PoE Marked for Death, Chaos builds

Hey folks, TLDR: Don't league start Cobra Lash, its expensive to get it working! Wanted to give a short review for my Cobra Lash league starter. Started aer0's Cobra Lash league start, as usual decided 10 minutes before league dropped. As usual, a big mistake from me. Nevertheless I decided to fight through its problems and make it good. I'm kinda proud, that I succeeded... it cost a fortune though. The lack of single target was the biggest problem early on. Even with clusters, I was not happy with my single target damage. (even when skipping league mechanic) Returning projectile support, k

BUILD GUIDE: -------------- SKILL OVERVIEW (READ THIS TO UNDERSTAND THE SKILL) -------------- Venom Gyre fires a returning Projectile that can be caught. Returning Projectiles deal 75% Less Damage. You can catch up to 30 Returning Projectiles. When you use Whirling Blades, you shoot out your returned projectiles. By default you have a 40% chance to keep Caught Projectiles when firing them with Whirling Blades. This can be scaled to 65% using helm enchant. The Projectiles shot out with Whirling Blades can shotgun as they are fired sequential

So I know with flesh and flame, my dps will roughly double, but even without them in the build guide POB, I'm a few million short. Just trying to speed up my single target damage and smooth out the build but I'm still relatively new to POB and POE scalings in general. My Cobra Lash POB: &x200B; Guide POB(at level 90):

Damage seems lower than I was expecting, just put the build together tonight and want to improve on it over the next few days. Build guide DPS says 11m while mine is only at around 1m.

Just a little showcase of Venom Gyre Dex Stack Video: PoB:

SO. im a bit stupid, and im sure some of these decisions are stupid, i have a few glaring issues, but to preface, im working on finding a jewel to cap my cold res, and im aware my anoint is for dual wield, the build guide from kobe i was following suggested dual wield would be ideal with this anoint but as soon as i go dual wield i turn into a feather, i have 0 defence and just cant progress when im that weak, as fun as the damage is its not worth dropping this shield which has become crucial for my survivability and a bit of a crut

PoB: 80% Delirium Channel (feel free to ignore my stupid deaths :\^)) T16 Atoll Map &x200B; This entire build basically spawned on me wanting to play Vaal VG this league and wanting to try out Zerphi's Heart. Mechanics: >Doryani's Prototype, we have -150% lightning res through Melding and Thread of Hope > >Zerphis Heart giving us Souleater and insane mapping > >Elegant Hubris

This is my current build: &x200B; Would like some pointers on how i can get more damage on it