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An Arcanist/Shaman build that relies primarily on Thunderous Strike and Auras.

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This build relies mainly on Primal Strike's Thunderous strike. Primal Strike deals the bulk of the damage, tearing through big enemies, while Torrent gives a sort of AOE,  having lightning jump to other nearby enemies, and dealing enough damage to outright kill most mobs.

Shaman:
Brute Force provides some additional damage to you're attak, making for a good passive.
Stormcaller's Pact is a pretty good buff. You can leave it at 1 point in order to put more points into other things, but the 33% cahnce for massive lightning damage is nice.
Mogdrogen's Pact and Heart of the Wild are you're primary avenue of survival, providing a large bonus o health, and some good health and energy regeneration.

Arcanist:
A point into Mirror of Ereoctes is all you need, though if you wish to buff it up more, it wouldnt hurt.
Maiven's Sphere is nice to have active. The casting speed doesn't matter since Thunderous Strike is based off of Attack Speed.
Maxed Inner Focus is super important, giving you a hefty bonus to Offensive ability and Spirit. Be sure to max this out, even if you have +skills to it.
Arcane Will is a nice buff to have at least one point in. Your health is going to drop below 70% alot, so you'll get lots of use out of this.
Sky Shard does some big Lightning damage, and the Cold Damage acts as a good secondary damage along side Physical. If you use the Tsunami devotion with Primal Strike, then staking up some cold damage to buff that and Sky Shard would work out well.

Devotions:
The big ones to get here are Giant's Blood from the Behemoth constellation and put it on Mogdrogen's Pact (or any of you aura's really) as it provides a really nice healing proc that'll save you often. completing the Behemoth Con is good too as it gives really good buffs.
Tsunami works well with Sky Shard, sharing damage types.
Wayward Soul in the Chariot of the Dead Con works well along side Giant's blood.
Reckless Tempest can be taken instead of Wayward soul to use on Primal Stike if you want more damage than Healing.

Equipment:
Focusing on Physical Damage and Lightning Damage should get you pretty far. There's alot of items with lighting based skills that proc on attack, which works well with primal strike.
Alvarick's Rebuke is a really good Two Handed for this, with plenty of lightning damage, a nice lightning proc skill, and +1 to all Shaman skills.
The Eye of the Storm relic gives a really good Aura, as well as plenty of damage bonuses and +1 to shaman skills.
Skyreach Sash provides even more lightning damage, and Storm Surge works like Arcane  Will, only at 33% health, and only provides a bonus to lightning.