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

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setcamper a écrit :

Having a lot of trouble finding enough mana on gear to maintain the golden ratio of mana:health discussed throughout guide. Sitting just above 5k HP, but my total mana pool sits somewhere around 2k without an aura, and dips down around 1k with Enfeeble and Clarity (testing whether or not Clarity is even worth using).

Casually clearing Atlas, up to Tier 8 maps, and damage feels fine, but I get very scared whenever an Abyss pops and I have to fight 2-3 of those yellow mobs and I get surrounded. Hate dying because I end up losing too much experience and not leveling.

Any recommendations? This is my first "serious" character in PoE/League and I'm finding myself torn by all the information about the variation of this build. Also I have no idea how much I should be spending on item upgrades. Still squeamish on spending more than 5 or so Chaos, which is basically nothing to most players.

Approaching Lvl 20 on most gems- I see the post above about what to level but it's a little over my head and the link doesn't work. Prism everything related to damage?

EDIT: Also, is there a way to see character stats when looking at a profile? I can only find gear and passive skill tree?

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Met4morphosis a écrit :

Guys, could you give me some help for the last step in the game? Comin really far with this build so far, running uber lab and atziri without problems, even maps up to shaper guardians aren't a struggle. but once i reach a guardian or uber atziri, life starts to become difficult. in my passive tree, i went for a build with mor life and less mana w/o mom, which works out just fine - until now. but really looking for upgrades right now, especially since end-game bosses seem to require a lot more damage. farming for currency to buy better items shouldn't be the problem. happy about any advice!

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shinylikeyou a écrit :

What do you think about my setup ? what should i change for end game bossing? (except upgrading to empower lvl.4)

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ooFunky a écrit :

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shinylikeyou a écrit :

What do you think about my setup ? what should i change for end game bossing? (except upgrading to empower lvl.4)

Skin of the loyal with +2 to gems
Rare helmet with life/res/mana/ed damage
Atziris steps (a rare helmet with ed damage could handle the missing resistances on the atziris) but those boots are a nightmare to colour :D at least for me
Both rings with spell or chaos damage/life/mana/res
Amulet with spell or chaos damage/life/mana/res
There is also +1 curses available on amulets so you can use the points on the skill tree otherwise. An Impressence amulet with damage over time and +1 curses would be best in slot I guess.

Rare crafted essence of delirium dagger.
Or a rare crafted two handed staff with +3 to gems.

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Nedieth a écrit :

For the colouring of Atziri's Step or similar high dex/str req item to BBBB, it is very good to use the jeweler orb colouring instead of chromatics. Vorici Chromatic Calculator reports an average of 1461 chromatics for BBBB on Atziri's Step. By colouring through jews, I have at most spent 400 jews to hit my desired colours on a couple of Starkonja's and Atziri's Step this league.

Method for those who don't know:
Vorici bench for at least 2B.
Assuming you hit 2B2G; craft 2 sockets.
Then use the bench to craft 3 sockets.
If the socket is not blue, craft 2 sockets and try 3 sockets again.
If socket is blue, craft 4 sockets.
If fourth socket is not blue, craft 3 sockets and try 4 sockets again.
Repeat until success.

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Snarky85 a écrit :

Hey, guys.

Wanted to play around with this build a little bit. Very sceptical about the build before, it looks kinda clunky when watching streamers etc. But turns out, I am really enjoying it so far. Leveling was a breeze, the playstyle feels very smooth.

Had a Skin of the Loyal 3g2b1r, used that for a while, and at some point thought meh - might as well corrupt it. Turns out I actually got the +1. Threw in some gear I had lying around, bought a BotC, running T10s quite smoothly already, with the boss taking a little while still.

Most of the gear is pretty random, just life + resist essentially. What would you recommend to upgrade first? Don't want to spend too much, but I don't mind using a couple exalts on this guy.

Which flasks are good, besides Witchfire? Why Rathpith over a good rare? Isn't something like 90+ spelldamage, life, resists much better? Why Allelopathy? Just for Blight?

€ I noticed, that occasionally some monsters don't seem to stay affected by Essence Drain, they get hit by ED, lose a couple hp. But then almost instantly they lose the ED buff and don't take any more damage, until I hit them with another ED. Like, a group of 50 enemies dies, and one white mob randomly survives and takes 20 seconds of permanent ED bombardment to die. Is this some map/monster/sextant affix I need to care about?

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Ghazzy a écrit :

The last question sounds a bit wierd, the only logical explanations are these:
a) The target was out of range for contagion to spread to it
b) The target was spawned from any of the original targets dying (example being Knitted Horrors spawning a few guys when they die) hence they are unaffected by your auto spreading damage.

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ziuteczek123456 a écrit :

And 1 more remark here: after strenghtening ED so much, I totally resigned from Allelopathy (only for Shaper use). The damage from ED is so high, you don't need to use Blight. By doing this you don't have to stay close to boss = greatly reduced chance to be killed :) As a result, I often kill bosses from outside of screen while my skeletons keep it busy, so there's no way you can die:)