[3.13] ESSENCE DRAIN / BANE / SOULREND Occultist / Trickster Build. STARTER & UBER Elder Carry!
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Essence Drain Occultist / Trickster is a well known, solid league starter with countless guides existing! Let's take a DEEPER look into current state of ED and also find out how well new Synthesis gear and skills like Soulrend / Malevolence / Bane will work together! Why "ULTIMATE"? Because it gives you FOUR different setups to play! From offensive to defensive, from poor newbie to rich expert!  
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+extremely tanky and safe (2-3x defensive Curses, 11-14K+ ES, very high ES regen) +easy to league start (can run on Uniques with good sustain), if you are familiar with the game in general +requires only 1 6-Link for end-game +all mods, even no mana regen is possible +no need for Wither totem (when you get Withering Presence ascendancy passive) +always stun immune (unlike squishy Trickster) ====================================================================================== 2) CONS
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-with ED+Contagion you constantly need to cast 2 skills. If you want to spam just 1 and zoom-zoom, this build might not be for you :) -Soulrend is slow to cast because NO CAST SPEED investment -Not super newbie friendly as you need some knowledge on playing life/hybrid builds and then transition to CI and eventually to Low-Life. -Low-Life Chest (Shavronne's Wrappings) is usually very expensive at the start of the league, but drops down cheap very fast ====================================================================================== 3) Skill Tree Progression / Path of Building / Ascendancy / Bandits For the levelling tree please watch the video guide and check POB!
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 OCCULTIST: Path of building (End-game +3 bow. Balanced HIGH DPS setup. Levelling tress are here!):: https://pastebin.com/RQM916UE Path of building (Cerberus Limb + Shield HIGHEST DEFENSE setup):: https://pastebin.com/rsyZg372 Trickster (Cerberus Limb + Shield HIGHEST DEFENSE setup): https://pastebin.com/a6T3WBQh IF YOU GET AN ERROR WHILE IMPORTING OR ANY OTHE ERRORS, IT MEANS YOUR POB IS OUTDATED ORIGINAL VERSION THAT IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED. YOU NEED A "COMMUNITY FORK" ONE TO MAKE IT WORK: https://github.com/PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding For Occultist Ascendancy: Vile Bastion, Void Beacon, Withering Presence, Profane Bloom For Trickster Ascendancy: Ghost Dance, Escape Artist, Patient Reaper, Prolonged Pain. Bandits: Kill All ====================================================================================== 4) Early Levelling Gear / Skills
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Selling a blue wand/sceptre along with a CHAOS/POISON gem will result in a +1 to Chaos Gems weapon. Use this recipe early on! Overall levelling Chaos build is as follows now: 1) Blight with Infused Channelling and Void Manipulation till 12. 2) Essence Drain + Contagion till 24 3) Bane / ED till 28 4) Soulrend / Bane till maps 5) Whatever mix you'll get used to till END GAME. Bane + Soulrend or Bane + ED, or ED + Contagion. Everything is good and depends on your personal preferences! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Start levelling Contagion. Take Explosive Trap, Blight or Magma Orb and spell your way forward till Essence Drain at level 12 (after entering Merveil's Caverns in Act 1). You can also use Blight with Infused Channelling and Arcane Surge in a 3L. Add Void Manipulation when its available. I personally used Blight till i got ED. Then start using ED/Soulrend+Contagion (if you wish) till you get Bane If you want levelling to be faster you can you use Storm Brand (from level 12) or Winter Orb (from level 28) till maps. Nothing crazy here. Double Lifesprigs, Wanderlust, Lochtonial Caress for early game i used Wither Spell Totem setup for bossing boost: Wither Spell Totem 4L: Wither-Spell.Totem-Faster Casting-Inc.Area.of.Effect Contagion 4L: Contagion-Arcane Surge-Faster Casting-Inc.Area.of.Effect Essence Drain 4L: ED-Void.Manipulation-Controlled.Destruction-Efficacy Soulrend 4L: Soulrend-Void.Manipulation-Controlled.Destruction-Efficacy/Greater.Multiple.Projectiles Bane 4L (if you have 2 curses then switch Controlled Destruction for Enfeeble): Bane-Despair-Enfeeble/Temp.Chains-Void.Manipulation-Conrolled.Destruction. Bane is incredibly powerful on it's own for an early game for trash mobs so you can add any ED/Soulrend gems to it if you have 5L or 6L. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overall it's up to you to decide if you wanna play as LIFE or just go ES from the very beginning. If you can't find / buy ES gear while levelling, then play life and spec into ES when you reach maps. Zig has a nice video on how to transition to CI: https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/The_Embalmer https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Death%27s_Oath Plenty of decent /cheap ES / uniques can be used while levelling: https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Cherrubim%27s_Maleficence https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Breath_of_the_Council https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Heartbreaker (great!) https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Doedre%27s_Malevolence https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Cane_of_Unravelling (great!) https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Allelopathy (great for CWC!) https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Steppan_Eard https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Rainbowstride https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/The_Beast_Fur_Shawl https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Sin_Trek https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Rathpith_Globe For helms: https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/List_of_unique_helmets#Energy_Shield_Helmets_.28Intelligence.29 https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/List_of_unique_helmets#Energy_Shield.2FEvasion_Helmets_.28Dexterity.2FIntelligence.29 Vertex is my favourite so far. Heretic's Veil can also save you skill slot for Blapshemy and is required for max aura TOP DPS setup. Doedre's Skorn is fantastic for BANE. Belts: Bated Breath, Stygian Wise with Fossil crafted %Chaos Damage, or Crystal Belt. Also https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Ascent_From_Flesh is a good starter. ====================================================================================== 5) My Actual Gear / End-Game Skills
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Overall it's very easy to reach 10-11k ES with literally trash gear. Aegis Aurora is the BEST shield for Occultist (equals to 400 ES shield), unless you find 2500+ Armour shield with resits (equals ti 500 ES shield). Use Astramentis as a cheap item to reduce your dex/str burden. Essence Drain 5L: ED-Void.Manipulation-Controlled.Destruction-Swift.Affliction-Efficacy Essence Drain 6L: ED-Void.Manipulation-Controlled.Destruction-Swift.Affliction-Efficacy-Empower.lvl.4 Essence Drain 6L (no Empower): ED-Void.Manipulation-Controlled.Destruction-Swift.Affliction-Efficacy-Energy.Leech Blight CwC Soulrend 6L: Blight-Cast.While-Channelling-Soulrend-Controlled.Destruction-Empower lvl.4-Greater.Multiple.Projectiles/Energy.Leech (overall i do not recommend CWC because you have to be in melee range to channel and so, prone to all kind of damage in your face) Soulrend 6L Bossing/Mapping: Soulrend-Swift.Affliction-Void.Manipulation-Controlled.Destruction-Efficacy-Empower.lvl.4./Greater.Multiple.Projectiles Few good things to know: 1) Play as CI / Hybrid / Life before you get Shavronne's and then you can switch to Low Life. Check levelling trees in the first link for guidance. 2) Discipline Watcher's Eye is a QoL: 3) with Discipline + Discipline Aul's Uprising is not a bad combo-wombo. 4) Rori's Lantern is another cool QoL to cheese mapping (enemies hitting you are UNLUCKY): 5) Energy from Within is usable in multiple places. 6) Mark of the Shaper + some Elder ES ring are a good cheap DPS option 7) Helm enchant is 40% Essence Drain Damage or some reduced Aura reservation 8) Get Vixen's Entrapment gloves for +1 curse ====================================================================================== Crafting Chaos Damage:
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Jun / Aisling can unveil / craft global Chaos Damage on rings:
 Helena can craft Chaos Damage on 2H melee weapons and 1H melee/ranged weapons:  Chaos multipliers can be crafted by Jun (no specific Syndicate member required):  Currently there are 4 best ways to play ED : 1) Betrayal +3 bow (harder to get now with lower Betrayal encounters) with Soulstrike quiver.
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DoT damage scales dramatically high with +1 levels. First you need to get a high i.lvl 6L bow, roll +1 with alts. Regal. Praise RNGJESUS, LE TOUCAN AND CHRIST WILSON. Drop Anull. Hope for +1 to stay. Multimod into this:  or this:  +2 mod can be unlocked from Catarina (Betrayal mastermind). Will take a while to get it! add . Here. You are done. +2 also decent  2) Cerberus Limb + high armour Shield.
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This is my favourite so far, as you can shield charge as well and have Fortify It's also the tankeist of all! I reached 12k ES with hybrid gear and no Clarity Watchers eye with 2700 Armour Shield. Damage is also enough to do most content (all maps, shaper, etc). 2500 Armour shield will give you 500 ES (and 2500 armour shield is MUCH cheaper than a 500 ES shield)! The only problem here is 159 strength requirement, but can be mitigated easily with https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Astramentis. You can use unique shields such as these as well: (good for levelling as Hybrid) (overall BEST for end-game) 3) Spell Wand / Dagger + generic ES shield. The most generic cookie-cutter way to play.
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 +   4) 2H Staff with +1 gems and +2 to chaos gems. This is another high DPS setup (as high as +3 bow), but also squishiest / slowest setup as you don't have a shield. To craft staff you need a i.lvl 55 one, a bunch of regals and scourings, as well as several Exalts :) You can get a cheap 5L staff using Flora's Gift cards (better just buy the staff for 1 alch lol!): https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/The_Flora%27s_Gift You can get a cheap 6L staff using Dark Mage cards (usually MUCH cheaper than buying 6L staff!): https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/The_Dark_Mage Demi made a great video on the WHOLE crafting process: Staff examples:
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Witchfire Brew (till you get Despair with Bane in helm, then DROP) The rest are mostly defense/offence Cinderswallow Urn with regeneration is also great! ====================================================================================== 7) Pantheon Gods
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Major: Arakaali / Lunaris Minor: Gruthkul / Shakari ====================================================================================== 8) Hardcore Viable or not?
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Very HC viable. Actuallt the tankiest build i've played! ====================================================================================== 9) FOR THE RICH GUYS
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+1 Shavronne, +1 Curse amulet with something useful, like strength and ES. 500+ ES shields, 3000+ Armour Shields, +3 Bows. +2 Chaos Staffs Aul's Uprising with Discipline:
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 Clarity + Discipline Watcher's Eyes:
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 Aspect of the Spider high ES gloves. https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Apep%27s_Supremacy shield. Absolute GG Watcher's Eyes with Malevolence and Discipline:
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T15 Reef (3.5): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn76Z4_PkCY T16 Elder Iceberg (3.5) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI55zQCwLnA Shaper Super Easy Slacker Kill (3.5): https://youtu.be/O9Ar6G6vRRg Minotaur, Hydra, tanking CHIMERA! (3.5): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97DSrjJjhlk Uber Elder (3.5): https://youtu.be/1q0XFOEu4Qc Uber Elder (3.6) in 3,5 minutes DEATHLESS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig_ONQEGprg 5 Shaper Kills (3.6) DEATHLESS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GVCJRDVYV8 ====================================================================================== FAQ 1) Can i do it as Trickster?
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Sure you can. Just lower ES (1-2K less) and same damage in most cases, faster for mapping though. Much faster caster for Soulrend 2) What is the best unique shield for the build?
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Aegis Aurora 3) How do you feel about SOULREND for bosses?
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It works just fine till red maps and late end-game. For fast and deadly bosses like Elder/Uber Elder/Atziri/Hydra i strongly recommend Essence Drain. It will give you necessary mobility while doing damage. 4) How can i craft a high armour shield??
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High i.lvl Colossal Tower Shield + Essence of Dread ====================================================================================== https://www.twitch.tv/angry_roleplayer All builds: http://www.angryroleplayer.com/path-of-exile-builds/ https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2143469 Last edited by Angry_Roleplayer#6657 on Jan 18, 2021, 4:59:39 AM Last bumped on Mar 7, 2021, 3:21:46 AM
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Why did you post this so early? It's clearly not finished.
Gear is not correct at all, like you said. Passive Tree is for... Pathfinder?
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Path of building: (ED+Contagion): https://pastebin.com/KJGT2t3z
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8) Hardcore Viable or not?
Very HC viable ====================================================================================== 9) FOR THE RICH GUYS Crazy +1 arrow quivers. Corrupted Gear. GG Steel Rings with Chaos Damage ??? This "guide" is most likely a copy and paste from an irrelevant build, and is clearly far from finish. It is just a giant plug for your youtube and twitch channels. A link to your Patreon should not be posted on the forums imho. |
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" How about a chill pill and give me some time to edit everything from my template. I have 15 builds here. https://www.twitch.tv/angry_roleplayer
All builds: http://www.angryroleplayer.com/path-of-exile-builds/ https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2143469 |
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Notepad is a thing.
Could at least do the basics on notepad before posting a template that has nothing besides your patreon on it. |
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"Ultimate" TBD
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Checked video. Looks very slow to me.
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Looking forward to what else you have for this build. I have been thinking of doing a very similar build, and then saw the ES drain in the passive tree, so going to end up changing all of that.
But glad to see an experienced player looking at the build, hopefully I can improve my build with what I see. |
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" Haha. I was thinking Trickster was faster and did more damage while Occultist was tankier and added more curses. |
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Create a build without knowing Patchnotes/Skilltree. LeL Clickbait ftw. The only thing i learned here is: i'll never watch ur stream :)
Last edited by Headpipe#7958 on Mar 4, 2019, 10:46:48 PM
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" Let me give you very short summary on the patch notes: 1) Spells are buffed 2) Winter Orb and Blade Vortex are nerfed 3) Chaos Skills are buffed https://www.twitch.tv/angry_roleplayer
All builds: http://www.angryroleplayer.com/path-of-exile-builds/ https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2143469 |
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