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If you want to eventually look into the Low Life option for higher budgets, I'd recommend djnat's guide on the Scion forums. The guide used to include a Chaos Inoculation and Low Life transition, but there is enough content to discuss these days to be able to focus on a single type of character.

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This means that you as a player are free to decide for yourself what spell to focus on and where to invest. The ED/Blight combo of spells utilizes the same bonuses from the passive tree. This also means that it will perform sub-optimally against the very hardest of content in the game, but is still able to complete it all. The character is very well suited as a league starter and can deal with all content in the game with low to medium budget. These videos shows off how the build plays when it is 'done':ģ.1 - MoM ED/Blight versus Elder and his guardiansģ.0 - MoM ED/Blight Versus all four Guardians and Shaperįor this guide, we will focus solely on the spell combination of Essence Drain and Blight as a Trickster utilizing Mind over Matter, evasion and spell dodge. Recordings of the build in earlier stages:ģ.1 Abyss Performance, T9 map early leagueģ.2 Bestiary Performance, T11 map early league ED remains an extremely solid all-round build and can deal with all content with ease if played well. This gives ED the single target punch that enables it to tackle the hardest of content more effectively. In 3.0 the Allelopathy gloves were introduced, giving us a very strong 5L Blight for our glove slot as well. When the first enemy dies, Essence Drain is spread to everything and your job is done. This means you first apply Contagion, then fire an Essence Drain into the enemies. When a target affected by Contagion dies, both Essence Drain and Contagion DoT effects on that target are applied to nearby enemies. Contagion is an area of effect spell that deals weaker damage over time to targets.

Essence Drain is a projectile spell that applies a strong damage over time effect to the target. The Essence Drain play style is a synergy between Essence Drain and Contagion, and after 3.0 we include Blight as well. I feel this makes me slightly qualified to spew some information and hopefully help someone who wants to try out Essence Drain. I played Witch before Ascendancy, then Ascendant, Trickster, Occultist and Necromancer ED in other leagues. Since then, I have played ED characters as league starter for every single league. I have tried to maintain a guide for Essence Drain for a while now. To build on the benefits to evasion and spell dodge that Perfect Form gives, I also went with Atziri's step. This also ment that I would have to go for Perfect Form to get some layered defense going. To be able to get cheaper jewels, I decided to go for the Templar area and get the minion damage nodes as well. This enables us to either expand towards Acrobatics to the right or to grab more stuff around Templar start. The duration from the aura + chaos damage weapon craft makes me comfortable dropping the duration nodes down towards Scion life. I started the league going towards the classic Life/MoM version, but I also wanted to use Malevolence. I will go through how I made my character below, explaining my choices. The main portion of the guide will remain unchanged. I always enjoy discussing the play style!ģ.7 Gear, Ascendancy and Passive Tree choices: Feel free to add me in game or ask questions.

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I will keep experimenting and playing chaos DoT builds, but I won't update the guide unless I disagree with the other guides that are around. I don't feel like there is a need for me to challenge the general consensus on what options are available any more. In 3.6, Chaos casters went properly mainstream for the first time. Still posting league updates and helping out.

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