[3.4] The Mistress of Agony - Lowlife BlightDrain Ascendant / Occultist - ALL content viable!

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djnat wrote:

You have very little room for improvements at this point. With your current gear you should be able to face any content in the game quite comfortably (exception made for Halls of the Grandmasters, which is not doable with this build, and for Hydra boss, which is the hardest fight for all ED builds).

Corrupted 21/20 support gems on ED, Fingerless silk gloves with 16% spell damage implicit and still good ES, better spell damage roll on Consuming dark, Leo craft (15-30% damage over time) on the decay dagger. These are your possible upgrades at the moment.

I highly recommend using Wither instead of Blight in the body armour setup, since your damage without wither is worse than a classic ED setup; the CWC iteration of ED shines only when you manage to stack wither 10+ times on bosses / toughest rares. ED + contagion combo does more than enough damage on packs, when in a lowlife environment, even in a 4L setup. That's why I went CWC: packs melt with one combo, while single target is a lot better with Wither spamming (and has less mana management requirements).

Blight is melee, Wither is ranged too. The gameplay with Wither is safer.

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ieatnoobsforbreakfast wrote:

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djnat wrote:

You have very little room for improvements at this point. With your current gear you should be able to face any content in the game quite comfortably (exception made for Halls of the Grandmasters, which is not doable with this build, and for Hydra boss, which is the hardest fight for all ED builds).

Corrupted 21/20 support gems on ED, Fingerless silk gloves with 16% spell damage implicit and still good ES, better spell damage roll on Consuming dark, Leo craft (15-30% damage over time) on the decay dagger. These are your possible upgrades at the moment.

I highly recommend using Wither instead of Blight in the body armour setup, since your damage without wither is worse than a classic ED setup; the CWC iteration of ED shines only when you manage to stack wither 10+ times on bosses / toughest rares. ED + contagion combo does more than enough damage on packs, when in a lowlife environment, even in a 4L setup. That's why I went CWC: packs melt with one combo, while single target is a lot better with Wither spamming (and has less mana management requirements).

Blight is melee, Wither is ranged too. The gameplay with Wither is safer.

Yeah I was just trying Blight out for fun, wither is miles better for sure. I was wondering if using a wither totem along with cwc wither could be good since I don't really use wirhling blade.

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Waswat wrote:

Lifebased build in the first post needs some work.....

1) You're getting Charisma in the Ranger tree but you're not using Blasphemy. Why? You're better off getting potency of will so your Essence Drain and Contagion lasts longer.
2) Getting to ranger ascendancy meant that i had to wait for 25 or so points until i could kill izaro merciless.

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dkeen wrote:

For the low life build how do you replenish es? Im no expert to poe but typically you want some way to replenish ES outside of its natural regeneration. I leveled this build to endgame with the intent to have it as a sort of do everything build (on chaos immune bosses i was going to have a fireball set up. Im beginning to have doubts though, have you ever considered going for more area of effect for better contagion spreading?