'''Essence Drain of Desperation''' is a [[Chaos damage|chaos]] [[spell]] that fires a [[projectile]] that hits for a small amount of [[chaos damage]] and applies a heavy chaos [[damage over time]] debuff effect. The debuff also causes the user to lose [[life]] and [[energy shield]], scaling with its damage.
It is a [[transfigured]] version of {{il|Essence Drain}}.
==Changes from default version==
Unlike the original skill, this transfigured version has a greater base damage over time from the debuff, but it causes you to lose life and energy shield instead of recovering life.
==Skill functions and interactions==
*{{c|mod|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]].
*'''{{il|Contagion}}''': 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.
*'''Degeneration''': The amount of [[life]] and [[energy shield]] lost 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/ES loss by 0.02 * tooltip DoT per enemy affected. This means that increasing the damage an enemy receives through effects such as {{il|Despair}}, {{il|Wither}}, or the [[Occultist]] [[Void Beacon]] notable will not change the amount of damage taken from by Essence Drain.
* '''[[Proxy|Proxies]]''': Essence Drain can be used by proxy entities such as [[traps]], [[mines]], and [[totem]]s. The life/ES degen loss will apply to the proxies, not you. '''This allows you to circumvent the degeneration effect.'''
*'''Explosion''': The [[Projectile#Explosions|explosion]] added to Essence Drain in 3.6 only occurs on projectile destruction, similar to {{il|Fireball}}'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==
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Essence Drain of DesperationSpell, 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 lose Life and Energy Shield equal to a portion of the debuff damage. The debuff is spread by Contagion.Deals (9-644) to (13-966) Chaos Damage Deals (45.2-2191.4) Base Chaos Damage per second Base duration is 3.80 seconds Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect Lose Life and Energy Shield equal to 0.2% of Debuff Damage
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Base duration is (0.02-0.4) secondsPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
Essence Drain of Desperation is a chaosspell that fires a projectile that hits for a small amount of chaos damage and applies a heavy chaos damage over time debuff effect. The debuff also causes the user to lose life and energy shield, scaling with its damage.
It is a transfigured version of 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..
Unlike the original skill, this transfigured version has a greater base damage over time from the debuff, but it causes you to lose life and energy shield instead of recovering life.
Skill functions and interactions
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.
Degeneration: The amount of life and energy shield lost 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/ES loss by 0.02 * 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 damage taken from by Essence Drain.
Proxies: Essence Drain can be used by proxy entities such as traps, mines, and totems. The life/ES degen loss will apply to the proxies, not you. This allows you to circumvent the degeneration effect.
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
67.7
9 to 13
0
0
2
15
17
25
9
88.6
12 to 18
15249
15249
3
19
21
30
10
122.3
17 to 25
41517
56766
4
23
24
35
11
166.1
24 to 36
81983
138749
5
27
28
41
12
222
33 to 49
147968
286717
6
31
32
46
13
295.4
44 to 67
250557
537274
7
35
36
51
14
387.9
60 to 90
405086
942360
8
38
38
55
15
473.8
75 to 112
447718
1390078
9
41
41
59
16
574.6
92 to 139
615318
2005396
10
44
44
63
16
692
114 to 171
834639
2840035
11
47
47
67
17
837.7
141 to 211
1570760
4410795
12
50
49
71
18
1010.9
173 to 259
1633987
6044782
13
53
52
75
19
1205.3
212 to 318
2151030
8195812
14
56
55
79
19
1450.8
259 to 388
2812189
11008001
15
59
58
83
20
1731.3
316 to 473
5099360
16107361
16
62
60
87
21
2054.5
384 to 576
9400731
25508092
17
64
62
90
21
2317.4
438 to 656
15273366
40781458
18
66
64
92
22
2594.4
498 to 747
26286582
67068040
19
68
66
95
22
2901.8
567 to 850
62890590
129958630
20
70
68
98
23
3287.2
644 to 966
212046017
342004647
21
72
70
100
24
3670.6
732 to 1097
N/A
N/A
22
74
N/A
N/A
24
4123.9
831 to 1246
N/A
N/A
23
76
N/A
N/A
25
4580.9
942 to 1414
N/A
N/A
24
78
N/A
N/A
25
5120.6
1069 to 1603
N/A
N/A
25
80
N/A
N/A
26
5782.8
1211 to 1817
N/A
N/A
26
82
N/A
N/A
26
6432
1372 to 2058
N/A
N/A
27
84
N/A
N/A
27
7175.2
1554 to 2331
N/A
N/A
28
86
N/A
N/A
27
7937.8
1759 to 2638
N/A
N/A
29
88
N/A
N/A
28
8945.6
1989 to 2984
N/A
N/A
30
90
N/A
N/A
28
9998.9
2250 to 3375
N/A
N/A
31
91
N/A
N/A
28
10465.2
2392 to 3588
N/A
N/A
32
92
N/A
N/A
29
11081.9
2543 to 3815
N/A
N/A
33
93
N/A
N/A
29
11780.5
2703 to 4055
N/A
N/A
34
94
N/A
N/A
29
12322.5
2874 to 4310
N/A
N/A
35
95
N/A
N/A
29
13043.8
3054 to 4581
N/A
N/A
36
96
N/A
N/A
30
13636.9
3246 to 4869
N/A
N/A
37
97
N/A
N/A
30
14431.4
3449 to 5174
N/A
N/A
38
98
N/A
N/A
30
15334.2
3665 to 5497
N/A
N/A
39
99
N/A
N/A
30
16224.5
3894 to 5841
N/A
N/A
40
100
N/A
N/A
31
17092.8
4137 to 6205
N/A
N/A
Gem quality
Type
Additional Effects per 1-20% Quality
Weight
Superior
Base duration is (0.02-0.4) seconds
1
Item acquisition
Essence Drain of Desperation has restrictions on where or how it can drop.
This item is a transfigured gem. It can be obtained through the use of the Divine Font in the Lord's Labyrinth.
Recipes
Essence Drain of Desperation can be created from the following recipes:
Amount
Part
Description
Meta
4
The Blessing of MooshThe Blessing of Moosh4Level 21 Transfigured Gem CorruptedWhile the Labyrinth traps have claimed countless adventurers, they were not designed with felines in mind.
Random corruptedlevel 21 transfigured gem
A
8
The HookThe Hook8Level 21 Transfigured Gem Quality:+23% CorruptedEvery obsession began with a single, innocent taste.
Random corruptedlevel 21 transfigured gem with 23% quality
A
3
Doryani's EpiphanyDoryani's Epiphany3Level 21 Transfigured Gem Quality:+20% Corrupted"Virtue gems have facets beyond those that can be seen by the mortal eye. Let us look deeper..."
Random corruptedlevel 21 transfigured gem with 20% quality
A
8
Dying AnguishDying Anguish8Level 19 Transfigured Gem Quality:+19%Moribund, he gazed upon the journey taken as blood trickled down his chin. His eye closed on the city ahead that he would never call home.
level 19 transfigured gem with 19% quality
A
1
The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.
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.
Essence DrainEssence DrainSpell, Projectile, Duration, Chaos, AoE
.
ContagionContagionSpell, AoE, Duration, Chaos
: 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.
DespairDespairSpell, AoE, Duration, Chaos, Curse, Hex
, 
WitherWitherSpell, AoE, Duration, Chaos, Channelling
, or the Occultist Void Beacon notable will not change the amount of damage taken from by Essence Drain.
FireballFireballProjectile, Spell, AoE, Fire
's explosion mechanic. Any enemies that are hit by the projectile before it explodes will still get applied with the essence drain debuff.
The Blessing of Moosh
The Blessing of Moosh
4Level 21 Transfigured Gem
The Hook
8Level 21 Transfigured Gem
Doryani's Epiphany
3Level 21 Transfigured Gem
Dying Anguish
8Level 19 Transfigured Gem
The Void
1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.