Shadow - [2.5] Essence Drain Build Options (HC Uber Atziri/Shaper Viable) - Forum

dropped for me and I'm playing this build. I'm terrible at theorycrafting and wondered which piece of gear (if any) people here would use it on?	Posted by Bald_Paul#5643 on Sep 7, 2016, 9:53:10 AM Quote this Post
" Pancakezx wrote: Playing this build in Essence SC at the moment, got super lucky with a Shav's drop on day 3 so I went low life right away. ES is about 9k, I feel like my damage is quite lacking, maybe it's the tree or gear? If anyone can give me some pointers, character link below https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Pancakezx/characters EDIT: Profile isn't private now sorry about that! Unless I'm being dumb here, your using 2 controlled destruction supports? swapping one for something like rapid decay would improved your damage a great deal.	Posted by garneryurr#7952 on Sep 7, 2016, 10:21:19 AM Quote this Post
" garneryurr wrote: " Pancakezx wrote: Playing this build in Essence SC at the moment, got super lucky with a Shav's drop on day 3 so I went low life right away. ES is about 9k, I feel like my damage is quite lacking, maybe it's the tree or gear? If anyone can give me some pointers, character link below https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Pancakezx/characters EDIT: Profile isn't private now sorry about that! Unless I'm being dumb here, your using 2 controlled destruction supports? swapping one for something like rapid decay would improved your damage a great deal. Holy shit I'm retarded... that explains alot!	Posted by Pancakezx#4291 on Sep 7, 2016, 10:51:04 AM Quote this Post
" Schlacht wrote: dropped for me and I'm playing this build. I'm terrible at theorycrafting and wondered which piece of gear (if any) people here would use it on? As good as that poison damage looks, you would be better off using Envy which scales chaos and that directly scales poison as well, while also increasing the base dot damage. I wouldnt use it. I was thinking that life leech looked interesting, but if you end up going LL/CI you would need ghost reaver lol, and then you couldn't use chayula so you have to get stun immunity some other way like Valyrium or w/e ever its called ring. EDIT: Belt mod is pretty good on low life to keep the spike damage down, but honestly you're giving up using a woe on a crystal belt at that point. Last edited by BokkoTheBunny#6135 on Sep 7, 2016, 12:03:47 PM	Posted by BokkoTheBunny#6135 on Sep 7, 2016, 11:55:10 AM Quote this Post
Im following the same build u have on main char, and i have one question. Im not allowed to activate the Clarity (20% - lvl 17) aura, because is saying "Not enough life". Im using 2 nodes of Mana reserve reduction on passive tree, and Blood Magic gem (20% - lvl 18). Can u check on my char whats wrong please? https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/gorus_grind/characters (sorry my english)	Posted by gorus_grind#1117 on Sep 7, 2016, 3:20:37 PM Quote this Post
" BokkoTheBunny wrote: " Schlacht wrote: dropped for me and I'm playing this build. I'm terrible at theorycrafting and wondered which piece of gear (if any) people here would use it on? As good as that poison damage looks, you would be better off using Envy which scales chaos and that directly scales poison as well, while also increasing the base dot damage. I wouldnt use it. I was thinking that life leech looked interesting, but if you end up going LL/CI you would need ghost reaver lol, and then you couldn't use chayula so you have to get stun immunity some other way like Valyrium or w/e ever its called ring. EDIT: Belt mod is pretty good on low life to keep the spike damage down, but honestly you're giving up using a woe on a crystal belt at that point. Thank you for answering and also taking the the time explaining, i had most def already fallen into a state of "look at that chaos damage, it HAS to be mandatory in some way", after seeing Envy i will hold out for that. The help is much appreciated	Posted by Bald_Paul#5643 on Sep 7, 2016, 6:20:19 PM Quote this Post
Hey would you pick Swift Killer or Patient Reaper first for the standard build?	Posted by Pikabanga#0535 on Sep 8, 2016, 6:59:25 AM Quote this Post
" Schlacht wrote: dropped for me and I'm playing this build. I'm terrible at theorycrafting and wondered which piece of gear (if any) people here would use it on? do not use it on rings, the pure chaos damage ring essence is MUCH better (it scales all forms of chaos)	Posted by ProjectPT#7616 on Sep 8, 2016, 7:39:00 AM Quote this Post
Does Essence Drain casts stack on bosses? For example if i cast Essence Drain 10 consecutive times on a Boss, will the damage be 10x faster or it will just refresh the Essence Drain?	Posted by alinbandui1#3917 on Sep 8, 2016, 2:16:09 PM Banned Quote this Post
" alinbandui1 wrote: Does Essence Drain casts stack on bosses? For example if i cast Essence Drain 10 consecutive times on a Boss, will the damage be 10x faster or it will just refresh the Essence Drain? It will just refresh the duration	Posted by Nomexus#0748 on Sep 8, 2016, 2:32:55 PM Quote this Post