Essence Drain

spell

What it does

Essence Drain is a chaos spell 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 Contagion, a skill that can spread the damage over time component of Essence Drain to nearby enemies when the afflicted dies.

A damage-over-time classic with a satisfying Contagion combo.

Level requirement: 12.

How it can be delivered

Checked by hand against the game, one Style at a time.

• Direct: yes
• Totem: yes
• Trap: yes
• Mine: yes
• Cast on Crit: yes
• CWDT: yes
• Spellslinger: yes
• Brand: yes

Tags

• spell
• projectile
• duration
• chaos
• aoe

Transfigured variants

• Essence Drain of Desperation — Hits harder over time, but the drain feeds on your own life and energy shield instead of returning any.
• Essence Drain of Wickedness — A punchier hit and a piercing projectile, at the cost of a shorter, weaker damage-over-time tail.

Unique items built around it

• Cane of Unravelling