PoE Penance Brand builds

Hi, I don't have a PC at the moment so I can't really playtest anything. But I thought a bit about Brandsurge ( (from Witchhunters Judgement staff ( and the possibility to stack increased Duration. Core idea: Brandsurge increases the activation frequency and decreases the factual duration at the same time. However, the base duration remains the same, i.e. Sign of Purpose does not start after actually

Posting this mainly for me to save for later, but also as a showcase for what nearly perfect geared penance brand can look like.

PoB: Why Raider? Haven't played her before. 20% Exposure. Great avoidance defenses including high evasion (with damage reduction from Wind Dancer), Dodge capping is doable, move speed for mechanics dodging, Phasing + Ailment Immunity, what's not to love? Why Brands (why Penance)? Because I love the play style. I've played 3/5 Brands with Penance and Arcanist left to go. I want to do cold conversion because then I can hopefully leverage Taste of Hate, one of my favorite flasks in the game for its damage and survivability boo

I was wondering if Battlemage would scale well into the endgame, and I think I found a shell that has a lot of potential. Eternity Shroud pairs well with Inquisitor's Inevitable Judgment ignoring all elemental resistances, and allows you to add a lot of flat elemental damage in many slots without worrying about penetration or curses. Seems to reach 280m damage from a 20 stack Penance Brand with temporary buffs like Divergent Berserk, but still 100+ m without. The items seem quite feasible to craft now with Harvest, although probably really hard next league. I also included non-physical version

&x200B; This is an idea that I stumbled upon today, looks promising, but I am not sure if I will have time to test it in practice. It uses Martyr of innocence to get some base fire damage (Battlemage), Eye of malice for -120 resistances and Malachai's Artifice for EE (that is probably not needed, but it saves some points and also provides more reliable EE) Another big part are the flasks, but the idea is to do enough damage to 1 shot bosses or boss phases. This is obviously not a full fledged build, just a template, but

A tribute to Harvest crafting... If you have any questions about the build or items, don't hesitate to ask...penance brand is kind of weird to build around and there is usually a reason for my gearing and tree choices although there is a lot of flexibility in both.