The ‘generator’ spells really suck. I want to just spam my core ability. I guess resource on lucky hit? I guess wait for the aspect change in 1.1.1?
That may be the best option you’d have, yes.
Mages that give essence on hit, and the passive that returns essence on using a corpse give a lot of essence.
Depends on your build though.
I’m playing a summoner necro atm and always have a ton of essence, and don’t even use a generator.
I just tried that heart that increases minion damage for essence drain, unplayable. It seems the counterpart heart that reduces essence drain effects doesn’t even work, lol.
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I wanted to do blood lance… Seems really lackluster… Without spamming hemorage, you get no mana or blood orbs. If you do spam hemorage you do zdps. Blood surge feels good but quickly runs oom. Skeleton mages that give essence, and the auto corpse consume are the best I’ve got right now.
Blood Lance took a long time to come online for me. Once you get a few key aspects and essence reduction/regen on gear it helps. I don’t even run out of essence now but the road there was a bit of a slog.
I spawn blood orbs with tendrils and fire a blood lance to consume them, oh wait.
I use the Iron Maiden curse, the nodes on bone paragon board that give essence on kill, essence reduction gear, plus max essence gear, ‘blood orbs give essence when at full health’ aspect on ring, and essence on corpse consumption passive.
Iron Maiden + 25 Essence Reduction from gear. No issues with resources because double curse is my opener on packs so I always have essence.
Finding an Umbral ring really helps; especially if it’s 4 resource regen. I reduced my paper dps to use this ring because having a semi perma uptime on Bone Spear is awesome.
That helps ( I’m running a corpse explosion/bone spear type build, no minions unfortunately). I was using the dungeon version with 1 resource for a while but it didn’t seem to work that well and took it off. I did get a good drop with +4 but didn’t put it on for a while thinking +4 wouldn’t be enough. I did some rearranging and decided to try the +4 Umbral. My basic and corpse explosion are my main essence generators and it works OK but could be a lot better. I put the +4 Umbral on and now I don’t hear “I am low on essence” hardly at all. It still goes down but not nearly as often and I do notice sometime it goes from almost empty to full in a second. I think that’s my lucky hit triggering essence regen.
I play a build that doesn’t use essence. It uses corpse.
Problem solved
Make sure you are using the passive Grim Harvest. Also having at least one item with resource cost reduction helps, too.
I have a very similar build. I’m also using Shadowblight which pairs well with the Corpse Explosion + Grasping Vein aspect + Barber Heart. Ton’s of passive damage and high crit chance just wipes the screen.
Defense is really the Achilles heal for my build though - I use Bone Storm for the extra crit chance and DR, but eventually will swap it out for Blood Mist during higher tier NM dungeons.
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What toast said. That’s a must on essence using builds. I’m very squishy as my defenses are low but I’m usually off to the side casting tendrils and wasting everything it pulls in with bone spear. I pop my bone storm when needed.
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The corpse heart generates so much essence from Grim Harvest I can leave Umbral off now. And with the aura heart the Umbral generates crazy essence now too.
If you are bone spear build:
- Exposed Flesh aspect
- LH resource gen
- using corpses
Should be all you need. Throw in some bone splinters here and there to proc Might aspect and you’ll get some resource back as well.