[3.7] Tivis Tendies | pretty fast Lightning Tendrils/Orb of Storm Trickster | Uber Elder down

- Harness the Void (Trickster Ascendancy): Adds a bunch of non-chaos damage as extra chaos damage
- Call of the Brotherhood: With two of them we convert 80% of Lightnig damage to Cold, but why is that usefull? When it comes to "non-chaos damage added as extra chaos damage" the game counts the full amount of lightning damage before the conversion to cold and the converted cold damage. So 100% of lightning damage and 80% of this value will be added as extra chaos damage.

Example calculation: Admit that your spell deals 100 lightning damage. 80% of it are converted to cold. You deal now 20 lightning damage and 80 cold damage.
Now 50% of your non-chaos damage is added as chaos damage:
100 lightning damage -> 50 chaos damage
80 cold damage -> 40 chaos damage
Result: 90 chaos damage + 20 lightnig damage + 80 cold damage = 190 damage.
This conversion chain can be done with physical damage as well: Phys -> Lightning -> Cold -> Fire -> Chaos
As we don't play with physical dmage it doesnt matter. We could convert some cold damage to fire damage with the Cold to Fire gem , but according to PoB it isnt as benfetial as using the bis gem.

- Duskdawn: Adds even more chaos damage based on our combined elemental damage and gives a lot of increased spell damage, crit multi as well as some crit chance
- Swift Killer (Trickster Ascendancy): 100% increased damage and easy access to 4 Power and Frenzy charges.
- Escape Artist (Trickster Ascendancy): 36% increased Cast Speed...
- Onslaught and Innervation provided by Orb of Storm, which deals also some damage
- Spell Damage, Cast Speed, Crit Chance and Multi nodes frome the skill tree
- Atziris Promise and Dimond Flaks
- Of course our Support Gems... ;)
- Herald of Ice and Lightning
- Zealotry
- Assassins Mark, if you decide to use it
- Arcane Surge

Damage modifier - most important to least important:
- non-chaos damage or elemental damage as extra chaos damage
- critical strike multiplier
- increased cast speed
- increased spell damage
- increased critical strike chance
- increased lightning damage
- increased cold damage

- Mind over Matter and Eldritch Battery (Skill Tree): Mind over Matter makes that 30% of damage is taken from mana before life, while Eldritch Battery makes our energy shield protect mana instead of life. This way we can make use of 1 Aura and 2 Heralds! And yeah, it also reduces damage taken by 30%... We could actually use 2 auras, Wrath would be the second one in this case, but it only adss a little bit damage. I rather keep the heralds.
- Ghost Dance (Trickster Ascandancy): 5% evade chance, 9% reduced damage taken and a ghost shroud per second up to maximum 3.
- Ghost Shrouds: they do not only reduce damage taken and increase our cast speed, but when you loose one (which you do when getting hit) you automatically get 5% of your evasion rating as energy shield back. That basicly means that you immediatly regen about 1000 ES on hit!!!
- next to Ghost Shrouds we use energy shield leech from the Energy Leech gem
- Escape Artist: converts evasion rating from our body armour to ES! That provides a solid amount of ES. Next to this you should try to get combined 250 ES from your gear, at least 150!

- Evade Chance: Some incr Evasion Rating from the Skill Tree, some evasion rating from our Chest and Helmet (due to Escape Artist) and Jade Flask result in a bit more than 60% Evade Chance!
- Escape Artist and The Perfect Form + Atziris Spep: 66% Spell Dodge Chance!
- Duskdawn: 30% chance to block attack Damage
- Infusion and Arctic Armour: 21% less Physical damage taken (while channeling only)
- chill and freeze!

- Life!, we can get more than 5000, which is enough if combined with MoM
- the biggest problem is how to get back life when hit, we use multiple ways to fix this, but none of them is perfect :(
- Consecrated Ground from Zealotry -> 6% incr life regen
- 2,3% incr life regen from the skill tree
- life leech from Atziris Promise , but only when its active!
- life leeched after killing an enemy (boots enchant), which prvides solid life leech while mapping, not during most boss fights tho...
- chaos damage leeched as life from amulet if you can get one, you don't have to get the boots enchant then
- be aware of the fact that stacking multiple sources of life leech doesnt make sense, 0.4% of damage Leeched is enough, higher numbers won't make you leech more. The only thing to look for is constant leech for all situations.
-> all of this combined we somehow manage to sustain our life pool, but it really doesnt feel that great, thats the best we can get tho!

Weapon:
Duskdawn - Provides a bunch of damage and attack block chance. It's definitely the bis unique.
You can use a well rolled rare staff until you get a Duskdawn as it is quite expansive.
Sure, a pretty good staff is even better than a Duskdawn but this staff has to be absolutely amazing to be significantly better. Example:
Staff vs Dual Wield vs shield :


Body Armour:
The Perfect Form - Best option here, it provides all the defenses we need. Spell evade chance, energy shield and physical mitigation. The only downside is that its very difficult to get the correct colours, which is why I chose to use a (int based) staff.

Helmet:
Rare Helmet - Look for one with 2 of the following 3 gem mods: Hypothermia, Innervate or Incr Aoe support. Only one of them is ok for the beginning. These mods are mandatory. Next you should look for as much as possible ES (we get more evasion rating this way too). If you can get this Helmet plus a good life roll -> GREAT! If not, just take one with these mods and some resists. I wasnt able to find one with all I need and life. Instead I got one with +1 crit chance, which is amazing too. We will be using our Orb of Storm in this Helmet if you havent noticed yet.

Gloves:
Rare Gloves: life, resists, dexterity, energy shield

Boots:
Atziri's Step: Almost mandatory as it gives us all we need but resists... Try to get the leech enchant on it, shouldn't be that expansive.

Rings:
2x Call of the Brotherhood. Explained in the In-Depth Offense explanation. We get some resists here too.

Amulet:
Rare Amulet: life, resists, dexterity, energy shield, chaos damage leeched as life, non-chaos damage added as extra chaos damage, crit multi, cast speed, crit chance

Belt:
Rare Belt: 1 socket, life, resists, energy shield

Jewels:
Look for increased/added life and energy shield
Additionally you should try to get: Crit Multi while wielding a staff / with elemental skills / with lightning skills
A big damage bonus is the Zealotry Watchers Eye that grants Arcane Surge, I highly recommend getting one!

Flasks:
Atziri's Promise: some nice damage and leech
Quicksilver Flask: high movement speed, get the 30% incr ms explicit
Jade Flsk: more evasion rating, I got mine with curse immunity
Diamond Flaks: more crit chance, mine with anti freeze
Divine life Flaks: with anti bleed and instant recovery

don't forget to quality up your flasks!!
Why aren't you using another unique flask like Bottled Faith? It would be a nice damage upgarde, sure, but it is simply not necessary, I rather take the additional evasion rating and curse immunity, that's much more defensive...
I recommend to swap the Quicksilver Flask for Bottled Faith when facing Uber Elder tho.