Contagion As A Curse?

I'm just wondering what people think of reverting Contagion back to being a Curse like it was in Path of Exile 1. For my build specifically, I would like to use it with the Hand of Chayula Skill and Hex Bloom Support to provide the Acolyte of Chayula Monk with a means of getting some Chaos "AoE" damage on the field. I feel like this would also create a bunch of fun and interesting skill interactions and build options. What do you all think? Am I crazy for wanting this?

Contagion was not a curse in PoE 1 (and never was).

Hex Bloom would be redundant because the whole point of Contagion is to spread itself and other debuffs.

Oh, yeah. Your right. It was AoE. I suppose it just felt like a Curse to me for some reason. I didn't think that Contagion spread Curses, just Chaos DoT debuffs.

It spreads the Despair curse for some reason, but that might be a bug.

If you want to hit multiple things with Contagion, try it with Unleash.

I just tested that out, and it works pretty well. Thanks for the suggestions!

so how does the whole build work, can i see your ninjia?

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hardysoung#9692 wrote:

so how does the whole build work, can i see your ninjia?

I'm definitely still cooking this build, but here is the PoE2 Ninja Link.

While I am able to do T16 Waystones (albeit not as fast as I want), it is really low damage right now, and I'm trying to figure out how to solve for that while using Darkness - because I am determined to get a Darkness build to work. On the plus side, the build is relatively tanky.

The flow is to:
1. Contagion with Chaotic Freeze (Spread for mobs, and freeze for bosses.)
2. Hand of Chayula with Despair + Envenom + Deadly Poison (Setup for spread.)
3. Whirling Assault (To build combo and kill anything that didn't die instantly from Hand of Chayula and use for single target damage.)
4. Tempest Bell (To finish off mob rares and use for single target damage.)

Note: All of my damage is Chaos Damage due to using a Bolting Quarterstaff (only Elemental Damage) and the Original Sin Amethyst Ring (converts all Elemental Damage to Chaos Damage).

Any ideas on boosting damage in this build would be greatly appreciated.

Man I just looked up PoE2 original sin...

Its a much more sad item ;_;