POE 2 ✧ Lahkesis Queen of Chaos ✧ "Essence Drain " Guide v0.05 so close (added some shorts)
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So I just hit 41 and sloted in hexblast and it's really helped with DPS compared to just ED along. I still plan to use ED, but think Ill suppliment it for now with hexblast. I know people say its hard to sustain but I havent had much issues when pairing it with inspiration support and mana regeneration from a unique helm and the tree.
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" If it helps you for levelling - great! If you have half descent gear (like +2 levels and +50 additives between wand/ focus) ED/contagion/effigy should clear alright. But due to loot scarcity I can imagine that there may be points during campaign where some help is needed, especially before effigy. Manacost in POE2 is scaling exponentially ~ x2 per 6 levels. At the same time all manaregen is quadratic at best (linear mana x linear mana percentage). At low levels many things go, but as you start to level up and to gear up, costs pretty soon will become prohibitive. To be fair, I think they should tune system a bit. At high levels currently it's a bit absurd and mana flasks are close to useless - you need multiple sips from max quality non-instant flask to afford a single cast. Last edited by adavydow#2566 on Dec 16, 2024, 10:16:59 AM
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After our 'talk' yesterday my modification of your tree (Adavydow) https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/ood00qu9 (Red for ED only, Green other stuff).
In my opinion the other helpfull thing during leveling is Ice Wall. It can help keep mobs on Despair (casted with Cursed Ground), and sometimes it seems like it is taking aggro from everything around. |
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Ex. for endgame hexblast:
https://poe2db.tw/us/Hexblast With good gear in endgame you will be ~lvl35. It's over 900 mana per cast. I'm not sure what people are using as supports but if it is for clear, than probably there is at least magnified effect, which is 120% multiplier, so we are over 1000 already. And this is not a dot, this is "spammable" spell. Given that best flask restores a little bit more than 300 mana on use, this is looking over-tuned. |
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" What about lucidity cluster? It's close to fortify-level damage reduction for hits (and with mana recoup damage to mana does not matter). How does projectile cluster feels for ED? Is QOL good enough to justify the investment? Last edited by adavydow#2566 on Dec 16, 2024, 10:49:36 AM
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" This is just theory. I'm still only at 76lvl, so there is a lot of time to get to that, tree is lvl 100, so with my current time for playing I will not reach that anytime soon. Still trying to get enough gold to respec to using 2 sets of weapons. |
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" Is it classified as Minion for pact? Should be nice to keep monsters away from effigy too, I struggled a lot with its survivability before I got enough +lvls. Last edited by adavydow#2566 on Dec 16, 2024, 10:57:34 AM
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" I've been running a somewhat similar build to yours (thx for the guide btw, helped for planning a lot). I play Infernalist too, but my main problem right now is that I don't really seem to get demon form worthwhile, not having the stats from the weapons is really hindering, as I have managed to get some really good stat wand, and chaos damage focus. Plus the 50% life unique is a must have for the demon form to be sustainable. And so now, running the demon form isn't really worth it for me, and the other ascension perks don't really synergize... I also put minion pact on hexblast instead of poison, and poison on dark effigy, so it spams poison on everything. +1, you might mentioned it somewhere, but how did you managed to get grim reap AND double curse blasphemy from only 136 spirit? |
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" I imagine it's quality on blasphemy? Very useful even for a single curse, even more for two. I'm even considering fishing for quality-corruption once I finally chance my doedre's. Last edited by adavydow#2566 on Dec 16, 2024, 11:07:58 AM
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" It's not. Using it with spell casade. Smaller mobs are being kept away, bigger usually go through, but with damage dealt and freeze buildup. It can also sometimes block projectiles from boss fight, and ED cast it also usually blocked by it. |
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