[2.5] Death's Kiss, a Trickster Essence Drain/Contagion full build and leveling guide

I notice that people still do not like running an animated guardian since if requires a bit of management.

What about fortify for the golem and the guardian?

this atziri viable, and high end maps?

I will be updating this next week. Sadly, the Shadow is no longer the optimal choice. The Occultist on the witch side is better due to the -20% chaos resist on monsters near her.

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Vulpix0r wrote:

I will be updating this next week. Sadly, the Shadow is no longer the optimal choice. The Occultist on the witch side is better due to the -20% chaos resist on monsters near her.

Scion may even be the better choice with the Deadeye / Occultist classes.
50% chance to pierce (100% if using pierce gem which now gives more%), proj speed, proj dmg as ED travels further, an extra projectile, -15% chaos res on cursed enemies, 20% increased dmg if you kill a cursed enemy. Sounds great to me.

what do you think of the armor Cherrubim's Maleficence?

also can u remake ur tree?

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Hojirozame wrote:

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Vulpix0r wrote:

I will be updating this next week. Sadly, the Shadow is no longer the optimal choice. The Occultist on the witch side is better due to the -20% chaos resist on monsters near her.

Scion may even be the better choice with the Deadeye / Occultist classes.
50% chance to pierce (100% if using pierce gem which now gives more%), proj speed, proj dmg as ED travels further, an extra projectile, -15% chaos res on cursed enemies, 20% increased dmg if you kill a cursed enemy. Sounds great to me.

I don't really like the Scion one as I lose the extra curse. Running Blasphemy with 2 curses is way more useful in my opinion.

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dallena535 wrote:

also can u remake ur tree?

https://www.pathofexile.com/fullscreen-passive-skill-tree/AAAABAMBAQMeBAcEswceCPQOSBEtES8RlhNtFAkWvxzcH0EfxyL0JogmlSj6KworeCycLYsy0TWSNj06WDrhPAU9X0GHQnpEq0VHRZ1JUUyzTeNSU1KvU1JVS1WuVcZcQF3yXyph4mKsZ_xo8mnYakNqjGwLbIxtGXWedoJ6cHyDfPB-oX_GghCCx4Pbh8uPGo-mj_qRB5MnlS6XlZf0muCdqp_foS-iAKZXp5usmK1KtNG1SLcwtz64k7tNvorAVMBmyAzIFM8V0B_Yvd1f34rfsOtj6-Tr7u987-vwH_DV8kX1b_fX-ej-Cv6P

This should be working.

I've been playing Essence Drain in Perandus League and am wondering if I'm missing something obvious.

When Essence Drain one-shots a monster no degen occurs, therefor no spreading through Contagion happens and nothing dies (but that one initial monster). I'm currently using Southbound gloves to prevent that from happening but I feel like I'm missing something since I never saw anyone use Southbound on Essence Drain.

How can you clear dried lake for example (or any other low lvl zone) without southbound?