.in/0GA0CgW2SakY

YT showcase

*FLASH BANG ALERT

https://youtu.be/o1rOsEKtAgg?si=_nwvAvRvWdzeyqG5

I use hh instead of MB here, since its quicker in mapping,and you have to go fast in this strat.

https://youtu.be/slU4UC1CbYI?si=Lte_QBzKZG5hjjDR

Didn't know exactly what killed me there, strongboxes are scary sometimes.

As you can see, I use AG and spectre for the buff/debuff, which alots of people are not a fan of, but it is what I can think of aside form generic multi-curses kitava's thirst setup(Its good, but I wanna boost my dps even more by using 8 link helmet), maybe there are better tech out there, hope you guys can help me out on that.

This build has two setups

1. inspiration + any flask of choose for casual mapping(around 30-40mil dps)

2.spell echo + Lavianga for harder content aka T17 (around 60-70mil dps)

Damage source

Absolution of inspiring-spell echo/inspiration-awakened spell cascade-Archmage

with 8-link helmet

Shout out to Elesshar for the amazing crafting guide on this one

Wand with generic acrhmage mods, using essences of fear instead of woe

forgot to 30% quality first,sadge

Summon

Every spectre/AG has overcapped ele res and 80k+ health, though chaos/phys max hit is a bit low, my AG died twice in 100 T17 b2b maps, spectres dies here and there but not much.

Spectres I use

-Spectral Leader(20% action speed)

Kind of hard to keep it alive in T17 and some T16 hot moment, but damage boost is pretty crazy, could've use arena master instead.

-Primal Rhex Matriarch(increase enemy lightning taken by 50%)

-Charge monkies(for frenzy charges)

AG gear

-King maker, Legacy of fury,Vixen entrap(enfeeble curse on hit), gruthkul's pelt,crusader/shaper helmet(increase damage taken/decrease lightning res debuff)

AOE

It seems that stormcall has better innate AOE than absoution even though it says the same in the gem, and you can't use conc+ intensify for 5 overlaps on awakened spell cascade since the latter can't modify minion gems. So the only way you can do is scale the shit out of aoe, at around 5.8 meter(or 280% in game panel) you can reliably get 5 overlaps, see below.

Maven demo