PoE Energy Blade, Channelling builds without Penance Brand

The Ice Spear Inquisitor is one of the most powerful spellcasting builds in Path of Exile, combining high critical strike chance, strong elemental penetration, and excellent clear speed. Built around the unique mechanics of Ice Spear, this build focuses on maximizing the skill’s second form, where projectiles gain a massive boost to both damage and critical strike chance. The Inquisitor ascendancy plays a crucial role, offering powerful nodes such as Inevitable Judgement, which allows elemental damage to ignore enemy resistances on critical strikes. This synergy ensures that the build consist

I farmed money with guardian srs and wanted to change, so inq coc ice spear but: dps is ok 58mil but I die too much with it. I have 15.5k ES but seems the def layers are only high dmg, decent ES pool and that\s it. Any idea on improving EHP without losing too much dmg? here is my pob cheers

Or is this a build that just hits a hard cap because all the items are unique? The only clear upgrades I can see are getting a better Watcher's Eye, and getting 2x 5str/5int split personality jewels. Other than that, did I just hit kind of a hard cap? Fun build, does most if not all content pain free, low risk of dying, great damage. Really wanted to try spellblade and EB Battlemage didn't disappoint. (I slot in Frostbolt for clear and Ice Spear for ST). With my lvl 4 enlighten could squeeze in a 9th (10 if you count EB) aura. pob: