Lightning Strike CI Shadow build

Hi Forum,

So I'm planning to start a shadow build based on LS and I want to use CI as well. Any thoughts and advice are appreciated since this idea is yet in a rough state and right now I'm just trying to gather some information about stuff.
So there are many essentials I'm not sure about yet:

I have at least 7 supports for LS that would be important imo: lightning penetration, added lightning dmg, lesser multiple projectiles, weapon elemental dmg, faster attacks, life leech, reduced mana. What do you think are the 5 most important out of these?

Also I am not sure about what auras I should use. My first idea was this: haste, hatred, clarity, grace, discipline and wrath. Having all would make me create a gigantic mana pool which would take away many passive points. I think hatred is the least important since 30% reserving is too much for cold dmg because I want to spend more passives into increased lightning dmg than elemental dmg. And if I do so, do I need weapon elemental dmg as LS support? What do you think? Also, did I miss any important auras?

Conductivity curse looks really reasonable for this build. Are there any good supports for this? (I don't really care about increased radius and duration since the pure skill itself takes 70 mana which is a lot. Even with clarity it takes 3 seconds to gain that mana back and with so many aura reserving I have to mind every single mana point)

Something I don't know as well is that how much attention should I pay for crit because I'm going to bump lightning dmg. I think that spending passives in both would make my progression slower and my dps worse. But if I don't care about it, I would loose the benefits of shock. But I didn't even consider using elemental proliferation.


Thank you for reading this and for all your thoughts.

I've been dabbling with this idea as well, and started leveling a shadow recently. I will share for you my plans for this build and maybe you can get some ideas for it (this is on onslaught btw).

For links, I think weapon ele and life leech are ideal, as well as some way to increase your aoe. Two things that are going to effect which links you choose are:

-How are you going to scale your damage?
-Quality of lightning strike?

I'm using dagger crit+physical damage conversion to scale my projectile damage. With only a 10% quality lightning strike I found lmp to be pretty weak, and am currently using fork for some consistent aoe that doesn't lower my single target damage. Leveling lmp for when I get a higher quality gem.

Want to use:

4link- Lightning strike-weapon ele-life leech-lmp
5link- LS-weapon ele-LL-lmp-Multistrike or Added fire
I really doubt I will use a 6-link, but if I manage to get one- LS-WE-LL-LMP-MS-AF

Auras: Hatred,Grace,Discipline with reduced mana. If I grab the duelist mana reservation nodes I may throw in determination+purity and pick up inner force.

One thing I'm really unsure about is mana management. With a physical dagger, mind drinker+1 backup flask should be enough.

For auras I will be using crit weakness, enfeeble, ele weakness(for groups) with reduced mana. I will not be using conductivity as I get plenty of damage and shock stacks from crit. Other possible curses to keep handy would be warlords mark and temp chains.

If you are not going to be crit based you can shockstack with static blows+conductivity.

For leveling I'm going for eldritch batter+iron reflexes:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgYBA9sFfQ5IDq0RDxEvEZYVIBa_GNsZ1xzcHhokPCaVJ6koKimlKk0s6TBUNYY6szrhPydDnEPSRwZJO0lRSn1VS1bqWm1br2HiY0NnoG17bqpvnnBScFZyfn_Ggh6HdofbiEKIa4jxjDaQG5MnmVeZmpoTnaOdqqZXpn-nNKdcrpOxs7QMtUi297nNvJ_AUcHFwuzDbdQZ2wvb1N0N44Tjn-tj7BjtQfDZ8uHz6vyr_MX_kw==

Focusing on es/evasion gear will hopefully make the transition to ci much smoother:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgYBA9sFfQ5IDq0QexEPES8RlhUgFdcWvxjbGdcc3B4aJ6koKimlKjgqTSsKLKYsvyzpMFQ3ZjeDOrM74T8nQ5xD0kcGVmNW6luvX2pjQ2z2bRluqm-ecFJwVn_Ghq6H24hCiGuLepAKkBuTJ5lXmZqaE52joqOmf6brpyunNK6TsbO0DLTFtUi29746wQDBxcHzwuzDbdeG2xrb1N0N4vfjhOq662PsGO1B8uHz6vVL_Kv_kw==