elemental expression is buns but I want it to work so bad. help me optimize this.
This is my best attempt at making a god awful idea of making a spell skill work on a melee character. I'm hoping somebody has the secret sauce I'm missing to make this work. the idea is to use shattering palm to freeze and crit proc elemental expression for map clear and ice strike with good attack speed for single target damage. so far I've thought mana stacking would be my best bet but starting on the monk side of the tree makes that a little tough. I've also probably got a shit load of bloat in my passive tree that's actually garbage but I read and thought it was good so point that out!!
here is the POB link: https://poe2db.tw/pob/jU1noX69DU
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first edit I already noticed: controlled destruction instead of elemental focus supporting elemental expression since the spell crit rate is low on the build and to be able to shock and ignite. (or rising tempest if each different proc counts as a "used" skill which would be 36% elemental damage.)
I think the best move here would be to use the https://poe2db.tw/us/Crown_of_Eyes unique to scale spell skills while still giving your attack skills enough juice to do real damage.
We didn't have this is 0.1, so expression was turbo dead. I think it may work in 0.2, especially since monk can realistically get decent spell damage passives at the top of the tree in addition to grabbing it on gear.
This also allows you to do some whacky tech with triggers - since you're scaling spell damage, you could probably scale all sorts of weird shit to add damage, clear, or utility