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

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Sidad wrote:

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WingsOfDomain wrote:

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Adenathschant wrote:

Unless the recharge start chance on ES from EB may be much more important than I realized

Having ES gives you a number of buffs from your ascendancies.
And your ES is constantly recharging even while being damaged (which wasn't the case when I last played ES many leagues ago, so unless it was changed it should be the combination of passives), which makes you fairly durable.

Bonus: It's great for staying in the darkness while delving.

Are you talking about Wicked Ward node?

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Wicked_Ward

I'm not using Wicked Ward, no need.

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guilhermes wrote:

First time playing a DoT build, and I'm currently using a shield / 1H approach. Would like to know where to go from here, if possible.

I decided to go for the manual blight cast approach, since the totems were getting almost instakilled, and frostblink w/ leapslam for dodging/movement felt fast enough. Build feels tanky, but is definetely lacking in damage. Have about 10 exa to spend.

if you wanna go wandshield
get a vertex, put a level 21 vaal blight in there with efficacy, cont dest, infused channeling
get atziri’s reflection (8.5ex) , coward’s legacy (<1ex), multimodded wand (5-6ex)
wand can wait, just get one with NACDOT

or u can just use a bow 7ex

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Psyonix wrote:

Question for xsnowingx, who i'd deem to be the resident expert here:

My build is basically the way I like it. I've got the deeps. it takes a lot to kill me, UE/SHaper/Guardians are deleted in seconds. However, because I'm using

With MoM, I've gotten to the point where my unreserved mana is 150. My Soulrend casts are 120ish - and I don't exactly need to spam it.

My current auras are Malevolence, Arctic Armor (using the Perfect Form - so that doesn't matter I guess), Flesh and Stone and Discipline. Is there a more optimal setup for me to get the most out of these, considering the reduction along with the +1 the hat gives me, or is the best combination for my current gearing? I can probably If I stay with MoM I don't have the right ratio for optimal EHP, but but at 5K life and 2600ES I'm not sure MoM is even neccessary. What are your thoughts. If you were in MY gear, what would you do?

Sorry, I've been trying to level and gear a Slayer Elehit, I wasn't really looking through this thread all weekend. It looks like you swapped Zealotry with Discipline to reserve all your mana. I'm a bit skeptical on the upside of that aura with a chaos DOT curse build, because we are not a crit build, and we also don't have extra synergies with conc ground (when compared to say Inquisitor). Lemme know how that change feels, it's definitely not BAD especially when it's "free". I don't know the exact total ES you're trading away, but I'd agree the benefits that come with Zealotry are at the very least comparable to what you're trading away.

If you could get enough resist on a rare boot that has similar specs to the Atziri Step, you might be able to combo Mark of the Shaper with an elder resist ring. That would have alot more impact on your power than anything you can do with mana reservation. Although finding a boot that fits that mold might be hard, so a 10ex malevolence watchers could also be the next logical step.

For me personally, I kind of drew a line and said my build is strong enough as is, I'm gonna stop sinking money into it for now. I did craft a few elder rings and I think I can just throw on a Mark of the Shaper right now, at the cost of 1 skill gem cuz I'd lose the unset ring, and also lose some chaos res. But ED is so powerful even without min/maxing like crazy, I haven't bothered lol.

I don't think there's a way to make ED+Cont efficient at doing the Emblem battles, and if you want to do that it's gonna be better to make a specialist character for that purpose. If you're crushing delve, alva temple, and T16 monoliths, which you probably are, then congratz, you built your character well. :)

killed my uber elder first try deathless
big thanks for the guide and everyone who posted in this thread <3 never had so much fun with a build!

i am really squishy, can someone help a noob :)

how do i post my items?

I used the MoM calculator (for SSFHC) but to me it seems that keeping ES is better compared to MoM + EB + Wicked or do I miss something?

3200 life, 1000ES, 600 unreserved mana.

So I am beginning my grind for level 100 and am wondering what are the most effective upgrades I should be going for. The grind plan is to spam elder Arid Lakes while doing Delves. I have 12 exalts and ~400 chaos to spend if needed. Obviously I am still wasting some gem slots, but I am still in the process of re-coloring my chest as it is not easy getting multiple non-greens onto QoTF (or The Perfect Form, should I decide to swap to it), and I think a defensive setup of some kind will be better there, as I don't think I can further improve my offense through another link?

I think my biggest fear is dying to legion mobs one shotting me but am wondering if I am overcompensating it at the cost of damage. I can comfortably kill almost all packs in one hit, but feel like I waste a lot of time killing (and being careful) with Legion rares.

Thanks a lot

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CrocSw wrote:

i am really squishy, can someone help a noob :)

how do i post my items?

Click on your character's picture right next to your character's name on the top left, your character's screen will open up. While holding down Ctrl and Alt, click on each items that you want displayed, then close that window and the codes will be in your post.

Make sure to set your profile to public so we can see your characters.

Tree is the same when playing soulrend?

Ty for the guide