[3.25]💥Lahkesis Queen of Chaos"Essence Drain/Bane"[LowLife] 💥💥

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caprisolle написал:

Can someone please provide me with the right gem link?

I look at the guide but there are extra gems on there
and I look at the gems attached to the suggested eqs and they are different too

so which on should I follow then? thanks.

this is the first time im trying this build btw.

Thank you so much


EDIT:

Also in PoB, any reason as to why Lord of the Dead ( a minion based node) is taken?

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Yatori90 написал:

Well, tried this build since the Blight started, but as I read - it's for real not beginner friendly :D Since we get high lvl, Ascendancy, some good gear, which is hard to grab because its expensive in early stage of the game, we have really low life and ES, so playing must be very carefully, but dmg is nice. I hope the pain will be awarded, when I get some better gear and more lvls(64 for now). Any tips for better survivability btw? :P

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Hologram_o написал:

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Yatori90 написал:

Well, tried this build since the Blight started, but as I read - it's for real not beginner friendly :D Since we get high lvl, Ascendancy, some good gear, which is hard to grab because its expensive in early stage of the game, we have really low life and ES, so playing must be very carefully, but dmg is nice. I hope the pain will be awarded, when I get some better gear and more lvls(64 for now). Any tips for better survivability btw? :P

In terms of defense we really don't have much, unfortunately. There's a couple downsides.

1. You need a decent enough mana pool to reserve mana with all the needed auras and still have some mana left to cast. This means you usually need higher character level to achieve this.

2. The build really shines once you get some currency lying around to get a crafted bow, or other gear with good ES rolls.

In this stage, aside from the very basic defenses (Enduring Cry + Bane with linked curses/curse effects on tree + Immortal Call + Vaal Discipline + defensive flasks as bare minimum defense), you can invest in a lot of damage. You will die a lot as you're squishy (and the terrible state ES is in right now compared to 3.5 and 3.6), but the dmg is worth it, you'll be able to work up to the toughest bosses in the game and just don't get hit or take very little dmg and kill them in the end anyway. Unfortunately the way I see it for the build is that it has become more and more offensive-based especially low level and more glasscannon than the trusty defensive ascendancy from the past. That means you'll need to pay attention to what you're doing, and move around wisely to get yourself out of trouble in perilous situations.

And then once you manage to take down the toughest bosses in the game like Uber Elder/Shaper and T16 guardians you can start farming uber elder for better gear (more ES, Watcher's Eye defensive version, panicked divine life flask, etc etc), min-maxing gem setup (lv 21 gems or 20/23 or both), go for more ES nodes on tree and from that point the build will be a lot more tanky than before. This is the painful progress I went through in 3.7 (2nd char, still league starter when it was like 10 days into league), dying a lot, need more levels to spec into curse effect nodes on tree and other things. But in the end as of now, I'm in love with the build and never really get bored playing her. I'm testing with some new tweaks in gem setup a bit more, and so far it's looking good.

Really, when you compare to melee builds in 3.8 (like nerfed cyclone, 2H juggs etc) each build seems to need to reach a point where you have enough currency to make a breakthrough from your current poor/squishy version. And since you have enough dmg, you can just roll with it and make it through any bosses (still feel better than being tanky like a Jugg but does zero dmg and clear speed is slow as snail, trust me).

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Yatori90 написал:

Well, must I say the dmg do its job really well. Despite low life and ES in my poor version right now, I have no any bigger problems with going through the acts. Mapping shouldnt be tougher too. You shot in the point with builds - last few leagues I went phys-builds based on tanky juggs, so this is something pretty new for me :) Maybe need some more experience with this build to make my own way of playing and dont dying. I'll believe your words and I'm planning to play this build through whole league, so.. Im going to do this :) For now dmg do the job better than tanky builds, but need just more carefully playing. Need to just accustom this

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Yatori90 написал:

But for now, sting-shooting on death creatures are really pain in the ass :D almost impossible to avoid this shit, when they're in group :/ A8 will be hard one

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Hologram_o написал:

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caprisolle написал:

Can someone please provide me with the right gem link?

I look at the guide but there are extra gems on there
and I look at the gems attached to the suggested eqs and they are different too

so which on should I follow then? thanks.

this is the first time im trying this build btw.

Thank you so much


EDIT:

Also in PoB, any reason as to why Lord of the Dead ( a minion based node) is taken?

Don't use Vaal Blight and Vaal Righteous Fire. If low life, follow ED/Bane low life setup. The rest should be clear. Minion nodes because of Spiritual Aid for dmg, but I find it unnecessary as I prefer more defense. Read through the guide more and it will answer all of your questions for now. It's not as straightforward, so once you understand everything you'll see how powerful it can get.

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caprisolle написал:

I'm sorry but I don't get it. Is there minions in this build?
Aspect of the spider? is that it?

I apologize if I am asking silly questions.
As I have not played this game for years now.

Also, I am following the ED/Bane low life setup from this guide and that's where I saw the extra gems.

Basically remove vaal blight and righteous fire for CWDT-Immortal Call+ Enduring Cry?

Thanks