(3.14) Toxic Rain + Caustic Arrow | 5-10m Sirus DPS | Fast + Durable | 50c Budget/SSF Uber Elder

Im thinking about making this character because i have a ton of currency and want to try it.. Im doing essence drain and i have very good gear but i feel its a bit clunky especially in the new Simulacrum so i want to try this out, but there are not really any good amulets with -mana so whats the option there?
Maybe -mana cost on rings is needed?:)

how does the frenzy/despair set up work? are we supposed to manually cast frenzy to keep charges up? how does despair work if we're using wither totems?

"

wikro wrote:

Im thinking about making this character because i have a ton of currency and want to try it.. Im doing essence drain and i have very good gear but i feel its a bit clunky especially in the new Simulacrum so i want to try this out, but there are not really any good amulets with -mana so whats the option there?
Maybe -mana cost on rings is needed?:)

the - mana cost is a craft btw in addition to it being a prefix on the temple rings

Can someone go through my gear and tell me if i should change anything, my dps, is okay at higher mapping, i do die a lot, and boss fights are getting pretty difficult for me because of mana not regening very fast. I still pretty new to the game so go a little light on me if somethings really bad :D

Any recommendation for a PoB if you want to use some new Cluster jewels?

Hi, I want to start playing this build changing my lvl91 ed/cont trickster. Map clear is great, however 400-450k DoT is not enough for endgame bosses.
I would like to know if my current gear will be good enough for endgame (A7+) and if this build will provide better bossing experience.
(I also have a Maloney's mechanism.)
I will appreciate any help or comment.

"

wikro wrote:

Im thinking about making this character because i have a ton of currency and want to try it.. Im doing essence drain and i have very good gear but i feel its a bit clunky especially in the new Simulacrum so i want to try this out, but there are not really any good amulets with -mana so whats the option there?
Maybe -mana cost on rings is needed?:)

+1 to dex gems
+1 to chaos gems

"

marshmallowcrisp wrote:

how does the frenzy/despair set up work? are we supposed to manually cast frenzy to keep charges up? how does despair work if we're using wither totems?

Despair and Wither work together just fine and yes, you use Frenzy to get charges and to apply Despair (mostly to tougher enemies and bosses)

Despair also only applies to enemies hit - it's not an area curse when used with CoH AFAIK?

p.s. I used Despair with CoH on Flame Dash for a while - only works for enemies you pass-through (which seems a bit glitchy) but it works...

"

BlizzardTurtle wrote:

Can someone go through my gear and tell me if i should change anything, my dps, is okay at higher mapping, i do die a lot, and boss fights are getting pretty difficult for me because of mana not regening very fast.

We can't check your gear, characters are private.

Just wondering what people would suggest investing in next. Sitting on 16 ex of currency. Could buy a watcher's eye with %increase DOT multiplier while affected be malevolence (about 15), or an empower lvl 4 (about 7 ex), or buy enlighten lvl 4, or focus on cluster gems. Havent been using them yet, but from POE ninja seems like lots of the top leveled toxic rain builds are using cluster jewels. Thanks for the advice.