Advice for Air Heroes

Hi, i am really sick of SF, MindBlast and Sandstorm builds
everywhere running in their heroes, so i would like to try
something at air side myself and my 2 heroes just for fun and raw damage, i am thinking to get henchie monks for heal and Jin or Norgu for full interrupter. I am not sure about if heroes use in a proper way "Invoke Ligthnig" because in guildwiki says:

"Hero AI treats this spell as causing exhaustion, and will use it sparingly, even while enchanted." And if it's worth to run Invoke ligthning on myself too instead Dual Attunement.

Any feedback will be appreciated or any experience in the past with setting the heroes in Air Element, or with any ligth builds because i rarely used Air before.

Regards.

The builds

Ele/Dervish (Myself)

Air 16 (12+1+3).
Earth Prayers 8.
Rest in Energy Storage.

1.- Air attunement
2.- Elemental attunement
3.- Mystic Regeneration
4.- Glyph of elemental power
5.- Lightning Strike
6.- Lightning Hammer
7.- Lightning Orb
8.- Blinding Flash


For the heroes.

Ele/Rit

Air 16 (12+1+3)
Rest in Energy Storage.

1.- Air attunement
2.- Glyph of Lesser Energy
3.- Invoke Lightning (Elite)
4.- Chain Lightning
5.- Lightning Strike
6.- Lightning Orb
7.- Enervating Charge
8.- Blinding Flash or Death Pact Signet for rez.

I used to use Arcane Echo with Lightning Strike. With a half recharge staff you can basically spam Strike, and throw in Lightning Arrows (??) to fill in the small gap. Does decent damage, and you can continue to blind in addition.

Lightning Strike is cheap enough so you don't need Elemental Attunement, so then you can get another elite, like glimmering mark, or swap out Arcane for plain old Echo, which is quicker.

It isn't the best build, but does well, and it is fun to constantly see the lightning bolt animation. I wouldn't trust a hero to handle the echo though....

yeah, unless the ai changed since i tried it last, they echo silly crap like [skill]awaken the blood[/skill] and stuff. i suppose you could run one with enervating and the other with blinding flash if you wanted to let them both battle rez too.

Whenever you have Bflash, I suggest you bring [skill=text]Epidemic[/skill], it works wonders when melee are tearing up your backline.

How would the AI deal with spamming orb/hammer with dual attunes? It's fairly decent single-target DPS, but doesn't do anything in AoE.