[Possible 3.0 Update Coming SOON!]"Dbum's Occultist Essence Drain/Decay with a F***ing Bow!"

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gundorf wrote:

I killed all 4 guardians last night but my damage was too low for shaper unfortunately.

For anyone looking to benchmark my ed is at 7.6k and 25k dot. Going to upgrade to 21/20 ed (from 20/20) and level 4 empower (from level 3) and try again.

Since I have not done shaper nor looked into it yet. Why was 25k dot not enough? Does he regeneration like crazy? With 25k ED + Decay that should be more than enough for any boss in the game.

Dbum

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dbum wrote:

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gundorf wrote:

I killed all 4 guardians last night but my damage was too low for shaper unfortunately.

For anyone looking to benchmark my ed is at 7.6k and 25k dot. Going to upgrade to 21/20 ed (from 20/20) and level 4 empower (from level 3) and try again.

Since I have not done shaper nor looked into it yet. Why was 25k dot not enough? Does he regeneration like crazy? With 25k ED + Decay that should be more than enough for any boss in the game.

Dbum

Crazy high chaos resist. I spent about 15 minutes chipping away his health but the orbs that put permanent slow pools on the ground act as a sort of DPS check. Eventually I got hit by too many one shot mechanics and lost my portals. My dps was significantly slower than uberdans video

your gear does seem high end and quite close to uberdan's...
Weird.

hi i've been using Eye of chayula for stun immunity with kinda best option for CI build IMHO and i just got "80% chance to Avoid being Stunned if you've Killed Recently" option on my boots.
I've read that ES build basically has 50% to avoid stun chance
so adding 50%+80% seems like decent regardless of w/e calculation form.

Is it also a good choice to drop chayula and boost some chaos dmg + energy shield + resits?

EDIT: Nevermind, not quite enough scaling to get poison quite where it needs to be on shaper as a support gem, was thinking there was more than there was.

Almost 29k ED damage now, back to Vortex and winning. Running through T12-T13 maps with great ease right now, ALMOST level 90, which will be my highest character ever. Best/most fun build I played, as it fits my playstyle perfectly.



How much of a difference in DPS will a 21/20 ED, and a lvl 4 Empower make going from 20/20 and a lvl 3? Also plan on getting a 40% more damage on my helmet at some point as well. Hopefully I can push around 35k+ dps or so with ED, but right now 28k is working just fine :)

EDIT: Here is my build so far.



Plan on going down 2 nodes from the Charisma set and grab the Projectile speed/damage, which would also give me 30 more dex so I could dump the enchant on my boots or necklace for something more worth while. Made the mistake of using a bow base that required lots of dex, so guys... don't do that....

Other than that, I am fine with 11.5k ES I have, but can pick up the ES nodes I am close to in 2 clusters if I need to.

Can people in standard leagues emulate this build?

Just wondering or do u need the decay mod to be worth anything?

One other thing to test is crafting jewelry with essence of envy for up to 60% more chaos damage

Thanks for posting this build! I started as a Necro EDer, but I discovered I disliked the continual need to cast bone offering, so I abandoned the character in favor of a lazy firestormer. With the help of some respec points, my ED witch will be back on track with this build as a guide.
A few questions:

1) Why do you need 20% faster recharge on the ring? According to the wiki, ES recharge delay = 200/(100+faster start total).
150% from Soul Strike, 15% from tree>> 200/265=.75
150% from Soul Strike, 15% from tree, 20% from ring>> 200/285=.70
Does the .05 faster feel better? I am honestly asking b/c I haven't gotten that far yet and it seems like a negligible difference on paper.

1b) You could just pick up a jewel node and a jewel with 6% faster start if you rolled at least 14 on the ring? Build didn't seem that point strapped that this would be an issue.

2) Your tree indicates taking extra 6% es nodes before taking Thief's Craft (+30 Int.) Every 10 int = 2% increased es, so thiefs craft functionally gives 6% but also provides mana. Only minor optimization though.

Anyone interested in theorycrafting this should check out these damage calcs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/561rtg/discussion_extensive_ed_damage_calculations/

From this, it looks like we should be trying to incorporate poison as well as chaos damage jewelry.

There is a ton of top end damage in those calcs that we won't realize with the current approach.