[2.1.1d] 2H Essence Drain Build
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Hi everybody, I haven't seen any Essence Drain builds out there that use a staff as their main weapon so I decided to post my own build here to give an option to the players that want something else than Bino's or Consuming Dark.
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Pro's
=>High Damage =>Good Defenses =>No Reflect =>Will kill mobs outside of the screen =>Can kill Atziri =>Damage scales with investment and can have a considerably low initial investment =>Doesn't require any special unique
Con's
=>Low Cast speed =>No Whriling Blades =>No movement skill avaliable for constant use
Skilltree
https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwAAAx4D7gceCGcOSA-rES8RlhNtFAkVUBW4Fr8YPBhWGGoZihqPG8gc3B2-HxgfQSSLJogmlSj6KwotqDOHNZI2PTpYPC1Bh0WdSRNJUVH7Uq9TUlXGWAdcQF3yXsBfsGHiYqxn_GyMb551nnaCeC97w3zlgseDCYNfg8yExYfLiFqJ4I8aj0aP-pMfkzqVLprgm12boZu1naqgQqcIp5uomqyYrUqxkLTRtUi3MLc-t9a4k7tNvSe-gMM6yAzKSs0WzxXP3di921ndX-ZY62Pr7vDV8YryRfKX9tr31_no-wn-Cv6P
The skilltree is the one used by my lvl 92 ED caster, The reason I tried to take the nearby jewel sockets is because a 3 damage sockets are usually better than most 3 nodes that I could get and in average 2x 3 damage jewels for 3 points each increase my damage more than 6 nearby damage nodes.
Gearing
Here I am highly unsure which one is better Evasion/Armour/Hybrid as I have tried both and they seemed fairly similar. The desired stats will be in order or importance. =>Staff(core of the build): +1/+2 to chaos gems, Spell Damage, Mana regen, Cast speed. =>Helmet: Life, RES, AR/Eva. =>Belt: Life, RES, AR, (corrupt +radius of area skill). =>Rings: Life, Mana Regen, Mana, Res. => Amulet:Life, Mana Regen, Spell Damage, Mana, Res, Cast speed. => Decent bases are: Paua Amulet, Chrysalis Talisman, Deadhand Talisman, Rotfeather Talisman and (Monkey Twins Talisman, maybe?) also a Greatwolf Talisman with 2 of those above mentioned talisman prefixes would be perfect. A +1 Curse amulet is also really good if you can afford one with not useless mods on it. =>Chest: Life, Res, Ar/Eva. => Carcass Jack is a really good unique option. =>Gloves: Life, Res, AR/Eva. =>Winds of Change is a good option for higher damage and projectile speed- but you loose movement speed. =>Boots: Life, Movement Speed, Res, Ar/Eva => Atziri's Step is a decent choice for the Evasion oriented but it makes capping res nearly impossible. --> Should you decide to go with Carcass, Wind of change and Atziri's Step you will need good resists on helm, belt and some on the rings.
My gear
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Staff= ED + Rapid Decay + Controlled Destruction + Slower projectiles + Empower + Void manipulation (against HARD bosses replace Void Manipulation for Poison). -5L- Remove Void Manipulation Chest= 6L (Enlighten, Enhance, Vulnerability, Enfeeble, Temporal Chains,Temporal chains, Blasphemy) -This is your survivability boost setup and helps deals 33%+/- increased damage to monsters (more modifier) Gloves: -Contagion- Increased Area of Effect, Faster Casting, Enhance(Enhance lvl 4 will increase your AoE by 12% on a +1 gloves it will be 16%, with this you can drop all/most aoe nodes on tree!) -Boots- Wither, Spell totem, Faster Duration, Faster Casting. -Helmet- You are pretty much free here, some possibilities are: -Blood magic, Clarity, Flame golem, Blood rage. -Increased Duration, Cast on dmg taken, Immortal Call, Flame golem. -...
Offensive Stats
Usually= 59954.8 degen With Charges= 67222 degen With charges and Righteous fire= 108984 Degen(with my full support friend) On a 5L without Void Manipulation= 42080,5 degen
Spoiler
Life= 4111 Amour=1934 Evasion=1774 mana regen without clarity: 102,8 Life Regen 131,6 Last edited by RLSNS on Feb 21, 2016, 12:50:04 AM
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Any video available? I'd like to see this build, sounds like fun!
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I like the fact that you are doing something slightly different! On the note of movement skills...you can use leap slam as your movement skill correct? Level 1 Leap slam, Faster Attacks, Fortify for the heck of it for some extra mitigation.
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" I feel the attack speed is quite low and since I played SrS before I am used to running arround also for some reason I am already low on sockets but it wouldn't be a bad idea | |
" sorry there are no videos, I am currently playing this build with 16 FPS and it didn't disappoint me I was even able to kill atziri without much worry | |
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Bumping for attention
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