GhazzyTV - Essence Drain & Contagion (or Bane/Soulrend) Trickster [SC/HC/Uber Elder/Shaper]

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dperls a écrit :

Hey, would you recommend this as a good first build for the new league? I started recently replaying, played a bit in PSC after stopping after closed beta. I played RF Totems and LA so looking for something a bit different.

thanks

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dperls a écrit :

Been doing a little reading, and it looks like people feel Occultist is better then trickster for ED/Cont, what's your feeling on that?

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dperls a écrit :

Great, thanks!

Been doing a little reading, and it looks like people feel Occultist is better then trickster for ED/Cont, what's your feeling on that?

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djnat a écrit :

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dperls a écrit :

Been doing a little reading, and it looks like people feel Occultist is better then trickster for ED/Cont, what's your feeling on that?

It depends on what is considered "better".

Occultist provides slightly more damage when compared to Trickster, thanks to Void Beacon.

Trickster provides better mana, ES, regen, attack / cast speed, and survivability because the overall defenses are superior thanks to Ghost Dance and Shade Form.

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aplostra a écrit :

Do you think that the build can handle labyrinth runs? Would it be able to do Uber Izaro? I really want to start with this build as first character. Thank you for the thorough video guide.

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Ghazzy a écrit :

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dperls a écrit :

Great, thanks!

Been doing a little reading, and it looks like people feel Occultist is better then trickster for ED/Cont, what's your feeling on that?

Occultists provides a slightly better dmg output, but trickster brings you to over 250mil exp/h which the Occultists does not.

And what is being stated below ;)

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djnat a écrit :

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dperls a écrit :

Been doing a little reading, and it looks like people feel Occultist is better then trickster for ED/Cont, what's your feeling on that?

It depends on what is considered "better".

Occultist provides slightly more damage when compared to Trickster, thanks to Void Beacon.

Trickster provides better mana, ES, regen, attack / cast speed, and survivability because the overall defenses are superior thanks to Ghost Dance and Shade Form.

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djnat a écrit :

1. Survivability: with a good gameplay you die almost never. So your experience gaining rate is stable.

2. Movement speed and attack speed: faster whirling blades is a strong clearspeed booster. And Trickster has insane attack speed when compared to other classes (20% from Walk the Aether, 20% on proc from Shade Form and 16% from little ascendancy nodes).

3. Free cast speed: another clearspeed booster.

4. Mana management: a lot easier than any other ED ascendancy choice in the game (the only exception being the EB / MOM Ascendant, which has been nerfed in 2.3 btw cause of deadeye pierce chance reduction).


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