CI and bleed

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Saauul wrote:

What about auras? I would think of vitality/discipline and flammability, unless occultists dont use auras usually and use curse auras instead?

Why flammability? You were talking about ED/Contagion build.

In that case I would go Despair / Temporal chain / Enfeeble curse and Discipline aura

Curse as aura will reserve mana but it´s automated.

Are you going for 2h staff or 1h + shield ?

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Rakiii wrote:

+ higher life pool than pure life builds and most of the hybrids.

I think it's pretty expensive to get a much higher ES pool than 7k now with the ES nerf. So this point is a bit debatable.

Define much higher but 8-10k should be reachable with new occultist and decent investment in league.

Sorry, such a noob here, I was thinking purity of fire ,I saw lots of guides use it, I think its easier to cap resists then ?

Im most likely going 1-h + shield to get shield dash and maybe fortify or something else connected to it.

Not really sure maybe I dont need movement skill at all, but it seems everyone sues at least one

RF builds are using purity of fire aura (to face fire degen from RF) not ED/contagion builds.

Easy moving with 1h + shield and you can apply fortify but good +3 skill chaos staff (or some special one) is also possible so it´s up to you.

It´s probably better to use 1h + shield for ES CI char though.

A lot of people are saying go triple curse. I think this is bad advice. The curse branch has a terrible anti-synergy with contagion in that it blocks contagion from spreading when a cursed mob explodes. You're better off without them sadly :(.

For an ED/Contagion build, your ideal scenario is low life with pain attunement. This requires a shav's but it's much cheaper than it used to be so that's not a big problem. You can also start out by going hybrid life/ES and then transitioning to CI as you get more energy shield heavy gear.

Bleed is no big deal for any of these, just keep an anti-bleed flask.

Chaos damage will kill you if you try to go LL no shav's. It's not a big problem for hybrid life/es builds. The painful thing about hybrid life/ES builds is actually that you have two different buffers you have to manage and there are no mechanics which cleanly apply to both simultaneously.

Another good thing to know, I would have taken exploding enemies for sure, because I thought contagion spreads even when enemies explode.

I guess its easier for me now, I was having hard time thinking how to use 3 curses with all the other gems I had in mind.

Thanks!