Essence Drain Contagion IS BACK BABY - PoE 3.25 Build Guide

IMPORTANT: CONTAGION NEEDS AOE, REALLY RECOMMEND HAVING ENHANCE LVL 4 BEFORE PLAYING THIS. FAQ: Q: res / stats in pob are below cap, why? A: i am too lazy to fix it, get it on your gear. SOME THINGS TO LOOK INTO IF YOU'RE SERIOUS ABOUT THIS BUILD: using ashes once you have a lot of damage for more aoe. power charge stacking occultist for a HUGE AOE build. ruetoo played it last league maybe you can try to find that pob somewhere, i dont have it WHERE THIS BUILD SHINES: expedition, legion, blight. the contagion chains are super nice for all of these mechanics. CRAFTING GEAR: WAND: Alt roll +1 all gems on wand > Alt roll t1/t2 spell damage on another wand > Regal Each wand > Make sure the prefixes outside of +1 all and spell damage match on wands. What i mean by this is if one wand has added cold damage you should bench craft added cold damage on the other wand to match it. If the +1 all gems wand has a prefix you cannot bench craft on the spell damage wand then you can use a split beast and regal it again. if wands have 2 empty prefixes, do not do anything. Suffixes do not matter. Now recombinate and pray. > After recombinating you need to make the wand have 0 suffixes, and 2 prefixes. if there is a 3rd prefix, pray it does not have a caster tag if it has a caster tag you're fucked and need to gamble removing it with an annul. If it does not have a caster tag then you craft cannot roll caster modifiers and annul then it cannot hit your spell dmg or gem levels. After this you need to have 0 suffixes. > If you have 3 suffixes you need to annul and hope it doesnt hit your prefixes. > Craft Prefixes cannot be changed and scour to get to 0 suffixes. > Craft Multimod + prefix cannot be changed + cannot roll attack modifiers > Harvest Add/remove Chaos > Boom prefixes are done. NEXT THE SUFFIXES. Here you have two options. Option 1. Multimod Chaos Multi + Dmg per frenzy and ur done. Option 2. Gamble and craft prefixes cannot be changed > chaos harvest reforge, pray your suffixes do not fill up and you hit chaos multi. then craft prefixes cannot be changed and veiled orb for frenzy charge dmg, you will want to craft something to block other mods, i'm not sure which is the best. or you can just craft it on bench to not gamble if you hit a good chaos multi roll. Then craft the last suffix you want. AMULET: Get a fractured dot multi base. > Alt spam +1 all skill gems on > Regal and pray it adds a suffix > if it doesn't beast craft prefix to suffix and pray it puts the bad prefix on suffix. > multi mod if needed to fill suffixes > craft prefixes cannot be changed > Harvest add/remove chaos > You now have +2 amulet > Clear suffixes if needed > Multi mod % es on prefix / whatever you need on suffix, res, stats, whatever you need atm. Cluster Jewels: Abberant Fossils Regular Jewels: Chaos harvest reforge EVERYTHING ELSE: Dense fossil spam / alt spam and recombinate MOVEMENT: if using a shield, use shield charge. if 2 wands / a staff: Frostblink of wintry blast, you might want to invest a little in cast speed for this. SKILL ROTATION: Single Target: ED > Withering Step > Curses > Hold Blight down > Withering Step whenever it's off CD\ Clear: ED > Contagion