[3.2] Trickster, The 1 True Flicker

Some of my thoughts on this build, would appreciate your thoughts & feedback & suggestions to improve this.

--Background--
I've played Oro's flicker and Oni Goroshi pure cold flicker last league. I love this skill.
I was motivated to try this build from a certain youtube video series (I know, I know, but it just looked so solid! And I'm a sucker for flicker. I should really know better by now!)

--Character Setup--
character: Kam Hesari
lvl88, Bestiality SC
6link terminus est, 75% crit, 254% damage
starkonja's (tried abyssus and failed big time). no enchant yet
darkray's with 120% chance to crit if you haven't crit recently
tombfist gloves for the intimidate (& and some life %)
stygian vice belt
rare rings and ammy with some DPS and life, resists (but not enough yet)
herald of ash, herald of ice, hatred. COH hooked up to HoI, assmark.
ice golem, cwdt+IC+IncDur, anc. protector (seems kinda pointless, tbh. If I take time out to plunk him down, then I'm not flickering and I'm siting wide open to getting my butt kicked)
got 1 abyss jewel with unholy might. Seems like it's never up (compared to my other jewel that gives me phasing. yes I know one is 4% and the other is 8%, just saying what appears to be small chance in either case is actually quite substantial in practice)

Ascendancy: weave the arcane (def. get this one first). Swift Killer. I was using Harness the Void but switched to Ghost Dance to put some small improvement to survivability over DPS. DPS is fine already. And I will probably prefer Escape Artist over Harness the Void when I get Uber lab done. I can't do uber lab now due to low life pool. Can make it to izaro fine, but can get one shot in his 3rd phase. Will try again later today and maybe try to find a service to carry me.

--Life Pool Issues and Possible Solutions--
No surprise this build has a hard time getting enough life on the tree. Even with good life on gear you're looking at maybe 4600 range? Given the stuff in the trickster ascendancy involving ES, I took this as a hint and started thinking about hybrid approach. Have enough ES+life to soak up 1 or 2 big hits and enough evasion & dodge to not get hit again for a little bit or get out of the area and wait for a sec to heal up. That's not too bad, leap slam on terminus est feels pretty good, and I sorta like the hopping around playstyle along with flickering.
I have 1 jewel with ES gain on hit (for Ghost Dance). Tooltip says my flicker hits 12 times per second (.08 attacks/sec). If I got a better jewel (3 instead of 2es) and maybe another similar jewel, that would be (3+3)*12=72ES back per second to maybe hopefully keep ghost dance up.
Burning ground or any other degen that hits ES for that matter suck for this though. It's not a problem most of the time but it sucks when you hit a pack of dogs that explode into burning ground upon their death.
Nonetheless, I think using a nice hubris helmet with some accuracy, life resists would be good instead of starkonjas. I only lose like 3% crit chance (81-78% in town, no charges but with boot enchant up). You'd also get 1000eva from this helmet (assuming you get one with like 200ES minimum).
For chest, I was thinking Hyrri's Ire might be really good. 2800eva comes out to 467ES from Escape Artist. YOU lose a life roll with the chest but seems like the ES gain would compensate for that. Also get some cold damage, chill duration, extra dodge (attack and spell) not to mention the eva & ES. And another possible 6 link (though I'm not sure you need one or what to socket)
Was thinking about soul tether belt with all this, but feels like stygian will be better. I messed around with that belt when it first came out but felt crappy (imo)
Ascent from Flesh belt might be good
There's not enough jewel sockets in this build. you get 2, maybe 3. Makes it even tougher to get life and fill out resists, get some extra DPS

--Other Wacky Ideas & Gripes--
-rings with ass mark on hit could free up 2 sockets
-any of the new beast aspects any good for this build? The double damage one maybe? How does this work - i can craft the aspect onto any rare item, including rings? Might be worth replacing HoA mana reservation with one of these aspects?
how about vaal pact? I don't think I really rely on regen anyways. For 1 point, might be good.
CI? Not sure this would be good, not a lot of ES nearby. Maybe have to totally redesign the character at that point.
Ylfeban's trickery? Get some sweet shocked ground going on. The curse seems useless unless maybe you go dual curse and still use assmark on hit somewhere. I dunno, might be fine without assmark. You might still get enough power charges from clearing maps anyways. And boss fights don't really have power charge generation, either. So might still be good for the shocked ground and ES (& evasion from ascendancy)
-It's hard to capture the beasts with flicker. Once netted, i keep flicker away from the captured beast and he gets free. I've also died many times try to do this, or I capture him and even though he's dead or whatever, his adds keep spawning under my feet and insta-gibbing me.

This build is fun and I really want to make it work. Leveling is fine, early maps are ok. But it's really hard to pull it all together without the uber lab, and this build can't really do it. Like, maybe it's better to play a different build until you get 4 labs done and respec into this one. It feels like this could be really good once I get to implement the ideas I outlined above. I mean, it's fine now, it's fun. I have LL RF Guardian I use to actually complete atlas and do endgame stuff but I really prefer the active playstyle of this build. Interested to hear your thoughts and suggestions.

--Update #2--
Was able to do lab solo yesterday. Quite easy actually. Sorted my gear. Hyrri's Ire and a rare hubris give me 1100ES, 4100 life, so 5200 effective life. Not bad. 14,000EV now. 50/20 dodge, 66/20 with frenzies & dark rays. Seems like I rarely even get hit anymore. Effective life pool is pretty much always full. Chaos damage clouds suck though. Swapped out the tombfist for shadows and dust. clearspeed is insane. of course I have to go back and loot hehehehee. really tempted to blow 15-20ex on the jewel for more crit. Not sure if worth it, even on bosses with no frenzies up, I usually can start chaining them right from the start. The jewel might fix that. Or was thinking lacerate & PCOC to start and then get flickering. That would be way cheaper than the jewel but obviously the jewel opens up other options.
--Update #3--
hit level 91. Grabbed vaal pact. I'm finding Abyssus is too good to pass up. Bought one with "9% increased flicker strike damage per frenzy charge" for 5ex. SHIT IS NUTS NOW!.Perfect storm chest and free arctic armour now. And phase acro is nice. Losing the Hyrri's Ire cost a lot of ES but whatever. Got some life to compensate and we just need some ES to get ascendancy buffs (which we get ES on hit with a jewel) Seems pretty good, haven't died and at 30%XP in a few hours of running t10-t12 maps. Haven't really felt to squishy with the abyssus on even with only 4300 life or something crappy like that. Skipping some bosses like belfrey because takes too long and he can 1 shot me with his storm call thing. Need more life, got room for a little more on gear w/divining or buying better rolled ones. Scrapped shadows and dust for a paid of spiked gloves. The unholy might was pretty good, but i had a jewel with it as well and seemed like it was always up. Also, got a sin's rebirth (only 70c right now!) and all the unholy might sources were too much. Ended up getting a watcher's eye with the increased crit with hatred, and it also had a chance to dodge attacks while affected by grace. I don't run grace but vaal grace counts IIRC. With acro & phase acro from chest, vaal grace should get me close to capped. Dark rays keep me up with attack dodge another 16%. Clear speed is bonkers.