POE 2 ✧ Lahkesis Queen of Chaos ✧ "Essence Drain " Guide v0.05 so close (added some shorts)
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Started early access with contagion/essence drain and I'm really disappointed. While damage-wise it looks ok, mechanically it feels really bad.
New contagion does not have aoe on cast, this means that you need to land two single target spells on the same monster in a big pack to start the chain. What is even worth, this spells have different nature (contagion is target, ed is projectile), so even clicking on the same spot with stationary monsters does not guarantee that they will hit the same target. On big dense packs with faster monsters it is complete nightmare and if contagion/essence drain is not good for dense packs than what is the use of it? The only way to get at least some consistency which I found for now is scattershot on ed, which is disappointing damage-wise. UPD: Unleash on contagion also helps, for some reason thought that it will multicast on the same monster, but it casts on different and it gives some coverage. Last edited by adavydow#2566 on Dec 6, 2024, 9:34:31 PM
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Nice to see an old friend still playing and making guides, I did my first 100 back in Harbinger league with you.
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" Using chain on essence drain helps a lot with coverage. my setup so far: ED-Chain-SwiftAffliction Contagion-MagnifiedEffect-Persistance Enfeeble-ImpendingDoom-DecayingHex started as witch, but tbh, not sure if it was the right idea.....might want to reroll to chrono/gemling, but ill keep going for now |
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" Chain is even more damage penalty then scattershot. " You definitely want Unleash on contagion it helps a lot. " Chrono 20% slow looks too good to pass on this build (hope it will not bite me later with insufficient damage scaling). Gemling looks good but a bit glass-cannony and it starts in a really weird position of the tree for chaos build. Last edited by adavydow#2566 on Dec 6, 2024, 10:20:32 PM
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" No it isn't. Chain only reduces the HIT damage of Essence Drain which does not matter to anyone playing Contagion. Scattershot is actually far worse because it DOES effect the DoT damage AND the extra projectiles are, IMO, less useful for actually hitting the targets near your contagion. Chain has pretty much zero downside with ED except for the fact that it does not actually increase damage at all, but at least for early game it makes ED feel way better Just FYI, when "inspecting" ED with/without Chain, make sure you swap to the "Damage over Time" tab and you will see the Chaos Damage Per Second doesn't change at all with Chain support Last edited by bonerkill#1301 on Dec 7, 2024, 2:37:57 AM
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" Thanks, missed it. You are right. By the way, switched from mouse movement to WASD and ED/Contagion feels waay better (much easier to click precisely on the monster when you don't need to move mouse for movement). Never thought that I would enjoy it. Ran through act 2 with just unleash on contagion and it feeled ok. For early ED I'm using Persistence/Swift Affliction. Swift Affliction is realy juicy, but if used without Persistence ED duration is too short. Last edited by adavydow#2566 on Dec 7, 2024, 3:42:53 AM
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I am really excited for more ED Queen action. I can't wait for your guide to appear. Thanks for doing this.
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ETA ?
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Soon
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Also get any curse with decaying hex.
Contagion spreads ANY chaos damage over time, it will spread the curse decay hex as well. |
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