I used lightning for helltide clears: life is at 48k and with maxed glyphs and just 8/12 tempers, everything is easy mode and clears the whole screen. To give some relativility, I can killed kixx solo in about 10 seconds. Focus has been speed, so I run slaughter on boots on this.
When it comes to pit, I’ve just found the dps lacking a bit and surivvability is worse than the windshear build.
The windshear build is great to pair with a good AOE team mate. I imagine the minion golem build is will continue to outperform, so minmaxers will go there to get a pit farmer.
Druid mains, the windshear build is really almost line of sight damage build with a hit box that has about twice the size of mobs? So playstyle wise kinda sucks, but it works well for the boss because you can just move and reshoot.