Can ED + Contagion get a buff?

Direct nerfs, accidental nerfs, unintended nerfs and all the other nerfs have made it so bad that no one wants to play it anymore.

I enjoyed the play style once and it was one of my favorite skills to play, but since 3.13 it became weaker and weaker with every patch that followed. The reasons it is in a bad state:

i) Contagion AoE is really bad, even with linking AoE support and Intensify Support it is too small and any further investments barely do anything. These 2 supports already provide large increased AoE bonuses and the only way to increase the radius further is to invest in more increased AoE, which already has very marginal returns.

Just get rid of the Intensify Support for Contagion already, it smells of an oversight and should have never been inteded to be used with Contagion.

Give Contagion back radius scaling based on level instead so increases in AoE don't feel bad.

ii) ED damage is too low. Compared to other dots, like for example DD ignite, it's like half as much with more investment and even cold dot is in a better state.

Buff ED damage by smth. like 40-60%. The fact that this slow af projectile barely does any damage and soulrend does way more with auto aim is ridiculous.

While at it also give it pierce one enemy or increase the AoE impact radius of the skill.

iii) Blight, again the same issues as ED, the damage is just too low. Considering that the skill has to be used in melee range and you have to stand still for it to apply stacks it doesn't do enough.

Buff the Blight damage by smth. like 30%.
Give back the application of Wither, removal of Spreading Rot has made it almost impossible to play the Chaos Dot builds, because they don't have enough links for another Wither setup.

iv) Do smth. about the requirement of links on Chaos Dot builds, it has gone way too far, this is what is usually required for it:

6L Single Target - Blight
4L ED
4L Contagion

Now you need links for Movement, Curses, Auras, Wither setup, Guard Skill setup, Blessing setup.

Just at least give Blight back automatic Wither and remove Intensify as a Contagion support it just makes everything about Contagion worse.

Even with all the buffs I listed here, it might still not be good enough for ppl to play the skills again, so yeah the state of it is absolutely horrible and it was once a widely beloved play style.
Last bumped on Aug 7, 2023, 3:26:07 AM
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Bumping this because it was one of my favorite build archetypes and it just felt completely unplayable the last time I tried it.
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