I’ve actually been playing an extremely similar build. I find it a lot of fun, definitely my best AAR build attempt yet. (I also tried a fire sorcerer and an aether warlock, but neither were that much fun. Not enough sustain. Health regen on this build makes a huge difference)
Haven’t managed to kill celestials (except Lokar/Mogdrogen) but that’s mostly because I’m not very good at piloting and don’t know their attack pattern. (and probably picked the worst ravager.)
I note you have much higher base DA (though considering Arcane Will gives a huge boost and has a high uptime I’m wondering if that is overkill…) and I went for higher armour at 3.1K. My build also has somewhat higher %lightning damage, at 2700/3300 (with temp) vs 2400/2600, and more crit damage. (30 vs 16.) I’d suggest putting a few more points in Elemental Balance, up to rank 8 it gives 2% crit damage per point.
A few things I did differently:
- Full veilkeeper set → you’re almost there anyway, and that extra 6% offense + 200% health regen makes Arcane Will an actually powerful proc. You get a damage reduction aura, though, which is also good.
- Iskandra relic insteaf of Eternity → More damage with the proc. You lose the -1 cooldown proc, but most procs are near 100% uptime already.
- Phantom belt instead of Ygraad chains → I
lose vit conversion, gain a lot of OA and damage & physique requirement reduction. (but you get that from the relic.)Honestly that vit conversion adds a lot of flat damage from the gloves, so I should probably look for some good chains.(Edit: or not, see below.) - Crafted boots instead of purple → mostly because I had a double rare pair sitting in my stash.
- 1 point storm totem instead of Wendigo totem → Mostly because I don’t have vit conversion, but I also don’t like having to stand near the totem for regen. I use them to proc Ultos, which is okay in longer fights when I get 3 of them active, though your seal of corruption is a better proccer in general.
- Hyrian & Lantern devotions instead of Harp & scholar’s light → I should try the harp, I’ve heard good things about it and that proc looks neat. But I obviously went for armour, and I like the lantern buffs a lot.
- I have soft-capped nullification, which gives huge elemental damage reduction with permanent uptime. I think this build has the skillpoints to spare for it, though you need it a bit less because of the armour’s aura. (My only other DR comes from a lodestone…)
- I never found a good “seer’s” Crimson Sceptre, I would definitly use that for more CDR if I had one.
All in all it’s really nice to see another Veilkeeper AAR build, I’ll definitely experiment with a few of the choices you made on this build.