PoE Mahuxotl's Machination builds without Nimis, Original Sin

I'm playing a Pathfinder with some convoluted mechanics around Mahuxotl's, damage conversion and Poison EK. Honestly my Asenath's explosions just don't feel that great. I noticed that in PoB I'm not seeing an explosion value for them. Is something fundamentally not working properly here? I have another large cluster in the PoB that's got Unspeakable Gifts in it, and for that I see pretty clear numbers around the explode. This may just be all in my head / minor, but it certainly doesn't feel as good as playing occultist pops or something, and with the amount of phys as extra chaos conversio

Divergent frost shield Vaal arctic armour Divergent FR

NOTE: Get some sort of freeze proliferation maybe.

here is the PoB btw i am not good at this game

Hey, I've seen many variations of poison FR floating around this subreddit, but nothing similar to this build I've made over the past few days. Let me showcase the damage/gameplay/tankiness first: &x200B; Showcase: 80% Deli Cemetery, fully charged Crucible: &x200B; Highlights of the build: • Progenesis w/ 60% flask effect + Anom Petrified Blood \- 85% damage taken from hits occurs over 4 seconds instead [permanent uptime](

I wanted to pair pathfinders def + tempered by war + mahuxotl machination (MM) last league but couldn't overcome the fact, that you cant regenerate life and the recovery by then (6% per flask) wasnt enough for me. This league this problem was solved by the PF rework, since life flask recovery isnt blocked by MM. So i started with TR and transitioned as soon as i got MM and a replica Sorrow if the divine. I have choosen FR just because its a cool fit, not because its the most potent skill. This is my current progress: This is what i aim for so far:

I really wanted to make use of the Master Surgeon and the Sorrow of the Divine Flask interaction so I tried to combo them with the Trialmaster shield. Other than that, Master Surgeon's synergy with petrified blood inspired me to go Low Life and scale hit based chaos spell, therefore Forbidden Rite. Here is what I come up with: I have never played FR before so I took inspiration from some Occultists in poe.ninja. Let me know if I overlooked anything.

New and better POB: Edit: After subsequent testing upon advice given by a couple of you in the thread I have made adjustments to the build. Master of Metal has been dropped and I've picked up First to Strike and Last to Fall. Adrenaline is procced with a dual midnight bargain swap. + impale count DOES NOT work with traps. Old and apparently fucked POB (its the POB shown in the video but it's also shittier):