Hey I was doing some theorycrafting during work.
I am playing around with IF, Surge of Power, Electrified shock build. I really enjoy it, very versatile build.
If you don’t know, high priority of the build is to is to build up maelstorm enough so you can have a Surge of Power for both Stormkeepers bolts.
Something like this
LvBurst-LtBolt-LtBolt-LtBolt-StormKeeper-LB(surge+stormkeeper)-EB-LB(surge+stormkeeper)
So to this end, what do people think of 2nd charge of stormkeeper instead of Lightning Rod.
What do people think about Lightning Rod, and 2nd Stormkeeper? It might be worth it in dungeons if things do not live long enough for Lightning Rod to do meaningful damage.
Anybody playing the Lightning Build, and have thoughts about Stormkeeper and Lighting Rod?
I think 2nd stormkeeper could be a good choice if you needed burst AoE at specific points that having that 2nd charge would be useful.
In terms of ST, LR usually does 6-8% of my ST. AoE pulls it can vie for 2nd top damage if set up, ofc the longer the pull and more setup the more value.
Taking those two things together, 2nd Stormkeeper charge just seems like a niche choice to me. I never feel like I need it and LR seems to do a fine job versus it. Also, LR animation is so cool!!!
Only thing I would want to change is LR duration. I am really not a fan of the overall style of the Lightning Build, dislike the maintenance IF buff, dislike the strictness (in ST) of always buffing EB with LvB, despise Echoes of the Great Sundering (always will try to not talent it). Its just not my favorite and I can get over that honestly, but the one thing I think that would make it more palatable to me is having a longer LR duration so I could debuff targets more/longer and get that sweet visual effect of mass lightning raining down.
I think rod clearly wins on aoe. Only time I could see double stormkeeper being better is if you actually need the burst timing for mechanics. Like last boss on brackentide which is a hard pass fail on totem mechanic.
Now that I think about it. Lightning Rod and Surge of Power have anti synergy in the sense that you want to pool and dump maelstrom to stack rods before bursting, but surge of power wants you to spend maelstrom between casts. 
But that’s only for aoe situations and not really that big of a deal I guess.
Well said!
I think I felt that anti-synergy intuitavely, but I could not articulate that until you said it.
My understanding is unless you have stormkeeper, you want to dump maelstorm to get a SoP lightning bolt out asap and start the cycle again - so I was curious about double stormkeeper as a sort of double combo.
Thanks for the feedback yall