Best Equipment I've ever had - Dmg feels underwhelming - what's a possible Chaos-Reskill?

See above, I played PoE unregularly since the beginning, but with farming temples this time I really made a good buck and could get my hands on some of the best items I've ever had.

I never finished the endgame after Sirus which I killed only once, never killed the Shaper or anything what's coming after Sirus. Tbh I never really cared how to get there cause I never felt the necessary items are in reach.

1. Are these items end-game worthy at all?

2. What chaos-build would you suggest to skill and reset the tree to?


I have about ~23divs rn.

Thanks for ideas or input.


https://poe.ninja/pob/6ab93

https://pobb.in/PL0ieNpdhHSU

Infused Channelling in your 6L? Essence Drain is not a channeling skill.

Damage with chaos skills almost always feels underwhelming unless you have the best of the absolute best gear.

as far as i know nobody uses essence drain anymore for endgame...its an old skill that was popular years ago. there are so many better options to use.

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mefistozxz wrote:

Infused Channelling in your 6L? Essence Drain is not a channeling skill.

Damage with chaos skills almost always feels underwhelming unless you have the best of the absolute best gear.

oh my, how did that happen lol... must have switched up the gems when I bought the new armor piece -.-

I think I wasn't able to get the 2nd red so I put a blue in there, yeah that sucks.

e: yeah smh, the Efficacy gem was right next to it in the stash where all the gem action is going on... at least I figured that out by opening this thread :D

chaos dot skills aren't in a great place overall. you can make them work, and it's possible to do t17/ubers with something like essence drain, but you need pretty good gear for that

Yeah I think you can probably tighten some things on the build up and see how it goes before you try something else. I'm not too sure about your weapon. Not bad, just think check if there is anything better in your budget.

All your gems are non awakened, level 20, 20 or less qual. Check your pob if upgrading any of them will make much of a difference. Would think you at least want lvl 21 on your main skill. Is that a good flask setup? Might be okay, but you don't have any damage from your flasks. Wondering if there's a different setup you can use there.

awakened void manipulation gives you +1 at level 5, that should be your first awakened gem.

Awakened Controlled Destruction 5 gives unnerve (10% more damage).

Vicious Projectiles is also better than a bunch of your other supports, until you get a buffed up weapon and an empower 4.

You essentially had two links in your 6L that were mildly useless: lifetap and infused channeling. That is easily about 60% less damage right there, potentially 100% if we are talking awakened versions.


So.....just upgrading your gems, even before a lvl 21 essence drain is going to more than double your dps. And then, level 21 essence starts with a bit more than 10% more damage than lvl 20, and continues to scale higher with more levels until probably around 15% more damage when you cap out on cheaper gear....nearly 20% more damage with more expensive corrupted gear.

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mefistozxz wrote:

awakened void manipulation gives you +1 at level 5, that should be your first awakened gem.

Awakened Controlled Destruction 5 gives unnerve (10% more damage).
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I was roughly following this build, didnt know there's so much wrong with it.
I will look into the things you mentioned, thank you very much..
Just found out that I can scroll through all possible support gems in PoB and see the dmg incr. there.


https://www.poebuilds.net/builds/witch/essence-drain

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mefistozxz wrote:

Awakened Controlled Destruction 5 gives unnerve (10% more damage).

Unnerve increases spell damage taken, it doesn't affect DoT.

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mefistozxz wrote:

Vicious Projectiles is also better than a bunch of your other supports, until you get a buffed up weapon and an empower 4.

Unfortunately, it can support attacks only.

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DontBeAMaybe wrote:

Just found out that I can scroll through all possible support gems in PoB and see the dmg incr. there.
https://www.poebuilds.net/builds/witch/essence-drain

PoB is generally fine at determining which support provides better damage. But you should not use this website, it historically churns out mediocre builds to promote RMT ad.

ED has some strong positives but its just numerically weak currently and relies on you to tick practically every chaos multiplier box to achieve even "acceptable" damage.

Even when it was popular you generally needed to double it up with good investment in blight to pad your single target as ED only needs casting once every 4+ seconds.

It worked akin to cold DoT builds in that regard but cold dots were far easier to stack together and felt more synergistic.

It doesn't help that they added a trans gem that has the value ED should probably have but then made you use it with a mine/trap to make it truly offensive ><.

Also GGG need to address wither at some point as its a big reason why Chaos sucks most of the time