PoE Whirling Blades, SSF builds

PoB: First time playing HC, so don't really know how to balance defence/offence. Defence layers: Acrobatics + Elusive (Nightblade/Withering Step) + Vaal Grace for Dodge Mistwall for Block Wind Dancer + Petrified Blood (Full Life) for 1-shot prevention Skitterbots for Chill Defiance Banner Fortify on Whirling Blades Permanent Topaz/Sapphire/Ruby Flasks (can be automated with Instilling Orbs) Positive Chaos Res Lvl 20 CwDT with Steelskin Near-permanent Life Flask restoring 2k Life/s Endurance charges from Sy

So I had the opportunity to grab an 6 link Grasping mail with this mod and Envy and thought that it seemed like a rather fun idea to put together a build that would make use of this! Putting together my notes / thoughts on it after leveling it up to capture some relevant use cases for the future as this build shined in some respects but that's more so for other factors than what I built it for. The notable feature of that mod is that with a Lesser Poison Gem, any minion link reaches 100% chance to poison. Add in Divergent mod and the gem gives a respectable amount of base chaos damag

Looking to play Blade Flurry with these swords and can only seem to get 400k shaper dps out with my current PoB setup. I've not made the character yet as i'm not sure where i can push to improve dps other than farming a Xophs blood (ssf). My PoB has gear i can use currently but i cant see how i could increase this past around 700k shaper dps honestly. Anyone played with these 2 before and know where to push dps out of them? Or should i just scrap it and play with different weapons for end-endgame? Also, not sure how much of a dps increase Tectonic slam would be. I see every single build with