Chaos inoculation + Blood rage

Im totaly new to the game so bare with me. I was thinking of making shadow build that would use chaos inoculation for defenses and also blood rage(cause its awsome) - going shadow over witch basicly cause you need some dex for higher lvl blood rage and could use some attack speed passives etc. So in theory this char should be running around with wand or maybe even dual wands with some frenzy and power charges - some basic build below , let me know what to change , will this be playable at all or should i just kill myself by drinking my own pee

Problem is: Chaos = you have 1 hp. Blood rage makes you lose hp. any loss = 0 hp = dead. Similar to how people new to the witch will ask what to gte, and people will jokingly respond with Chaos + blood magic (you have 0 mp, spells use hp instead), leading to instant death.

Blood Rage deals chaos dmg to you - and Chaos Inaculation makes you immune to chaos dmg also i searched forums for this and read thats this actually works

Blood Rage is a must if you do use chaos inoculation.

Regarding the passive tree, I'd leave the one last 6% energy shield left on the starter tree and make a lvl 70 build following acing blows with lightning aura (and even lightning walker from witch tree if you want to sacrifice some ES nodes), also getting the critical nodes from shadow's tree. Alternate path is also the crit multi nodes down left of stater tree, for extra critical damage.

I personally do not like elemental equilibrium. And 2% spell damage on power charge will not help you much if you go for power siphon (knowing that the game is mostly about spamming on skill, it will be enough), same happens for power charge time increase. If you want to have a spell type secondary attack, go for Spell Power for sure (40% crit multi in one node - shadow tree).

This is the tree with the minor changes listed in first paragraph:


P.S: I do not think you would die by drinking your own pee anyway.

Didnt think about any spells at all - but i figured elemental equilibrium could be usefull with "Wand fire/cold/lightining dmg" i assumed whenever you hit with wand you deal all 3 types of elemental dmg if you have those 3 passives and with equilibrium you reduce resistance to all elements making next hits stronger , is that correct ? Also , yeah i think i will reduce some of those +6% ES passives and get more criticals for more knockbacks more power charges etc maybe something like this


Btw i read about some "stunlock" problems with chaos inaculation is that really big of a deal ? requires some stun immunity items ? or investing in +hp passives.

P.S. I know for a fact that my pee is lethal - don't ask how - i just know

Actually, elemental equilibrium specifically ignores hits that deal all three elements of damage: they cause neither bonuses nor penalties to resistance.

It's a keystone specifically meant to reward alternating spell elements (e.g.: freezing pulse and spark, fireball and ice spear, shock nova and ice nova), which it does pretty well - something for the more versatile mage.

thx , will remove it then