3.0 LL 26/20 Essence Drain Decay Bow build. Everything farmer.

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DerWeiss wrote:
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xslasherz wrote:
Thanks for your feedback.
I'm curious about the why you did not use pierce support gem? i seem a lot of the build for pierce, some even go for the passive tree to get 100% pierce chance.

I would like to know the difference between having pierce support or without it? or Dying sun flask already can replace the pierce support in term of map clearing


Yeah most ed builds use pierce but you can just run void walkers to get roughly the same effect. I just run slower proj instead for the increased proj dmg since everything melts the second it gets touched by ed. Pierce is sort of a stop gap for killing mobs faster since you've got multiple infected in the pack that'll pop but this build has so much dps you don't really notice it.

It could be more beneficial to run pierce but to be honest It doesn't really seem to effect the build by not having it linked.


Thanks for the feedback! i could use some of your advice here. Been following your build ever since. my goal is to take down shaper with ease.

This is my gear now, ED having a little bit more to 20 now, hopefully can get corrupted 21lv.
Currently waiting catarina to get level 8 and saving currency to craft a bow now. Still a long journey
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DerWeiss wrote:
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Thank you for posting this build, probably my strongest essence character right now (maybe dreamfeather spec throw is stronger? can't tell).
Right now I'm 25/20(missing 21 ed), with helmet enchant(pretty bad es), delirium bow, only one envy jewelry and I was wondering if my stats are good enough to try uber atziri/vinktars square? I've never attempted either but I've farmed normal atziri countless times. Just wanted your insight senpai.

Also where do i go from here, shold I focus on getting a better helmet/jewlery or am I good to go for higher tier content (guardians/shaper)?
Thanks in advanced! C:


Picture is h/o stats with auras only.
http://imgur.com/a/2yT6N

edit: just bought a 21 ed, now at 22k tooltip and 63.7k dot.


Uber's going to be a challenge, if you're playing sc it shouldn't be a problem if you've got the mechanics down but if you're playing hc it could easily be a rip. I'm a bit crap at the mechanics so it usually takes me a portal or 3.

Vinktar's however is going to be a joke, you'll take the mechanics and put them with your redheaded step-children.


You've got pretty much everything you need right now. The only thing to focus on now is min-maxing your gear. You're characters are hidden on your profile so I can't give you advice too much gearwise without seeing what you've got.

If the helm's a bit on the crap side then just buy another white one with the enchant and start slamming deafening woes on it until you get a better one. As far as other gear just make sure you've got your res covered and aim for the highest es and chaos dmg you can manage on them.

That aside the helm is a priority over the rings as far as total es goes so I'd recommend that first.


Thanks for the advice, appreciate it!
I just did phoenix 4 times yesterday! died once though.
Here's my gear, it's on my profile too. I crafted the helmet to 355 es the other day, I'm scared to slam it though lol. I have around 8.3k ES with auras. Also I only have about 3ex rn so deafening woes might be too expensive.

Unfortunately, I'm not capped without purity.



Last edited by Naicu on Nov 13, 2016, 3:44:29 AM
I playing this, in the T16 is very difficult, feeling damage and survivability is not enough, Of course, the data is not up to your level.。42000 damage per second,8700 energy shield for the time ,LV87
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“Deafening Essence of Woe”(105-110% increased spell damage)In some cases it may be a choice
then I think 【REFLEX BOW】 is the best bow
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DerWeiss wrote:



If you added in the 33% from vulnerability it'll wind up just being the equivalent of another jewel slot or another piece of chaos dmg jewelry so not too much over all.


You keep saying this but isn't "enemies take 33% increased damage" a more multiplier?

It's additive with Wither but without Wither its 33% more damage. Even with a max stat Wither its still a decent more multiplier.
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Guioki wrote:
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DerWeiss wrote:



If you added in the 33% from vulnerability it'll wind up just being the equivalent of another jewel slot or another piece of chaos dmg jewelry so not too much over all.


You keep saying this but isn't "enemies take 33% increased damage" a more multiplier?

It's additive with Wither but without Wither its 33% more damage. Even with a max stat Wither its still a decent more multiplier.


After a little bit of research ends up I am wrong. GGG needs to change the wording from increased to more.

The increased damage from vulnerability is technically "increased" rather than more but it functions as a "more" multiplier to enemies within the curse radius. Given how ED constantly off-screens packs I'd take the 40% enchant rather than the 3rd curse with a limited radius.

The dream for every ED player though is a Heretics veil with the 40% increased ED dmg and a +1 curse amulet. Then you'll get both rather than having to choose but it's an expensive proposition.
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DerWeiss wrote:

The dream for every ED player though is a Heretics veil with the 40% increased ED dmg and a +1 curse ugraded chayula + Shavs.



FTFY ;)
"Fixing the endgame was hard - No matter how hard we buffed red maps, people would keep spamming Gorges.
So we turned Gorge into a red map"
Hey! So I'm playing basically the same build, and I was wondering: right now, just transitioned into LL with a bow, shavs and a bunch of crap gear, do you think it's worth it to go for a triple curse setup (losing a ring slot) or I should just add artic armor to the mix?

Been playing ci with 90% mana reservation and it hasn't been a problem, so I should be able to get 3 curses on blasphemy
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Rathke wrote:
Hey! So I'm playing basically the same build, and I was wondering: right now, just transitioned into LL with a bow, shavs and a bunch of crap gear, do you think it's worth it to go for a triple curse setup (losing a ring slot) or I should just add artic armor to the mix?

Been playing ci with 90% mana reservation and it hasn't been a problem, so I should be able to get 3 curses on blasphemy



If you can manage to hit ele weak cap across the rest of your gear and fit in the doedre's damning for the 3rd curse I'd say go for it. The only reason I had arctic armour in the mix was that it was the only reservation I could squeeze into my reservations for a little extra defense.

The nice thing is that you'll get vulnerability from Witchfire Brew if you decide to not add the 3rd curse on blasphemy. It'll put a lot more pressure on the rest of your gear but that shouldn't be too much of an issue.

I'm actually thinking about doing this but I've only got ~4.5k es atm as LL. I'm not going to transition into it until I've got presence of chayula and ~7-8k es. It'll definitely help with out single target damage.
Right now that's exactly my problem, the consequence adding a doedres has been having to replace steppan boots for a pair with a ton of reses but only 140 es, a chain belt and a ring with a low amount of Es. I think I'm at 6.5k right now, but the three curse setup is quite nice to have. I'm starting to wonder if it wouldn't be better as an occultist for the free extra curse, but the explosions are really annoying sometimes :/

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