GhazzyTV - Essence Drain & Contagion (or Bane/Soulrend) Trickster [SC/HC/Uber Elder/Shaper]

i am currently using this wand (selfcrafted at around t4 maps ) and i am thinking about upgrade :) Any ideas?

btw i cant overstate how great is this shield

and for people who are wondering what to do with neck slot, i slaped this there for a time being


btw just done deathless shaper, gonna do uber elder tonight too if everything goes according to plan :) Having a blast in this league so far :P

Does the %Evasion from Atziri's Splendour work with Escape Artist? From reading Escape Artist, I would think it has to be # evasion. If that is the case, then I wonder if it would be better to just buy a good rare chest and try to 6 link it

I got this from another build and was thinking of swapping to ED.


It's basically a tabula with 20% phys as fire and +3.

I wanted to ask - would this be worth building around? Or is the chestpiece necessary enough that I'd be better off using some other 6L?

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xzwjm10100 wrote:

i am currently using this wand (selfcrafted at around t4 maps ) and i am thinking about upgrade :) Any ideas?

btw i cant overstate how great is this shield

and for people who are wondering what to do with neck slot, i slaped this there for a time being

btw just done deathless shaper, gonna do uber elder tonight too if everything goes according to plan :) Having a blast in this league so far :P

Thx u for idea) Rly n1 shield

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Fresh2000 wrote:

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DamagePlanX wrote:

I have a few quick questions. First, I heard that in 3.7 ED+Contagion has pulled ahead of Bane. Is that true? I'm using Bane to level, is there a good time to switch back to ED+Contagion? Is it based on some sort of break point?

Also at what point does a 4L become more powerful than a +1 blue chaos wand for Bane or ED+C

hey,

did you find answer to this? I am wondering same and I can see every top league guy plays with ED+C actually. When I initially got Bane for sure damage is better and leveling is smoother, but I wonder if I should get back to Contagion.

And if I would stay with Bane why not drop ED and go soulrend instead... But again first time playing with ED so not sure anything about soulrend vs ED.


@Ghazzy would love to see updated tree to 3.7

This guide helped: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KP6U4mIHnf14nPAAv_joXzbkVtLUmXv0yIrZ0_6GLmA/preview#

What's the BEST armor for this build?
This guide suggest hyrri's ire and atziri's splendour but most people on poeninja build thing are using carcass jack. Is that better than hyrri's ire? Does the increased area damage do anything to dot?

I am using queen of the forest actually :)

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xzwjm10100 wrote:

I am using queen of the forest actually :)

If you get the time I made a long post for you on the last page.

What EVA are you getting now? I am basically running your set-up with worse accessories and I am about 25k with jade+80%. You need like 45k to hit the 75% max.

I am it is about 5x cheaper than Carcass but maybe it's not worth that dmg/aoe loss if you're not hitting the required EVA for queen.

Queen does give like 1k more eva and with the ascendancy passive is it better to go full eva on chest rather than hybrid?

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xsnowingx wrote:

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YaCantStopMe wrote:

If you take a look at my profile, im sort of doing a mix between this build and zizarians build and i feel like its the best setup right now for mapping/bossing and the league mechanic.

The way i got it going is ED/Contagion for moniliths, you can zip around with flame dash, and use those unique gloves for a level 22 blight. Blight has like a 3ft radious, but it melts tough mobs around the totems and high level bosses if you use the wither totem. Its also great for temple bosses with there chaos resistances. Those gloves are dirt cheap and carried me up to t16. Then bane is my mapping skill. Im really only using ED/Contagion for monoliths and high tier mapping, but once bain levels up ill use that in high tier maps.

You can make a 5-link Blight spell totem link with those gloves, right? might be an option with the unique jewel

You probably can i havent tried it tho. I just discovered the gloves existed the other day looking at POE ninja and bought mine for 5c and i felt like my single target skyrocketed compared to the 4 link blight setup i had before.

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poeGT wrote:

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If you take a look at my profile, im sort of doing a mix between this build and zizarians build and i feel like its the best setup right now for mapping/bossing and the league mechanic.

The way i got it going is ED/Contagion for moniliths, you can zip around with flame dash, and use those unique gloves for a level 22 blight. Blight has like a 3ft radious, but it melts tough mobs around the totems and high level bosses if you use the wither totem. Its also great for temple bosses with there chaos resistances. Those gloves are dirt cheap and carried me up to t16. Then bane is my mapping skill. Im really only using ED/Contagion for monoliths and high tier mapping, but once bain levels up ill use that in high tier maps.

Are you going MoM/Battery and Phase/Acro? I think Phase/Acro for non HC might be a waste, but I can't seem to decide atm. Also the starting nodes you picked up 3 cast speed instead of the 30% chaos damage, on purpose or because of ziz's starting build?

There are nodes like arcane swiftness that look good if you go non-mon. I can't really decide, all I know is atm mana is a massive issue for me, still just running 1 buff.

I am still not sure about purity of flesh and devotion nodes on the left, I mean its 5 skill points just to get to those clusters.

I see you went Weave+Swift Killer. Prolonged is tempting and I've seen a few people use that. Your thoughts? I think ziz even dropped swift killer and went "Overcharge" to compensate - at a cost of 4 skill points.

Is anyone bothering with Blast Radius and Amplify? Only 4 skill points to get both. Maybe if you're not running Zeel shield it's worth it for?

What about going up for dbl curses?

Im going for MoM and Battery, i just need one more skill point until i can get both at once.

I usually agree on the phase/acro, but i feel like there is a ton of ranged attacks in legion. Almost feels like incursion when everyone was getting nailed by the spitters at once. Plus it helps in temples, cause they all got so much chaos resistance, that it takes longer to kill stuff than normal. Probably wont be much of a issue end game tho, but for leveling and mapping it seems to be worth it at the moment. I might respec out of it later idk, going to see how it goes.

With the life points on the left, i mostly took them for some extra survivability pushing through maps. Ziz took them but i know there more for hardcore players. Its sort of like the phase acro skills for me. If it comes a time where im just not dying and feel tanky enough ill probably respec them. But as of right now its a bit hairy sometimes using blight upclose in t13+. It allows me to face tank a bit more, and just get bosses in one go instead of running away and coming back for a 2nd hit.

The 3 cast nodes i took mostly because zizs tree is the one i followed to begin with, then i kind of just put elements of this one into it. But at the same time i heard ED/Contagion really shines with high cast speed. So idk what is best. If i had a good multi modded weapon i would probably drop them for the chaos damage. Zizs tree i feel like is better for league start with bad gear while ghazzys tree is better for end game.

Weave/Swift killer seems like the better bet for mapping in my opinion. The prolonged pain option seems like a good choice if ur farming guardians/shaper/uber elder tho.

Getting weave of the arcane helped my mana issue a ton and just leveling up in general seems to help. I still run out here or there, which is part of the reason i like bane for mapping. I never run of mana with bane.