PoE Lightning Conduit builds without Lightning Conduit of the Heavens

Self-Chill lightning conduit league starter build. It needs the Call of the Void Ring, but completely playable without it. Compared to my last explodey lightning conduit starter, it runs faster, is tankier, but has less damage and worse clear. It won't be able to start end-game boss farming on day 1-2, but I don't think that's a goal for most players. Here's an example first week gear:

I have been testing out The Hidden Blade and I think there is a lot of hidden (hehe) potential with it, and I want to throw out what I've learnt and some ideas for theorycrafting. Firstly, I want to clarify a few things about Unseen Strike (which is the unique skill from the Hidden Blade), since the wiki has a few major inaccuracies. The wiki states that "If using 2 weapons, it will alternate between each weapon every time you gain phasing". This is wrong, Unseen Strike only ever uses the weapo

PoB: Theorycrafted this as a potential second or third build for this league. There are a collection of core concepts that I'm fusing together: 1. Indigon with a lot of mana spent is a large damage increase, but hard to sustain. 2. If I'm stacking mana for Indigon, it needs to also be doing something else to be valuable 3. Eldritch Battery provides a lot of effective mana regen in the form of energy shield recharge. 4. Arcane cloak spends mana, but does not cost mana, meaning it affects indigon in spite of Eldritch Battery. 5. If I'm relying on Eldritch Batt

Mageblood is out of the question. Debating on ditching some gear and getting my spell suppression cap. I'm having a blast so far, but its a bit squishy at times (I figured it would be). I have 20 Divines to burn.

Joined a league private, pretty much ssf, trying elementalist. It feels really bad in terms of defense, what can I do for make it more tanky? or is just elementalist a low defense ascendancy?

My current POB says my lightning conduit elementalist has 14M against pinnacle bosses. Here is my POB I definitely know in game damage will be different than sheet damage but I feel like I'm doing no where near that damage with even T16 bosses or few of the essence rares. Wonder if my POB configuration is incorrect or it's just how this build really is. Wrath will boost my damage a lot but I don't have enough sockets to fit wrath + divine blessing. Don't have currency for a enlighten 4 and replace herald of thunder.

Hey hey Gave LC a go a month into the league and loved it. I decided I want to make my own version of the build and so I started to mix and match tech I liked from different builds. This is my first time actually designing a build myself (as in not following a specific guide). And this is where I currently stand: When designing the build there were a few goals I was aiming for. I really wanted this build to be a good all-arounder and I feel like in the current state it's pretty good. I also wanted it to have good defens