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Path of Exile - What Is the Best Variant of Essence Drain

By Leo Jiang2017-07-05

In Path of Exile, Essence Drain is an invocation that uses a chaos projectile, inflicting a debuff upon hitting the enemy. The debuff causes damage over time while regenerating some of that debuff damage as life. Like other PoE Items, if you want to exert the greatest power or efficacy, I think you should know more information about this item.

 

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As you know, if you use this invocation, it can cause a considerable amount of damage, but it is limited in targeting one enemy per cast, thus it has limitations if it is used alone when facing a pack of enemies. It works well when projectile support skills are also in play, allowing you to hit more enemies at once.

 

You can see a number of variants of Essence Drain in Path of Exile:

Many players consider Trickster is the fastest of character builds, which has high quality of life as well as high attainable levels of defense. The Trickster combination of Delirium Sai and Delirium Dagger allows you to swap weapons quickly and aggressively, allowing you to take on bosses and clear maps efficiently. In general the Trickster variant of ED has attack speed, an impressive amount of regeneration, cast speed and overall utility for grinding levels, while accumulating Path of Exile Items for the grind.

Also Trickster is a good variant, it is one of the Path of Exile Items that is well-suited for it especially when using Skin of the Loyal. The bonuses of attack and cast speed are highly attractive, allowing you to get through maps more easily than others. It still works very well even when you are at lower or middle levels of gear.

 

However, we must know its drawbacks too. For Energy Shield-based builds, one of the drawbacks for the Trickster build is that it is relatively mediocre. For most parts this is primarily because the dodge and evasion maneuvers are useless. Also, Frenzy Charges are only good for defeating the lesser enemies, not bosses. Attack speed is about 35% or so for Trickster in this area, but if you have a fast Decay weapon, it helps immensely.

 

In regard to the drawbacks of Occultist, Profane Bloom can have surprisingly limiting effects on your clear speed, mostly because it stops ED from spreading. As your defenses, you can approach this problem by applying Wicked Ward and Vile Bastion, however they are not very useful at all.

 

Occultist is another well-regarded variant of ED, along with Bow and Soulstrike, especially when it is armed with Delirium. As a stronger boss killer with the unique ability for interruption protection of the Energy Shield regeneration, Occultist has advantages over Trickster as an ED variant build.

The Dagger happens to be very effective against the Shaper. You can gain plenty of currency farming Shaper maps by running a build like a CI Occultist with Dagger and Shield. Although the Bow and Soulstrike of Occultist have been nerfed recently, it is still a highly powerful build.

 

Armed with as little as a Wand, you can still inflict plenty of damage and make progress in clearing maps. With Pathfinder, a wide variety of enemies can be defeated even without using Shield Charge. Pathfinder with a Decay weapon, such as a Dagger or Scepter is another favorite variant of ED.

 

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