Why people say ED contagion great?
" Dumb take , lets be real there is a veritable infinity of possibility between having to take 4-5 seconds to slow clear every white mob and clearing the entire screen. Its an ARPG , what you eman playing the wrong game you know the A stands for action , kiting white mobs isnt action , dodge roll boss for 15 minutes to click attack every 10 seconds one time in the opening isnt action . I think that this game should have been marketed as something else not an ARPG because like the old Wendys saying where is the beef ? Where is the action ?????? |
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" Everything you just stated is an action. If 4 seconds to kill a white pack is too long, consider playing D3/D4/POE1/Vampire Survivors/LE |
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IF you can't even kill a singular white mob to set off the chain reaction then you have some serious build problems. Most of die mobs die within a second for me using that same setup... for blues and yellows I summon effigy to speed it up even faster...
Have you specced your ED/C into duration or something(therefore absolutely gutting your output damage)? Most of the time I actually HAVE to cast C on a stronger mob or the dot my curse causes will kill everything before I can proliferate it. Most zones I just run around and repeat the process OR if map density is high enough I cast it once at the start of the zone and then run after the resulting explosion... I REALLY sounds like you F'ed up something in the gem department Last edited by AshPrinner#1517 on Sep 3, 2025, 1:23:13 AM
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" Well if you need 4 Min to clear a couple white mobs, which isnt even the case, its pretty bad if there are hundreds. But its simply not the case. - |
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" I think the other poster made reasonable post. Your comment of dumb take sounds the real dumb take here. |
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I'm playing the ED/Contagion. In the early game it was an absolutely miserable experience because you get non stop swarmed by white mobs. Awkwardly and clunkily apply the contaigon to one only for the other mobs to run in front so you have trouble getting the chain reaction starting.
Only after getting Blasphemy with Temporal Chains and AoE+Unleash for Contagion the build starts to make sense. The ceiling for that is too high because that was near 15 hours into the league for me. So i spent the first 15 hours not enjoying the game at all. Only stuck with it because it was my strongest build last season and i knew it would come online _eventually_. I believe you're also kinda f***** in terms of enjoyment if you find no wand with extra levels early on. Same if you find no upgrade for the plus levels wand later in the campaign. |
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" Yep, thats exactly the point of why ed sucks. Sure it becomes good in endgame or even at level 60 but not before. No fun whatsoever. I dislike rarity so much im almost quitting poe2. GGG.
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" Level 49 with act 4 my build started to click. It's a completely different game now. Much more enjoyable. |
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" I rerolled into thorns. My build started working the moment i put pale king helmet. Ofc the screen clear with thorns build is pathetic but it was fun all the way into the maps. And it stops being fun due to no aoe clear basically. I dislike rarity so much im almost quitting poe2. GGG.
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yep you are doing thigs wrong
first of all - your main clear ability not ed, its contagion because how it scales with each spread. ed is just source of damage also i bet you dont use unearth, that spell significantly increases contagion spread (and defence as meatshield), also you didnt invest in aoe radius properly builded chaos lich causes game crash on mid end pc in endgame due to number of chain kills and one more tip about ED - FORGET about hit dmg, hits are irrelevant, focus on boosting its DoT damage and make effect as long as possible. Last edited by RedCorsair#2371 on Sep 3, 2025, 8:54:12 PM
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