Yea, that link points to ERA 13 for OFF season. Here is the correctly pointed link:
Thank you for the kind words. I will say that when I first jumped into a rift with H-Bomb in season 22, I did not see it coming close to A6I2.
However, in hardcore, where A6I2 must decide between the Hold Your Ground and Indestructible passives (the other 3 passives: Lord Commander, Heavenly Strength, and Iron Maiden being mandatory), LoD/LoN H-Bomb starts to close the gap. Choosing Hold Your Ground grants higher block chance for higher I2 stacks alongside justice lantern survivability but sacrifices the comfort of having an immunity cheat death. Knowing this and H-Bomb’s added survivability, access to pixel pulls and double duration pylons (pre follower buff + flavor worn), H-Bomb was in my opinion a better choice over A6I2 for hardcore. If I had pushed A6I2 that season, I do not believe I could have cleared as high as I did. As a bonus, the top season 22 A6I2 clears on NA softcore were also GR146.
As for your question on elite damage vs. area damage, I would go for the area damage roll easy. Area damage scaling is so overpowered on a build where you can manipulate density with pixel pulls and you already got plenty of elite damage from the SoJ.
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I have watched all your clears to date and will point out that I play the build differently.
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I only manual cast Bombardment at 8 PM into lightning CoE so that I am not killing too much of my trash and maximizing area damage. With Lord Commander, I can do 1 extra manual cast off cycle. Of course Channeling pylon is the exception here.
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I only cast condemn when needed to so I can save more Zodiac procs for AC and Iron Skin so that I don’t skip out on Reflective Skin snapshots at 8PM lightning. I cast just enough condemns to maintain perma Strongarms uptime on the RG.
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I potion snapshot my Belt of the Trove on every new floor and at the RG. I am super paranoid about it getting desynced so I make an effort to refresh it as much as I can.
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I stop stutter stepping a lot to cover more distance and hit oculus rings more quickly.
I am very glad that you are going to continue pushing the build and believe that you can because I know I can. An option you do have over me is that you can probably sub out your Heart of Iron for Aquila, run Unstoppable Force if you need it to keep it up and then AC - Rally for double bombardment cast on cycle. There is also the option of running squirts for shield pylons and some uptime at the RG!