Soul Rend vs Essence Drain

Soul Rend looks like a clone of Essence drain with autotracking. Will Essence Drain have a place after this 3.6?

Contagion will not spread Soul Rend.

ED will almost certainly be the superior skill for dense packs.

all depends on the numbers - right now caustic arrow is better than ED by miles because of its much higher base damage and juicy 7th link bows you can get

not to mention the near instant application of damage and not needing to cast a second skill.

that being said i bet soulrend will be a higher level at level 1 too, so they basically introduce you to soulrend through ED/contagion

By "miles"? Please, the point of ED is to be able to click two buttons and then run halfway across the map following the trail of destruction before you even need a second cast.

Soul Rend will be MUCH closer to a spell version of caustic arrow in functionality than either is to ED.

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codetaku a écrit :

By "miles"? Please, the point of ED is to be able to click two buttons and then run halfway across the map following the trail of destruction before you even need a second cast.

yes, by miles. you can do the exact same thing as caustic arrow, you know. but it does significantly more dps so it kills things much faster as well as the damage being applied faster, which translates it to being safer. you don't even need to click two buttons, only one.

CA is literally faster, safer, and easier than ED.

but ya soulrend should be much closer to spell version of CA, which gives me hope for its potential.


im sure ed/contagion will still be played and stuff, because people just like the skill, but yes especially once soulrend is released im sure ed/contagion will just be worse in general.


either way chaos/cold damage over time is in a great spot right now and the coming supports/auras will only benefit them even more.

the highest appeal chaos damage over time brings is the very low gear requirements for solid damage, and being able to run every map mod.

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you can do the exact same thing as caustic arrow, you know.

Mirage Archer is not the same thing and you know it.

wasn't referencing mirage archer

If its balanced against ED+Contagion it will be hella OP. I'm level 52 on act 7 and the dot of my ED alone is doing over 10k dps. They only think that lives through it is bosses. I use GMP and pierce with a jewel that adds an additional peirce for projectiles.

I literally cant use contagion because everything dies from the single ED cast before the cast GCD is finished. By the time I hit contagion everything is dead.

With bosses I swap out the GMP for a damage gem like VM, I drop a wither spell totem, cast despair, ED and channel blight for a few seconds. Only way a boss lives is if it has a cheap invulnerability phase or 2.

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wardonis a écrit :

If its balanced against ED+Contagion it will be hella OP. I'm level 52 on act 7 and the dot of my ED alone is doing over 10k dps. They only think that lives through it is bosses. I use GMP and pierce with a jewel that adds an additional peirce for projectiles.

I literally cant use contagion because everything dies from the single ED cast before the cast GCD is finished. By the time I hit contagion everything is dead.

With bosses I swap out the GMP for a damage gem like VM, I drop a wither spell totem, cast despair, ED and channel blight for a few seconds. Only way a boss lives is if it has a cheap invulnerability phase or 2.

Leveling content is highly irrelevant.

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xMustard a écrit :

wasn't referencing mirage archer

Then I just don't believe you. What on earth are you talking about, if you think Caustic Arrow is a "fire one arrow and then run twenty screens ahead while dense packs just die in sequence" skill? Mirage Archer, although qualitatively different, was at least sort of a fair point about clearspeed.