[2.6] Essence Drain/Contagion Occultist Low Life [WIP]

Hi all, so I'm looking for some advice and/or recommendations on how to continue improving my character as the build progresses. For the most part, I'm sticking with the typical tree and everything feels good so far at this point.

I'm unsure however on where to go with the gearing up to this point aside from the general resists upgrading, I plan to eventually swap in a crafted delirium weapon once I manage to get the resources for it. But for now, I'd appreciate any suggestions.

RavvynDrain; Level 77

Gear




Current Passives

https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAMBAAFvAx4HHg18DkgPqxEPES8RUBGWE20UCRV-Fr8XLxhqGYoajxslHRQdTx9BIvQkiySwJogrCjW5Ow09X0J6SRNJUUmxS65Ms1JTUq9XyVgHXEBca1yKXfJn_GwLbRl1nnaCeC96cHvXfOV88H_GgKSESIfLieCLeo9Gj_qRB5MfkyeVLpcGl5WX9JuhoS-nK6ebrJitSrQMtNG1SLcwu027_L6KwzrDbcSiyAzK088V0B_Xz9lb3V_fiuL35ljpAuq662PviO_r8NX22vfX-Tf60vsJ?accountName=Ravvynfall&characterName=RavvynDrain


Jewels




Bandits
Kill All - Kill All - Kill All



Stats In Wilderness




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Thanks a bunch!
Last edited by Ravvynfall on May 22, 2017, 1:24:59 PM
Last bumped on May 22, 2017, 4:47:37 PM
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Pastebin Code
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For most up-to-date progress on my character, I'll be providing an import code for people using Path of Building.

Thanks again for any feedback, advice, and general constructive criticism :)
Last edited by Ravvynfall on May 22, 2017, 1:12:15 PM
Hello, I'm currently playing an Essence drain lowlife occultist, sitting at level 95 now.
I started as CI with a skin of the loyal, and it felt very safe with a lot of dps; however, going low life allowed me to get rid of the mana flask ignoring all mana issues, running 2 more auras (clarity and arctic armour) and increasing the Decay and Poison damage over time dramatically. Mine is a tri-curse version, so I run both enfeeble and temporal chains. This setup allows to farm safely guardians, shaper, uber atziri and other hard maps, except for hall of grandmaster, as long as you are confident with the mechanics.
My character tab is public so you may check it whenever you want to see my tree, gear and gem links.
I strongly recommend to use a Sai dagger crafted with essence of delirium, because decay is essential for our dps overtime, along with the consuming dark you're already using.
I swap the Consuming dark with an high es shield vs bosses which are immune to poison (hydra and chimera)

but feel free to use a Breath of the council sceptre instead if you feel safe enough vs chimera.
the Dream fragments ring you use is a great defensive item, though I use 2 % es rings with faster es recharge for normal mapping and bosses, swapping one of them for the dream fragments when facing the hydra, tul breachlord and hard bosses (guardians too) when the map has the chilled ground mod.
I would recommend, besides, to remove faster casting from your current setup because cast speed is almost useless for essence drain (damage overtime is the main source of damage) and run a pierce support gem to improve your dps and help you while clearing the maps (we're not playing 3.0 still, so projectile damage affects damage over time modifier).
Empower gem is not that great at level 2, and should only be used at level 4 possibly with a Skin of the loyal to bring it to level 5; if you're playing low life, best choice is to go with pierce and slower projectiles together to boost both your damage over time and your decay damage.
Hope it helps, feel free to ask any other question :)
ps: I have recorded some t16 bossfights to show how the build works.
Last edited by Giammafix on May 22, 2017, 6:29:08 AM
awesome, thank you for the feedback, i'll definitely look into this stuff when i have the opportunity and currency to do so!

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I've adjusted my build based on some of your suggestions, such as converting to low life and i've gotten a significant amount of performance improvement. Thanks a bunch, I'm working on getting a delirium weapon next.
Last edited by Ravvynfall on May 22, 2017, 1:27:03 PM
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Ravvynfall wrote:
awesome, thank you for the feedback, i'll definitely look into this stuff when i have the opportunity and currency to do so!

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Giammafix wrote:
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I've adjusted my build based on some of your suggestions, such as converting to low life and i've gotten a significant amount of performance improvement. Thanks a bunch, I'm working on getting a delirium weapon next.

I'm glad it helped! :) you'll see that using a delirium weapon too will do a big difference :)
Last edited by Giammafix on May 22, 2017, 4:47:44 PM

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