PoE Lightning, Orb builds

I started the league off with Aer0 cobra lash build and I'm barely in to maps but it is feeling just really awful. Mapping is just really painful. Cannot even attempt Affliction stuff because especially my single-target is abysmal. I know I'm missing uber lab and only have 4 link and shit gear etc. but I've played enough of this game I know something is seriously wrong and getting a few small upgrades is not gonna cut it. I am literally killing some regular rares for a minute or something if they are any tankier. Also if they do a

So I was thinking of league starting as Righteous Fire. The new masteries makes leveling a breeze, but how realistic do you think it is to migrate to this after a week or two? Are these clusters really expensive? I'm a HC player who just farms red maps...so this seems pretty cool to me to be able to play that Auto Bomb style while remaining semi tanky. Thoughts?

PoB: This build uses Kinetic Blast to Cast on Crit Dark Pact + Chain. I threw this together since I got a minion life relic and always collect CoC poison gear for fun to try stuff. The idea is that KB might sometimes look like a real CoC skill if you chain it off a Tornado. We create Tornadoes and skeletons using Poet's Pen. This build slapped way harder than I expected when I equipped it, so I thought I'd share. I'm wearing literal random gear. The core of the build can be considered poet's pen + watcher's eye + rings.

I just wanted to post about my build idea and tested since I think its really cool. I've tested Hydrosphere with spell echo and can confirm that the final repeat does have a 100% crit chance and when using it with greater spell echo it also inherits the extra aoe and more damage multiplier. Scion Archmage: This is a (not that good) pob for an archmage scion that I used the interaction with. I stacked cast speed to make the build be able to clear maps a bit more smoothly but its strength is definitely in bossing. I defensive laye

EO on chest bcs I have it on relic. :)

POB: The video is a T16 Dunes just alch n go. I couldn't decide on whether to start with shockwave totems or the hydrosphere Occultist so I decided to make a bad build that combines them both. Surprisingly, it has gotten me to endgame pretty smoothly and can take down pinnacle bosses. Uploading a video because a few people requested one. Edit: Note on a cool interaction, on-kill effects work with hydrosphere even though it's a totem build (bug?). At the cost of +1 totems from ancestral bond you can make it into a explosion build.