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

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chaoval wrote:

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Stayshook wrote:

So I have got a rare short bow with just the +1 to level of socketed gems and I'd like to craft everything else on it. I don't have any of the recipes so I'm not sure of the costs. Does anyone know the cost of these crafts and where I might be able to get them?

"Can have multiple crafted modifiers" - the Pale Court, 2 Ex
"+2 Level of socketed support gems" - Catarina Unveil (you will probably need a crafting service for this), 2 Ex
"Increased Chaos damage" - Belly of The beast + Ossuary, 3 alc
"Non-ailment damage over time multiplier" - unveil (you will probably need a crafting service for this), 4c
"% chance to gain Arcane Surge when you kill an enemy" / "Increased cast speed" hybrid mod, unveil (you will probably need a crafting service for this), 4c

To conclude: you will need 4 Ex 8c 3 alc to finish the bow, multimod and chaos damage are easily obtainable, the rest aren't unless you spam syndiacate like a madman or buy up veiled rares, so you will need a crafting service.
I can recommend you these:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2526842
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2469110

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Buster1013 wrote:

What is the best chest for SSF casual player? Currently I have

Is it OK for non-Uber bosses or I should find something better?
Perfect Form looks much better, but I need more luck(or grind). Is there any good place to farm it (like: delve, betrayal, incrusion)?

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psyonix wrote:

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Enzoniewski wrote:

Anyone have tutorial how to craft +3 chaos bow and can post?

Note, this is for the alt/regal method. Not a fan of the other method so I wont mention it

Get a white one of those.

EDIT 1: the short bows are the easiest to color, and can be acquired cheaply with

If you want one with movement speed then be prepared to spend a bit more for the base and the coloring as they have a higher dex requirement


1. Transmute it, and then use alts until you hit +1 gems (socketed).
2. Regal
3. Annul off the other affix(es) so that you have a rare bow with +1 gems

If you miss, scour it and repeat steps 1-3. Once you have a rare bow with only the Paragon mod (+1 gems) move on to step 4:

4. Craft "Can have multiple crafted modifiers"
5. Craft "+2 Level of socketed support gems"
6. Craft "Increased Chaos damage"
7. Craft "Increased cast speed"
8. Craft "Non-ailment damage over time multiplier"
9. Craft "% chance to gain Arcane Surge when you kill an enemy"

EDIT 2: some of the crafting options aren't easy to come by, and when you're investing this much into a multimod, you definitely want the highest tier affixes available. I used this guy for everything but the "can have multiple crafted modifiers" mod (I did that myself). He was super professional, probably one of the better crafting services I've used over the years. I'd recommend hitting him up for sure.

It's also worth mentioning you should be prepared to spend a fair amount of currency to do this. The multi mod and +2 support gems is 4ex right there. And the cost of alt-spam/regal/annulment can rise pretty quickly - and this part you'll need to do before a third party crafting service will multimod it for you (at least, this is generally the case.

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Rageahr wrote:

Can anyone explain to me why is everyone running contagion/ED over soulrend/bane?

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primordialiege wrote:

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Haleray wrote:

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primordialiege wrote:

ez perma onslaught

Please inform this lowly noob how this is possible?

brutal restraint jewel
adds bonuses to your notables instead of rerolling them

bought it for 26c fyi, dont buy those garbage jewels for 3ex like those shown above
have to path thro garbage nodes to get chaos damage ones

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xsnowingx wrote:

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bipsylalapo wrote:

Hi, I'm kinda stuck right now. I'm aiming to get a good stygian belt with +%chaos damage and +%cold resistance to maximize my perfect form's evasion bonus, which should cost upwards of 100chaos.

But right now, with flasks up, POB says I have approximately 550k DOT with essence drain only, which I feel like isn't that much as I don't even one-shot monolith legions. As for guardians, phoenix wasn't too much trouble as I could safely evade most of his attacks but minotaur just completely crushed me, sometimes by one-shotting me with his burrow attack...
I have 5.3k hp, 920 ES and 11k evasion unbuffed, with Arctic Armour, Flesh and Stone and Malevolence.

I also have 7 skill points to assign but I don't really know where to use them. Speaking of which, should I also unpick Acrobatics and the 3 Acrobatics improvement now that I have perfect form?

By the way, what's the skill combo to use? Bane/Despair + Essence drain and then spam blight? Or straight up spam Bane/Despair and spam Essence drain?
Because with Flesh and Stone + Malevolence, I only have 240 mana to play with so I run out of mana extremely quickly if I spam ED...

I have approximately 7ex to play with for gear improvements.

I'd gladly appreciate any feedback :)

Some of your rare gear really isn't good. That belt must be worth 5c or less, same with the gloves but to a lesser degree. No reason to sit on 7ex, you should be upgrading these. I would also recommend buying a helmet with the 40% Essence Drain damage enchant, and scour it and then throw aberrant fossils on it until you hit -9 chaos res and good life/es. The fossils are around 1c or less, and it shouldn't take more than a few dozen tries to get something pretty good. You should do this yourself, and not buy a pre-crafted one, unless you see one you love for under 2ex.

Side note, is there a reason your flesh and stone is not connected to enlighten? I would not even bother with enlighten and fix your mana issues with the rings and some mana regen on the tree (see my gear for an example)