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My gathering storm / voltaic mark herald of thunder acolyte of chayula:

Why am I using gathering storm?

It looks cool and does big damage

Why acolyte?

I legit believe this class was gonna be top tier with the mana leech change allowing for leech from all damage types along with ES leech. The plan was to create some insane infinite mana build that auto sustains all my ES and it kinda works here. The caveat is that I must use the instant leech on crit gloves or else the leech into ES doesn't work. Everything else about acolyte is irrelevant to me but some extra chaos damage here and there is not useless.How am I one shotting the entire screen?

Herald chains no longer work BUT, nothing says heralds can't build energy for meta skills. Herald of thunder here is freezing and I have CoF voltaic mark. Herald of thunder freezes and even kills some enemies -> voltaic mark gets auto applied and detonates shocking everything in a large area and killing some of them -> procs herald of thunder because we just killed shocked enemies -> infinite chain (as long as we are close enough and do enough damage to kill. As for sustaining voltaic mark mana, well thats the one thing chayula monk is good at. I'm not sure how feasibly this proc chain is mana wise on other classes but I'm sure it could work with good mana on kill investment.

What does the ice wall do?

On the weapon swap, I have the effigy of cruelty making ice walls apply critical weakness when they detonate on the boss. I also have weapon set passive nodes allocated to extra ice wall HP to assist with verglas support for my gathering storm. My ice walls have ~88k hp so I get 44% cold damage gained as extra damage for gathering storm.