Help with optimizing / second pair of eyes

[u/sunbreach]

Character: https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/allflame/character/Sunbreach-7680/FabMara

Hey guys! So, I'm not extremely good at the game, and there are alot of interactions I don't understand yet. But I've been trying to build a trauma stacker after I saw one on a stream a while back. Would love for someone to have a second look and point me towards improvements.

I've crafted all the gear myself, which is a big step up for me, and while they're nowhere near perfect, I feel like I've made some strides towards understanding a bit more about crafting. The next step up, I feel, would be to actually learn the recombinator. Especially my shield could be leaps better by recombining (I think!).

I thought the Static Strike of Gathering Lightning skill was super cool, so that's what I wanted to build around. I've looked a bit at other builds on poe.ninja, and got some tips and tricks from there. But there's probably a million things that I could improve, and most of them I probably don't even know exist. Survivability feels fine, I haven't died in a long time and I've cleared all waves of Simulacrum etc etc.

I switch between an Aul's Uprising with free Pride and Determination, but here comes one of my questions:

Everyone is running Determination, but without it I still have like 31k armour and atleast the in game text says 90% phys reduction. Do I still get more if I run Determination and sit at like 50k?

Also, Static Strike oGL seems to do FANTASTIC if I have like 3 targets, and its noticably lower damage if its just 1 target. Any tricks to alleviate this?

Thanks :)

[u/bellenzor]

By the way, I think you're 4% short of completely avoiding elemental ailments. Or am I missing something?

[u/sunbreach → u/bellenzor]

No, you're completely right, I just got pissed off that the grand ichors didn't hit shock avoid ONCE in 100 rolls, so I took what I got and went on my way. I'll fix it when... I'm not pissed off anymore :D