GhazzyTV - Essence Drain & Contagion (or Bane/Soulrend) Trickster [SC/HC/Uber Elder/Shaper]
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just fix your flasks (you should have one for bleed, one for curse, and one for freezing/shocking) and you can easily farm T16 maps. I have similar/worse gear than you do and can farm 16 very comfortably.
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" Min/Maxing gear at best. It's like work of art. |
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@skalla99 I would suggest to get Arctic Armor since it's 'free' Aura. Since you have 6link chest you can try 6link blight and get rare gloves. Maybe use CWDT/IC in gloves. Also I would suggest buying The Watcher's Eye if you dont have it with Malevolence Aura and Non-Ailment Chaos Damage. Get better rings and flasks. I don't know if you have Acrobatics but if you do it's taking 30% of your shield away. With The Perfect Form, if you invest into cold resistance your evasion will go up. I dont use Acrobatics since my Evasion is at 70% in HO and at 84% with flasks which is enough to do all content comfortably.
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https://pastebin.com/Y5FJq7yz I've pieced this mess of a build together from multiple sources and am completely lost. I can run tier 16 maps fine but I was wondering if anyone could help me clean it up and switch out the garbage I've created. |
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Hey all - been messing about with my ED character this league and have him at lvl 89. My main goal is to complete the atlas, and this league that looks like it should be quite straightforward. Up to Tier 15 now, and filling the lower level gaps as I go.
I've ended up with a hybrid build, part Ghazzy part Ziz, and I'm sure it's a long way from being optimised. Could I get some pointers for steps I could take to improve performance? I'm mainly concerned about increasing survive-ability versus increasing DPS, but either is always welcome. Thanks. Character name is SDDTrickED: - https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/siden1/characters |
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" Looking at you character... Couple of questions to think of as you go forward, as ways to improve DPS and Survival: -No Despair curse? Bane linked manual or Blas-aura? -No Temp Chains? or no Aspect of Spider -No Vaal Grace for insta-defense or no Vaal RF for bursting down hard targets? -No Arcane Surge? -No non-Chaos damage multi besides on your weapon? -No Empower in ED links -Drop Mana pot? Use Enlighten or other mana sources, like enchanting -Total Costs of Mana -Switch Blight from a Totem-based cast--to a channeling and Infuse it? Or Allelo's equip'd Your tree I guess looks fine. You have no Watcher's Eye. And no other jewels beside Spreading Rot. Not sure what your stats are Life/ES/Mana/Unresv Mana so its hard to tell there. But I suspect you have lots of gear upgrades that will increase both Def and Offense -- your neck and rings are simply basic for example. Last edited by Optio82#7481 on Jul 12, 2019, 10:40:42 AM
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Just switched from ED Contagion to Soulrend Bane and good lord this launches it way ahead (just about 450k dot dps, can push 500k once done). Still adjusting to the loss of Contagion auto spreading but fuck man this build feels insane. Basically copied psyonix's setup (thanks)..just need to farm some lab enchants and finish leveling gems.
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@psyonix Would you recommend Damage Pen or Cast Speed for Boots Enchant? Last edited by DrPriapism#1899 on Jul 12, 2019, 10:33:27 AM
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" Just curious -- what is the great improvement or great upside to Soulrend Bane vs. "normal" ED & Contagion More burst damage? Smoother play style? Just wondering, thanks |
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" To be fair alot of my excitement was compared to a very basic ed contagion while still using 10-20c spell dmg+chaos multi wands and tabula/goldrim. Granted it took me very far, but finally switching over to the gem scaling with the bow and dual cursing made it feel so much smoother. I guess in terms of clear speed ed contagion is faster, but soulrend melts bosses much quicker..and in the end I plan on farming uber elder for some watcher eye profits. And the flexibility of being able to switch between the 2 setups if I feel like farming legion content is seamless. |
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I've reached all my goals for this build so I figured I'd share. This is my high level content version of the ED Trickster. At lvl 94 I have 5800 health and 2k ES, 65% evade, 42% spell dodge and 1.5M Shaper dps. Here's the pob: https://pastebin.com/F1ZPqCcE
Here's my gear: I run two six-links, ED and Vaal Blight, along with 2 curses (Despair and Enfeeble), Aspect of the Spider, and Malevolence for 100% mana reservation. Contagion gets an AoE bump from the glove prefix so one-shotting legions is pretty easy. I've also done Uber Elder a dozen time deathless and am farming T15/16 maps with a sub 4 minute average time. There's a few places I think the build could be even further min/maxed, like adding chaos % damage to the rings and belt, or getting something fun on the quiver (movement speed or increased AoE). And a double Malevolence WE with NaCDoT and life/ES rate would be really nice but super expensive. Same thing with getting 21/20 on all ED support gems or jewels with two damage mods and life. Each of the damage improvements I mentioned are between 10-25k dps, so if you did them all the total dps could go up another 100-200k. Let me know what you think! Last edited by kevinbrightblade#5644 on Jul 12, 2019, 2:12:13 PM
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