POE 2 ✧ Lahkesis Queen of Chaos ✧ "Essence Drain " Guide v0.05 so close (added some shorts)

infernalist poison hexblast video, sorry if quality is bad i have never recorded gameplay before

https://youtu.be/pVBiqk107ek

why is this in a witch build forum? clearly not a witch.

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Jarosover#1368 wrote:

why is this in a witch build forum? clearly not a witch.

Infernalist is a witch ascendancy, I posted my guide earlier and peeps asked for gameplay vid

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bonerkill#1301 wrote:

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Jarosover#1368 wrote:

why is this in a witch build forum? clearly not a witch.

Infernalist is a witch ascendancy, I posted my guide earlier and peeps asked for gameplay vid

Hey Boner. I wanted to follow up to my post this morning. I followed your guide today. Your build is awesome and needs its own thread here on the forums.

I am only on tier 5 maps at this point, but I am facerolling them. The build is really tanky, and really zoomy. I will be curious to see the ceiling on this build.

I don't have any more time to play today, but people need to give this build a try. It is almost a 1 button wonder that lots of people will enjoy.

Thanks again mate.

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jtaylo65#5698 wrote:

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bonerkill#1301 wrote:

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Jarosover#1368 wrote:

why is this in a witch build forum? clearly not a witch.

Infernalist is a witch ascendancy, I posted my guide earlier and peeps asked for gameplay vid

Hey Boner. I wanted to follow up to my post this morning. I followed your guide today. Your build is awesome and needs its own thread here on the forums.

I am only on tier 5 maps at this point, but I am facerolling them. The build is really tanky, and really zoomy. I will be curious to see the ceiling on this build.

I don't have any more time to play today, but people need to give this build a try. It is almost a 1 button wonder that lots of people will enjoy.

Thanks again mate.

That is awesome man I am glad you are enjoying it!

bonerkill#1301

I see in your video you manage to be in demon form and have the hound summoned, did you have any issues getting this working?

I can't get it to work, I get get every other aura working, using weapon set 2 etc. but the dog just de-summons as soon as I enter demon form even if I turn everything else off.

Thanks,

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bonerkill#1301 wrote:

infernalist poison hexblast video, sorry if quality is bad i have never recorded gameplay before

https://youtu.be/pVBiqk107ek

Wow, I am very impressed you got Demonform to work. I will definitely be trying this build out. Was previously running just normal ED + Contagion + Hexblast but could never stay in Demonform for long durations.

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why is this in a witch build forum? clearly not a witch.

Still more useful than OP making this build post and not actually putting their build in it.

One more thing I wanted to share, which I started facing in the late game:
gem levels are far from "free" damage in POE2, it's not only 12% more damage per level, but 12% more manacost as well. As there is no way to get exponential mana scaling (outside of mana-drain wand), past lvl30 spells it starts to be really annoying.

For spirit games lvl is always worse it, for spells it's a different story.

Overall, I would say there are three spells where levels are benefitial in general:
ED (main damage source), dark effigy (more hp for the totem is very nice) and defensive curse (we don't pay its mana cost anyway).

For contagion it's strait up harmfull, damage wise it does nothing and lvl 1 contagion is as good as lvl30 with spreading ED and satisfying dot requirement for effigy. Downlevelling contagion is the first thing to do if you have mana problems.

For despair it's debatable. It's more damage, but scaling is pretty poor and cost is pretty insane. I would not run with lvl1 despair, but it's also a spell I consider downlevelling. +1% more damage is nice, but if it becomes more questionable once you need to spec 3 more mana nods to afford it.

Can someone tell me what curse do he use on the last showcash as an aura with blasphemy ? I cant tell