Essence Drain + Contagion clear quicker/faster and spread outside of the pop range. The Ascendancy Node only works WITHIN 4m of you. Curse or not.
So the only way this is useful with ED is if you 1. don‘t use Contagion and 2. Run into packs first
Gotta play Soulrend then eventually. Only option left then.
Also, with all their Focus on „combo“ play style I doubt that you‘ll really find room in poe2 for „1-button builds“.
Maybe with RF but I somehow doubt they will allow an Idle Walking Simulator to exist
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u/su1cid3boi 2d ago
It help with clear, you run blasphemy and despair so the first enemy killed by ED it will pop the whole pack.
Still clunky than the old blasphemy+hexblast tho, its only 33% it will feel like shit