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

I'm planning to play this build as a starter in the new 3.5 expansion and my question is how to customize this build to being clear speed oriented ? Maybe some ideas to manage ED/Contagion being auto triggered or just some movement/cast speed investment. I'm counting on interesting ideas to make it faster.

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How is Essence Drain/contagion + blight (allelopathy) after the patch note?

I love this build as a league starter, but its hard to scale without a lot of currency when you get to red maps / endgame bosses

ED as a whole got a quite significant bump. The DoT multipliers and cane of unraveling should make ED feel quite a lot better than it has the last one or two patches.

The interesting part here might be whether it is still worth being Trickster. With movement skills possibly taking a big hit this patch, we might lose one of the core features that made Trickster shine over Occultist. At the same time, Occultist gets even better than it was. The new DoT multi/Wither node is insane, making Low life Occultist seem like a much better choice than it has been for years.

Something like an Arc trapper might be better to play the first weekend to build some currency, then maybe look at some mid/high end budget options for an ED build if you are an enthusiast. If you are OK with the build falling off quite drastically on t16 bosses and beyond, ED should still be a really strong and fun league starter though.

have the new changes made this boss any better? I want to do endgame stuff but it looks like all league starters will eventually need to reroll into something better which is a drag imo.

What about the new things non-aliment chaos damage multiplayer
is it buff for us?

it's like 52 MORE damage in the passives from passive tree?

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Nedieth wrote:

Something like an Arc trapper might be better to play the first weekend to build some currency, then maybe look at some mid/high end budget options for an ED build if you are an enthusiast. If you are OK with the build falling off quite drastically on t16 bosses and beyond, ED should still be a really strong and fun league starter though.

I was thinking about the opposite because I am playing Arc trapper this league, and when I saw the changes I thought: Starting as a ED+contagion then respec to Arc trapper because ED+contagion is a good starter.

EDIT: Respec probably too expensive

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Dotalex wrote:

What about the new things non-aliment chaos damage multiplayer
is it buff for us?

it's like 52 MORE damage in the passives from passive tree?

By my calculation it was a pretty nice buff yes, which is why the skill-tree has been changed to pick em all up :)