The Chaos Vampire
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so this build is pretty simple, It works by stacking chaos damage and in passive tree and leech and increase AOE in your jewel slots and leveraging a couple of uniques and stacking spirit to increase your output, with clearing this build is very simple its for the most part a two cast clearing build however boss battles ups the APM a bunch to DPS fast enough that you outweigh the life cost of spells and limited number of flasks, without a high enough DPS this build DOES NOT WORK you will run out of flasks and die.
Passives and Uniques Skill gems
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Essence drain 4 slotted
with minion pact, envenom(does CHAOS damage), swift affliction, and chaos master. contagion 3 slotted Inspiration, chaotic freeze, magnified effect 12 skeleton warriors 3 slotted meat shield, Minion instability, minion mastery Minion instability is there so that when your using minion pact you dont end up with minions running around with 1/4 hp unable to suck from them and they start spawning back faster that way. Withering presence 2 slotted cannibalism and clarity Solar orb 3 slotted Hourglass, controlled destruction, searing flame (for the ignites as it does Chaos damage with the unique ring} Dark effigy 3 slotted 20% quality (important to not have to use the wither support} arcane tempo, overabundance, persistence blasphemy with despair, this isn't necessary you can just cast the curse for more damage but I'm lazy soul offering 3 slotted font of mana, font of blood, danse macabre flame wall 2 slotted Fortress and Concentrated effect I'll upload a boss kill from in the campaign I recorded and a low tier map clear for reference in a bit, the boss kill I just have to cut down and upload to the tube the boss kill from the campaign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7A0MPLdXz8 Last edited by RomeoScaletta#1349 on Dec 15, 2024, 7:02:34 PM Last bumped on Jan 5, 2025, 11:40:11 AM
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Does essence drain leech off of the dot or just the casts?
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its hard to tell for sure but I'm 90% positive it leeches from DoTs as well, the tooltip says spell damage leech not on hit, and if I'm low HP when contagion spreads I notice a huge jump in regen until all the enemies are dead
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I just started the game and Essence Drain/Contagion combo still works.
Contagion spreads ES almost immediately. Moreover, the description says that any dmg over time will spread, so maybe later some other spells may be helpful. I'm curious if there is Bane in PoE2. The only downside I found is that Contaigon is single target, not AoE (contrary to description, which treats spreading as some kind of AoE), so we need to hit the exact enemy with ES which is not always so easy. In PoE 1, the AoE made it easier, because you could hit any of the infected monsters. I'm still working out, what possible defense layers are for this build. ES for sure, but there has to more. Of course, minions are one of them, but that's not enough. Some leech would be nice, but on a quick search, can't find it in the passive tree. There is only Life Recoup, which is something, but I don't like it to be 4s delayed. Lech with some 10% instant perk was always great in PoE1. |
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i tried similar build both in demonform and pathfinder.
-Essence drain lacks dmg at end game -Contagian spreds poison too -Contagion base dmg not matters you can socket use 1 lvl contagion -Leech doesnt work on dots. So you leechin only initial hit not dot dmg. -Use "unleash" on contagion for smooth game play -Pathfinder alot better to play contagion spread since high poison dmg -For witch get %100 "poison on hit" then use hexblast then contagion which is boring. |
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