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Essence Drain (often referred to as ED) is a spell that fires a chaosprojectile that applies a damage over timedebuff when it hits the enemy. The spell also regenerates a portion of the debuff damage as life. If target dies while afflicted with both 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. and Essence Drain, the remaining duration of both degeneration effects will be spread to nearby enemies.
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 Effect modifier does not affect other damage over time effects created by this skill, such as poison or ignite.
Traps and Mines: Essence Drain can not be supported by Trap SupportTrap SupportSupport, Trap Icon: T Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Requires Level 8Supports spells, or attacks that use bows or wands. Instead of using that skill, you will throw a trap that will use the skill for you when an enemy walks near it. Traps cannot use channelling skills.Supported Attack Skills cannot be used with Melee Weapons Trap lasts 4 seconds Supported Skills deal (20-6)% less Trap Damage Supported Skills have (0-19)% increased Trap Throwing Speed
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Trap DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. and Blastchain Mine SupportBlastchain Mine SupportSupport, Mine Icon: Y Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 50%Requires Level 8Supports spells, or attacks that use bows or wands. Instead of using that skill, you will throw a mine that will use the skill for you when you detonate it. Mines cannot use channelling skills.Supported Attack Skills cannot be used with Melee Weapons Supported Skills deal (59-53)% less Damage Mine lasts 5 seconds Supported Skills have a Base Mine Detonation Time of 0.25 seconds Supported Skills gain a Base Reservation equal to Base Mana and Life Cost Supported Skills deal 5% more Damage for each prior Mine in Detonation Sequence
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (0.5-10)% increased Mine DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket..
Debuff Regeneration: The amount of liferegenerated 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 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 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 Lesser Multiple Projectiles SupportLesser Multiple Projectiles SupportSupport, Projectile Icon: l Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Requires Level 8Supports projectile skills.Supported Skills deal (15-6)% less Projectile Damage Supported Skills fire 2 additional Projectiles
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Projectile DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. or similar projectile support skills to hit more enemies at once and in the case of weaker monsters, 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. 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.
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:
Arcane Essence Drain EffectArcane Essence Drain EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Essence Drain becomes a blue arcane effect.
80
Replaces the standard effect on a Essence DrainEssence 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. skill gem with a blue arcane effect.
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.