Other curses last 9-10s and will be less viable for this gameplan.

Updated skilltree-stuff.

Added 3.10-section, polished Wither and Hinder section 20.01.20 Expanded Wither Section 6 (Withering Step is nice).

Deleted Leech-Section (wiki explains it better than I did) 11.12.

Add harvest char to example builds, add respective tree to example trees 3.

Overanalyse Corruption notable cluster for 15 stacks of withered only with Withering Step.

It can also serve as a point of reference whenever you reconsider things in your build.

Or maybe you just want to finally understand how this character you copied from a build guide actually functions;) I keep the guide beginner-friendly explaining the main Chaos-Damage-over-time mechanics (CDoTs) before diving deeper.

I try to keep the tone light and link items for visuals whenever possible.

About me: I fell in love with my Bane-Occultist in 3.6, took a break from real life, played way too much, tried out quite a lot of stuff and continued playing CDoTs ever since.

Most importantly I made several mistakes along the way, which you dont need to repeat and I spent a while comparing numbers which you might want to skip, too.

I dont claim to be an expert, I just sank my share of hours into PoE, the Wiki and Path of Building and I believe I learned something worth sharing along the way.

Poe Chaos Dmg Nodes Update This Guide

I read all comments and every question, praise or constructive criticism is much appreciated:) Your input is what keeps me motivated to update this guide since 2 years.

Prelude and Patch Analysis 1.

Basics 2. Weapon Options 3.

Active Skill Gems 4.

Ascendancy Overview 10.

Totems 11. Brands, Traps and Mines and Chaos DoTs, a stupid idea Second reply post: (F)aQ and older patch changes 0.

These are the topics that afaik have not been covered anywhere else: A deepdive on pure Blight vs Blight Cast while Channeling Soulrend vs Soulrend (Section 3) An indepth analysis of Bane (Section 3) and Empower (Section 4) ALL viable options to apply the curses a chaos-caster needs (Section 5) This is not in the guide: a) Chaos attacks.

Poe Chaos Dmg Nodes Free Of Mistakes

If anything I say in this guide also applies to those builds: Its a coincidence:) e) Grammar that is free of mistakes as Im not a native speaker.

This will likely affect CDot-Casters and offer possibilities for adding damage into existing builds.

This will be flat damage and DoT-multipliers wont help those, so builds combining the new stuff and DoTs will have to consider not using DoT-multiplier for damage scaling.

Doom: Self-cast hexes (all curses without mark in the name) gain Doom over time.

The damage from the curse-news-video looks good even after only a short time of building up doom (mapping-viable).

It also shows maximum Doom being reached after roughly 3 seconds (the curse icon starts glowing).

This can likely be sped up via new notables or the mentioned curse-related keystone theyll add.

As a mapping mechanic Doom will either need a) two casts per pack to end a curse or b) some investment in skill effect duration reduction (which also intereferes with chaos-dot-casters overall gameplan).

Temporal Chains is the shortest curse (5-6s including its reduced expiry rate but not its added curse effect from Doom).

This might already expire fast enough with only 60 less duratiogn from a 2120 less duration support.