PoE Brand builds without Headhunter, Mageblood

Welcome exiles, There's been a lot of interest in this sub for divine ire ignite thanks to the recent elementalist rework. I've spent way too much time theorycrafting and absorbing everything people discussed here (slurp), so I thought I would share my version. (already posted it in response to another thread but I thought it deserved its own thread, and I tidied up a few things since then). So here the focus is on survivability, because I'm really not convinced the other versions posted here are reasonable on that aspect (sorry creator of the "tankyer version", we still love you <3 ), an

Perhaps Lowlife? Would this feel bad without playing Assassin Crit? I'm pretty interested in Heart of Destruction for larger explosions, Shaper of Storms for guaranteed/better shocks, and Bastion of Elements for damage absorption. What are your thoughts? &x200B; I've changed direction to focus on the golem route. Here's what I'm working with so far. Any thoughts?

I Spend around 35 ex Crafting/Buyng to take maybe 85% of the perfect gear. \- It's not a perfect PoB, just an reference to end game setup

I've been trying to narrow down my league starter for Heist the past couple of days. Somewhere along the line, I decided I want to do a cold DoT Occultist, more specifically a Wintertide Brand Occultist (SC-trade). I have a few reasons (that may or may not be valid, politely let me know). Full reasoning summaries below, but TLDR: I think cold DoT Occultists will survive nerfing and might even be buffed by new Hexes. Wintertide brand also feels safe from nerfing, is non-meta, and there is always Vortex to fall back on. I may or may not be able to take advantage of new Hexes more easily. Al

POB: Guide: Please ask any questions and I'll try my best to answer them. This is my attempt at making a strong non-meta build in a league where any item you can think of, you can make. General synergies are in Necromancer's Corpse Pact notable. COC allows us to autodetonate corpses through Asenath's and have reliable proc rate on Brands (we don't need any +1 brand notables). We almost always hit 20 stacks on penance detonations, resulting in massive chunks of damage.

Hello again everyone. So, last league I didn't had a chance to play archmage storm brand (mostly because I thought it was way too strong and a lot of people were doing it already, so it was not that interesting to me). But I really really like mana builds and Indigon is one of my favorite items in the game so I decided to give mana Storm Brand a try and it turned out to be pretty strong/fun so I decided to share it with others. EDIT: Hmm, I just noticed that I forgot to enable Clarity in that Minotaur vid, oops :d For some backstory of the build: I originally did not planned to actuall