PoE Heart of Thunder builds

Hi, I was checking all the replica items to see if I could find a fun new item to build around and I saw the new replica Duskdawn. It's identical to the original, but instead of criticial chance for spells it has base crit chance, bringing it to a respectable \~10%, with 1.25 APS. I was building around it on PoB, using a trickster and stacking block, and ended up with something interesting without using insane gear or cluster jewels: 4.4k Life, but... 59/17 attack/spell block Phase Acrobatics The new Arctic Armour that freezes everyone that hits you, for 0% mana reserved

Generic tree and items for testing out some of the new skills while being able to grind to at least t14´s. Just switch lightning wands for fire wands and Heart of Thunder to Heart of Flame for Blazing Salvo. Glhf!

So discharge will receive a large damage buff, but will be on a cooldown. I'm thinking about ways to make self-casting Discharge work, and i've come up with some archetypes, although none of them feel 100% satisfying. First i thought of an Archmage build to make use of the fact that Discharge now is on a cooldown anyways, so handling the mana cost would be a lot easier. Here is my pastebin for an Occultist Archmage build: The Problem with Occultist Archmage is the fact that while Forbidden Power does reliably generate charges with Archmage, it only generates

Buckle up, because this turned out long. TL;DR: I think there's a lot of potential here that people aren't exploring because the skill feels clunky at first. Since the start of this league, it's been my stubborn obsession to make Stormbind work well. I think I've done it (keyword think -- I don't play a ton). Here's a rough POB based off my own character but with some of the supports and gem levels idealized, though I haven't worked on itemization. I'm sure there is plenty of optimization to be done both there and on my passives. So far I've done up to T10