Essence Drain + Intense Agony
Heya, I'm playing ED/Cont lich, and I keep seeing Intense Agony as a popular support choice for ED. My question is how the positive effect of Intense Agony is not spoiled by the Contagion ticks. For the single target and first mob you engage. ok, you can choose to cast ED first. But what after the spread? Are we sure that the ED tick will be the first one?
Even at the start of engaging a group of mobs, my preferred way is to cast Contagion first to avoid the target dying to ED before I manage to cast Contagion.
What are your thoughts about this? What am I missing?
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I know captain lance was running brutality on contagion for this reason but there’s something buggy with it and it was causing instances to crash or lag
This doesn’t directly answer your question, but I’ve always wondered if you couldn’t just support Contagion with Intense Agony, and that way, all the debuffs spread by Contagion would qualify to be affected by Contagion - reading the wording of Contagion, it just says that it spreads all debuffs, but does the source of those spread debuffs count as being from Contagion, or from ED? If it works that way, we avoid this question altogether and just support Contagion with Intense Agony.