Thanks! I think that defensive setup is far weaker. You already have probably the most tanky mastery combination in the game with a shield, overguard, maiven’s sphere, mirror of eroctes. You can leech half of your hp in one blitz hit. To die you literally have to stand still and do nothing.
Defensive setup not only cuts your raw damage - it also cuts OA which results in less crits, less crit damage without Dying God and not being able to use Aeon’s Hourglass devotion which is the strongest one for this build because it almost doubles the amount of your Blitzes, Callidor Tempests and Krieg’s Wraths.
You’ll like it. Good luck!
Yes! It requires to use Ishkandra’s Elemental Exchange, which converts physical damage into elemental. It messes up dps, all physical must only be converted into aether.