Lightning DK Theorybuild and Questions

InFernalEntity

7 pc Light Armour

2pc. Ilambris.

1pc: 1096 Max Magicka
2pc: When you deal Flame or Shock Damage, you have a 10% chance to summon a meteor shower of the damage type that deals x Damage to all enemies within 4 meteres every second for 5 seconds. Each effect can occur once every 8 seconds.

5pc Overwhelming Surge

2pc: 1096 Max Magicka
3pc: 129 Spell Damage
4pc: 129 Spell Damage
5pc: When you activate a Class ability, you have a 15% chance to surround yourself in a torrent that deals x Shock Damage to the closest enemy within 12 meters every 1 second for 6 seconds.

Questions:

Can Ilambris proc a shock shower and a flame shower simultaneously?

Are the cooldowns for the shock shower and the flame shower seperate? (if they can't proc simultaneously do I need to wait 8 seconds to proc the other effect still? Or can it proc immediately after the first effect ends?)

As I don't currently possess any vMA staves, can anyone recommend a good 4 pc. to run?

Lynx7386

Yes ilambris can proc both meteor shower types simultaneously. They each have their own separate cooldown (so the fire storm cooldown doesnt effect the lightning storm, and vice versa).

I used to run a dk heavy attack setup using 5pc undaunted infiltrator (back bar), 5pc julianos (front bar), and 2pc ilambris. Had to dual wield on the back bar to make it work, but the undaunted infiltrator set had a 5 piece bonus that gave you extra heavy attack damage for 10 seconds after using any magicka ability, so I'd proc that on the back bar with class buffs and then use aoe and heavy attacks on the front bar. Ilambris would proc lightning storm from lightning staff heavies and elemental blockade, and fire storm from dk class spells.

Checkmath

You surely want to use elemental blockade woth your build. Would be even better with a msa lightning staff. But: ilambris doesnt make sense as long as you dont do fire damage.
Either you go for a heavy attack build (overwhelming, msa staff and skoria preferrably) or you use blockade to mainly proc offbalance, additionally the known skills for dk with whip, ambers, engulfing. In the second case ilambris is fine, but most players will just walk out of it, so skoria probably is the better choice there too.

Sry i somehow assumed this is a pvp build....

InFernalEntity

I appreciate the input guys. This really wasn't a PvP build but it's nice to know the set is flexible.

Really I expected the high use of class skills from being a mag dk to proc overwhelming surge regularly which does shock damage for 6 seconds with no cooldown.

Then alternating between a lightning staff front bar and a fire staff backbar to try and do a reasonable amount of shock damage so that Ilambris can proc either effect at any time. It'll proc from ovewhelming or front bar attacks and destro abilities.
And my DK DoTs should proc the other effect almost on cooldown because of how many fire DoTs DKs can actually stack.