[2.5] Essence Drain Build Options (HC Uber Atziri/Shaper Viable)

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Marchosiae wrote:

Any great changes from 2.4?

there does not seem to be any great changes, well kinda

ED/con " normal " set up with 1 or 2 consuming darks, spell dmg etc seems to be OK up to and including t 15's. Everything i have seen this week says guardians and shaper not enough dmg.

I have been trying to find as much info as i can as i hop to play this next league.

right now in Essence league, the meta seems to be a bow or dagger/s with Essence of Delerium on them, 10000 chaos dmg over 10 secs. affected by the various other stats double dipping etc.

This seems to be enough for t16 and Shaper- However still not EASY kills.

moving into what ever new league is -

Essences - if they stay, ED/con is OK but if they are harder to get the prices will spike,
If they go well. I dont think ED/CON with consuming darks will reliably get the job done.

Right now its a waiting game to see what happens.

There is some hyrbid builds of people using ED/con/Vortex. Ed/con switching into Vortex late game ( just lvl as vortex imo its easy), and ED/con into low life Chaos ( fire ) storm.

I know this is not very clear. Will update if i can find more info

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pKleck wrote:

How can I improve my version of this build? Please help?

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Currently clearing t8's with not too much trouble. What will I notice by ditching Consuming Dark?

first thing first, keep leveling Get to about lvl 90 and save as much currency as you can. Switching from your passive tree into a CI version will allow you heaps more room for damage. Obviously going CI especially late in the league is expensive, you will need up to 70 regret orbs, plus all the higher ES gear, maybe a change in ascendancy too.

getting at least 20/20 gems in your chest peice, + other gear is essentially.all the ED/CON gems scale really well with higher lvls. so getting all your ED links and CON links to 20/20 would be step 1 for me.
Step 2 - switch into CI ( make sure you have the gear, or your character will go backwards by alot)
- I would also use a spell shield. not a 2nd dagger you can get I think another 400 ES fairly easily, sockets and res's etc.

your gear is OK levelling gear, but would need some improvements to continue past t12. either stay life. get more life better res's etc and do it that way, OR if currency permits switch to CI (300-500Chaos) or LowLife ( 400-800chaos)


there is some pretty effective builds were you can grab more phys resistance, some slightly dif nodes and farm UBER lab for currency and transition into CI to start. apparently a few UBER runs a day can get you up to 10 EX a week.

Id suggest reading my prev post about switching to a essence of delirium wepon also for late game.

TLDR : get gems to 20/20, improve life and res on gear and lvl some more -then save and go CI and max your Energy shield.

also your CD dagger i think can go to 60%

i'm currently 90 inspired by this build and the "build of the week" version (mistress of agony / trickster)

The build is very strong and confortable to play, but i feel something is wrong with my character damages but i guess it is explained by the essence drain not being 20% qual and other 20% qual gem not being lv 20 ; also i failed into 6L my chest.

Hey, I just started with your build and it's great so far, thanks!

How does the new 2.4.2 Skill Gem Blight affect this build? Any thoughts?

Hello!
I want to make occultist version of witch with this build, however i haven't played for quite some time and i don't remember a lot of things. So my question is how do i do passive tree on witch to do it? 54 lvl currently - char doublepartakus

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I have 157 hours in POE(according to Steam). As my first character suffered a lot in late game, it became harder and harder to progress. Therefore, I did some researches on how to make a good build and I found your guide on your Youtube channel. Then it linked me into the POE forum here. As my second class is going to be Shadow, I'm going to follow your passive tree and gem set up. I am still a little nervous of how are things going to turn out because I don't have any useful unique items.

Anyways, thanks for the guide. Have a nice time.

I'm planning to use this build as a league starter for breach.
Will ED+Contagion strong enough to clear endgame content like shaper and guardians?

Do you think this build is good league starter build?
Is the Trickster still best choice after new map mods announced (lower AOE/+20% chaos res for example) or is Occultist on-par/better?

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Sopthik wrote:

Do you think this build is good league starter build?
Is the Trickster still best choice after new map mods announced (lower AOE/+20% chaos res for example) or is Occultist on-par/better?

I thinking about the same.
Still can't decide to go trickster or occultist for 2.5 start.

I made a little spreadsheet for leveling the ED build. I'll post it here, maybe it helps someone.



(I want to play SC, hence the Flame Golem. Switch that to chaos/stone for HC)