[2.2] Occultist (Contagion + Essence Drain) Beginner starting build

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Mustanger302 wrote:

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Buks wrote:

I guess you can call this preferences. I prefer to spend points elsewhere and I find duration nodes completely unnessecary, at least for the build I'm going to be playing. For example i'm not even using wither, abyssal cry, poison. Vaal skills can be up almost 100% of the time if it's a good map and I'm not devoting a lot of time to looting. Getting duration nodes for contagion spread I feel like is a waste, it's probably good for dried lake speed farming but when farming high end maps you can't always find mob packs close together so that contagion can spread. I'm not planning to farm atziri, excavation boss isn't hard either if you know how to dodge and when you have a little bit of time to reapply ED.
Again it seems like it comes down to what you prefer and as you can see I'm probably playing a "different" kind of ED build than you.

If the duration nodes aren't necessary for Contagion spread, what about the area radius/damage nodes? They are taken in both the Witch and Scion versions of the build, but area damage doesn't seem to apply to Contagion. Are those nodes taken strictly for the radius increase?

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Buks wrote:

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Mustanger302 wrote:

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Buks wrote:

I guess you can call this preferences. I prefer to spend points elsewhere and I find duration nodes completely unnessecary, at least for the build I'm going to be playing. For example i'm not even using wither, abyssal cry, poison. Vaal skills can be up almost 100% of the time if it's a good map and I'm not devoting a lot of time to looting. Getting duration nodes for contagion spread I feel like is a waste, it's probably good for dried lake speed farming but when farming high end maps you can't always find mob packs close together so that contagion can spread. I'm not planning to farm atziri, excavation boss isn't hard either if you know how to dodge and when you have a little bit of time to reapply ED.
Again it seems like it comes down to what you prefer and as you can see I'm probably playing a "different" kind of ED build than you.

If the duration nodes aren't necessary for Contagion spread, what about the area radius/damage nodes? They are taken in both the Witch and Scion versions of the build, but area damage doesn't seem to apply to Contagion. Are those nodes taken strictly for the radius increase?

Yup, for Contagion area radius increase, area dmg does nothing for this build.

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Rockstarpanda wrote:

none of the passive trees are working since they updated the tree... any chance we coulf get an updated version of both the witch and scion?

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swash018 wrote:

I am super new to this game, Like brand new. I decided to try this build, I'm aware the game can be pretty boring in the early stages so I guess I will have to muster through until level 38.

I might have a few questions as I look over this guide.

Again im super nub. In the really early stages of the passive tree, it looks like you take a few Avoid Interruption while casting nodes. Is this super necessary in this game, because it "looks" like I could take 3 spell critical strike chance nodes instead and still end up with the rest of the build looking the same.

Is spell critical just not an important for a build like this? or is avoiding spell interruption that good? Or am I greatly over-analyzing this early part of the tree and these points are just a means to progressing to better nodes?

Thanks to anyone who answers

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MalakielCL wrote:

this build is HC oriented ? have a CI variant ?

any concerns if ?


i appreciate the feedback