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Essence Drain

Fire a Projectile that applies a powerful Chaos damage over time debuff to enemies it hits.

Cost
mana
Cast Time
0.8s
Crit Chance
—
Max Level
20
Cooldown
None

Gem Effects

Full modifier text from the in-game tooltip

Projectile

Deals (5-138) to (9-257) Chaos Damage

Damage over Time

Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to Debuff's Damage over Time

Debuff duration is 4 seconds

Deals (9.2–409.4) Base Chaos Damage per second

Recommended Builds

Build archetypes where Essence Drain can shine

Fire / Ignite Build

Scale Fire damage and Ignite magnitude. Pair with Fire Penetration or Immolate supports.

Chaos / Poison Build

Layer Poison stacks for damage over time. Extraction and Poison supports amplify DoT.

Suggested Support Gems

Supports that pair well with Essence Drain based on shared mechanics

support
Vilenta's Propulsion
Supports Spell Skills that fire Projectiles, causing increases and reductions to cast speed to also
support
Wildshards I
Supports Projectile Spells. Supported Spells have a chance to fire many additional Projectiles in a
support
Arbiter's Ignition
Supports Fire Spell Skills causing you to gain Elemental Archon when Igniting with them.
support
Burning Inscription
Supports any Skill which creates Runic Inscriptions when Cast, causing those Runic Inscriptions to t
support
Chaotic Freeze
Supports Spells that deal non-Ailment Chaos damage over time. Enemies taking damage over time from D

Related Gems

Gems with similar mechanics or damage types

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Dark Effigyactive

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