Essence Drain

Spell, Projectile, Duration, Chaos, AoE

Level: 1–20

Cast Time: 0.70 sec

Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%

Effectiveness of Added Damage: 90%

AoE Radius: 8

Requires Level 12

Fires a projectile that applies a damage over time debuff when it hits. You are healed for a portion of the debuff damage. The debuff is spread by Contagion.

Deals (9–644) to (13–966) Chaos Damage
Deals (31.2–1509.4) Base Chaos Damage per second
Base duration is 3.8 seconds
Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect
Regenerate 0.5% of Debuff Damage as Life

Additional Effects From Quality:

(0–20)% increased Chaos Damage

Unusual Gems /3 ⍟

Type	Stats	Weight
Superior	(0–20)% increased Chaos Damage	50
Anomalous	Regenerate (0–0.1)% of Debuff Damage as Life	100
Divergent	(0–100)% increased Damage with Hits	20

Quest /2 ⍟

Act	Quest	NPC	Character
1	The Siren's Cadence	Quest Reward	Shadow · Witch
1	The Siren's Cadence	Nessa	Scion · Shadow · Templar · Witch

Weapon /2

Weight	Desc
1000 (T5)	Essence Drain and Soulrend fire 2 additional Projectiles 25% reduced Essence Drain and Soulrend Projectile Speed
1000 (T5)	Essence Drain and Soulrend fire 4 additional Projectiles 50% reduced Essence Drain and Soulrend Projectile Speed

Level Effect /40

Implicit
Regenerate 0.5% of Debuff Damage as Life Base duration is 3.8 seconds Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect

Level	Requires Level	Dexterity	Intelligence	Cost	Deals 31.2 Base Chaos Damage per second	Deals 9 to 13 Chaos Damage	Experience
1	12	14	21	8	31.2	9, 13	15,249
2	15	17	25	9	40.6	12, 18	41,517
3	19	21	30	10	56.4	17, 25	81,983
4	23	24	35	11	76.5	24, 36	147,968
5	27	28	41	12	102.5	33, 49	250,557
6	31	32	46	13	135.7	44, 67	405,086
7	35	36	51	14	178.9	60, 90	447,718
8	38	38	55	15	217.5	75, 112	615,318
9	41	41	59	16	264.8	92, 139	834,639
10	44	44	63	16	319.3	114, 171	1,570,760
11	47	47	67	17	385.9	141, 211	1,633,987
12	50	49	71	18	464.9	173, 259	2,151,030
13	53	52	75	19	554.9	212, 318	2,812,189
14	56	55	79	19	664.8	259, 388	5,099,360
15	59	58	83	20	794.5	316, 473	9,400,731
16	62	60	87	21	947.2	384, 576	15,273,366
17	64	62	90	21	1063.7	438, 656	26,286,582
18	66	64	92	22	1193.4	498, 747	62,890,590
19	68	66	95	22	1337.8	567, 850	212,046,017
20	70	68	98	23	1509.4	644, 966
21	72			24	1689.2	732, 1097
22	74			24	1888.9	831, 1246
23	76			25	2110.5	942, 1414
24	78			25	2356.2	1069, 1603
25	80			26	2649.6	1211, 1817
26	82			26	2954	1372, 2058
27	84			27	3290.9	1554, 2331
28	86			27	3663.6	1759, 2638
29	88			28	4110.2	1989, 2984
30	90			28	4569.8	2250, 3375
31	91			28	4817.3	2392, 3588
32	92			29	5077.4	2543, 3815
33	93			29	5397.5	2703, 4055
34	94			29	5687.3	2874, 4310
35	95			29	5991.7	3054, 4581
36	96			30	6311.3	3246, 4869
37	97			30	6646.8	3449, 5174
38	98			30	7062.6	3665, 5497
39	99			30	7436.2	3894, 5841
40	100			31	7828.2	4137, 6205

Cost	iLvl 1: Normal: 1xOrb of Transmutation
Acronym	Modifiers
DropLevel	12
BaseType	Essence Drain
Class	Skill Gems
TargetTypes	Ground, Enemy
Type	Spell, Projectile, ProjectilesFromUser, Duration, Totemable, Multicastable, DamageOverTime, Chaos, Damage, Triggerable, CanRapidFire, Area, AreaSpell, Trappable, Mineable
BuffIcon
Metadata	Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemEssenceDrain
Reference	poe.ninja, Community Wiki

Essence Drain

You are taking Chaos Damage Over Time

base_chaos_damage_taken_per_minute

IsBuffDefinition	1
BuffMergeModesID	8
IsCharged	0
IsInvisible	0
IsRemovable	0
IsSkillBuff	0
BuffGroupsID	28

Code	base chaos damage taken per minute
IsPublic	1
IsLocal	0
IsWeaponLocal	0
IsProxied
IsParty	0
IsVirtual	0
IsScalable	1
StatSemantics	Discrete

Essence Drain Monster /9 ⍟

Name	Modifiers	Spectre
Fated Necromancer	monster raises undead text [1] Can raise Magic monsters monster no map drops [1]	Y
Carnage Pillar		Y
Ulysses Morvant	+3 to maximum number of Summoned Totems kill traps mines and totems on death [1] 30% Chance to Block Attack Damage You take 15% of Damage from Blocked Hits	Y
Eye of Bameth	monster no beyond portal [1] monster no map drops [1]	Y
Totem	Cannot be Damaged Cannot be Knocked Back monster penalty against minions damage +% final vs player minions [-30] monster no drops or experience [1]	Y
Rhodion	monster dropped item rarity +% [15000] monster slain experience +% [100] kill traps mines and totems on death [1] cannot be stunned for ms after stun finished [2000] cannot be stunned while stunned [1]	Y
Eber, the Plaguemaw	drop additional rare items [3] Attacks cause Bleeding monster dropped item rarity +% [15000] monster slain experience +% [100] cannot be stunned for ms after stun finished [2000] cannot be stunned while stunned [1]	Y
Eber, the Plaguemaw	Attacks cause Bleeding monster dropped item rarity +% [15000] monster slain experience +% [100] cannot be stunned for ms after stun finished [2000] cannot be stunned while stunned [1]	Y
Iorphia, Dream Eater	monster dropped item rarity +% [0] monster no map drops [1] monster additional quantity of dropped items in cruel +% [300] monster additional quantity of dropped items in merciless +% [600] monster additional rarity of dropped items in cruel +% [300] monster additional rarity of dropped items in merciless +% [600] Curse Enemies with Vulnerability on Hit	Y

Microtransactions /5 ⍟

Icon	Name
	Arcane Essence Drain Effect Your Essence Drain becomes a blue arcane effect.
	Celestial Essence Drain Effect Your Essence Drain becomes a Celestial Effect.
	Project Essence Drain Effect Your Essence Drain becomes a Project Effect.
	Scientist Essence Drain Effect Your Essence Drain becomes a Scientist Effect.
	Sunprism Essence Drain Effect Your Essence Drain becomes a Sunprism Effect.

Labyrinth Enchantment helmet /4 ⍟

Level	Name	Mod	Weight
The Merciless Labyrinth	Enchantment Essence Drain Damage 1	25% increased Essence Drain Damage	100
The Eternal Labyrinth	Enchantment Essence Drain Damage 2	40% increased Essence Drain Damage	100
The Merciless Labyrinth	Enchantment Essence Drain Duration 1	20% increased Essence Drain Duration	100
The Eternal Labyrinth	Enchantment Essence Drain Duration 2	30% increased Essence Drain Duration	100

Supported By /103 ⍟

Icon	Name
	Added Fire Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Greater Multiple Projectiles Support Supports projectile skills.
	Lesser Multiple Projectiles Support Supports projectile skills.
	Greater Volley Support Supports skills that fire projectiles from the user. Does not affect projectiles fired from other locations as secondary effects.
	Faster Projectiles Support Supports projectile skills.
	Added Cold Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Increased Area of Effect Support Supports any skill with an area of effect.
	Added Lightning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Increased Critical Strikes Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Increased Critical Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Knockback Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Life Leech Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing those hits to leech life based on damage dealt.
	Added Chaos Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Stun Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making it easier to stun enemies with those skills.
	Pierce Support Supports projectile skills.
	Trap Support Supports spells, or attacks that use bows or wands. Instead of using that skill, you will throw a trap that will use the skill for you when an enemy walks near it. Traps cannot use channelling skills.
	Item Rarity Support Supports any skill that can kill enemies.
	Faster Casting Support Supports non-instant spell skills.
	Concentrated Effect Support Supports any skill with an area of effect, regardless of whether that skill deals damage.
	Increased Duration Support Supports any skill with a duration.
	Cold to Fire Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Combustion Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Elemental Proliferation Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, or could otherwise apply elemental ailments.
	Culling Strike Support Supports any skill that hits enemies. If enemies are left below 10% of maximum life after being hit by these skills, they will be killed.
	Iron Will Support Supports spell skills, making the increase to physical melee damage from strength also increase their spell damage.
	Spell Totem Support Supports spell skills that are not triggered. Instead of casting that spell, you will summon a totem that casts the spell for you.
	Blastchain Mine Support Supports spells, or attacks that use bows or wands. Instead of using that skill, you will throw a mine that will use the skill for you when you detonate it. Mines cannot use channelling skills.
	Chance to Flee Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Blind Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Fire Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy fire resistance.
	Cold Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy cold resistance.
	Lightning Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy lightning resistance.
	Elemental Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy elemental resistances.
	Chain Support Supports projectile skills, and any other skills that chain.
	Fork Support Supports projectile skills, making their projectiles fork into two projectiles the first time they hit an enemy and don't pierce it.
	Returning Projectiles Support Supports projectile skills.
	Spell Echo Support Supports spell skills, making them repeat when cast. Cannot support Vaal skills, totem skills, channelling skills, triggered skills, instant skills, or skills with a reservation.
	Power Charge On Critical Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Burning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, or can deal burning damage directly.
	Hextouch Support Must support both a skill that hits enemies, and a hex curse skill to work. The hex will be applied when enemies are hit by the other skill. Cannot support totems, traps, or mines. Minions cannot apply hexes this way.
	Slower Projectiles Support Supports projectile skills.
	Less Duration Support Supports any skill that has a duration.
	Cast on Death Support Each supported spell skill will be triggered when you die. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.
	Cast when Damage Taken Support Each supported spell skill will track damage you take, and be triggered when the total damage taken reaches a threshold. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.
	Cast when Stunned Support Each supported spell skill will have a chance to be triggered when you are stunned. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.
	Block Chance Reduction Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Physical to Lightning Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Ice Bite Support Supports any skill you use to hit enemies yourself. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines.
	Hypothermia Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
	Innervate Support Supports any skill you use to hit enemies yourself. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines.
	Critical Strike Affliction Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Void Manipulation Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
	Controlled Destruction Support Supports attack skills, or spell skills that deal damage.
	Swift Affliction Support Supports any skill that has a duration, or can hit enemies to inflict ailments on them.
	Elemental Focus Support Supports any skill that hits or burns enemies, or inflicts elemental ailments.
	Ignite Proliferation Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Chance to Poison Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Deadly Ailments Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Decay Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Efficacy Support Supports any skill that deals damage or has a duration.
	Vile Toxins Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Immolate Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Unbound Ailments Support Supports any skill that hits enemies or inflicts ailments
	Brutality Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
	Arcane Surge Support Each supported spell will track how much mana you spend on it, granting a buff when the total mana spent reaches a threshold. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, mines or skills with a reservation.
	Volley Support Supports skills that fire projectiles from the user. Does not affect projectiles fired from other locations as secondary effects.
	Summon Phantasm Support Supports skills that can hit enemies, or create minions. When those skills or minions kill enemies, or hit rare or unique enemies they will have a chance to summon a Phantasm minion, which uses a piercing projectile spell that deals physical damage.
	Bonechill Support Supports any skill that can chill enemies or create chilling areas.
	Energy Leech Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing those hits to leech energy shield based on damage dealt.
	Intensify Support Supports spell skills that you cast yourself. Cannot support triggered skills, Vaal skills, instant skills, channelling skills, skills with a reservation or which create minions, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines.
	Unleash Support Supports spell skills, making their effect reoccur when cast. Cannot support skills with cooldowns, triggered skills, Brand skills, Vaal skills, channelling skills, skills with a reservation, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
	High-Impact Mine Support Supports spells, or attacks that use bows or wands. Instead of using that skill, you will throw a mine that will use the skill for you when you detonate it. Mines cannot use channelling skills.
	Awakened Added Fire Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Awakened Brutality Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
	Awakened Burning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, or can deal burning damage directly.
	Awakened Fire Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy fire resistance.
	Awakened Added Cold Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Awakened Chain Support Supports projectile skills, and any other skills that chain.
	Awakened Cold Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy cold resistance.
	Awakened Deadly Ailments Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Awakened Fork Support Supports projectile skills, making their projectiles fork into two projectiles the first two times they hit an enemy and don't pierce it.
	Awakened Greater Multiple Projectiles Support Supports projectile skills.
	Awakened Swift Affliction Support Supports any skill that has a duration, or can hit enemies to inflict ailments on them.
	Awakened Void Manipulation Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
	Awakened Added Chaos Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Awakened Added Lightning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Awakened Controlled Destruction Support Supports attack skills, or spell skills that deal damage.
	Awakened Hextouch Support Must support both a skill that hits enemies, and a hex curse skill to work. The hex will be applied when enemies are hit by the other skill. Cannot support totems, traps, or mines. Minions cannot apply hexes this way.
	Awakened Elemental Focus Support Supports any skill that hits or burns enemies, or inflicts elemental ailments.
	Awakened Increased Area of Effect Support Supports any skill with an area of effect.
	Awakened Lightning Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy lightning resistance.
	Awakened Spell Echo Support Supports spell skills, making them repeat when cast. Cannot support Vaal skills, totem skills, channelling skills, triggered skills, instant skills, or skills with a reservation.
	Awakened Unbound Ailments Support Supports any skill that hits enemies or inflicts ailments
	Awakened Unleash Support Supports spell skills, making their effect reoccur when cast. Cannot support skills with cooldowns, triggered skills, Brand skills, Vaal skills, channelling skills, skills with a reservation, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
	Archmage Support Supports spell skills that deal damage with hits and have no reservation. Cannot support arcane skills, Vaal skills, or skills used by totems, traps or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
	Pinpoint Support Supports projectile spells you cast yourself. Cannot support triggered skills, Vaal skills, instant skills, channelling skills, skills with a reservation or which create minions, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines.
	Trinity Support Supports skills that hit enemies, causing them to gain bonuses while you have resonance of all three elements, and to grant resonance of elements other than the highest one in a hit. There is a maximum of 50 Resonance for each Element. Cannot support triggered skills, instant skills, orb skills, brands, skills with a reservation, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
	Cruelty Support Supports any skill that hits enemies. Minions cannot gain Cruelty.
	Overcharge Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Spellblade Support Supports spells that hit enemies. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
	Devour Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
	Sacrifice Support Supports spell skills that hit enemies and have no reservation. Cannot support brand skills, orb skills, channelling skills, Vaal skills or skills used by traps or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
	Sadism Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.

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Essence Drain

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.

Skill functions and interactions

Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this skill's Damage Over Time Effect: Modifiers to spell damage only affect the damage over time effect of Essence Drain granted by the gem and do not affect other sources of damage over time which may be applied by the skill, such as poison or Decay Support.
Contagion: When an enemy affected by both Contagion and Essence Drain dies, Contagion will proc and spread the remaining duration of both effects to nearby enemies.
Regeneration: The amount of life regenerated from the damage over time caused by Essence Drain is dependent solely on the tooltip damage over time, and not on the actual damage dealt to the enemy. Essence drain will increase the players life regeneration by 0.005 * tooltip DoT per enemy affected. This means that increasing the damage an enemy receives through effects such as Despair, Wither, or the Occultist Void Beacon notable will not change the amount of regeneration provided by Essence Drain.
Traps and Mines: Essence Drain can not be supported by Trap Support and Blastchain Mine Support.
Explosion: The explosion added to Essence Drain in 3.6 only occurs on projectile destruction, similar to Fireball's explosion mechanic. Since the Essence Drain damage over time debuff is applied through this explosion any sort of subprojectile effect will cause the debuff to not affect a given target unless it is in range of the projectile itself being destroyed.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.17.0	Essence Drain now deals 9 to 13 Chaos Damage at gem level 1 (previously 9 to 14), up to 644 to 966 at gem level 20 (previously 433 to 649). Now deals 1509.4 Base Chaos Damage per second at gem level 20 (previously 1503.2). Now has 90% Effectiveness of Added Damage at all gem levels (previously 60%).
3.6.0	Mana Cost at gem level 1 is now 8 (was 9). Mana Cost at gem level 20 is now 23 (was 27). Now has a cast time of 0.7 seconds (from 0.75). Now explodes on impact, applying the Essence Drain debuff to enemies in a small radius. This explosion deals no hit damage. As a result of this change, Essence Drain now has the Area gem type. Now deals 9 to 14 Chaos damage at gem level 1 (from 6 to 9) and 433 to 649 Chaos damage at gem level 20 (from 334 to 501). Now deals 31.3 base Chaos damage per second at gem level 1 (from 21.3) and 1503.2 base Chaos damage per second at gem level 20 (from 1159).
3.3.0	Now specifies it cannot be used by traps or mines.
2.1.1c	Fixed an instance crash with Essence Drain [...]. Fixed a bug with Essence Drain spreading between enemies.
2.1.1b	Fixed a bug where players could get the Essence Drain life recovery effect stuck on their character until changing instances.
2.1.1	Essence Drain can now be supported by "Cast On" trigger support gems.
2.1.0	Added to the game.

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Unusual Gems /3 ⍟

Quest /2 ⍟

Weapon /2

Level Effect /40

Essence Drain

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Essence Drain Monster /9 ⍟

Microtransactions /5 ⍟

Labyrinth Enchantment helmet /4 ⍟

Supported By /103 ⍟

Community Wiki

Essence Drain

Skill functions and interactions

Version history