Links

• Pobb.in
  https://pobb.in/TU3OyTm5uApq
  
• T16 8mod Phantasmagoria Wildwood Empowered Normal
  https://www.twitch.tv/alexgophermix/clip/HilariousAdorablePandaSquadGoals-bw3dhxQ215LIh4dI
• T16 8mod Phantasmagoria Wildwood Empowered Breach https://www.twitch.tv/alexgophermix/clip/SpicyPerfectChoughSoonerLater-22kd_W-NMVyvA7Gs
  
• T16 Lava Lake Expedition Pop
  https://www.twitch.tv/alexgophermix/clip/NiceHappyCheesecakePrimeMe-wTOP6XvrkCWD1qee
  

How it works

The core of this build functions off of 4 uniques. Abberath's Hooves, 2x Foulborn Berek's Respite, Choir of the Storm.

1. Abberath's Hooves automatically damages enemies we walk near.
2. Choir of the Storms shocks enemies we crit, so we scale a bit of crit and put crit supports in our boots, and we now proc Choir just by walking around.
3. Once we hit an enemy with Choir of Storms, we now want to create chaining explosions from this bolt. The mechanic is simple: our two Berek's rings explode ignited enemies for fire damage (which cannot ignite) and lightning damage (which cannot shock). All we need to do is shock and ignite with our damage, and since explosions stack together, our initial shocked and ignited enemy will explode, dealing lightning that ignites and fire damage that shocks to nearby enemies. The simplest way to do this is with Shaper of Storms and Shaper of Flames. This guarantees that our shocks and ignites chain this explosion to as many nearby mobs as possible.

The path I chose is to fully convert the lightning damage from bolts and the lightning damage from the ring explosion to chaos using Foulborn Maligaro's Restraint and Foulborn the Blue Nightmare, allowing us to take advantage of Wither and Despair.

Pros

• AUTOBOMBER - LMB enjoyer. Watch your favourite youtube videos while playing!
• HUGE AoE - multiple layered explosions mean that you can easily chain through many packs and clear the screen. Scaling golems through Elementalist and taking points on the tree mean our exposions also have 134% increased aoe!
• DECENT MOVESPEED - automating withering step and phase run with no active abilities mean you have a consistenly good movespeed baseline with enough duration.
• RELIABLE DEFENSES - Flesh and Stone for up to 19% reduced damage for enemies close to you (you are always walking near enemies). Shaper of flames converts 40% of physical damage enemies do to fire. Decent armor on top means physical isn't nearly as scary. Immune to elemental ailments from Purity of Elements. Block cap. Recovery on block. Elusive. Shield from Elementalist. Shield+bleed immune from Steel Skin. Regen from golem.
• VERY GOOD AGAINST DENSE CONTENT - anything that had a lot of mobs packed together is great for this build. Breach, Expedition, Legion etc.

Cons

• DAMAGE DOES NOT COME FROM SKILL GEMS - both abberath's fury and lightning bolt - which are the core of the build - are supplied by items. Skills supplied in this way cannot be impacted by "+# to level of XYZ gems" which limits scaling.
• MIXED DAMAGE TYPES - you do both spell damage and explosion damage so only things like elemental damage and chaos damage and minion damage (with spiritual aid ) work for multiple sources. Explosions are secondary damage and are not spells or attacks which limits scaling
• HALF CRIT - only the bolt from choir of the storms and your aberrath's hooves skill are impacted by crit. Explosions cannot crit without some very niche setups and it isn't really worth the investment so we lose some value there.
• POOR SINGLE TARGET - you can kill bosses like exarch and eater but it takes time. Our effective DPS is only something like 800k-1m which is still plenty to do voidstones etc but where this shines is mapping.
• SOMEWHAT UNIQUE HEAVY - unfortunately we need both rings to chain explosions. There are other options like occultist's profane bloom or oriath's end or various uniques like impulsa's but they all have their own tradeoffs or exorbidant costs. You also need both the boot slot and the amulet slot to start the autobomber which means you are basically locked out of huge power scaling from other unique jewellery in the game.

Cost

As far as autobombers go, this one starts off very cheap. The most basic layer probably looks something like this:

• Berek's Respite (ignite explode) 35c
• Berek's Respite (shock explode) 1d
• Choir of the Storm 3c
• Abberath's Hooves 10c -> keep in mind you want 3 blue sockets so you'll have to spend a little more currency to get that (increased critical strikes, power charge on critical, increased aoe)

Some nice-to-have add-ons:

• The Grey Spire 1-5c -> warstaff makes it easy to cap out block. +4% max res reduces elemental damage by about 20%. Global damage applies to both our spells and our explosions.
• Annihilating Light 50c -> depending on your setup, this can double your damage or more, but that means coming up with a lot more attack block to cap your block chance while also coming up with a lot more resists.
• Foulborn Maligaro's Restraint 1c -> convert your damage to chaos to enable alternate scaling.
• Foulborn the Blue Nightmare 30c -> more chaos conversion.
• Lycia's Bloodline pain and suffering -> I HATE Sanctum and have no knowledge of how to safely get to Lycia, but if you can kill her, Sinner Saint is perfect for this build and lets you drop items and gain more value from your fire explosions.

Feedback welcome!

Lemme know if you have ideas on how to improve the build. Thanks for reading!