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

What if we didn´t take the Dreamer Mana node and spend the 5 Points on Righteous Decree and Dynamo instead ? We would lose Mana Regen but overall would get more Mana and other stats overall.
THoughts ?

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Ghazzy เขียน:

@ooFunky:
Thank you for helping out, you're starting to sound like @Garyas in here! <3
I appreciate it :)

Glad to be of any help :) also it helps me understanding the build better and seeing things I can improve on my items, tree and what not.

I got a helm with a built-in lvl 18 inc AoE support and other stats that are decent. Being that I have Contagion in my helm, I can effectively make it a 5L with minimal rework. I was thinking of putting in added chaos, but that only supports skills that hit and Contagion does not. So what would be a good option? Looks like swift affliction or efficacy? (it probably doesn't matter much, as Cont seems to mainly be a vehicle for spreading ED damage, but maybe something useful could be dropped in)

Thanks a ton for this guide, btw. I injured my wrist shortly after xmas and having a build that I can comfortably not have to hammer buttons to play has been very welcome.

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Ghazzy เขียน:

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dnates2014 เขียน:

Really just can't do t14 vaults with sextants :( hard to survive lol. I suck at the game haha

Since I'm late to the party this round I just checked your gear and it doesn't look like you should have any problems running that, perhaps you changed something since you posted this. Would you mind confirming that things are fine now or do you still need help?

Well, I still have problems with the vault boss. I often times get 1 shot out of the blue..

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NoDiscoSisqoOrCalypso เขียน:

What if we didn´t take the Dreamer Mana node and spend the 5 Points on Righteous Decree and Dynamo instead ? We would lose Mana Regen but overall would get more Mana and other stats overall.
THoughts ?

according to pob getting dreamer and the 3 wioth starter nodes would be more mana than dynamo and rigteous decree atleast if youre going for the soket/frenzy charge on the shadow side

Hey,i like this build so much but i have problem with survivability sometimes i die in a tier 12-14 maps
Maybe its beacuse i dont have alot of hp, i have 4900 hp and 1200 es.
Another question is how to spend my currency i have something like 300chaos.

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Almogy เขียน:

Hey,i like this build so much but i have problem with survivability sometimes i die in a tier 12-14 maps
Maybe its beacuse i dont have alot of hp, i have 4900 hp and 1200 es.
Another question is how to spend my currency i have something like 300chaos.

Low life on boots, rings and amulet.

Could get a rare shield with more spell damage, flat life, mana, resists. There even are shaper/elder rare ones (I guess that mod comes from that..) with block chance applied to spells.

Do you have enough mana to get the full effect from MoM (or too much :D)? The calculator for this is in the guide on page 1. It really helps with survivability.

For your currency: Essence Drain level 21, Empower level 4, helmet with Essence Drain uber lab enchant.

You only have two jewel slots in your tree? You should ditch the Grand Spectrums (while trying to sustain enough mana for MoM) and get at least two Spreading Rots while using Allelopathy. With more jewel slots than two you could also put in some nice +%life +damage ones (or abyss jewels with flat life +damage).

What some do for more unreserved mana is not using Clarity at all. It frees a bit of mana and does not have such a crucial effect in the later game imho. Just try a few runs without it to see if you feel the difference.

Last thing I noticed is the mana flask. Why? :D You could use a Rumy there ore a Overflowing Chalize

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ooFunky เขียน:

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Almogy เขียน:

Hey,i like this build so much but i have problem with survivability sometimes i die in a tier 12-14 maps
Maybe its beacuse i dont have alot of hp, i have 4900 hp and 1200 es.
Another question is how to spend my currency i have something like 300chaos.

Low life on boots, rings and amulet.

Could get a rare shield with more spell damage, flat life, mana, resists. There even are shaper/elder rare ones (I guess that mod comes from that..) with block chance applied to spells.

Do you have enough mana to get the full effect from MoM (or too much :D)? The calculator for this is in the guide on page 1. It really helps with survivability.

For your currency: Essence Drain level 21, Empower level 4, helmet with Essence Drain uber lab enchant.

You only have two jewel slots in your tree? You should ditch the Grand Spectrums (while trying to sustain enough mana for MoM) and get at least two Spreading Rots while using Allelopathy. With more jewel slots than two you could also put in some nice +%life +damage ones (or abyss jewels with flat life +damage).

What some do for more unreserved mana is not using Clarity at all. It frees a bit of mana and does not have such a crucial effect in the later game imho. Just try a few runs without it to see if you feel the difference.

Last thing I noticed is the mana flask. Why? :D You could use a Rumy there ore a Overflowing Chalize

First of all I want to thank you for the fast answer
I dont really understand the thing with the MoM,i have the calculation and still dont get it.
I will change the flask to Rumy flask
For the low life on the boots i already bought Atziri Step just need to get the right colors on it
About the rings and amulet idont really know how to improve them(i would like to get a link of what i need to search on poe.trade if you can)
About the Essence drain lvl 21 no one sell that one,Shold i try to do one alone?

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smeagol01 เขียน:

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NoDiscoSisqoOrCalypso เขียน:

What if we didn´t take the Dreamer Mana node and spend the 5 Points on Righteous Decree and Dynamo instead ? We would lose Mana Regen but overall would get more Mana and other stats overall.
THoughts ?

according to pob getting dreamer and the 3 wioth starter nodes would be more mana than dynamo and rigteous decree atleast if youre going for the soket/frenzy charge on the shadow side

Why do you mention the 3 witch starter nodes ? I´ll take them as well but they weren´t part of my comparison. It´s 5 skillpoints to get from the Jewel Slot near the Melding wheel to the Dreamer Node.
It´s also 5 skillpoints to get to righteous decree and dynamo. Compare that and leave the witch starter points out of it ;)

Im sorry but Im still confused about this whole reserved mana situation. How do you even get reserved mana and how is it used by clarity, blasphemy and enfeeble?

To be honest Im lvl 86 running this build and have almost never needed to use enfeeble, clarity or blasphemy nor do I have reserved mana, but I think i should integrate it.

I finally got most of the gear Ive been needing. Have a 99% chaos dmg BotC, 6 linked skin of the loyal with empower lvl 3+1 (cant afford lvl 4 yet), have allelopathy gloves with 4 support gems for 5L, 4L contagion on boots and 4L devotos helm for wither totem and 40% inc. essence drain (i also got a backup with 40% inc blight dmg if needed) . Just need to put CWDT on my BotC without the increased duration.

Ive been using 2x ventors gamble and have all capped resistances. For amulet Ive been using the aylardex for the extra mana regen and power charge with patient reaper but I havent seen anyone else doing that here, any suggested replacements?

For boots ive been using rainbowstride instead of the atziris step because I feel like the overall stats are even better, but im not sure if thats true because Im missing out on a lot of evasion since I have skin of the loyal...

running 2 spreading rot jewels and 1 clear mind jewel.

My damage is good enough for T11-12 but I still find im pretty squishy overall. 3900hp, 1300 ES, 2150 mana none reserved.

Any suggestions how to improve this even more other than 21 ED or lvl 4 empower?

any help would be very much appreciated. Not sure how to link my build to this... first time poe builder!