POE 2 ✧ Lahkesis Queen of Chaos ✧ "Essence Drain " Guide releas (Showcase video include)

Need help from theorycrafters :)

Totaly noob in building. Wanna try some chaos crit bloodmage, but not sure if it will be viable

I Know that DoT effect cannot crit, but ED and Hexblast deal decent portion of damage as Hit, thats why build can work in theory

Any opinions\advices appreciated

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/eu3fw0v3

If you want something to spam during the boss fight: spam chaos bolt from the wand (more dps than ed and no mana cost).
If you use usual DOT supports for ED you will deal similar dps without the need of constant casting. Trying to make spammable spell from ED is not worth it.

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CQD3CSTYLEz#3036 wrote:

So I've been playing a ED / Contaigon LvL 86 Chronomancer since Act 2 and I'm having a blast. Yeah its not super duper quick, but with my build its super safe in T15 Maps and clearspeed is quick enough to be fun. Especially after todays patch, you can really feel the 33% DMG increase for ED and Chaos Bolt I love it. Now the Bosses are a lot quicker.

For Trashmob clearing I just use lots of AoE and Hexblast is one hitting most. For rares I just cast ED or sometimes when theres a ton of mobs like Breach etc. I like to use Contaigon to get that satisfying ~everything melts away~

My Defences are 10k-25k (Grim Feast) ES and Faster Start of Recharge with CI, the tons of Slow from TempChains and Chronomancer Ascendancy. The Revert time is amazing to recharge Mana after using Despair and escaping Mobpacks.

I have Chaos DMG on nearly everything and around 11 +Levels total. All from buying <10Ex Items or 1Ex items.

Mana Sustain is completely fine even spamming Hexblast, with the Recharge while walking Node + some mana regen from gems / items. Flask for all the rest.

I am trying around a lot in Terms of support gems and what feels best but overall this feels like a very Solid and balanced Character. Wish I could share my Character but no clue how it works with PoE2.

Random one hit deaths are unavoidable even with 20k ES but are extremely rare. My Last one was few Levels ago, probably was a bug anyways.

Yes I know Chronomancer doesnt give any DMG increase but it's unbeatable Quality of Life and Fun for me!

Looking forward to this guide, to hopefully find many spots to improve my build even further!

what were your early ED / contagion links like? Im struggling to hit the ED and the contagion on the same target and the chain sometimes never starts. the answer could simply be get good at aiming but who knows XD

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CQD3CSTYLEz#3036 wrote:

So I always thought MoM and HP would be better for chrono, since you could then utilize the recoup nodes and fix mana issues. Probably is better.
BUT personally I love CI & ES

MoM+HP or CI+ES, which one of the two is better at surviving big oneshot incoming damage?

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adavydow#2566 wrote:

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Imm3k#0816 wrote:

Did you try going for Conservative Casting to fix mana problems?

Tried it like this (as most expensive spells are on defensive swap, decided to keep it there, to free some offensive points).

Feels on par with my 10 mana-node setup, with better damage. Will experiment a bit more tomorrow, maybe add a little bit more mana (but not sure what to respec there without loosing in survivability).

You could also play around with Cursed Cround instead of Focused Curse on Despair. Its no cost multiplayer vs 120%, and instant apply vs bit slowed. But it probably also depends on playstyle.

I watched these videos you dropped on YT at least 20+ times for all of them to reverse some
Of the effects I saw since I run the same build. I originally thought of it all myself and behold I found you this week who finally has what my envisioned endgame build would be almost to the very T.

Things I know for this build after reverse engineering it and seeing how it worked for me with similar visuals reproduced:

You have a point in whispers of doom + unique ring or gear piece to give you the 3 curses. Irrefutable

Your ED is paired with chain, but the other modifiers I can probably guess, I got my ED DOT to (700+) with my config at level 52. (Intense, controlled destruction, fork or +1 to chaos) i assume is your base 3 gem sockets or even 4.

My contagion is at like 116dps for the dot which I noticed between ED and contagion they can utilize a lot of the same skills to increase damage (that’s the bummer matching which set with which for best output) but I have swift, unleash, hinder and intense

despair: decaying hex, impending doom, and hex bloom at minimum. heightened curse or magnified effect as last two (my guess here) interchangeably with skill cost gem: inspiration

Dark effigy: in your later game builds envenom, whither stack, acceleration, +40% res to totems and for me I run plague burst if had a 5th choice

Now the real REVEAling and difficult part I see but gives the best details to how your tree is setup are your curses and the % outputs they are at.

I would love to discuss those with you as I’m trying to spiffen up my tree and can do what you do in the videos at a smaller scale but I lost my survival at my level to do so. Unless the damage you do is coming from gear, I don’t understand the higher output on the high end maps.

your theory craft for this is AMAZING. Watching your videos helped me improve mine. ATP I didn’t want to rush into endgame so I slowly level and test dps outputs for my moves. Hoping your guide comes soon. I need to tweak my tree and skill gems!

This is the tree I have so far: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/x35wo0vi

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Imm3k#0816 wrote:

You could also play around with Cursed Cround instead of Focused Curse on Despair. Its no cost multiplayer vs 120%, and instant apply vs bit slowed. But it probably also depends on playstyle.

Tried it, it feels bad. Despair is mostly for bosses, and keeping them in the ground/recasting is not fun.

I have some ideas to try, will try to make some time for a map or two today and test. Will share if I'll found some approach to mana which feels better (current state is also ok, just not zoomy enough, have to do pit-stops for mana-drain).

Finally found variant which feels comfortable:


I specced out of Glazed Flesh as I found out that it is not working currently.
Other than Conservative Casting (thanks again for the advice) specced into Deep Trance (while attack speed does nothing outside of small improvement to shield charge, mana reduction works the best when stacked). And managed to fit ring with +6 mana on kill to the build (would prefer gloves, but my resists don't allow me yet).

Also, as Glazed Flesh does not work and I currently don't have mana recoup on gear, specced to 20% partial MoM instead of 24 (and anointed Resilient Soul to compensate for missing recoup).

Tried to run lvl80 ultimatum, took a bit less than 20 minutes. While not my best time (it's mostly due to luck with Chimera anyway, hardly depends on dps/mana), it definitely felt good, I believe I casted mana-drain only once or twice.

My stats for reference:




Overall, both bossing and clear at this point feels relatively safe and dps is ok.

While book dps of ED looks a bit low, due to despair/wither/minion pact and drain ailment, actual DPS is ~5.7 times more and it kills bosses in reasonable time.

What level of ED do you have? I'm 1,3k dps behind that.

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Imm3k#0816 wrote:

What level of ED do you have? I'm 1,3k dps behind that.

29.
It's way more important to keep despair/max wither and fish for minion pact + drain ailment proc, tbf. Level is ~ 1.14 multiplier, and all the procs/debuff is the main source, where the damage comes from. Missing even the weakest one (drain ailment) is worth more than 2 levels.