GhazzyTV - Essence Drain & Contagion (or Bane/Soulrend) Trickster [SC/HC/Uber Elder/Shaper]

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aplostra wrote:

I started Prophecy SC with this build. It's amazing so far. My thoughts so far:


Current state: lvl84, maps up to t7 (terrible rng: all maps alch and go), cleared uberlab.

Leveling was nice and fast. I was able to cheese cruel lab at lvl50 (SC), without any close calls. Heartbreaker is an excellent cheap early pickup. You get spell damage and cull on ED which speeds up boss kills. It works on 3rd phase Izaro and it saved my life.

I completed the game (Merc Malachai and Merc Izaro) on 4L. I also ran maps and dried lake safe and fast. I got my tabula at lvl80. The addition of "rapid decay" as 5th Link is an immense boost. 6L is currently poison which works nicely vs tough mobs. Currently Rathpith is very expensive at 2+ ex.

I ran temp chains and vulnerability up to early maps (windscream boots), were mobs started to hit hard and grace became a neccessity. Armour trivializes a lot of content including uber trials. I made the switch after i did some uber trials. It was a major improvement.

Party play: Nope. The damage diminishes greatly. You can run as a double curse debuffer and maybe culler.

Pierce Gem: It provides the added benefit of taking care of "allies cannot die". Poacher's Aim jewel boosts pierce chance to 65% which is very handy in many maps.


Ascendancy points:
Walk the aether + Weave the arcane: Best combo for QoL. The buff to "weave the arcane" is amazing. 20% chance to recover 10% of max mana on skill use. You get 0 mana cost wb. I was able to drop clarity after cruel lab and never looked back. It enables you to run grace + curse of your choice.

Patient Reaper: Merc Lab pickup. Good damage boost and excellent regen boost on kill. It enables you to have blood rage on -regen maps. It's also a big help in uber trials and uber lab.

Swift killer: Uber lab. I haven't tested this thoroughly yet.



Uber Lab Report:
Stats:
lvl 84, life 5100, armour 12k, overcap ele res, -36 chaos res, shield user.
Uber Argus was a joke with wither totem and wb.
Armour, regen and instant pots help a great deal.
Get Enfeeble blasphemy if you cant.
It's 100% doable. Respect Izaro buffs. I was overconfident and left alive both essences and conduits for 3rd phase. A single mistake cost me the run. Keep calm and farm on.


In conclusion it's an excellent league starter build, that needs just a tabula for faster clearing. It's really flexible and it can run Uber Lab safely.

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FCHatred wrote:

Going off what apolstra said, this build can easily easily do uber lab with no problem at all. I completed uber lab at 79 or 80 and it was about the same as merci lab. Just don't run in head first trying to facetank everything.

I did a Waterworks (T13) but it took a while and I died around 3 times. Of course I was level 80 when I did that and I was using 0% quality gems and a standard tabula. I can usually breeze through Springs (T11) really easily with almost no problem at all. I haven't quite ran into a mod that I couldn't handle.

Atziri is definitely viable and very very very easy to do with this build even with missing some items. If you check out my character profile you can see the gear I'm currently using and have been using since level 70. I'm not sure if Uber Atziri is possible or not so if someone can chime in with that information, that would be awesome.

Overall this build is really cheap, one of the easier but more fun builds I've played as well. Definitely recommend this build especially for farming maps.

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Alstruction wrote:

Hey Ghazzy, I just wanted to know how you felt about the Whirling Blades nerf and how it affects this build?

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bridgeburner wrote:

Hey Ghazzy, what order would be best to start getting quality on gems?

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blekotacz wrote:

Hey Ghazzy, first of all, thx for great build. I was runing ED build in Perandus league, but droped it, now i play your version and im having so much fun! Im on 20k dps without frenzy charges with 18lv gems (just 20% on ED and cont) and im waiting for some nice drops so i can buy +1 tabula and lv 3 empower, i gues that with this two items my dps will skyrocket.

I wanted to ask you, whats your opinion on curse aura? Im not using clarity since very long time ago and instead of it i have Warlords Mark as aura, i like that Endurance charges gives me passive phys reduction + that extra ele resist is great on Ele Weak maps + i can benefit from a little longer Immortal Call. I read that many players r using Enfeeble but im not quite sure if its a good think ... yes, it gives me passive -30% damage taken but no endurance charges generation (my priority is to cast cont and ED rather then waste another second casting enduring cry).

What do u think?

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DutyMarv wrote:

Hey Ghazzy,
I fucking love this build !

Im not a guy who gets on a bunch of Chaos/Ex really fast but this build doesnt even need it :D
Im playing without the Tabula and the Rathpith and going on ~ 19.000 Chaos dmg per sec. on Essence Drain,which seems insane for me as a noob :D

I started the League with this build,its also amazing to just start from 0 it was never easier to level !
Also great defensives,Life work totally fine im at 5.5k at lvl ~81 now and never had a prob. so far in any Map !

Hope you continue with build like this !

Cheeeeers :)

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nds2 wrote:

Are there any unique weapons i can use for leveling and uniques for endgame or do i only need a good spell damage knife?