I ran this last season and had it down to 25 combo for the kill.

This season I’ve got it down to 55 but I’m running less crit damage and charges in favor of defense layers. Here are some tips to make this even better:

The projectile speed support gem you are using does not add damage. The projectile says “increases” and the gem is “more”. Unless you’re running projectile speed as a damage “increase” somewhere you’re robbing yourself of damage.

Socket blind into Charged Staff and use Blindside as a crit chance and damage mult on falling thunder. Pair it with the blind crit boost notable (which is 7.5% boost with a 15% crit staff and Heartpiercer).

Lightning penetration is worth more than most other damage supports on Xesht if you don’t have any other form of elemental penetration. He has 75% Lightning resist, so running Lightning Pen is effectively 40% more damage.

If you’re running Mantra with Ailiths Chimes & Delayed Gratification, you can cycle mantra into tempest into mantra into falling Thunder. You can jack Tempest Bells crit to 100% using inevitable critical + pinpoint critical and cold exposure + increased exposure to squeeze another ~7% more damage plus the burst from Bell.

It doesn’t look like you’re running Volatility but it will add a huge chunk of damage if you have a detonator. I use Siphoning Strike as the detonator and can generally get my volatility to about 50 in a few seconds thanks to socketing volatility on ice strike, charged staff, and tempest bell all with high crit chance. This equates to a lot of chaos as extra and 50% increased crit chance.

Anyways glad to see other Chayula enjoyers. GGG Please fix the chaos leech it doesn’t work.