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

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slobdog#2920 wrote:

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triberpaddy#7793 wrote:

(I won't reroll to something else, the campaign is just too exhausting. I would rather play chaos dot on PoE1 if we had a league to play in the first place...)

My advice: Either pivot to a Hexblast build and/or remove your points in Sanguimancy. With Blood Mage, imo, you want a build that blasts big dog crits to sustain and provide life overflow. That just doesn't happen a lot with ED/Contagion.

Thanks, I will look into this, I was actually considering the hexblast version for some time.

EDIT: Wait, how do you actually unspec from Sanguimancy? It's basically the entry point to the ascendancy, I can't see a way to remove it.

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adavydow#2566 wrote:

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stephenp1983#3755 wrote:

Curious on how minion pact really works. So if I cast Dark Effigy, then cast a skill with minion pact(hexblast), I do see the life come off the dark effigy totem, but only on the first cast of supporting skill (hextblast). So does the 40%more damage persist through the dark effigy minion life, or is it once per cast of support skill, so cast dark effigy, hexblast get one cast with 40% damage from dark Effigy, then you need to recast dark effigy again to benefit.

It's one per cast (more if your effigy has enough life to drain it multiple times)
With hexblast it's probably not worth it, unless you use some cd setup. With ED it is very good as it is a dot and you can recast effigy before each application.

That make sense and you are right its prob not worth it for hexblast. I was just testing it with that last night to try and see how it worked. thanks for explaining

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DRASTICK#7355 wrote:

More detail about my blood mage ED. T15 with a boss. Blood mage was a day 1 bad decision and I had no idea i'd end up playing ED either.

https://youtu.be/cw9XwVj5CgU
Shows gear + tree

Manual self casting despair for the decaying hex + impending doom spread

tooltip shows 10k dot damage with soul offering up. Deals 40% more damage if a minion has health, and another 35% if poisoned. Doesn't delete bosses like some builds, but for DOT playstyle i feel this is very strong

Thanks for this.

I want to pivot to your build since it resembles most like mine - how do your skill gems supports look like?

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Mortorin#4307 wrote:

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DRASTICK#7355 wrote:

More detail about my blood mage ED. T15 with a boss. Blood mage was a day 1 bad decision and I had no idea i'd end up playing ED either.

https://youtu.be/cw9XwVj5CgU
Shows gear + tree

Manual self casting despair for the decaying hex + impending doom spread

tooltip shows 10k dot damage with soul offering up. Deals 40% more damage if a minion has health, and another 35% if poisoned. Doesn't delete bosses like some builds, but for DOT playstyle i feel this is very strong

I watched your video and found it really interesting. I couldnt see how you were applying poison though, could you let me know please?

Dark effigy has poison on it. Blind is also very nice but i dont have a 6L on it yet

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chiam_ace#2148 wrote:

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DRASTICK#7355 wrote:

More detail about my blood mage ED. T15 with a boss. Blood mage was a day 1 bad decision and I had no idea i'd end up playing ED either.

https://youtu.be/cw9XwVj5CgU
Shows gear + tree

Manual self casting despair for the decaying hex + impending doom spread

tooltip shows 10k dot damage with soul offering up. Deals 40% more damage if a minion has health, and another 35% if poisoned. Doesn't delete bosses like some builds, but for DOT playstyle i feel this is very strong

Thanks for this.

I want to pivot to your build since it resembles most like mine - how do your skill gems supports look like?

ED - minion pact, swift affliction, chaos mastery, drain elements, chain
Contagion - Arcane Tempo, Unleash, Magnified effect, Chaotic freeeze
Despair - Decaying Hex, Impending Doom, Hex Bloom, Arcane Surge
Life remnants - cannibalism, vitality
hexblast - hourglass, extraction, controlle ddestruction, considered casting
Soul Offering - Persistance - Ablation - Font of Mana - Danse Macabre
Skeletal warrior X3 (60 spirit) - meat shield, last gasp, culling strike
Dark Effigy - withering touch, Font of blood, Acnestral urgency, Envenom, Blind if you have 6L
Grim Feast


I reworked my guy to have more spirit (+25 on disdain, +60 spirit on a 470 ES chest) so now I'm also running Blasphemy & Enfeeble. Playing around with changing hexblast up without hourglass now that I also have blasphemy on top of skeletons/grim feast. Might spec crit to pump up the boss damage while maintaining the really good ED dot damage I have.

Crit ED hexblast would help with bossing life remnants even if crit does shit for ED. I took out extraction and hourglass for hexblast spamming map clear and dropped self casting despair on most map clearing.

Mana regen is very nice to be able to do all of this with all the + skills I have (+9 on ED)

I am 60 years old, I am a fan of POE and I know that I will be a fan of POE 2
Please forgive me, for any mistakes in what I write, I am still learning English so I may write something wrong
When playing POE, I made characters myself and I also made a character according to the advice and if my memory serves me right, I followed the instructions of the author of this topic but I am not sure
I wanted to thank you for the huge amount of work put into explaining step by step how to build such a character
Personally, I try to build my own way, sometimes I use developed and shared builds, if only because I do not fully understand the English language
One thing that irritates me is publishing builds without information on how the player got from point zero to the end game content
When I use a build that advertises itself as great for everyone, it turns out that the orbs used by the author are not dropped at the end of the game and the set costs billions of exalts :)
There is nothing that would be explained step by step step by step
I don't use the copy paste method because I like to have fun but it would be nice to know at what level the author changed the skill on the tree or added a new orb that he dropped
I know that I was not disappointed with the author's builds and I hope that this time he will also make it easier for us to build characters
I created a Witch for fire and a mage with sparks myself but I did something wrong or there is something wrong with the game because I completed act 1 calmly and in act 2 I got stuck for a long time on a quest... something with dreadnouth
I enter the character on a platform that is moving and at some point there is a bunch of mobs and before I look around what and how I am already dead :)
after the 65th time it was already funny, the monitor survived because instead of getting furious I laughed
I immediately thought of a witch with chaos and imagined that she would not stand there even for a second
I hope I am wrong
After preparations for the publication of this build in this topic I see that the author takes the subject seriously and solidly
I will have something to read and I hope that maybe he will not lead me by the hand like a baby but will treat those waiting for the build seriously and we will have a guide from the beginning
Otherwise I will probably get stuck at some point because I will either not have a fancy ring or something else
I am waiting impatiently for what I hope to read soon and test in the game and maybe I will finally move on with my witch with chaos skills
Greetings to all players and once again I apologize for the mistakes if I made any

Big tip: If you use CI don't use a mana flask with "removes life". It will kill you randomly, even when not actually using the flask.

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slobdog#2920 wrote:

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triberpaddy#7793 wrote:

(I won't reroll to something else, the campaign is just too exhausting. I would rather play chaos dot on PoE1 if we had a league to play in the first place...)

My advice: Either pivot to a Hexblast build and/or remove your points in Sanguimancy. With Blood Mage, imo, you want a build that blasts big dog crits to sustain and provide life overflow. That just doesn't happen a lot with ED/Contagion.

Switching to crit hexblast was a good idea.

It feels about 3 times better both with clearing and defenses.

Done with dotter until they release an occultist class (if that's the third ascendancy).

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triberpaddy#7793 wrote:

Done with dotter until they release an occultist class (if that's the third ascendancy).

Dotter is alright, it's just Blood Mage ascendancy which does not work with it.
Neither lifeleech nor crit affect dots. Sustain is a problem to solve for dotter and Blood Mage's life costs just makes it worth. I think for dot build even no ascendancy is better than Blood Mage.

I saw plenty of people playing ED on a Blood Mage in this thread but I can't see why. For me it looks like a huge downside due to life costs and no benefit, as ascendancy is built around crit/lifeleech.

Given that I haven't played the class I may be missing something, so I would really appreciate if some of blood mages can share their though process in ascendancy selection.

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adavydow#2566 wrote:

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triberpaddy#7793 wrote:

Given that I haven't played the class I may be missing something, so I would really appreciate if some of blood mages can share their though process in ascendancy selection.

I wasn't going to play ED on my blood mage. I swapped after being bored of minions and didn't want to spam fireballs or some shit like a loser.

And yea, you're right -- I would just remove the ascendency nodes if you haven't swapped or added in Hexblast as your main ability. Sanguimancy sucks especially for the high costs on curse.

Wondering how all the other bloodmages are doing? I have been progging very good after I switched my initial planned build to focus around DoT into Chaos Crit since there wasn't good ways to scale DoTs. I solo'ed my 4th ascendancy which was fun and clear T15s with breeze. My current Hexblast is doing 53k DPS not including Sigil of power or full wither stacks and despair. I still use ED and contagion on boss fights and now I have some fun with adding bleeds.



https://imgur.com/X1aXg9n

I can provide my build if anyone is curious. Trash clear is instant and fun and bosses are just as fun with a couple going down in 2-3 lucky crits