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For the wand you want double + to skills, minion damage / cast speed and the important suffix of auto casting. As you are starting out, prioritize the auto cast and upgrade with the + skills as you can.

Doryani's Prototype is your only 6-link. Not super expensive. If you can find / corrupt it to have +2 to minion skills you will be dancing in the rain.

The Surrender gives us life on block, which we will cap, to help us become immortal.

Helm at first I started with the base implicit of the Archdemon Crown for the extra -% Lightning res. However the eldrich mods are just too powerful. You can go either way and be fine. The important stat you need on the helm is the +2 minion skill gems.

Gloves / Boots Finish up resistances and your attributes, get as much life as you can. Make sure to get spell suppression on both.

If you want ele ailment immune along with Stormshroud, you need to get % chance immune to shock + exarch implicit.

Eldrich Mods we like:
Gloves:
+% suppress with Eater
+% Minion Damage with Exarch

Boots:
+% Life Regen Rate with Eater or Cooldown Recovery Rate with Eater
+% Max Fire Res with Exarch
or
+% shock immune with Exarch

Mage blood would obviously be best; if you can get one.
Otherwise a Stygian Vise with a nice Ghastly Eye Jewel is what you want to aim for.
You want Life, Cold/Fire Res, Attributes you are missing.

Both rings are Ventor's Gambles with everything positive except the lightning resistance. You want that negative.
If you slam it with prismatic catalysts lightning will go further negative as the others increase.

Ashes of the Stars is ideal, however a rare amulet with +skills will work as well and you can eater influence a helm for the reservation efficiency.

The Red Nightmare is used along side fire resistance tattoos to increase our block rate.

Impossible Escape is used to help our defences and max Fire Res.

Melding of Flesh is used to lower our lightning resistance into the negatives. Very strong combo with our Doryani's Prototype.

Thread of Hope allows us to save some passive skill points.

The two Forbidden Jewels are another layer of increasing the damage enemies take and decreasing elemental damage we take. If you are working on a budget, you can move these to the last jewels to get.

The cluster Jewels are a bit tricky, we want the 3 notables on it to force the two we want to be on the sides. Most importantly we want at least 1 renewal and 1 Call to the slaughter.

Life flask with Bleed / Corrupted Blood Immune.
Bottled Faith to really help against DoT and increase damage done to enemies.
Granite, Basalt & Quartz for defense.

Flask Prefix:
Charge Recovery of some sort.
Flask Suffix:
+% Armor during effect

If you cannot afford a Bottled Faith you can use another utility flask with more +% armor.
However, Bottled Faith is a powerful front line of defense if you get caught in a lightning DoT. The Consecrated Ground + Lethe Shade + Life flask can keep you up for a few seconds before you rip. Enough time to kill the mob, or move out of the way.