PoE Essence Drain, Witch, League Starter builds

Both Bane and Cold DoT Occultists greatly benefit from the new Vaal Caress Gloves, as they run 4L Vaal gems. Bane === For Bane, Vaal Blight receives hefty buffs from running Vaal Caress: Let's say you get these at level 32 (very unlikely), you have Vaal Blight Level 10, Void Manip Level 8, Efficacy Level 8 and Swift Affliction Level 1. You're a Witch with a standard Bane tree (Atrophy, Whispers of Doom, Melding and Arcane Expanse). Compared to Apothecary's Gloves, which you can't get until much later, and are gonna be BiS for a while, you get a +194% dps inc

With a lot of content creators showing off their insane progress, it felt a bit weird that i was proud that i made it to maps on the first weekend, so i kinda got inspired by that to share and document my experience &x200B; A bit about myself I have played about 500 hours total in PoE, very sprinkled out over years and Leagues. I have about 2-3 hours of time to play on Weekdays, on Weekends it varies heavily (got lucky on launch wekkend woo), to me it seems a lot of time for someone who is working fulltime and wants to have a healthy balance in life, but in PoE terms it seems very

Hi I've been quickly theory crafting this build for the past 2 hours and I would like some help in min-maxing it! My thought process behind the build!I will transition into this build once I have finished my group play session.I'm not looking for a league starting build as I would have farmed enough currency to buy most of these gear so I want to min max the build more than it being viable as a league start.I'll play on softcore so I wanted lots of dmg compared to survivability. 1. Replica Soul Tether for corrupted soul just to get 20% extra ES 2. Ivory tower so that forbidden rite's chaos d