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

Ghazzy I'm torn between this ED/Contagion build for the new league in SC or your summoner builds. Which would be the better choice for map clear speed and boss killing? not necessarily uber lab or uber atziri but just mapping

The POB paper DPS looks really low. How do you get it to go up? Is this build capable of bossing at max level? I'm a new player.

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Exilaner wrote:

Thank you for the update! I was running your old build kind of successfully in mid tier maps in 2.6 (it felt a bit squishy and I was killed a couple of times).
Do you think the huge investment in MoM and Mana is worth it, compared to the missing life and frenzy nodes, auras and physical migitation of Iron Reflexes, the DoT nodes (Dirty Techniques) in the lower part of the tree?
Is Tabula Rasa still viable with this build?
Do you plan to release a complete guide once 3.0 is released?

Hey,

My pleasure!
It will absolutely be worth it for hardcore, in softcore you can turn to the little squishier approach & use the Death's Oath chest instead.
Tabula Rasa is a decent starter chest till you can upgrade.
The damage should be more than sufficient considering all the buffs.

I plan to try and make all of my build guide builds so that all guides will get updated gameplay footage as well. Sadly I'm not a fulltime streamer yet which makes me unable to invest the time I needed for this to be done in a proper way. I will most likely start saving my build guide characters in Standard league as well so that it will be easier for me to do testing, changes & updates in the future.

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thyraa wrote:

Hmm we are going MoM..and clarity and alot of mana and mana Regen...
Could we take out Vaal lightning trap for RF... ?

Possibly, though RF got nerfed and I really don't think it's worth looking at even.

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deadyahaje wrote:

Hey,


it seems that this will be my starter build for 3.0

Just a question about the passive talents. Why did you take the +1 Frenzy charge?

Hey,

Awesome to hear bro!
It's free damage thanks to Swift Killer buffs & generations.

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Rompster wrote:

Hey there,

Question, why take cloak of defiance, just to provide a larger mana ppol and regen? wouldnt a life/res chest be better?

Also, in your choice of weapons for pre-end game options, would you say just try to get Spell damage and attk spd on a fast sceptre?

Thanks,

Rompster

Hey,

Mana Pool & 10% higher MoM effect, it is far better than a rare. If you want more damage you'll use Death's Oath which I'd recommend for softcore players.

Spell DMG dagger/mace so you can keep using shield charge before the "end-game wep" :)

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kewpco0l wrote:

new Cloak of Defiance gives an extra 20% damage taken as mana before life, making it in the End 50%.

10%, it was nerfed before patch notes. So you get 40% :)

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bulldog08 wrote:

Having a hard time choosing between this build or

glacial cascade totems using this template https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1730745

or frostbolt totems https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1931084


Any suggestions? Going to be on hardcore. Looking for safety and clear speed, doing bosses once and awhile would be nice too.

Hey,

I think this build might turn into the "meta" of ED builds, it is strong & versatile for everything.

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thyraa wrote:

i was wondering as well... but then i looked at the ascendancy...

3.0.0
Now also grants +1 to Maximum Power Charges, and 5% increased Damage over Time per Frenzy and Power charge

Hey,

And it generates both charges on kills :)

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broseidon07 wrote:

Ghazzy I'm torn between this ED/Contagion build for the new league in SC or your summoner builds. Which would be the better choice for map clear speed and boss killing? not necessarily uber lab or uber atziri but just mapping

Hey,

This should be able to compete with the Baron SRS if all numbers adds up from the patch notes. It'll come down to a matter of personale taste of the playstyles I guess!

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kadaveris wrote:

The POB paper DPS looks really low. How do you get it to go up? Is this build capable of bossing at max level? I'm a new player.

Hey,

It is very doable for that yes, jewels does a lot for this build the DPS is currently a lot higher than it used to be and before 3.0 this build managed to deal with Uber Atziri and hit 250-300 mil exp/h in maps.

Yeah I'm slightly concerned with the Boss killing DPS without Poison now. I have no concerns about mapping though.

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Silenkurri wrote:

Yeah I'm slightly concerned with the Boss killing DPS without Poison now. I have no concerns about mapping though.

I tested poison once in 2.6 and felt it was only so-so for boss killing and opted out for higher spell dmg providing daggers using Essence of Delirium which worked wonders, and simply use VLT for added boss kill speed :) 3.0 will make this a lot better thanks to the buffs as well.

Hey! I might just make this my starter build for 3.0. I'm not going to roll another melee marauder or bow character. Time for some spells man!

Just one question: How do you sustain HP? Spam HP flasks? I'm used to leeching everything and essentially playing without HP flasks.

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makecake wrote:

Hey! I might just make this my starter build for 3.0. I'm not going to roll another melee marauder or bow character. Time for some spells man!

Just one question: How do you sustain HP? Spam HP flasks? I'm used to leeching everything and essentially playing without HP flasks.

Hey,

Awesome bro!
ED drains life to your based of it's damage + flasks for panic situations.

Hey ghazzy, looking fowards to playing essence drain, what are your thoughts on decay support, im feeling like its good for leveling. but it getting replaces at high level.

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Ghazzy wrote:

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Silenkurri wrote:

Yeah I'm slightly concerned with the Boss killing DPS without Poison now. I have no concerns about mapping though.

I tested poison once in 2.6 and felt it was only so-so for boss killing and opted out for higher spell dmg providing daggers using Essence of Delirium which worked wonders, and simply use VLT for added boss kill speed :) 3.0 will make this a lot better thanks to the buffs as well.

Thanks Ghazzy.

The PoB damage is possibly low because the default wither stacks is 1. Can switch skill to wither and set it to 10-20 and it'll increase the damage by a lot.

Cospri's is also a possible option for more damage in the chest slot though I think Death's Oath will do more but will be a PAIN to color. Using either one you will absolutely need the grand spectrums or your unreserved mana with a curse will be way too low.