[2.6] VoidCultist Essence Drain Chaos Occultist

This is a Guide for VoidCultist, A Spell caster specializing in Chaos damage.

Class : Witch
Ascendancy : Occultist
Skill : Essence Drain or Blight







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Gems

Body = Essence drain + Rapid decay + Void manip + GMP + Control Destruct + fast cast

Weapon = CWDT+Temp chains+ Vulnerability

Shield = Enlighten + Discipline + Haste + Arctic Armor

Helmet =Flame dash + Faster casting + RD/LD

Boots = Spell totem + Wither + Inc Duration + Inc Aoe

Gloves = Contagion + VM + RD + CD



Gear


Weapons

Perfect Rare wand:
Cast speed
Spell damage

Unique Wands:
Voidbattery
Apep's Rage

Dual wield =The Consuming dark + Rare wand




Armor

Shield = Prism guardian, Broken faith: Leech, but no ES
Body = Incandescant heart, Rare= ES chest or EVA/ES
Helmet = Malachai vision, or Heretic Veil, If ES not needed: Maybe Alpha Howl
Gloves = High ES or EVA/ES
Boots = Steppan eard
Belt = ES and Resist
Ring = Rare: with ES Resist
Ring = Rare: with ES Resist
Amulet = Eye of chayula


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Noteables


Thoughts


Suggestions
Last edited by artima on Apr 14, 2017, 2:51:34 PM
Last bumped on Apr 14, 2017, 6:11:55 AM
comprehensive:) amazing:) utterly shit:)
inc crit and crit multi with essence drain? are you serious?
Is there a reason to not use crit with essence drain?
Still a work in progress just now hit level 60 so..
Last edited by artima on Apr 13, 2017, 7:33:30 PM
Damage over time cannot crit, so you are effectively scaling only the initial hit portion of Essence Drain, which is a very tiny portion of its damage compared to its damage over time portion.

That's why you usually don't scale with crit if you go ED. You are way better off with other ways of doing it since it already has good supports and plenty of available scalings (Projectile, spell, damage over time, etc)
Oh well thank you, Danteleet, for letting me know.

Thats, misleading and ackward then, they should just not allow it to crit, and not put a crit chance on it, like blight etc.
Yeah to be honest when I checked the wiki to confirm what i wrote above, I was surprised to even see a crit stat on the gem, then i remembered about that (insignificant) initial hit.

Cheers!

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