Holy shit that title sounds alot more rediculous than i thought it would

Anyway, I LOVED Primeva's old arcanist brand VD build before it died (RIP), and wanted to find a way to fit the mass vd orbs + arcanist brand playstyle into a new build.

Thus, https://pobb.in/GV7BL8wCj_Mg was born

We use VD/desecrate hooked up to arcanist brand to rapidly trigger vd, which does a few things

1. hit stuff a LOT. with awakened spell cascade, thats 20 hits (10 from corpse boom, 10 from vd orb) per 2 activations of a brand. This lets us use those hits as a defensive layer (+ life and energy shield on hit ) and to stack virulance

2. All those corpses blowing up means phantasms are resummoned A LOT. We use them for clear, as a giant respawning meat shield, and more interestingly, to spam heal spectres (or if your daring, an AG) by using 5% minion heal on minion death.

3. all those hits (should) let us keep virulance nice and stacked, letting herald go nuts.

Damage numbers arent accounting for full wither stacks, spectre damage boosts/debuffs, or the direct phantasm/herald buffs in 3.19 either.

All that said, I do have a few concerns (mostly worried about being potentially too squishy, and phantasms not clearing fast enough) and and would LOVE for a second set of eyes to point out anything i fucked up/POB warriored somewhere/put something that is impossibly expensive in (the most expensive thing SHOULD be awakened spell cascade)