CwDt+CoH+?

I want to curse things around me automatically by using Cast when Damage taken + Curse on Hit + Curse + Spell. So I want a spell that hits lots of targets, damage is irrelevant.
1. Which spell should I use? Firestorm, Ball Lightning, other good choices?
2. Where is the spell from CwDt targeted? Around my character or around the monster that triggered the CwDt?
3. If I also have somewhere else in my equipment a CwDt+Immortal call, these 2 CwDt do not interfere with each other, do they?

1) if you're melee and get close in, Vortex is godly for this because it also automatically chills everybody around you. If you're not melee, it depends on a bunch of facots like AoE and how important it is that trash get tagged. Ball Lightning is pretty good though.

2) It'll focus on the enemy that dealt the damage that triggered it, but I think if there is a reason why it can't target them (dead, broken line of sight, out of range)? It might not behave as you want. Not certain though.

3) CwDT gems don't interfere with each other, but the skills can if you have multiple links set up with the same target skills (like two Ball Lightning links hooked up to different CwDT links).

I'm playing a 100% ignite fireball, so I'm not usually in melee range. I feel with ball lightning, if the enemy is at the other end of the screen, by the time the projectile gets there, the enemy might not be there anymore. I essentially want something that does large AOE at target location. I will try Firestorm and Ball Lightning and see how it works out.

If you are using fireball i would recommend a curse on hit manual cast ball lightning or arc. That way you can also proc ele equilibrium. If you use a staff i would also highly recommend this being one of your 5l/6ls, and go gmp + faster projectiles + curse + curse on hit. If you have got 6l you can even go dual curse (i have a similar setup without the faster proj, but flammability + warlords). If not a 4l without faster proj/2nd curse also work well

Arc.

I'm too lazy to curse manually :-) That's why I wanted the CwDt autocurse setup. Using Ball Lightning or Arc is nice for ele equilibrium but isn't related to whether I manually curse or use some autocurse setup, isn't it?
Arc only hits very few targets per cast. Especially if I use CwDt, so it's going to be low level. Supporting Ball Lightning with Faster Projectiles or GMP is a good idea, I will just have to see where to put all the gems.

I tried the setup with CwDt+CoH+Flammability + Ball/Lightning / Firestorm and I noticed something odd. I never see the curse symbol on top of monsters. If I remove the CwDt and cast manually, monster will have the cursed symbol above them. If I put the CwDt in, the Firestorm still triggers regularly but the monsters never have the cursed symbol on them. Not sure whether it just doesn't show the symbol or whether something is not working as intended. Any ideas?

Well, you could also try to get some lightning damage and run herald of thunder with CoH.

did you try the trigger gem vengeance with curse on hit and a curse gem?
Also a nice way to trigger a curse. Whenever you do a counterattack, the curse on hit gets triggered and the counterattack deals a curse to the enemy.
Pro is, you do not have to reserve mana for blasphemy+curse and con is, the curse only gets active by counterattack.

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Well, you could also try to get some lightning damage and run herald of thunder with CoH.

People suggest & run this a lot, but I freaking despise it!

Blow Mana Reserve for a subpar buff that also requires you to kill something - in a particular way - in order to start applying your Curse(s)? It's always felt incredibly sloppy to me, and its curse application has always felt slow & dicey, as well.

Just my opinion. I just really hated using that combo. I'd rather hard-cast every curse than use Herald to apply it/them.

(To be clear, I love your posts, you're always so helpful! I'm just very opinionated!)

Question: why don't you just cast the curse directly with CWDT, maybe with inc aoe since we have an open spot?
Other than that arc could be a solid choice (chain, guatenteed hit), maybe even freezing pulse (fast projectile, 100% pierce)
Another non CWDT option would be orb of storms, that thing's REALLY useful.