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

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Ghazzy wrote:

Build guide is now updated for 3.10, however I still need PoB updated to double check the trees & PoB links of course.

The following changes have been made:
A blighted Oil section added to the guide
Removed Efficacy from support skills and added Second Wind to the Flame Dash.

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Schnuedde wrote:

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Ghazzy wrote:

Build guide is now updated for 3.10, however I still need PoB updated to double check the trees & PoB links of course.

The following changes have been made:
A blighted Oil section added to the guide
Removed Efficacy from support skills and added Second Wind to the Flame Dash.

Hi, will you also update the video? All the links in the build are not working anymore.

Thank you!

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Ghazzy wrote:

Well, you're correct if you have added flat dmg cause unlike Soulrend ED doesn't have an actual on hit dmg without having added flat damage modifiers meaning that technically you can reach 175k hit dmg with ED to reach this suggested leech cap but that would require an extensive amount of modifiers that doesn't actually benefit the build in the end :)

Ultimately, you are correct there is an actual "hit" occuring just that it deals 0 dmg without flat dmg modifiers available from external sources which generally doesn't scale the DoT dmg.

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Darkxellmc wrote:

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Ghazzy wrote:

Well, you're correct if you have added flat dmg cause unlike Soulrend ED doesn't have an actual on hit dmg without having added flat damage modifiers meaning that technically you can reach 175k hit dmg with ED to reach this suggested leech cap but that would require an extensive amount of modifiers that doesn't actually benefit the build in the end :)

Ultimately, you are correct there is an actual "hit" occuring just that it deals 0 dmg without flat dmg modifiers available from external sources which generally doesn't scale the DoT dmg.

This is also false, sorry.
Ed reads: Deals (9-433) to (14-649) Chaos Damage
This means it deals about 500 base damage on average per hit at gem level 20. It's difficult to have the initial hit deals ~175k damage and reach the leech cap for a single instance with a single hit, but not incocievable.
This is with only 0.4% leech, a character that uses leech would probably have a few % damage leeched as life, not just a flask mod.
If your hit deals only around 50k damage, you'll be leeching for 2 seconds. For reference, 50k damage is the damage a level 21 ed deals against shaper with a tree, despair, an ed bow and wither.

Anyways. Leech isn't needed since ED already gives you massive uncapped regen, of course. But it'll add a few % of your health pool recovered per second, it's not useless at all.

Edit: I can't quote correctly, apparently ><
Huh. Btw no offence, it doesn't matter anyways. Sorry if I sound picky. Thanks for still reading what's going on in this thread, didn't know you still did.
Gl hf!

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vorkosiganhs wrote:

Thx a lot for the guide. Hope you will get back your YT channel anytime soon.

Just a note in the guide: the leveling up process is not as smooth as I'd expect. Looks DoT does not scale very well at the beginning. So, if somebody interested, Tytykiller did a speed run (with all skill points) that can be used for this build. He did the transition to ES+Contagion after Act5 or 6. Full run is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re6CgQzCeWc.

Cheers.