POE 2 ✧ Lahkesis Queen of Chaos ✧ "Essence Drain " Guide v0.05 so close (added some shorts)
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My assumption is he is testing random things to find a “breakthrough” but so far the shorts aren’t really showcasing anything I haven’t seen before.
Yes, ed/contagion blows up packs. What’s your gear like killing the bosses? What level were you? Last edited by slobdog#2920 on Dec 15, 2024, 4:16:39 PM
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Anyone have any thought on trying out Gemling with this? The travel is a pain, but ascendency seems like its good giving the gem levels which I think is what ED/Contagion wants most of time. I kinda want to try it but if someone already has and its ass, than I can save some time lol.
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" Quality is also really nice, it's +10% more duration for ED. Reuse of supports is great too, as ED is fire and forget, it'll be great to add one more gem as a filler for bosses (ex. soulrend), but chaos supports are realy scarse. I also wanted to try it when saw the ascendancy, but in the end couldn't make it work due to awkward pathing: all the good clusters are on opposite side of the tree and in POE2 it's much more hard to travel than in POE1. If you manage to build it, please post it, very interesting if it somehow can work. Last edited by adavydow#2566 on Dec 15, 2024, 5:45:19 PM
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hear me out:
double curse with 2x30% int damage, infinite duration for bosses. any way to get more curses? stack curses |
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I'm playing ED/contagion as a gemling. i'm level 75 atm it's working pretty nicely, tho i'm still wondering a few things, like is extra use on support that interesting ? (i don't have it yet only at 4 points) Since ED is most of my dps, and the rest if to buff it pretty much, i'm not sure it's worth 4 ascendancy points, so i'm kinda leaning to going for double value for stats to get more life.
After a lot of changed i'm pretty happy with the tree i have now, since i have a wand/focus setup for ED only (with even horizon and spagheti) the 3% life lose isn't bad at all only being for ED casts. For the second weapon set, i have a wand with more mana regen and same amount of +skill levels with high block shield for tankiness, that works well since it's moving left of the mercenary start to go up, so i can get some more block chance along the way, currently at 60% block chance with 2.3k life. I'm on tier 5 maps atm, bosses aren't really an issue dps wise, it's not monk speed but i can kill them under a minute. Still trying to work a few things out to make it even better. |
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" Don't you mind sharing your tree? Interesting to have a peek. |
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Also kind of curious if its similar to what I brewed up. I went left with pretty much all +stats until the first Chaos node.
I just don't know how survivability is gonna look, CI doesn't seem possible due to not much points left over after traveling so much. |
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" My main problem was that due to this long travel I had to leave some curse and duration nodes. While level and quality is nice, in the end it's just ~12% more damage and ~10% duration. By simply starting in the witch area it's possible to cover the differnce through additonal clusters you can take due to saved nodes, so the main benefit of Gemling are pure stats you got during the traveling. May still be interesting with ex. decaying curse which scales of int. |
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I also think going pure stats is also not terrible, I am finding that a lot of nodes just aren't spectacular anyways and stat stacking seems generally just better in a lot of ways.
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" Sure that's what i'm aiming for atm for lvl 92 : https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/fc1zk0q4 Don't pay attention to stat points on the tree, i didn't pick them cause that changes with gear etc. Red points are for ED Green points for the rest I have +1 curse on ring |
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