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

I also tried with and without Zealot's Oath, and decided to opt out after getting Soul Strike. The regen was nice to have, but not worth the skill points when you are guaranteed to go back to full ES after ~0.7 seconds anyways.

The only time I miss it is when I get ignited, since I don't have enough flask slots to remove it :(

I can't decide if I should go with Shavs or a higher ES chest for this build. Usually Shavs is the way to go, but this build seems to rely on a high ES pool since there's no leech and you can get much higher ES with CI.

With Shavs, I can run Discipline + Arctic Armour off health with a lvl 20 blood magic and lvl 3 enlighten with my HP. Then run Enfeeble, Temp Chains and either a mid level Clarity or Vuln if I take Malediction off Mana. I can also grab the +30% MORE spell dmg for low life.

With a good rare chest I can get 350-400 more base ES plus some extra resists going CI. Immune to chaos damage is nice. I lose the Arctic Armour and have to decide between Tri Curse or going Enfeeble/Temp Chains/Discipline and taking Vile Bastion instead of Malediction. I can also take the 8%/8%/15% ES nodes behind CI. It would also free up the slots I'd otherwise use for BM and the auras/curses running off that.

I'm using Heretic's Veil for the dual/tri curse set up for the 12% reduces mana res and +2 lvls.

It's a pretty huge jump in ES running CI but I'd lose Arctic Armour, Disc/3rd curse and the 30% more spell dmg and may have some minor mana issues without clarity.

The difference can be 2000-2500 more ES running CI I believe.

Any suggestions?

I switched to LL recently and I can feel the difference in both damage output as well as survivability. I'm at 9k es currently, and I use temp chains+enfeeble+AA on my mana and getting third curse from an ammy + witchfire brew flask. I only pop it vs harder rares, some bloodline packs and bosses. There's no need otherwise as trash mobs melt anyway. I used to have 12k es with CI and a 700es vaal regalia.
Discipline and lvl 18 clarity on bloodmagic. I don't have mana issues, but I can't spam ED which shouldn't be the case anyway. My resists are capped under ele weakness, tooltip dps is ~9.2k, chaos damage is around 29k/sec for the time being. gems turning 18/20+, lvl 3 emp in a +1 bow.

my gear in the spoiler for reference.

Finally hit lvl 90 (first ever 90+ character) with this build. Just crested 30k dot DPS on ED as well. Sorry to hear about your RIP DBUM :(

Now its time to give up on caring about exp/dying and work my way towards the Shaper. Hopefully by the time I can get to him, I can upgrade my ED from 20/20 to 21/20 and attempt to go from lvl 3 empower to a lvl 4.

Anyone here successfully run the shaper? What is your ED dot dps? I know UberDans is insane, around 50k or so, so not sure where the cutoff is on doing enough damage to Shaper before his puddles wipe you out.

Has anyone managed to kill the Shaper with this build?

I managed to kill quite easily uberatziri at lv93, swapping between a +3 bow CA and a +1 delirium ED bow. But couldn't pass the second phase of Shaper, coz the fight went too long and created too many vortex in the center of the fight area which make you die always whenever you need to protect yourself under the Zana's wall.
My bow in spoiler. 13.5k es CI with 21k dot from CA and 24k dot from ED.

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Serge91 wrote:

Has anyone managed to kill the Shaper with this build?

Dan,
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCILE2fEUyIn9mYCpPq0t_wQ/videos

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sheeeeeeets wrote:

Finally hit lvl 90 (first ever 90+ character) with this build. Just crested 30k dot DPS on ED as well. Sorry to hear about your RIP DBUM :(

Now its time to give up on caring about exp/dying and work my way towards the Shaper. Hopefully by the time I can get to him, I can upgrade my ED from 20/20 to 21/20 and attempt to go from lvl 3 empower to a lvl 4.

Anyone here successfully run the shaper? What is your ED dot dps? I know UberDans is insane, around 50k or so, so not sure where the cutoff is on doing enough damage to Shaper before his puddles wipe you out.

Actually his first Shaper kill he had only about 35k DoT damage, which is under what many here are getting (with low life and 30% more spell damage mostly). He shows it at the very end of the video if I remember correctly (haven't watched it in a while). For what it's worth, people in chat on twitch were saying that Shaper was doable with 22k+ tooltip (and Decay obviously). The lower the damage the better you have to be at the fight mechanics.

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anone wrote:

I switched to LL recently and I can feel the difference in both damage output as well as survivability. I'm at 9k es currently, and I use temp chains+enfeeble+AA on my mana and getting third curse from an ammy + witchfire brew flask. I only pop it vs harder rares, some bloodline packs and bosses. There's no need otherwise as trash mobs melt anyway. I used to have 12k es with CI and a 700es vaal regalia.
Discipline and lvl 18 clarity on bloodmagic. I don't have mana issues, but I can't spam ED which shouldn't be the case anyway. My resists are capped under ele weakness, tooltip dps is ~9.2k, chaos damage is around 29k/sec for the time being. gems turning 18/20+, lvl 3 emp in a +1 bow.

my gear in the spoiler for reference.

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Thanks for the info! I may go your route with the +1 curse ammy and Valyrium and keep LL. The 30% more spell damage is the difference I think.. pretty massive DPS difference. I'd have to drop Heretic's Veil to make up for the -40% cold resist though.

Why do people craft on reduced DoT damage taken?