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Hey, i'd love to check out your char but unfortunately your character tab is currently private. Please go to your privacy settings and make it public, it has its own setting there.

In addition to what the others wrote, think of penetration as a more damage multiplier (multiplicative), so with that sceptre you get in any case another 0.15 added to that stage of damage multiplication, and it gets more effective in relation if the enemy has higher lightning resistance to begin with (such as bosses or through mapmods).

Lv21 Arc is better, you get more base damage and another chain, which is another 15% more multiplier at bosses. Quality isn't really needed.

First one is better in the long run, but only if you can properly support the extra damage taken to mana, so you'd need good mana rolls on gear to get more unreserved. Mana Recovery Rate is also extremely strong, it's basically a more multiplier to leech, regen and mana flasks if you were to use any. But this mod is expensive, I guess due to Zerphi's + Indigon builds.

Brawndo89 & Morkonan already covered a few things, so i'll focus on gear. Skullhead will be the easiest to replace, an enchanted helmet is probably out of budget but you could find a decent shaped one with Life, Lightning Damage to Spells and maybe Innervate/Shock Effect and room for resistances. Next is belt, your current one isn't bad at all but you could look out for something with Flask Effect Duration (or open suffix to craft this, use poeaffix.net if unsure) and maybe even the Lightning Damage% mod, shouldn't be too expensive. Gloves could be replaced with something with attack speed for faster Shield Charge, and you could get either an Opal Ring or a fitting ring with Lightning Damage%. Your boots still have a suffix spot open to craft a resistance if needed, and you can farm Merc Lab for any of the listed enchants. If there's still currency left afterwards, go for a Lv21 Arc and then save up for a Mana Leech Watcher's Eye.

Damn congrats, that's a sick sceptre. It's up to you with which version you stick, just keep in mind that Paragon will prevent accidental reflect rips and gives one of the strongest elemental damage reduction mods possible (it's last in calculation, after resistances etc.) and this works against all elemental damage, not just spells. It would also open up a better Ahn's implicit, life% or phys taken as lightning to proc the Paragon damage buff from physical damage aswell.

You've already realized this, but just for the record why: Yes, removing Beacon of Ruin is a very bad idea, it's a core part of this build and stronger than Mastermind of Discord by an extreme magnitude. Mastermind just gives a 25% more multi, which gets a bit more effective if the enemy had resistances (although the base setup already gets close to dip enemies into negative even from 75% res, and overcap is ignored by penetration), while Beacon, if scaled correctly, assures a 50% more multiplier on any target and allows us to use another 39% more multiplier instead of a weaker gem choice, plus gives some defense through chilling.

Your boots, amulet and ring are heavily lacking life, so that's what you should start with. Go all out on damage with your amulet, reserve resistances for boots and ring, get damage on ring only if you can fit it in. You're also missing the Alchemist cluster, i'd recommend to take that instead of Coldhearted Calculation.

You can't, we just don't have the tools as Elementalist Caster for truly facetanking the big stuff, and the build can already facetank everything else.

Best you can do is get good life + mana everywhere, use a Leech + Mana Recovery Watcher's Eye (like the one i'm using in Delve), get increased life leeched per second and +5% to maximum leech rate on an Elder amulet, increased life leeched per second on Vorici gloves, increased life recovery rate + flask duration & flask effect on an Elder belt, life + mana on all jewels, hinder on atleast one jewel (procs fast with OoS), physical damage taken as lightning corruption on Ahn's and triple Wise Oak balance, but even then you probably won't be able to facetank everything, let alone that some things aren't meant to be facetanked. It will also be extremely expensive and compromise possible DPS in some slots.

That's good to hear, and no need to feel sorry :)

Just incase if I got you right, you won't be possible to get a Lv21 Vaal Arc by vaaling the gems, but a Lv21 Arc is possible and will be the preferred outcome.

Get another golem gem (most use Flame Golem) and replace the Minion & Totem Ele Res support with it.

Just a regular Essence Worm would free up lots of mana, although at a 60k damage loss, which can be negated by getting a Lv21 Arc.

A Mana Leech Watcher's Eye + Sulphur Flask would be more consistent than your current Lightning Damage Watcher's + Mana Flask setup, and you barely lose damage (50% flask vs. 60% jewel) but gain survivability and can use Culling Strike on Orb of Storms.

Ahn's would give you more speed and a more consistent elemental damage protection than Elemental Aegis from Magna Eclipsis, and you don't lose anything at all if you replace two speed-oriented jewels for Fragility.

Rest of gear looks fine, but i'd rather go all out on DPS on amulet and get resistances on ring, they can overall have more resistance due to implicit while amulets have more DPS stats available. And get the Alchemist nodes asap.