[3.4] Better than Flicker - Consecrated Path Trickster with poison and 100% mana reservation

On your main hand weapon:
1. physical damage
2. attack speed
3. accuracy and crit chance
4. fire damage or increased elemental damage
5. chaos damage and poison

Alternatives for leveling:
On your armour:
1. life
2. resists
3. attributes (mostly Str and Int to enable your skills or balance your immunities if you can get a Cyclopean Coil)
4. (movement) speed
5. accuracy
6. (added) damage (physical before fire before chaos)

On your rings and amulet:
1. resitances
2. life
3. attributes (Str and Int)
4. accuracy and added damage (physical before fire before chaos)
5. crit chance

On your belt:
1. life
2. Str
3. damage (physical before crit before elemental/fire)

Main hand:

Until you can find something with more speed and more damage, use this.

Boots:

A good rare with nice movespeed, resistances and life.

Alternatives:
Gloves:

They give extra benefits in combination with Cyclopean Coil and Astramentis.

Alternatives:
Belt:

This gives you immunity to freeze and shock (If you can keep Int above Str.) or burn (with Meginord's). In addition they offer nice stat scaling with Shaper's Touch and Astramentis - given you can get enough resistances from the rest of your gear.

Alternatives:
Helmet:

A good rare with life, resistances and accuracy or damage.

Alternatives:
Chest:

You can use those throwaway pieces that got vaaled with too many off-colours. 3 to 4 red and 2 blue sockets on a dex-piece? - Gimme!
I prefer using evasion chests since I find evasion best for characters that have not much life and really don't want to get hit very often.
Again, you prefer life and resistances before damage.

Alternative Uniques:
Jewelry:

There be resistances. And life. And some damage if you can get it.

Use Astramentis, if you can get all the resists you need from chest, helmet, rings and boots.

This build is made for delve and it excels at delving fast. Big groups of enemies are an easy prey. The only problem are those bosses that have no mobs spawn at the start of the fight.

You don't have to do much while playing on densely packed maps or while delving. Keep the button for Consecrated Path pressed and go. If you get hit too much, use Whirling Blades to get out of the fight. Use the totem and your flasks and head back into the fray.
Against enemies with more life it's possible to jump around them. Just position your mouse on the opposite side of the enemy and Consecrated Path will jump creating new consecrated ground for more life reg.

If there are no enemies near to use Consecrated Path or the enemies are standing in a bad spot (burning/desecrated ground) you can use Leap Slam or Whirling Blades to position yourself or get around the area.

Frenzy charges, offer no direct way for this build to get them without KILLING enemies. Except for Frenzy, but that means loosing damage while you charge up and you have to stay very close to the boss.
In most cases the inability to generate charges from hits or crits or something else than kills is no big deal. You charge up against mob packs and then charge into the boss/big guys. You run out of charges? - There's bound to be some ads from the boss around.

But there are bosses that don't offer you that luxury. One of them is the Vall City Delve boss. No charges (or charges about to run out) as you enter and you gotta get him to below 50% life to have ads spawn.

My proposed solution is using Frenzy (on the Totem 4L) or The Red Trail. Frenzy means you have to watch your charge duration closely and use the skill before your charges run out. Keep in mind that you need to get nice and cozy with the boss for that.
The Red Trail offers a way to generate frenzy charge when you suffer bleeding. A bit risky but it works if you watch your life.

Other methods would either be using a vaaled Portal gem or spending ridiculous amounts of Ex to get Farrul's (helmet and chest).
The Raider does not work (you loose damage, see below). The same goes for Oro's Sacrifice.

If anybody finds a better solution for charge generation, feel free to hint it to me.

It's satisfying how good this build works especially on crowded and/or linear maps.

Beware of reflect!!! (Elemental is more dangerous than physical.) - You jump into a larger group and poof goes your life. Those groups are even more dangerous if a rare with "allies cannot die" walks into them. This build gets much of its life back by killing (cf. the Trickster Acendancy passives).
You could swap out added fire and both heralds for haste and maybe get away with running ele reflect, but I'd rather not run that mod.

No leech is dangerous but not impossible. Same with no regen. - You can trade one for the other thanks to consecrated ground.

I thought about using two-handed weapons but the extra damage from The Consuming Dark is hard to pass by.
The same goes for using the Raider as a differnt starting (and ascendancy) class. You loose the power charges, you loose the full reservation (one Herald less for a long time, enlighten is too expensive for a starter) or loose out on damage from Doriyani's for having to use Soul Taker. And you don't get more Frenzy charges than the Trickster - you only get them a little more realiably.

- first complete overview of the build
- currently lvl 87 in Delve League, character ConsecrateExMachina
- no Shaper, Elder or Atziri done (I simply don't have enough time to play.)