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

Hey, I love this build idea and just started leveling it yesterday. The leveling process is super smooth too! I noticed you swapped out Whirling Blades for Shield Charge in 3.0? Is there a specific reason for this? I like how smooth Whirling blades feels, and I'd love to stick with it if possible. But is it a bad idea to use it in 3.0? Thanks!

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Ghazzy wrote:

Hey,

Welcome in!

During the LvLing process, yes.
I would suggest a few things for you, specially as you're new to the game:

1) Go to your account settings, make sure your profile is not private, this allows for anyone to look at your characters via the forum page which allows me to look at your gearing & skilltree and help you further.

2) If you're familiar with Discord I'd recommend popping in to my community, here: https://discord.gg/XzDUaHT. In there myself & many other veterans are helping eachother out on a daily basis.

3) Can always swing by my stream for direct help :)

Hi again!

Thanks for rapid responsea, I've changed the privacy settings now, so if you have any tips, I'll take them!

I'm connected to Discord since today too! (Though I don't know how to use it still....)

And soon I'll see you in stream too!

Good job mate!

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Hey there !

First of all thanks for your wonderful build :)

There is a little something I did not understand about it tho.

Why do you take Frenetic on the passive tree ? What are those frenzy charges for ?

I tried to read your build again and again but I just can't figure it out xD

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Hey,

My pleasure bro!

The Frenzy charges grants atk/cast as well as "more" damage to your abilities, on top of this the Ascendancy "Swift Killer" makes Frenzy & Power Charges grant additional Damage over Time per charge :)

Thanks for your fast answer !

Now I understand this a little bit more :p

So, do we have useful things in this build in order to trigger the charges ?

Hi,

Been playing this build and it's been good with minimal investment. Actually made quite a bit of $$$.

Damage seems low though, 24.8k and with arcane surge up after 1x contagion cast it's at 28k, full buffs/flasks about 37k I think.

Damage has been good enough to do up to t14 maps, but you do notice it's a bit slow and not as efficient in t12+ with my current dmg. Sometimes I need to stop and stack blight 1 or 2x on a yellow mob or ED takes too long to kill. Full buffs my blight reads 10k~

I don't think I could do guardians, I need 6L empower/dmg at full life as sixth link. But 6L prices are dumb, 540+ chaos for defiance 6 linked. I don't feel like paying 500 chaos for 1 piece at all.

My health is 5,2k but im using healthy mind jewel for some mana making life 4.9k + .1.1k ES, because im running enfeeble + arctic armor. Almost 5k mana and 3k of that is reserved.

Survival seems no issue, I dont even look at the mods I rolled on rare maps anymore. Even no regen double boss enfeeble and additional damage on monsters is NP. I just wish I had more damage, to make it feel more smooth. 50k+ dmg would be very smooth I imagine and 80k+ just insane. I don't see how 1 additional gem (6 link) will give me 20k+ dmg though....

Also there don't seem to be that many mobs in maps anymore which is slightly annoying as ED doesn't chain as nicely at times :(

Thanks for the build.

Edit: using tabula now for easy 6L, damage only went up with 4k using +1 empower... how do people get 80k+ ED damage?

Im looking for ways to improve, any tips? I managed to kill 2 guardians with this setup.

Awesome build, thank you!

One question is I'm using Lifesprig wand for leveling purposes and that prevents me from using Shield Charge... should I just use Flame Dash while leveling then switch to Shield Charge when I get a good dagger? or is there a dagger option for leveling?

Hey!
Can you tell what is best option for body armor in endgame? Cherry or CoD? which one is more influential? I almost saved up 500c. Looks like 80 chaos damage is huge, but i really dont get how much much CoD will affect my farming potential.
Also any advice for my Trickster? https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Efed/characters

Pierce or Empower (Lv.2)
what is better ?

and how different between Empower and Empower corrupted ?

thx

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razzyc wrote:

Pierce or Empower (Lv.2)
what is better ?

and how different between Empower and Empower corrupted ?

thx

Pierce, empower its only good 3+, and the corrupted version of empower its because the ppl level the gem to 3 and put a vaal orb to try to get a empower 4

I was going to level a poison spectral throw character (thanks mathil) but when I started leveling I kinda just loved Ed+Contagion so much I changed my mind and started using this build. very fun!

I just hit endgame today and farming t10 comfortably, but my damage is definitely feeling like its on the lower end. I know I'm missing a few link setups, but I would appreciate any other tips to get my dps up. My character's name is PoisonSucksNow

Also why do we take cloak of defiance? From what I gather we're getting Es and 4 passive points (if we un-spec MoM) and in return we lose 64% mana, for the cost (55-70c for a 5L) This is my first season so maybe I'm missing something that makes it more valuable?

Similarly, If death's oath triggers 450 dot on kill how do you survive with it constantly ticking during mapping?