[3.1] ED Tri-Curse OCC | Hybrid, CI, LL | UberAtziri/Lab/Shaper

Essence Drain
Inflicts strong Damage Over Time debuff on the target it hits, debuff deals damage passively over its duration, that allows u to focus on your positioning and dodging in hard boss fights while dealing damage.
Contagion
Gives u proliferation effect. When monster dies it spreads contagion effect around his body. If the monster had Essence Drain on him, spreads it as well. This combo can easily clear couple screens around you in high density instances.
Defenses

Zealot's Oath.
Converts all your life regen into ES regen, as well as %regen from essence drain. Gives u huge amount of regen while killing monsters
Enfeeble
Less damage from enemies, less crits.
Wicked Ward(Ascendancy node)
Your auto vaal discipline.
Grants a large flat energy shield bonus and stops energy shield recharge from being interrupted by damage, if it began recently(past 4 seconds).
Smart use of this passive skill makes your uber lab runs easy and safe.
Damage layers
Essence drain can scale from multiple damage types such as spell damage, chaos damage, damage over time. This build focusing on utilizing the most valuable nodes on tree and a bunch of More damage multipliers in gem setups.

Profane bloom(Ascendancy node) is a great offensive addition, in combination with high-effect Temporal Chain curse allows you to safely jump into middle of monster pack and start explosions and Contagion chains.

Wither increases chaos damage taken by 6% for each stack. Stacks up to 15 times. Drop wither totem when you need damage boost.

Its highly recommended to keep bosses in range of your curses all possible time. That increases your damage dramatically.

Normal - Profane Bloom

Cruel - Wicked Ward

Merciless - Malediction

Uber - Void Beacon

Starting with whatever skill u want, switching to firestorm + flame totem at level 12 (u can use any spells you want, thats just a generic example).

Take Essence Drain(lvl12), Contagion(lvl4), Discipline(lvl24) gems, place it into your second weapon set and start leveling them up.

Switch to Essence Drain once u got Increased Area of Effect gem in act 4 for your Contagion.


Take Mind Over Matter and following mana nodes around level 50-55. It doesn't saves your ES, working only if your life damaged. Helps greatly to mitigate chaos damage and survive boss fights. Do not forget to take mana flask with you.


You can sacrifice some damage nodes from tree to get Whispers of Doom(+1 curse) around lvl 65 if u got Witchfire Brew by this point.

Bandits - Kill all(2 points)



Trees:
14 points

40 points

61 points

Final Hybrid tree
Use this version to gather enough currency for CI. You can easily farm maps like this.

I recommend to switch into CI once u got level 75+ and some minimum amount of ES gear.

Tree: URL

Not budget friendly

This version grants you huge damage boost from Pain Attunement and allows to drop Heretic's Veil, losing chaos immunity and some ES. You dont have to use it, build works perfectly as CI for any content.


Tree: LL

Helmet - 40% increased Essence Drain damage.

Gloves - "Of Spite(Fires Projectiles, leaving chilling ground"/"Of Light(Spawns Consecrated Ground if u got Critical Strike"

Boots - "Regenerate 2% Life and Mana per second if you were Hit recently"

Hybrid and CI:

Major - Soul of the Brine King

Minor - Soul of Tukohama

Low Life:

Major - Soul of Lunaris

Minor - Soul of Tukohama

List of useful jewel stats:
%increased maximum Energy Shield
%increased Chaos Damage
%increased Spell Damage
%increased Spell Damage while holding a shield
%increased Damage Over Time
+Intelligence
Resists in some cases.

PoB pastebin url

https://pastebin.com/EPC7NL5a

This build got hit preety hard with Fall of Oriath release.

Good stuff:
- Curses got increase to base radius.
- Contagion got increase to base radius.
- Cheaper to get CI started due to shift of meta.
- Essence Drain got base damage increase.
- Leveling now easy as it never was before.
- Lots of good hybrid gear

Bad stuff:
- 30% ES loss
- Roughly 50% damage loss at high-end cus of double dip removal(Poison is gone for ED, projectile damage doesnt work, decay does not scale with spell damage)
- No stun immunity for CI since we are forced to utilize Brine King's pantheon power together with rare amulet to get enough ES
- Boss HP increase makes fights really slow at low budget.


CI is not dead but feels way less enjoyable because you get stunned constantly, its not deadly or something, just really annoying. Overall build is performing well at all stages. ED is still solid boss killier choise and works okay, just slower. Nowdays i think LL is nobrain choise even tho it costs almost twice more to get started compared to last league. At the end u can get up to ~240k DoT dps(300+ with +3 staff) and up to 13k ES as LL.