PoE [3.29] Yes, It's Viable and Scalable and Good! Essence Drain of Desperation Contagion Occultist
by PartTimeExile2 months ago11Subscribe
- DPS
- 1.67M
- Effective HP
- 20.74K
- Life
- 4.58K
- Level
- 90
- Min budget
Overview
PoE [3.29] Yes, It's Viable and Scalable and Good! Essence Drain of Desperation Contagion Occultist is a Path of Exile Occultist build by PartTimeExile, made for the Mirage league (3.28). It is centered on Essence Drain of Desperation and plays as a intelligence, spell, projectile, duration archetype. In Path of Building it reaches 1.67M DPS with 20.74K effective HP, 4.58K life, 1.06K energy shield. Suited for: Mapping. Key uniques include Doedre's Tenure.
Build Video
PartTimeExile's Notes
It may not be actual Essence Drain but Essence Drain of Desperation is legit powerful. You can get ~3M Uber Pinnacle DPS with Doable gear. Yes, not having Awakened gems did nerf it by about 500K DPS but its still quite powerful.
3.29 Updated Patch Notes have both Essence Drain DoT Gems gaining about 15% MORE DPS. Its almost back to having Awakened Gems.
Starter PoB: https://pobb.in/Fk9CO61s3Yaj EDC Nerfed Trickster Variant from 3.25: https://pobb.in/k8sU2-66uXK5
0:00 Patch Notes Updated 1:30 Intro 3:11 Ascendancy and No Profane Bloom 5:10 Changing Tree for more DAM 6:00 Jewels and Found Gear 7:25 Gems 8:30 Replica Dragon Fangs 10:00 Adding More Reservation and Auras 11:55 T16 Map 15:35 Small Rant Socket Color Change 16:15 Easy Chaos Res and Withering Step 17:50 Suppression 19:00 PoB 20:50 Compare ED and ED Desperation 22:50 PoE Website Pact of Ghorr 24:55 Outtro 25:22 Explaining Contagion with and w/o trap in Act 9 27:00 Contagion Radius Important 27:25 Real Outtro and Thanks
Loadouts
Gear
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Skills
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Passive Tree








- Bandits
- Eramir (1 Passive Skill Point)
Character Stats
- Level
- 90
Damage
- Full DPS
- 0
- Combined DPS
- 1.67M
- Hit DPS
- 152.09K
- With Poison DPS
- 152.09K
- With Ignite DPS
- 152.09K
- With Bleed DPS
- 152.09K
- Damage over Time
- 1.51M
- Culling DPS
- 0
- Reservation DPS
- 0
- Average Hit
- 85.21K
- Burst Damage
- 85.21K
Attack & Crit
- Attack/Cast Rate
- 1.78/s
- Hit Chance
- 100%
- Crit Chance
- 1%
- Crit Multiplier
- 150%
- AoE Radius
- 0.8 m
- Mana Cost
- 73
- Life Cost
- 0
Defence
- Effective Hit Pool
- 20.74K
- Life
- 4.58K
- Energy Shield
- 1.06K
- Mana
- 9
- Ward
- 0
- Armour
- 0
- Evasion
- 6.79K
- Phys Damage Reduction
- 12%
Mitigation & Avoidance
- Block
- 24%
- Spell Block
- 0%
- Spell Suppression
- 87%
- Evade (Melee)
- 44%
- Evade (Projectile)
- 44%
- Attack Dodge
- 0%
- Spell Dodge
- 0%
Resistances
- Fire Resistance
- 75% (+20%)
- Cold Resistance
- 75% (+66%)
- Lightning Resistance
- 75% (+3%)
- Chaos Resistance
- 75% (+1%)
Max Hit Taken
- Physical
- 5.2K
- Fire
- 18.58K
- Cold
- 18.58K
- Lightning
- 18.58K
- Chaos
- 18.32K
Recovery
- Life Regen
- 137.4/s
- ES Regen
- 100/s
- ES Recharge
- 1.06K/s
- Mana Regen
- 37.9/s
- Life Leech
- 0/s
- ES Leech
- 0/s
- Mana Leech
- 0/s
Attributes & Utility
- Strength
- 145
- Intelligence
- 275
- Dexterity
- 191
- Movement Speed
- 29%
- Endurance Charges
- 3
- Frenzy Charges
- 3
- Power Charges
- 3
- Devotion
- 0
- Item Rarity
- 24%