So good old Steve managed to wipe the floor with most of Ancaria. Finished Hard, tried again to unlock the Elemental Lords round in the Arena and managed to kill the Lightning Lord at much cost (hurray!). Completed it. My joy wasn't to last though as I climbed one level when doing the Arena, so when I went after him again in the Swamp he had me, hard. So yeah, bye bye SB, rinse and restart. I don't have anything else to do in this difficulty level other than hunting for the Elemental jewels the Lords give, so I don't know, maybe I'll just leave it be and head to Nightmare.
I have three complete sets, but none of those gives me the upper edge of having %LL. Still, solid build with a nasty handicap which I can circumvent most of the time. I'm curious if I can keep up with this handicap in Nightmare without LL though, it's supposed to be a big jump in mobs' stats and I can't tell if my damage output will be able to keep up. But hey, my SB is gone now so I shouldn't have much issues at early areas.
I still had a few jump scares in the Arena, which tells me that this build could do better still. I'll see what I can find to improve it.