So I was trying to find something fun to start the new league with. Two things I like a lot are Lightning Smite and Forged Weapons and it seems that there are ways in the new league to make it happen. As a casual, I dont have time to farm a lot, so if you have gear or fine tunning suggestions, I am all ears. I don’t expect it to have a good ceiling, but forged weapons are pretty safe for leveling and with mastery respec, it is even easier to try your own ideas.
The main concept is to built all skills around electrify
Multistrike for procing Smite and helping Forged Strike for FW summons
Healing hands also built for electrify and procing from melee attacks
Forged Strike built around Forged Weapons and with global damage bonus
Symbols of Hope giving damage and electrify chance also on Forged Weapons
2 skillslots free for movement skills (not specced)
No specific gear required to make it work. Not sure about mana management yet with Bladestorm.
UPDATE: So leveling was super easy with forged weapons, but I switched to full Multismite without forged weapons and went with Paladin. So far it works great, but I am too early in the end game to draw conclusions. I am at lvl 75 and undergeared and dot ticks on boss dummy hit for 400k, so I am optimistic. Dual wield variation hits for much more but I am going with shield for now. I still dont know if I should go to crit and crit multi nodes on smite tree or remain full electrify.