Build Summary
The choice between the two abilities comes down to personal preference, and some enjoy to cast Essence Drain and spread it by having a Contagion cast before you use ED. However, I felt that the approach of using Bane was smoother, faster, and honestly, better in all ways.
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Build Videos
Essence Drain Bane or Contagion Build Guide Video
Build PoB Link
https://pastebin.com/6SckeFAg
Build Skill Tree
Final Tree:
Build Description
The choice between the two abilities comes down to personal preference, and some enjoy to cast Essence Drain and spread it by having a Contagion cast before you use ED. However, I felt that the approach of using Bane was smoother, faster, and honestly, better in all ways.
Ascendancy:
1. Ghost Dance
2. Escape Artist
3. Weave the Arcane
4. Swift Killer
Pantheon:
Major God:
- Soul of Lunaris
Just helps with avoiding some projectile damage
Minor God:
- Soul of Ryslatha
Only an additional layer of defense when you're on low life.
Leveling Guides:
1. Freezing Pulse till you can equip yourself with ED/Contagion which you'll use till you get Bane then use this to level with all the way.
2. Items such as Goldrim, Lifespring, Wanderlust helps a lot to speed up the leveling process.
3. If you get a Tabula Rasa early on, you're Gucci all the way!
4. If you sell a blue rarity WAND to a vendor together with any of the chaos gems you get a +1 lvl of socketed chaos gems to wand back!
Bandits: Kill them all