2.1 Conta/Ess Drain = The Purple Puragu : cheap and effective Atziri killer/mapper (SC/HC)

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eragon1111 wrote:

Bow would you build essence drain purely for single target. Lets say you have 0 problems with trash, but need biggest single target dmg?

Either a 6L +3 staff with ED/Empower/Poison/Void/Controlled Destruction/Add Chaos or maybe a 6L pledge with the same gem setup would be better because it would stack poison faster.

Hard to say without actual testing

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Kagari wrote:

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smurdock wrote:

Very fun build. I went pure life and have a belly of the beast on. Probably will switch to carcass as soon as I can get one. My question is how can you tell how much the poison is helping. I have it in my 5th link and want to go for fatal toxins but I wish there was a way to tell the effectiveness of poison. Not familiar with the mechanics of it very much.

The daamage of poison can be calculate but it doesn't appear on the tooltip. The only way to see what it does is to try.
Find a boss with enough HP like Vaal, Dom or Atziri and compare your damage when you spam a few ED on hit and the difference should be huge.

I'll have to do that. If you end up getting fatal toxins could you post your thoughts on how it preforms? Got my carcass jack and switched from pure life to hybrid so taking the ES area near whispers of doom. If fatal toxins is that good I'll just switch the points there. Currently almost 4k life and 3k ES.

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smurdock wrote:

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Kagari wrote:

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smurdock wrote:

Very fun build. I went pure life and have a belly of the beast on. Probably will switch to carcass as soon as I can get one. My question is how can you tell how much the poison is helping. I have it in my 5th link and want to go for fatal toxins but I wish there was a way to tell the effectiveness of poison. Not familiar with the mechanics of it very much.

The daamage of poison can be calculate but it doesn't appear on the tooltip. The only way to see what it does is to try.
Find a boss with enough HP like Vaal, Dom or Atziri and compare your damage when you spam a few ED on hit and the difference should be huge.

I'll have to do that. If you end up getting fatal toxins could you post your thoughts on how it preforms? Got my carcass jack and switched from pure life to hybrid so taking the ES area near whispers of doom. If fatal toxins is that good I'll just switch the points there. Currently almost 4k life and 3k ES.

I did grab fatal toxin since i found a bino and gave it a quick review in the guide.

I gues any Bino will make the job well. So just buy the cheapest bino and have fun?

Nice build!

Playing similar build but i go Acrobatics.

One question: Are area damage and radius too much important?

Poison it's insane in 1 target dps. I delete every boss. (atm in a3 Merciless).

For maps whats the best option for be speedy? GMP?

Thx

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k33s69 wrote:

Nice build!

Playing similar build but i go Acrobatics.

One question: Are area damage and radius too much important?

Poison it's insane in 1 target dps. I delete every boss. (atm in a3 Merciless).

For maps whats the best option for be speedy? GMP?

Thx

Thar s in maps that area radius/damage becomes important to me. Putting GMP on essence will destroy the damage of the skill. That's where contagion with all the area shines.

could u post some resulsts on how good bino is with the build, is not that cheap to buy it and get a meh change in damage :D

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sporter26 wrote:

could u post some resulsts on how good bino is with the build, is not that cheap to buy it and get a meh change in damage :D

I just did a quick result on the guide for the bino.

Have you thought of using the Consuming Dark Dagger and dropping the poison gem? I am personally looking to try bino/consuming dark dual wield once I get this character up and running and manage to get currency (hard this league due to real life commitments atm).

I am doing something similar to this but am going acro and planning on DW with frenzy charges with blood dance and see how that works out for me.

Jesus christ just replaced my chest with Carcass and get my hands on a bino. It is totally worth using bino. Especially the spread is much better. Almost no need for Conta.The single target dps melt down Voll on lvl 65 in under 8sek. ED is in a 4L for me. My gear is crap, my skill tree was focused on getting AoE and i ignored 2 DoT nodes. Really nice build.