PoE Ascendant, SSF builds

So I had the opportunity to grab an 6 link Grasping mail with this mod and Envy and thought that it seemed like a rather fun idea to put together a build that would make use of this! Putting together my notes / thoughts on it after leveling it up to capture some relevant use cases for the future as this build shined in some respects but that's more so for other factors than what I built it for. The notable feature of that mod is that with a Lesser Poison Gem, any minion link reaches 100% chance to poison. Add in Divergent mod and the gem gives a respectable amount of base chaos damag

PoB: Exsanguinate + Arcanist Brand From what I saw, Exsanguinate doesn't seem like an amazing spell to self-cast. Spell Totems seem like the obvious solution, but I think Arcanist Brands will provide the smoothest playstyle. Exsanguinate doesn't seem to suffer from its downsides (a lot). Question: Is the DoT debuff affected by the damage reduction from Arcanist Brand? I can see it going both ways depending on how one interprets the wording. If not, this could turn out godly. If it does, still not the biggest deal when

Hey guys, I'm pretty new to buildmaking, my only other "successful" attempt being this crazy CoC ~~Magma Orb~~ Rolling Magma Inquis/Occy Ascendant that only worked because Harvest was insane (here's the pastebin for those of you who are curious &x200B; This morning I was tooling around with Battlemage because I'm convinced that much flat spell damage is going to be insane for whoever can figure out how to make the build run smoothly. My stab at it was hybrid staff, shooting for Lightning Strike clear, and Crackling Lance fo

The plan is to swap out ele focus with pinpoint. Somehow this actually turned out better than assassin variant, im curious to see how it does, leveling will feel like ass, no atziri flask.... :(