PoE Wicked Ward, Channelling builds

Hello, Surgeon General here. It’s a week into Phrecia 2.0 – for the true believers that stuck it out after level 90, it might be time to start looking for an interesting build to try during our limited access to the alternate ascendancies. This is my experiment with a mechanic that can only realistically be made to work during Phrecia. The core gimmick of the build is to use some niche mechanics to get 100% uptime on the buff from Vaal Clarity – “your skills cost no mana.” With guaranteed uptime, you’re free to stack mana and use Archmage Support to add a large amount of flat damage to a hig

Core items: Weapon - Void battery = 30c Offhand - Prism w/ phys as ele corrupt = 40c Helmet - Eber's with +1 power charge = 1div Chest - 6L Shavs = 3div Gloves - Delirium gloves w/ exarch/eater influence, stats/res ~ 3div Boots - Ralakesh's impatience, high chaos roll = 100c Amulet - Ashes with 27% quality = 3div Ring 1 - Iolite base, pad out res/stats ~ 20c Ring 2 - Iolite base, pad out res/stats ~ 20c Belt - Graven's with malevolence implicit = 40c Core jewels: 3x AOE + Helmet EV charms (helmet one is optional) = 3div Energy from within = 40c Militant faith (Dominus) = 100c AOE + Wither ef

pob: I spent 2 hours to tinker around pob before scrapping the characters !Sorry for background quin noises!<

This is my first time making a build, and I've been learning a lot - I wanted to make a trickster build self-casting Flameblast, and use 2x Consuming Dark and Anomolous Flameblast for full chaos conversion. Then I'm going to add the new alch mark and lean into the chaos/poison. I have 11 different useful masteries for Polymath. Defensively, I'm focused in on Evasion and ES. I have Wind Dancer, Ghost Dance, and Wicked Ward and quite a bit of ES leech, along with the nifty new ES tricks in the trickster ascendancy. I'm relying on a f