PoE Occultist builds without Spell Totem

Cannot be stunned Cannot be frozen or chilled

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

Hey guys, I'm looking for your opinions/advice on my seals-mana-BV Occultist The main thing I'm trying to achieve with it is smooth BV gameplay (that's why I'm using seals) with high surviveability (potential MOM, but not sure about it) and solid DPS. I chose Occ over Inqis because of good clearspeed and smooth ES regen, also Inquis is boring :) P.s. This is a template build, empty slots will be occupied by rare items.

I've been trying to narrow down my league starter for Heist the past couple of days. Somewhere along the line, I decided I want to do a cold DoT Occultist, more specifically a Wintertide Brand Occultist (SC-trade). I have a few reasons (that may or may not be valid, politely let me know). Full reasoning summaries below, but TLDR: I think cold DoT Occultists will survive nerfing and might even be buffed by new Hexes. Wintertide brand also feels safe from nerfing, is non-meta, and there is always Vortex to fall back on. I may or may not be able to take advantage of new Hexes more easily. Al

I am thinking this should be very attainable in SSF, my goal is to clear game on one button. 214% Max hp, has Dodge, Wind Dancer, flesh and stone or damage reduct and blind, 2 curse, one being poachers mark to solve accuracy and grant sustain due to high attack rate with quill rain. Curses are applied by used of lioneye boots, easily farmable and will auto dual curse enemies in large area, wither is applied by ascend so no need for totems or dash. Never done toxic rain so i dont know what dps is good or in POB how many pods i s