damage over time leeching

[Gunman]

is there any way to have leeching with damage over time, im using "essence drain"/ "soulrend"
trying to figure out how to add some defence to my build.

[Drake]

Leeching is a hit mechanic, so there is no way to leech with a dot. But you gain life when you use essence drain so it works kind of the same.

[+|A.O|+]

You can use "energy leech support". Works with spells.

[LifeisPaytoWin]

find a way to spread your essence drain and you "leech" like crazy

[Lethal Rabbit]

Originally posted by MNI +|A.O|+:

You can use "energy leech support". Works with spells.

but not with DoT

[Gunman]

so i gues i have to figure out some other way to survive.

[sam991]

ED should top up your health pool nicely. Have you tried using multiple projectiles to drain several targets at once?

[Gunman]

well i was more trying to figure out where to go with my build, aparently there are must have items that i need to get for the build.

[heyfunny]

I have a Timeless jewel that adds 4 nodes with 25-35% chaos damage + .2 % of Chaos Damage Leeched as life if I take all 4 I have .8 % chaos leech to be clear the stat says ".2% chaos damage leeched as life" not Chaos attacks so It may work with ed contagion not 100% sure

[Gunman]

that definetly sounds useful

[jbridso]

DoT damage does not leech.

So you would only leech life from the initial impact damage hit of essence drain. You would however, regenerate the 0.5% of DoT Chaos damage as per the skill description.

[schnmo1234]

as others have said, only the initial hit of ED leeches, which numerically just isnt high enough even with "ES leech support"(a viable dps link btw if you dont have empower)
ED *regenerates* 0.5% of DoT as life btw
soulrend on the other hand comes with an inherent 4% of hit dmg leeched, and it hits quite often against packs, unlike ED which just hits one enemy per pack

[Gunman]

the only problem is its weaker i think, witch might not mather that much evrything dies imediatly anyway.