PoE Occultist, League Starter, Mapping builds

Looking for suggestions on an Occultist Cold-BV league starter. Budget: low (Mostly spending for 2 strong prefixes on staff) If you've got suggestions on where to take it for min-maxing, that would also be great; I'm coming back after a couple of leagues so I'm \rusty\ - should I go powercharges with 2x Void Battery? Something else? etc - I expect I'll want to respec eventually once I can craft/purchase decent cluster jewels, but don't want to assume I'll be getting them pre-red maps. If anyone has a better-looking PoB using Elementalist instead of Occultist, I'm all ears, I'd just prefer

With a lot of content creators showing off their insane progress, it felt a bit weird that i was proud that i made it to maps on the first weekend, so i kinda got inspired by that to share and document my experience &x200B; A bit about myself I have played about 500 hours total in PoE, very sprinkled out over years and Leagues. I have about 2-3 hours of time to play on Weekdays, on Weekends it varies heavily (got lucky on launch wekkend woo), to me it seems a lot of time for someone who is working fulltime and wants to have a healthy balance in life, but in PoE terms it seems very

Prices estimated by looking at or purchasing similar items listed 1 month ago: Budget Version ---- Stats listed in approximate order of importance for each slot Shield: 10c Life, Resistances, Block, ES, Dexterity We DON'T need spell damage Wand: 5c +1 spell is best, +1 chaos very much fine, +1/+1 is BIS for wand Get +2 Gems, Fire DoT muli, DoT multi, increased Burning damage, increased fire damage I think +1 gems should be most important, but a very high Tier 2 or better Fire DoT might be as good if you can't find any combinations above Nice to have: crit chance, cast speed, mana, mana r