PoE Ashes of the Stars, Mageblood, Nova builds

A few weeks a go I was theorizing what I wanted to play for the next league, and I made this thread: I had a set or requirements for the build, mainly a totem playstyle, high quality of life, and zero-to-hero possibility in terms of scaling. Eventually I landed on Hierophant as an ascendancy, simply because it provides the most straightforward access to damage and totem placement speed, and because it has a good position on the passive tree. This allows me to focus more gear into defens

A few leagues ago it became possible with the new awakened enhance gems and some crafting to make divergent discharge reach 100% to not consume charges. Since the origin of divergent discharge i had that goal in mind and i was so glad it was finally possible. However, I had an even crazier idea in mind, and that was to use flicker strike as the trigger skill. I somewhat tried this out in standard with not much success. However the reason for that was twofold. I didnt have the right melee weapon to reach 100% no consume. It only had 94% so sometimes i would lose charges and stop flickering. An

DISCLAIMER: This isn't meant to be a guide but a proof of concept. While I did play this character straight from day 1 of the league, I don't really recommend it early because it's a bit clunky before Divergent Berserk and Lethal Pride appeared on trade which was around day 3, and also the playstyle is really active. Thought I'd share the idea behind the build I used to get 38 Challenges this league. Buffs to self-cast this league made me once again reconsider the viability of Fanaticism, a buff intended to be used for self-casters provided by Instruments of Zeal from the Inquisitor ascendan