Utility gem link setups

Despite this thread being about my own need for gem setups, I hope this discussion will produce setups everyone can find useful, so I'll keep it in Gameplay.

Long story short, I've a few spare 4links (namely all of them) on my HCSSF Blade&Board Eva/Es trickster and I can't quite come up with effective and comfortable gem setups.

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Defensive setup suitable for evasion

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The first thing I'm trying to figure out is something to apply blind so I'm not forced to pop stibnite.
Bonus points if it's a fire and forget setup, possibly with tempest shield.
Bonus points if it's something that doesn't eat framerate on a low cwdt.

Cwdt - [rapid hitting gem] - blind + maybe knockback if 4L

Fire-and forget power charge generation.

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Worth noting, I'm not very desperate for peak DPS as much as I am a sucker for surgeons flasks, thus interested in crit chance over crit multi, though the boost from Power charges isn't unwelcome.


Blade vortex - Increased crit chance - PCoC - Cast speed, Echo, or IncDuration

4 remaining sockets with potential ideas and stuff I generally want

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Tempest Shield
Blasphemy - Enfeeble
Frenzy (open for suggestions on another form of Frenzy generation which doesn't require kills)
Bear Trap - Multiple Traps (and CWDT for shits. It seemed like a really good idea for about 5 seconds)
Arctic Armour

I didn't like Blade Vortex for utility last time I tried it. Orb of Storms on the other hand I use for my on hit utility in nearly all my builds. It's pretty fast to cast, lasts pretty long, rerolls critical chance per zap, and sources from your character rather than a proxy like a totem would.

So... maybe something like OoS, Blind, PCoC, Faster Casting? 3B1G might be a pain to colour, though.

On nearly all my melee characters I use Frenzy linked to Fortify as my left click. Absolutely amazing for any player who enjoys skill rotations.

Hey,

so i didnt play the game for a few years and only recently came back so my suggestions might not be optimal or even viable, but my two old school ways of applying blind are:

1. Skelli Brotem
Summon skellis + spell totem + blind ( + melee splash)

The skellis block space and blind.

2. Herald of Lightning
HoL + Blind

Easy blinds

if you are running blasphemy + curse(s) it might be a good idea to also run a cwdt+enfeeble/temp chains somewhere. that way enemies in close range get cursed by your blasphemy setup and enemies out of range get cursed by enfeeble until you deal with them.

cwdt + golem always a good idea because they die all the time anyway.

cod + portal. softcore style! i run this two link on all my four charachters in legacy league. soon also on number five. got tired of dying at the end of a map and having to run back all the way from the beginning.

besides the infamous cwdt+immortal call i don't really run anything else.