POE 2 ✧ Lahkesis Queen of Chaos ✧ "Essence Drain " (Lich Chaos Ascendancy 0.2.2) Coming soon

Im close to finish act 1 and i having a good time.
But im wondering what gem setup are you running through the acts?
You can check at poe2 ninja: https://poe2.ninja/builds/
From my experience last patch, I'd say unleash on contagion is the must, other is up to preference.
Most popular setup is magnified effect on contagion, swift afliction/zenith for ED, I believe. Chain on ED is also very popular, as it helps for clearing (not required if you have nleash on contagion, though).

And I still hardly see any reason to use >lvl 1 contagion. Even though it contradicts philosophy of GGG as they told they want us to want to level up gems, as long as contagion level up is just damage, it's really hard to justify increase in mana cost.
Last edited by adavydow#2566 on Apr 5, 2025, 7:29:05 AM
GGG really needs an option to look at poe2 characters on people's accts, unless I'm just missing it, tried a minion build, hated it, want to try this so I guess I'm just gonna go in blind until more info is out there, but thanks @jack3dm#0444 for the passive tree

Edit, I'm liking the build and everything seems alright, except my single target dps seems super low, hoping it gets better, just got to a2 normal

Edit 2 - I'm in a3 now and the single target dps is kinda low still, but there's a couple things I'm getting soon that should help, but looking at what everyone's recommending for ascended points Price of Power should be one, but I'm not seeing where the power charge generation is coming from to support it.
Last edited by bobmcbob124#6339 on Apr 6, 2025, 2:59:50 AM
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adavydow#2566 wrote:
Going to leaguestart ED again, and as everybody I'm looking at lih ascendancy (25 and 30% more damage nodes are too juicy to ignore). However, I'm having slight concerns about defenses.

Has anybody tried Soulless Form already?
In particular, I'm interested the following interactions:

1. MOM - do we still lose mana if hit while we have ES (I assume yes)?
2. Eternal youth or ES recoup: in this case we always have ES. I assume that if it is depleted in one hit damage is taken on life? And no way to regen life in this case?
3. Event Horizon life loss. Is it ignored while we have ES?
4. How does it interact with Heavy Buffer and uniques like Aziri's helmet? Reading the description looks like bypassed damage is just ignored, but it sounds too good to be true as we would be able to stack about 50% global damage reduction this way.
5. Is damage taken still registesed (ex. for recoup or ailment calculation) even if life is not changed?

Overall, how annoying is life recovery with SF (I don't see any reasonable way other than instant lifeflask each time life is dropping down)?

Will test it myself, but I'll be away from home today, so will be starting tomorrow, would really appreciate if somebody already has answers to these questions.


1. Yes.
2. Yes.
3. Yes.
4. Damage that is bypassing is ignored. You are also ignoring bleed and poison if you have ES.
5. Recoup is being registered even when ignored.

If you have even 1 ES there is no way to change life. So to heal from low HP and full ES the only way is to remove all ES gear.
Anybody in maps? Hows it going? Damage decent enough? With hexblast nerf?
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Wilmots#7633 wrote:
Anybody in maps? Hows it going? Damage decent enough? With hexblast nerf?



yes bro im in maps with and its going so well
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ichigo#0008 wrote:
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Wilmots#7633 wrote:
Anybody in maps? Hows it going? Damage decent enough? With hexblast nerf?



yes bro im in maps with and its going so well


ty bro you use hexblast?
So, I am a very big noob on build crafting, but this is what I have been doing so far (reading the nodes and trying to see if they make sense)

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/riduf0id (used a maxroll link because the other I was testing seemed wrong)

Am I in the correct track? I am very low level So I am using ED (With Swift Affliction and Chain) and Contagion (With area and profanity). Using Unearth to help clear and a bit of cleaving.

Sorry if I am asking something obvious, I am trying to learn not to just follow a guide blindly.
Last edited by whiteringleaf#7546 on Apr 7, 2025, 10:22:08 AM
Would it be possible to have your ninja link? Or just your character name to check on Ninja? Ty
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Would it be possible to have your ninja link? Or just your character name to check on Ninja? Ty


Sure, the current character I am working on is this: https://poe2.ninja/account/character/87642/Atropos_doh

As you can see, the Build I sent before is a bit latter level it was kind of my plan. Gear is, well, bad. I am more concern if I am understanding how to build what I want (that is basically the Queen of Chaos ideal) since I am ways off still. Plan is to get to level 30 this weekend.

I also have some level 1 support and level 3 skill gems that I am not sure what to do with.
Last edited by whiteringleaf#7546 on Apr 7, 2025, 12:01:21 PM

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