2.3 CI Essence Drain Trickster SC/HC

Skill Tree

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https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAYCALDYotk8tvmkkUfIFNo7cNSAs_VvTINqjHSBFr8Pq7TRbWwki8gM53S1SMM6doLbGutjieAQexEv5li-OisKkx_1S13ySRPBAA5IKgu3MBGWcFLoWhQJBx5_xonTJogTbZUukyeMNvDVbAu-iu-Ij_pJUSL0oS_K0_k37BhcQG0ZtAzXz3C7LL-HyxFQ2VvqukmxFdenmzW5GyUNfDQKhq51nqcrHU9LrlfJN2ZWY88VKPo3gyymgse4k6brkNYdvvnoHNwzh-vujxoD7prgMtFFnUVHU1K1BMBm5CI8BRps1aaf3-9898E=


Gear

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Ascent From Flesh Chain Belt http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Ascent_From_Flesh

Quartz Flask

Stibnite/Jade Flask

Granite Flask (Rumi's if capable)

Basalt Flask

Quicksilver

+1 curse amulet/unique



Skills
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Chest: Essence Drain - Controlled Destruction - Void Manipulation - Rapid Decay - Pierce - Slower Proj/Empower

Helm: Contagion - Inc AoE - [Faster Casting (Before +1 Curse)] - Curse on Hit - Temp Chains

Boots: Wither - Spell Totem - Faster Casting - Inc Duration

Gloves: Cast When Damage Taken - Immortal Call - Inc Duration - Stone/Chaos Golem

Wand/Dagger: Blasphemy - Enfeeble - Discipline

Shield: Vaal Discipline - Inc Duration - Flame Dash/Lightning Warp/Whirling Blades




Defences

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CI: Gives a Large Effective Life Pool

Dodge: Trickster gives 5% dodge and spell dodge from Ghost Dance, Ascent From Flesh gives 6% dodge when phasing, and quartz flask gives phasing and 10% dodge and spell dodge totaling for 21% dodge and 15% spell dodge.

Evasion: Trickster gives 500 evasion and the tree gives a passive 131% increased evasion rating. Trickster also gives a 20% more multiplier when not on full ES. Combine this with a stibnite/jade flask and you should get a decent evade chance.

Zealot's Oath: This makes all your life regen work on your ES instead. This works insanely well for this build as Essence Drain gives life regen based on the damage that the DoT does, basically working as a life leech. This makes Patient Reaper from trickster very effective as the added DoT damage will increase the regen, and everytime your DoT kills (which is 100% of the time) you gain increased life regen and es recovery.

Phys Reduction: The Basalt Flask and Granite Flask will do wonders for when you do get hit. Not to mention you will also have blasphemy enfeeble to always lower the damage and crit chance of enemy attacks.

Slows: Contagion will greatly spread temp chains around enemies to slow them down and increase the duration of your debuffs. Against stronger enemies you will also use a wither totem to not just increase your damage output but to also put a halt to your enemies movement.


How to Play (For those who don't know)

To use essence drain to mob clear what you must first use is contagion. Contagion will preform an AoE debuff that apply a weak DoT but also proliferate your essence drain on kill. After you use contagion on a pack/mob use essence drain on a target with the contagion debuff and let the dot kill the enemy. When the enemy dies a secondary contagion will be cast from the enemies body and this contagion will apply the essence drain dot to all enemies in the AoE. With a large AoE contagion one essence drain can spread far and wide and clear a lot of mobs.

On stronger enemies you want to put down a wither totem to increase your DoT damage and use the slow to allow you to kite better.

Occultist variant
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https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAMBAN-w34qCELv8fPDpAo-mFX6RB0uuRKvG90J6GyVVrpJ0enDZWyycbRkRLRFQIvR8gzW5bAvr7qcrHU-TJ5rgpwgc3DLRvop_xu-IRZ2PRriTjxpFR6EvEZb5N1NSm6Eo-rUEwGYHHg5I188YavfXgsdXyeQiPAWVLl3y44S3MEmxeC-ESFKvHb756A18N4MabNWmn9_vfPDVKgsrCuhaFAl85VxrrUozh6br98GP-klRcFIRLyaIE21YB8NtZ_wD7iym7BhcQInT62OQ1nC7LL-Hy4w2tUgV16ebdoKGrnWeyAxWY88VtNEWvw-rJIvDOong5liTH0kT



Hope you like my first ever fully thoughout but totally expandable build. Please leave a comment about what you think, positive or negative just not dickish.
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