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Essence Drain (often referred to as ED) is a spell that fires a chaos projectile that applies a damage over time debuff when it hits the enemy. The spell also regenerates a portion of the debuff damage as life. If target dies while afflicted with both Contagion and Essence Drain, the remaining duration of both degeneration effects will be spread to nearby enemies.
Skill functions and interactions
- Damage over time: Modifiers to spell, chaos damage, and damage over time affect the damage over time component of this spell. Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this skill's Damage Over Time modifier also affects other damage over time effects created by this skill, such as poison or ignite.[1]
- Traps and Mines: Essence Drain can not be supported by Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Trap Support" and Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Remote Mine Support".
- Debuff Regeneration: The amount of life regenerated from the debuff damage caused by Essence Drain is calculated solely off the final amount of outbound damage dealt by the skill, not the damage inflicted on an enemy. An easy way to calculate the amount of regen provided is to multiply the tooltip amount of debuff damage by 0.5%. This will give you the amount of regen that Essence Drain will grant you per target effected. This means that using methods to increased the enemies received damage from sources such as Vulnerability, Wither, or the Occultist Void Beacon notable does not influence the amount of regen provided by Essence Drain.
Strategy
The damage per cast of this spell is humongous, the damage it does per second is comparable to the damage of most spells and it keeps dealing damage (like with totems). Because this spell normally can hit only one enemy, it's not very useful alone unless the target is a boss or a player. However, it can be supported by Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Lesser Multiple Projectiles" or similar projectile support skills to hit more enemies at once and in the case of weaker monsters, Contagion can be used to spread it to the whole pack and kill a lot of monsters just with two casts.
Gem level progression
Level | Mana Cost | Chaos Damage per sec | Chaos Damage | Exp. | Total Exp. | |||
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1 | 12 | 14 | 21 | 8 | 31.2 | 9 to 14 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 15 | 17 | 25 | 9 | 40.6 | 12 to 18 | 15249 | 15249 |
3 | 19 | 21 | 30 | 10 | 56.4 | 16 to 24 | 41517 | 56766 |
4 | 23 | 24 | 35 | 11 | 76.7 | 22 to 33 | 81983 | 138749 |
5 | 27 | 28 | 41 | 12 | 102.7 | 30 to 44 | 147968 | 286717 |
6 | 31 | 32 | 46 | 13 | 136 | 39 to 59 | 250557 | 537274 |
7 | 35 | 36 | 51 | 14 | 178.4 | 51 to 77 | 405086 | 942360 |
8 | 38 | 38 | 55 | 15 | 217.4 | 63 to 94 | 447718 | 1390078 |
9 | 41 | 41 | 59 | 16 | 264 | 76 to 114 | 615318 | 2005396 |
10 | 44 | 44 | 63 | 16 | 319.4 | 92 to 138 | 834639 | 2840035 |
11 | 47 | 47 | 67 | 17 | 385.3 | 111 to 166 | 1570760 | 4410795 |
12 | 50 | 49 | 71 | 18 | 463.5 | 133 to 200 | 1633987 | 6044782 |
13 | 53 | 52 | 75 | 19 | 556.1 | 160 to 240 | 2151030 | 8195812 |
14 | 56 | 55 | 79 | 19 | 665.7 | 192 to 288 | 2812189 | 11008001 |
15 | 59 | 58 | 83 | 20 | 795.2 | 229 to 344 | 5099360 | 16107361 |
16 | 62 | 60 | 87 | 21 | 948.1 | 273 to 410 | 9400731 | 25508092 |
17 | 64 | 62 | 90 | 21 | 1065 | 307 to 460 | 15273366 | 40781458 |
18 | 66 | 64 | 92 | 22 | 1195.5 | 344 to 516 | 26286582 | 67068040 |
19 | 68 | 66 | 95 | 22 | 1341 | 386 to 579 | 62890590 | 129958630 |
20 | 70 | 68 | 98 | 23 | 1503.2 | 433 to 649 | 212046017 | 342004647 |
21 | 72 | 70 | 100 | 24 | 1683.9 | 485 to 727 | N/A | N/A |
22 | 74 | N/A | N/A | 24 | 1885.3 | 543 to 814 | N/A | N/A |
23 | 76 | N/A | N/A | 25 | 2109.6 | 608 to 911 | N/A | N/A |
24 | 78 | N/A | N/A | 25 | 2359.2 | 679 to 1019 | N/A | N/A |
25 | 80 | N/A | N/A | 26 | 2637 | 759 to 1139 | N/A | N/A |
26 | 82 | N/A | N/A | 26 | 2946.1 | 848 to 1273 | N/A | N/A |
27 | 84 | N/A | N/A | 27 | 3289.8 | 947 to 1421 | N/A | N/A |
28 | 86 | N/A | N/A | 27 | 3672 | 1058 to 1586 | N/A | N/A |
29 | 88 | N/A | N/A | 28 | 4096.8 | 1180 to 1770 | N/A | N/A |
30 | 90 | N/A | N/A | 28 | 4568.8 | 1316 to 1974 | N/A | N/A |
31 | 91 | N/A | N/A | 28 | 4824.1 | 1389 to 2084 | N/A | N/A |
32 | 92 | N/A | N/A | 29 | 5093.1 | 1467 to 2200 | N/A | N/A |
33 | 93 | N/A | N/A | 29 | 5376.6 | 1548 to 2323 | N/A | N/A |
34 | 94 | N/A | N/A | 29 | 5675.4 | 1635 to 2452 | N/A | N/A |
35 | 95 | N/A | N/A | 29 | 5990.2 | 1725 to 2588 | N/A | N/A |
36 | 96 | N/A | N/A | 30 | 6322 | 1821 to 2731 | N/A | N/A |
37 | 97 | N/A | N/A | 30 | 6671.5 | 1921 to 2882 | N/A | N/A |
38 | 98 | N/A | N/A | 30 | 7039.7 | 2027 to 3041 | N/A | N/A |
39 | 99 | N/A | N/A | 30 | 7427.5 | 2139 to 3209 | N/A | N/A |
40 | 100 | N/A | N/A | 31 | 7836.1 | 2257 to 3385 | N/A | N/A |
Quest reward
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Vendor reward
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Alternate skill effects
Name | Cost | Description |
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Arcane Essence Drain EffectArcane Essence Drain EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Essence Drain becomes a blue arcane effect. | 80 | Replaces the standard effect on a Essence Drain skill gem with a blue arcane effect. Preview |
Related helmet enchantments
The following helmet enchantments affect Essence Drain.
Name | Stats | Spawn Weighting | |
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Enchantment Essence Drain Damage 1 | 66 | 25% increased Essence Drain Damage | helmet 100 default 0 |
Enchantment Essence Drain Damage 2 | 75 | 40% increased Essence Drain Damage | helmet 100 default 0 |
Enchantment Essence Drain Duration 1 | 66 | 20% increased Essence Drain Duration | helmet 100 default 0 |
Enchantment Essence Drain Duration 2 | 75 | 30% increased Essence Drain Duration | helmet 100 default 0 |
Version history
Version | Changes |
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2.1.1c |
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2.1.1b |
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2.1.1 |
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2.1.0 |
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References
- ↑ Mark_GGG (May 24, 2016). "Essence Drain mechanics". Official Path of Exile Subreddit. Retrieved June 19, 2016.