PoE 3.22 Ancestor, 3.21 Crucible, 3.20 Sanctum Brand builds without Mageblood with custom stat filters

Penance brand as hierophant using the reworked arcane surge on the cheaper side. Just sad that Penance brand is not much used and overlooked over the past several leagues, currently only 6 visible on the poe.ninja crucible ladder including me. It's often seen as a scaling build only used with great investment or with an aurabot. Bonus point, the mtx is wonderful and penance brand is one of my favorite skill. I understand it's hard to make it feels good and you can feel discouraged when you first try it but with a good understanding it's lovely to play (but beware you need to click a lot),

Been trying to build a Storm Brand Raider for HCSSF because of the following synergies: - Onslaught gives MS and damage - Frenzy Charges double dip with More Damage and Cast Speed - Easy acces to Spell Suppression & Elemental Ailment Avoidance - Can path through Armour and Evasion nodes on my way to the Brand Nodes - Can path to a lot of Mana Reservation Efficiency However I seem to hit a ceiling in both damage and survivability. Especially Damage. I'm looking for a secondary skill that could boost single target, but I don't see it. Tried Lightning Spire

After some amount of math, the current "less" damage needed to see the unatatched damage is ~28%. This is meant to counteract the "more" damage multiplier from attatched hits that arma brand has. That being said, the extra 2 hits in single target that we get in due to our cast speed -will- have that damage. So, when calculating DPS, get the damage of the 2 attatched brands by disabling the configuration. Call this "A" Then, get the damage of the 7 unattatched brands by enabling it. Call this "B" Then, divide 1 by the brand recall cooldown time to get our effective cast rate. Call this "R"