You need pulsing shard for it. And it has nothing to do with elemental damage anyway.
I could try non set chaos how it works…
Codex is useless, lost way too much dmg with the dmg conversions
I haven’t tried Fleshwarped tome, in part because i didn’t want to retrofit my active homebrew AAR to whatever the “correct” setup might be (as it was perfectly fine before)
but also because it seems, unfitting, to use a binder offhand just to get some of the dmg lost back. You lose skill points and RR, and by switching the offhand/Codex completely lost it’s purpose for existing in terms of appearance/“thematic” whatever we call it.
I asked if getting lightning conversion made up for losing 28 RR and Crit, since i didn’t test/don’t think my build nor my pilot skills is good it enough to determine that on a general sense.
Had hoped banana/roman/better AAR runners would try or feedback on that front.
But even if it’s equal or even a little better now, it still seems… unfitting atleast.
Seems that way to me as well.
but hey, it’s okay, because we got another binder AAR build out of it into existing from gutting warlock, and it’s apparently really great too Clairvoyant is still very awkward with DB and RS. Maybe time for a change? - #5 by romanN1 , totally worth getting rid of warlock over 
Warlock can do vit as well. But not as good as Binder.
But Codex of lies should be remade to something useful.
i mean, if vit binder is already bad, then vit warlock is hardly a replacement for aether right? 
- specially when you then lose the entirety of the set support in terms of Doom Bolt being useless/Occ bonuses being unused and non-existent
But aether Warlock is not dead. Mine works in SR 36 even with Fleshwapred tome in 1.2.1.5. Tried it yesterday. And in 1.2.1.6 Fleshwarped Tome is stronger for my setup and Sigil and Doom Bolt got buffs. It has 360k DPS for it in 1.2.1.5 in my setup with Fleshwarped tome.
And if you build it without Sigil and use leech amulet for AAR then with Fleshwarped tome it will be better than my version.
codex of lies warlock is effectively dead
hence my notes about it seeming unfitting to be forced to use a binder offhand just to get part of the lost dmg back
By dead i don’t mean “technically non functional”, but that it lost like 50% dmg, and is so bad now it might as well not be used/that setup doesn’t work.
And it should since it’s obviously a/the aether warlock offhand.
Using fleshwarped to do what codex does/did is not “compensation”, it’s a symptom of a unfitting/rushed broad change.
again, you’re building out of the scope of regular balancing, thus you dont’ care about dmg/dps the same because your priority is survival and leech. But SR 90 survival/performance has not been the feedback for playtest concerns
hell, when the most/centre feedback prior to conversion changes was/is “we don’t want to spam a ton of buttons on AAR”, it’s hardly a counter to say that “just include this extra button on Warlock” as note of Clairvoyant aether AAR warlock is alive/still doing fine 
if we don’t want to add in sigil on chaos, why on earth would we remotely want to begin desiring to include it on aether, that already has doom bolt casts, just to be slightly comfy in dmg gains from flesh tome?
Aether sigil “is for” DB/Sigil setup, not AAR version
I think that something like this should be a solid build in 1.2.1.6. Maybe a bit more life…
I still left the old medal… could be tweaked even better…
… point is, “to get dmg back”, you’re now losing build dmg
that’s not compensation, that’s not a buff, hence barely seems like a solution
“you could do this before(PTR), and it was still worse than codex”, because you lost a bunch of important stats…
it being technically functional, doesn’t mean it’s “right”, or the acceptable solution to something that wasn’t an issue prior, but became an issue because warlock was singularly nerfed by the changes
Binder was buffed by this PTR/changes, warlock wasn’t, is that fair/okay? - specially when warlock wasn’t that great/stronger than binder to begin with
It may have lost some damage compared to Codex of Lies but it will still work. So this version just needs some buffs to compensate… And I didn’t tweak it to max possible… Just did it quickly…
“technically works” is not a great argument for nerfs or dmg loss, let alone when something else gets directly buffed… 
heck i find it weird you continue to argue this
by the same logick we might as well say codex of lies is still fine because it can technically still kill things, despite taking 2mins longer to do it/going from 6min to 8mins…
I just don’t see Warlock as dead… Sure it can get some buffs but it is just not dead.
okay
“by normal balance metrics, if something goes from 6 mins to 8 mins in meta comparison sense” it’s dead
dead doesnt’ mean non functional, or “technically non viable”, dead means so bad/slow it’s just not worth considering let alone doing…
again, you really need to detach from the SR90+ survival aspect where performance doesn’t matter/is drastically different, because that’s not how feedback has been related before
if we started to include just technically “functional” or “viable” a lot of feedback would be 100% useless/irrelevant, because a lot of stuff is that, be it 10-12min SR clears etc, but it should be obvious how that’s not “okay” in the comparison sake of the regular functioning builds and “meta” goals were buff/nerf considerations are then aimed at…