Skill Reveals - Soulrend and Bane

welcome to path of recyle theres never anything new here
this time we got a better version of contagion called bane
and a better version of essence drain called soulrend!
come closer and take a look

These look amazing to use, but honestly I'm just really impressed with how dynamic the animations are. You're always improving and the change between when I joined and now is unreal.

Yaaaaay, 50% increased damage from a Blight build removed. Next thing would be lowering the gem numbers as well. -.-

EDIT: Initial reaction got the better of me and I am uncomfortable with the language I used. My apologies.

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shahdid wrote:

Yaaaaay, 50% increased damage from a Blight build removed. Next thing would be lowering the gem numbers as well. -.- F*cking hell.

how are you monkeys only complaining. The wording suggests that chaos spells get their dmg improved so they are stronger on their own and wither doesn't become a must have for any chaos build

Bane is looking sexy AF. 3 curses on a 4 link in 1 button press is legit... I care less about that curse styled unique now lol.

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shahdid wrote:

Yaaaaay, 50% increased damage from a Blight build removed. Next thing would be lowering the gem numbers as well. -.- F*cking hell.

Do you people even use your brain?

Waa waa waa 50% increased damage is gone.



https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Wither


Do the math. It gets replaced by 90% increased damage.


Next.

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KalAthar wrote:

Bane is looking sexy AF. 3 curses on a 4 link in 1 button press is legit... I care less about that curse styled unique now lol.

Bane is a curse itself so Bane triggers the gloves too lol CURSES EVERYWHERE

Both seems rly smexy, might drop my miner as starter and go this :P Love chaos even doh it often feels kinda slow.

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Exile009 wrote:

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BlaqWolf wrote:

Without poring through 10 pages of replies...

So, what the OP indicates is that to fully gain benefit of soul rend we'll want to couple it with essence drain and (or?) perhaps contagion.

This will be marvelous for those who can afford two Poet's Pens with one spell in each wand (with a multi proj gem and projectile speed gem).
For self casters it's going to be a finger wrencher... which many skill combos are even now, granted.

Soulrend is its own skill. It has no synergy with either Essence Drain or Contagion, apart from also being a chaos DoT and so benefiting from the same passive nodes. Contagion doesn't spread it like it does ED. It has implicit pierce and homes in on enemies, so just stack more projectiles for clearing.

Actually, it says it right there in the OP post: Rend leeches ES, Drain leeches Life. While they do not *work* together, their synergy is the double aspected leech. With something that can rapidly cast both spells you'll be getting back twice as much.
Unfortunately, unless you have huge pools of both the amount you'll get back will be pretty low. IMO the whole 'leech' mechanic needs to be un-tied from the underlying stat they're affecting.
Leech should solely be based on the damage done, not the pool it's being applied to. If you can leech 300 points of something, you should get 300 points, not some small percentage of the pool you're leeching to.

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Cyrix1337 wrote:

Occultist also got insane Chaos Dot buffs in its asendancy. It applies wither automatically to everything on screen and has very strong multies on it.

Yeah, glancing at occultist and I'm seeing holy *smokes* the Malediction skill coupled with Whispers of Doom notable and Bane in a simple 4 link are going to be utterly mind bogglingly insane, even with modest AOE increases. That's three curses *AND* an AOE DOT with just a single cast... With heavy investment into chaos DOT nodes, that new +1 curse armor and a +1 curse amulet will make Occultist a freight train of damage. Casting contagion and then bane will spread massive amounts of death across the screen and beyond.
Likewise, though much more socket intensive: the Bane Trapper. Just need 2 curses (despair & chains), trap, Bane, multi trap...

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Feredhel wrote:

welcome to path of recyle theres never anything new here
this time we got a better version of contagion called bane
and a better version of essence drain called soulrend!
come closer and take a look

+1
the same for reward : we are lazy to make other type of weapons armors so let's make rare items with more mods ...