[3.15] Essence Drain 6.6 Mil DoT DPS | Very Beginner Friendly

is this still playable? And arent there some better options with Clusters? ( i actually dont know thats why i ask xD )

When you arrive to maps don't have nothing. You are a sheet of paper, is very slow and monster hit you more faster than you and die. The main hability is very difficult to hit a monster with previous contagion, normally they run to hit you.

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iRäbbit wrote:

is this still playable? And arent there some better options with Clusters? ( i actually dont know thats why i ask xD )

I'm currently mapping yellow with some minor changes. It will not work out of the box for 3.15 for maps, but it'll blow through the act content easily.

Unfortunately I haven't gotten into clusters with this guy yet.

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Bac4rdi1 wrote:

Hey, could you Check my char please Need some Troubleshooting I die I'm seconds on t5 Maps with close to 6k es and can hardly kill Any bosses rlly getting desperate out here Not my First ed Char but i feeling like I'm missing something Badoy..Ty in advance

Hello

So I looked, your character looks pretty good actually. One thing with the build is you cannot just run into a pack face first, you need to play like a caster technically, and dodge the big slams on the ground. There isn't much survivability to the build other than flame dashing away and killing them before they get to you.

I would recommend switching over to low life if you have enough currency, you also have some talent points to changes I feel like you should make. You don't have "Charisma," or "Sovereignty."
These talents allow you to use more auras which in theory, make you way stronger.

Then come along a 6-link essence drain bow, (I'm not really sure how to craft THE Bow anymore I'm going to need to do some experimenting, but you most important is the + level of gems on the bow, and then as much chaos damage over time multi as you can get) everything dies pretty quick. Bosses are not instant but you can shoot an Essence Drain, throw totems down and run around it's a pretty safe build because of how Essence Drain works with the regen.

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Raum266 wrote:

An updated POB Link for 3.15 would be great - the current link is for 3.13 and is displaying things like -168% unreserved mana, is short on all stats, amongst other things.

Thanks!

Yeah I will look into when I get some spare time, I haven't even got around to completing the acts yet, but I will get there lol

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FuF_Tactics wrote:

Great Guide! one question about the leveling section though. You say to buy 5 essence drains and level them up in your back bar but you also say to leveling multiple other gems in back bar throughout the leveling proses, I was just wondering what should I priorities leveling since there is not enough space to put them all in back bar? PS. keep up the great work!

Hi

I would level 5 Essence Drains, or 6 in your back bar because they are honestly the most important with levels. Where else do I say level something in your offhand? I can remove it if you point it out because that would be my mistake lol

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iRäbbit wrote:

is this still playable? And aren't there some better options with Clusters? ( i actually don't know that's why I ask xD )

Hi
Clusters MIGHT be better now? Cluster's were only better early-mid game, but when you got late-late game, they were not better than actual talent points.

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Raukodur wrote:

When you arrive to maps don't have nothing. You are a sheet of paper, is very slow and monster hit you more faster than you and die. The main hability is very difficult to hit a monster with previous contagion, normally they run to hit you.

Are we playing the same build?

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Havoc209 wrote:

I'm not really sure how to craft THE Bow anymore I'm going to need to do some experimenting, but you most important is the + level of gems on the bow, and then as much chaos damage over time multi as you can get

The guaranteed craft:

- Take a hunter lvl 82 6-linked bow
- alt spam for liquefaction (35% dot multi)
- regal & annul until only that mod is left (if it bricks, retry)
- craft multimod + cannot roll attack modifiers (block both suffix)
- slam exalt twice for +1 to socketed gems and hunter mod 60-89% increased chaos damage over time
- remove crafted mods, recraft multimod + +2 to support gems + 35% chaos damage over time multiplier (now suffix)

This will cost at least 9ex to make.

Instead of crafting the veiled mod, you could try Aisling slam when the bow has 2 mods, since aisling removes 1. But it's risky 1) it can remove the wrong mod out of the 2; 2) the unveil can be a prefix; 3) the unveil could be a suffix but without an option to take chaos dot multi.

Afaik unveiling the "wrong" mod means you have to restart as Aisling can't be applied to an item with already a veiled mod (according to reddit posts about it).

P.S. You can also start with a non-hunter no-influence bow and instead of slamming 2 ex on that step you slam 1ex 1 hunter orb to get hunter prefix and turn it into a hunter item.

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Viktranka wrote:

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Havoc209 wrote:

I'm not really sure how to craft THE Bow anymore I'm going to need to do some experimenting, but you most important is the + level of gems on the bow, and then as much chaos damage over time multi as you can get

The guaranteed craft:

- Take a hunter lvl 82 6-linked bow
- alt spam for liquefaction (35% dot multi)
- regal & annul until only that mod is left (if it bricks, retry)
- craft multimod + cannot roll attack modifiers (block both suffix)
- slam exalt twice for +1 to socketed gems and hunter mod 60-89% increased chaos damage over time
- remove crafted mods, recraft multimod + +2 to support gems + 35% chaos damage over time multiplier (now suffix)

This will cost at least 9ex to make.

Instead of crafting the veiled mod, you could try Aisling slam when the bow has 2 mods, since aisling removes 1. But it's risky 1) it can remove the wrong mod out of the 2; 2) the unveil can be a prefix; 3) the unveil could be a suffix but without an option to take chaos dot multi.

Afaik unveiling the "wrong" mod means you have to restart as Aisling can't be applied to an item with already a veiled mod (according to reddit posts about it).

P.S. You can also start with a non-hunter no-influence bow and instead of slamming 2 ex on that step you slam 1ex 1 hunter orb to get hunter prefix and turn it into a hunter item.

Hey this is the same after they changed the prefix / suffix for the chaos DoT multi? I read something about that being changed

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Havoc209 wrote:

Hey this is the same after they changed the prefix / suffix for the chaos DoT multi? I read something about that being changed

Old bow:
prefix:
+1 gems
+2 support gems
35% chaos dot multi
suffix:
35% dot multi
multimod
-random-

New bow:
prefix:
+1 gems
+2 support gems
hunter mod (increased chaos damage over time)
suffix:
35% dot multi
35% chaos dot multi
multimod

Hey all,

Having lots of fun playing this build in 3.15, i'm at around t12 maps now and sometimes I have maps where i'm having trouble staying alive.
Mostly it's because I don't have a automatically reacting potion against frost yet and often get frozen, but I also notice sometimes that I just don't cast my essence drain due to a stun of some kind ???

What can I do to improve my survivability ??
Not really loaded with currency but have near 2ex to spend.

Any help is much appreciated!
Character is Levisaxos_Exp

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Levisaxos wrote:

Hey all,

Having lots of fun playing this build in 3.15, i'm at around t12 maps now and sometimes I have maps where i'm having trouble staying alive.
Mostly it's because I don't have a automatically reacting potion against frost yet and often get frozen, but I also notice sometimes that I just don't cast my essence drain due to a stun of some kind ???

What can I do to improve my survivability ??
Not really loaded with currency but have near 2ex to spend.

Any help is much appreciated!
Character is Levisaxos_Exp

Hi

There is not too much you can do to improve the survivability other than:

1) Swapping over to full low life, the more energy shield, and the more damage is more survivability

2) Maybe get a Cast When Damage Taken and an Immortal Call gem setup somewhere in the build. I would suggest keeping those gems around level 3.
You would sacrifice two gems for these. Most likely the Vaal Righteous Fire, and the Clarity and need a find a way around linking them in the build.

Why do all of your PoB links have *% increased critical strike chance if you haven't crit recently" on boots? DoT doesn't crit right?