Essence DrainSpell, Projectile, Duration, Chaos, AoE Level: (1-20) Cost: (8-23) Mana Cast Time: 0.70 sec Critical Strike Chance: 5.00% Effectiveness of Added Damage: 140%Requires Level 12Fires a projectile that applies a damage over time debuff when it hits. You are healed for a portion of the debuff damage. The debuff is spread by Contagion.Deals (9-644) to (13-966) Chaos Damage Deals (31.2-1509.4) Base Chaos Damage per second Base duration is 3.80 seconds Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect Regenerate 0.50% of Debuff Damage as Life
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Regenerate +(0.025-0.5)% of Debuff Damage as LifePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
Essence Drain is a chaosspell that fires a projectile that hits for a small amount of chaos damage and applies a heavy chaos damage over time effect. The spell also causes the player to regenerate a portion of the damage over time as life. Essence Drain interacts favourably with ContagionContagionSpell, AoE, Duration, Chaos Level: (1-20) Cost: (5-20) Mana Cast Time: 0.60 sec AoE Radius: 20Requires Level 4Unleashes a vile contagion on enemies, dealing chaos damage over time. If an enemy dies while affected by Contagion, the debuff spreads to other enemies.Deals (3.5-235.9) Base Chaos Damage per second Base duration is 5.00 seconds Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect Base radius is 1.7 metres Spreads when affected Enemy dies
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Base radius is (0.01-0.2) metresPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket., a skill that can spread the damage over time component of Essence Drain to nearby enemies when the afflicted dies.
Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this skill's Damage Over Time Effect: Modifiers to spell damage only affect the damage over time effect of Essence Drain granted by the gem and do not affect other sources of damage over time which may be applied by the skill, such as poison or Decay Support.
ContagionContagionSpell, AoE, Duration, Chaos Level: (1-20) Cost: (5-20) Mana Cast Time: 0.60 sec AoE Radius: 20Requires Level 4Unleashes a vile contagion on enemies, dealing chaos damage over time. If an enemy dies while affected by Contagion, the debuff spreads to other enemies.Deals (3.5-235.9) Base Chaos Damage per second Base duration is 5.00 seconds Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect Base radius is 1.7 metres Spreads when affected Enemy dies
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Base radius is (0.01-0.2) metresPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.: When an enemy affected by both Contagion and Essence Drain dies, Contagion will proc and spread the remaining duration of both effects to nearby enemies.
Regeneration: The amount of liferegenerated from the damage over time caused by Essence Drain is dependent solely on the tooltip damage over time, and not on the actual damage dealt to the enemy. Essence drain will increase the players life regeneration by 0.05 * tooltip DoT per enemy affected. This means that increasing the damage an enemy receives through effects such as DespairDespairSpell, AoE, Duration, Chaos, Curse, Hex Level: (1-20) Cost: (16-33) Mana Cast Time: 0.50 sec AoE Radius: 22Requires Level 24Curses all targets in an area, lowering their chaos resistance.Base duration is (8.00-11.80) seconds +(0-1) metre to radius Cursed enemies have -(15-30)% to Chaos Resistance
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (0.5-10)% increased Effect of CursePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket., WitherWitherSpell, AoE, Duration, Chaos, Channelling Level: (1-20) Cost: (3-9) Mana Cast Time: 0.28 secRequires Level 10Casts a debilitating debuff on enemies in an area, hindering their movement and also inflicts the Withered debuff, which increases the Chaos Damage they take and can stack up to 15 times.Withered lasts 2 seconds Base duration is 0.50 seconds (0-19)% increased Area of Effect (30-36)% reduced Movement Speed 6% increased Chaos Damage taken
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (1-20)% increased Skill Effect DurationPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket., or the OccultistVoid Beacon notable will not change the amount of regeneration provided by Essence Drain.
Proxies: Essence Drain can be used by proxy entities such as traps, mines, and totems. Regeneration from Essence Drain will apply to the proxies, not the player.
Explosion: The explosion added to Essence Drain in 3.6 only occurs on projectile destruction, similar to FireballFireballProjectile, Spell, AoE, Fire Level: (1-20) Cost: (6-25) Mana Cast Time: 0.75 sec Critical Strike Chance: 6.00% Effectiveness of Added Damage: 370% Projectile Speed: 1040 AoE Radius: 9Unleashes a ball of fire towards a target which explodes, damaging nearby foes.Deals (9-1640) to (14-2460) Fire Damage 25% chance to Ignite enemies Base radius is (0.9-1.4) metres
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Base radius is (0.01-0.2) metresPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.'s explosion mechanic. Any enemies that are hit by the projectile before it explodes will still get applied with the essence drain debuff.
Gem level progression
Level
Mana Cost
Chaos Damage per sec
Chaos Damage
Exp.
Total Exp.
1
12
14
21
8
31.2
9 to 13
0
0
2
15
17
25
9
40.6
12 to 18
15249
15249
3
19
21
30
10
56.4
17 to 25
41517
56766
4
23
24
35
11
76.5
24 to 36
81983
138749
5
27
28
41
12
102.5
33 to 49
147968
286717
6
31
32
46
13
135.7
44 to 67
250557
537274
7
35
36
51
14
178.9
60 to 90
405086
942360
8
38
38
55
15
217.5
75 to 112
447718
1390078
9
41
41
59
16
264.8
92 to 139
615318
2005396
10
44
44
63
16
319.2
114 to 171
834639
2840035
11
47
47
67
17
385.9
141 to 211
1570760
4410795
12
50
49
71
18
464.9
173 to 259
1633987
6044782
13
53
52
75
19
554.9
212 to 318
2151030
8195812
14
56
55
79
19
664.8
259 to 388
2812189
11008001
15
59
58
83
20
794.5
316 to 473
5099360
16107361
16
62
60
87
21
947.2
384 to 576
9400731
25508092
17
64
62
90
21
1063.7
438 to 656
15273366
40781458
18
66
64
92
22
1193.4
498 to 747
26286582
67068040
19
68
66
95
22
1337.8
567 to 850
62890590
129958630
20
70
68
98
23
1509.4
644 to 966
212046017
342004647
21
72
70
100
24
1689.2
732 to 1097
N/A
N/A
22
74
N/A
N/A
24
1888.9
831 to 1246
N/A
N/A
23
76
N/A
N/A
25
2110.5
942 to 1414
N/A
N/A
24
78
N/A
N/A
25
2356.2
1069 to 1603
N/A
N/A
25
80
N/A
N/A
26
2649.6
1211 to 1817
N/A
N/A
26
82
N/A
N/A
26
2954
1372 to 2058
N/A
N/A
27
84
N/A
N/A
27
3290.9
1554 to 2331
N/A
N/A
28
86
N/A
N/A
27
3663.6
1759 to 2638
N/A
N/A
29
88
N/A
N/A
28
4110.1
1989 to 2984
N/A
N/A
30
90
N/A
N/A
28
4569.8
2250 to 3375
N/A
N/A
31
91
N/A
N/A
28
4817.3
2392 to 3588
N/A
N/A
32
92
N/A
N/A
29
5077.4
2543 to 3815
N/A
N/A
33
93
N/A
N/A
29
5397.5
2703 to 4055
N/A
N/A
34
94
N/A
N/A
29
5687.3
2874 to 4310
N/A
N/A
35
95
N/A
N/A
29
5991.7
3054 to 4581
N/A
N/A
36
96
N/A
N/A
30
6311.3
3246 to 4869
N/A
N/A
37
97
N/A
N/A
30
6646.8
3449 to 5174
N/A
N/A
38
98
N/A
N/A
30
7062.6
3665 to 5497
N/A
N/A
39
99
N/A
N/A
30
7436.2
3894 to 5841
N/A
N/A
40
100
N/A
N/A
31
7828.2
4137 to 6205
N/A
N/A
Item acquisition
Essence Drain can drop anywhere.
Recipes
Essence Drain can be created from the following recipes:
Amount
Part
Description
Meta
3
The Bitter BlossomThe Bitter Blossom3Level 21 Chaos Gem Quality:+23% CorruptedThe pain you feel is of no consequence, it is evolution, to be made whole within something greater.
Random corruptedlevel 21 Chaos gem with 23% quality
A
13
The CataclysmThe Cataclysm13Level 21 Spell Gem CorruptedThe mighty warriors traded in blows, the nimble archers in arrows, yet it was the brazen thaumaturgists who would bring catastrophe to all.
Random corruptedlevel 21 Spell gem
A
6
The FoxThe Fox6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox." - Ezomyte Proverb
Random level 20 gem
A
3
Gemcutter's PromiseGemcutter's Promise3Gem Quality:+20%"I swore to use my position to help the people. What good is power when it just accumulates on the already-powerful?" - Erasmus, Imperial Gemcutter
Random gem with 20% quality
A
1
Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item Item drops after killing {0} monstersRight click this item then left click an item to apply it. The Incubated item drops after killing a specific number of monsters.
Random gem with 1–20% quality
A
1
The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.
Random divination card set exchange
A
Quest reward
This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:
Note that helmet enchantments are no longer obtainable since version 3.23.0 and can only be obtained in permanent leagues as already enchanted items from before this patch.
Now explodes on impact, applying the Essence Drain debuff to enemies in a small radius. This explosion deals no hit damage. As a result of this change, Essence Drain now has the Area gem type.
Now deals 9 to 14 Chaos damage at gem level 1 (from 6 to 9) and 433 to 649 Chaos damage at gem level 20 (from 334 to 501).
Now deals 31.3 base Chaos damage per second at gem level 1 (from 21.3) and 1503.2 base Chaos damage per second at gem level 20 (from 1159).