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

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VOPsychoMantis เขียน:

What armor bases would you recommend? I presume ES is no longer the way to go.

ES/Armour or ES/Evasion to make things easier for coloring due to the vast ammount of blue sockets you need.

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MrYamamoto เขียน:

Just curious, what weapons should i use? trying to decide between this as starter or FNM starter

* Essence of Delirium crafted rare wep (dagger or wand)
* Breath of the Council

There are a few more options but those 2 would be my ideal choices to go for, in which case I would probably lean towards a rare crafted dagger (so I can still use Shield Charge)

I saw a lot of ED buffs in patch notes. Do you feel contagion and ED will be better than ever now?

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Aevaris เขียน:

I saw a lot of ED buffs in patch notes. Do you feel contagion and ED will be better than ever now?

ED lost a lot of power because of the changes to double dipping (decay, poison, projectile damage for example). They had to buff the base damage to compensate, but it's still pretty decent.

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Aevaris เขียน:

I saw a lot of ED buffs in patch notes. Do you feel contagion and ED will be better than ever now?

Yes it will be better than ever :)

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tsunny เขียน:

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Aevaris เขียน:

I saw a lot of ED buffs in patch notes. Do you feel contagion and ED will be better than ever now?

ED lost a lot of power because of the changes to double dipping (decay, poison, projectile damage for example). They had to buff the base damage to compensate, but it's still pretty decent.

It will deal more dmg than ever with the changes actually. Poison was only used for boosting single target DPS and not generally used for clear speed ED builds.

Where do the frenzy and power charges come from for Swift Killer?

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VOPsychoMantis เขียน:

Where do the frenzy and power charges come from for Swift Killer?

They come from Swift Killer! :)

I'm an idiot, I didn't read that last bit in the text. Thanks!

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VOPsychoMantis เขียน:

I'm an idiot, I didn't read that last bit in the text. Thanks!

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sup ghazzy. used this build in 2.6 - will use it in 3.00. cool shit pirate bro.

Really nice guide, i think will be playing this for 3.0 :)
Some quick questions:
Why aren't you using witchfire brew? I think its a really strong damage option especially with the buff in 3.0.
And is Death's Oath useful when you dont go CI anymore?