![]() While there is a ton of Essence Drain content out there, I feel like a lot. When built correctly, it excels in clear speed, killing some easier bosses, and staying alive. ![]() It is generally perceived well because of its potential in all areas of the game. Survival ones like Revenge of the Hunted and Blood Drinker can be slotted in wherever really depending on how you're progressing and if you need more damage or more life at that given moment. Essence Drain is a widely-recognized and appreciated build by a large chunk of the community. Basic order of notables (not an all-inclusive list): Blight and Bane work well for clearing trash, while you can toss ED onto bosses to help single target.Ģ) The tree mostly just fills in counterclockwise, so it's pretty straight forward to follow. Takes just 4 points to wipe the floor with the entire trickster ascendency, at least for chaos dot. Chaos can stack from different sources, so while you're level 1-60 you should keep blight, ED, and bane all as 4-links in your setup. Essence drain is basically Occultist only because occy gives a fat damage buff that costs trickster an arm and a leg to match, and Im skeptical about how well it really holds up to similar alternatives. Around the time you get your third lab done to get Escape Artist, you'll finally have a decent amount of case speed to make contagion/ED feel smoother. With EB you won't have Arcane Surge for large portions of most boss fights.It's unlikely that I'll officially add information to the guide or change the PoB just due to a severe lack of time, but happy to share a few tips for league-starting.ġ) Level with Blight from 1 and then swap to Bane at level 24. For mapping it won't make a big difference, but it does for bosses. With EB, you will only be able to get Arcane Surge through the crafted mod Increased Cast Speed, Chance to gain Arcane Surge on kill. The only process to obtain a one-stat rare is to use annulment orbs to randomly remove affixes.ĥ) Also correct. An item has to be rare in order to use the crafting bench, but we only want one stat on our rare item (+1 to socketed gems). In regards to crafting, annul = annulment orb. This is all just hyper end-game fun, not necessary for now. Coloring that on a Perfect Form would be a nightmare though. That way faster casting supports both contagion and flame dash, and both can trigger arcane surge, and you can level arcane surge a bit more since your skills will cost more mana. Later on, you can do some luxury combos to save gem slots if you end up having a 6-link armor and bow, like putting Contagion - Inc AoE - Intensify - Faster Casting - Arcane Surge - Flame Dash in the armor. ![]() There's only one mandatory 6-link, so you can leave your armor unlinked if you have the bow. You're basically trading the stats on a ring for Discipline, so that depends on what you can make work with your other gear.Ĥ) Correct. You can also use Essence Worm without MoM and without EB in order to run Malevolence, Discipline, and Flesh and Stone. You use this combo with MoM because it allows you to build up a much higher unreserved mana pool which buffers HP. Getting the Temp Chains aura is nice, but not if it means losing Despair.ģ) Malevolence would go in the Essence Worm since it has the highest mana reservation. If I had to only run one curse in this setup, it's Despair. It's almost mandatory for builds that spam spells since you can recover ES faster than mana, but we don't have problems even on only 25% unreserved.Ģ) Yes. You lose the easy ability to proc Arcane Surge on bosses and the -9% to nearby enemies chaos resistance in order to gain a little more ES or evasion. ![]() Basically Malevolence and Flesh and Stone are miles above everything else in terms of value, so there's not as much of a return on investment for using Diadem. You also could run Grace instead of Discipline in a Diadem/QotF combo and spec back into Acro. I would only do this if I were also wearing Perfect Form like you are, since you wouldn't want to undercut the ES gain from Discipline by spec'ing Acrobatics. If you use it, you can run Malevolence, Discipline, and Flesh and Stone in it without even needing an Enlighten. ![]()
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