PoE builds similar to POE 3.25 Pestilence Strike Update

This league I decided to play only one build due to loot changes and general constraints of time in my personal life. I was hyped about Lightning Conduit from the reveal and put something together on pob. I would love to hear some feedback on this character as its the first character where I crafted each piece of gear myself (particularly happy with my chestpiece though I would have liked Power Charge on Crit from my slam). I avoided a lot of really expensive upgrades (like triple mod watcher's eyes and some awakened gems) but I think I've struck a great balance between power/defense and $$$.

Update: New pob. TL;DR: A lot of scaling doesn't work as intended, we crit ambush now. Estimated damage is 2.2m on average, with a possible ~200k plague bearer. Basics of how it works - Step 1: Curse target boss with Despair and apply wither. Step 2: Ambush to the target. Step 3: Spawn worms with flask (1 use is enough) and drink diamond flask. Step 4: Focus if you can. Step 5: Hit the worms either manually or with "stike additional nearby enemy." Step 6: Maintain wither and Despair until ambush is available again. Then repeat. Worms spawned from fla

I whipped this together rather randomly in 20 minutes and it looks nice Is it worth putting extra time into it to make it an actual build? Any ideas on how to easly build extra defences? Rough explanation Basically the build uses Varunastra to pick a shitton of super powerful nodes and masteries, everything else is rather standard for poison builds. Dual weild doens't get that much more dps and the """build""" seriously lack defences so i went for a shield instead

Lightning mastery phys = shock prolif Cast orb hit shock enemy cast Lightning conduit orb hit conduit hit remove shock cast conduit orb hit shock conduit hit

So this is my current build I'm working towards right now. There are two versions of the build 1. a budget version which is the gear that I currently have equipped right now with almost no investment (like less than a divine at this point aside from foible) 2. the endgame version which is the gear and tree I'm hoping to get towards as the league progresses Both versions have a separate skill tree, gem links, and gear in the dropdowns. My idea here is that everyone seems to be playing lightning conduit, which is an awesome skill and very fun to play, but I wanted to take a unique spin on it