I Cast Magic Missile! - Cantrip's guide to Ethereal Knives 2.0

Ash works best by far for this build. If any Herald at all. Reason being, it's actually affected by Physical Damage, and not just Spell/Projectile damage, and you can't trigger the cooler effect of any of them anyway.

Any updates or anything?

This build seems so interesting to try.

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Wallwalker22 wrote:

Any updates or anything?

This build seems so interesting to try.

Nothing TO update. It works just fine right now.

1.3 Tree for my level 93 char:
https://poebuilder.com/character/AAAAAgYAotmw2GqM9W_IFGHiJpUWv4w2VUsfQQMetUgGI2yMnao2PW1sYqxd8g5I44RJUfDVlS4HHhGWL2_ZE3C77BiP-tsLgh6IQsHFz3qyGTIBmybo1ud01CMFtTpCS3jdqDBxxKKXBgX5Go_22vsJGYotg_66u-NVxjpYrJgRD0wtFLBfKnRVgKRV1mTnFy_60h0Uj0aboffX42oWb5BVGjjAGmaeJy-aO4Kb7DjVpu084XOiAASzwGZTUkWdmuDr7riTpwjGnhB_DH2Cxyj62L3-Crc-QYf56DGeplc64fJF

Life is better, DPS is better. Overall, a huge buff to the build.

Nice!

I wonder if the additional aura effect nodes would make Clarity powerful enough for me to try something like this:

https://poebuilder.com/character/AAAAAgYAotmw2GqM9W_IFGHiJpUWv4w2VUsfQQMetUgGI2yMnao2PW1sYqxd8g5I44RJUfDVEZYvb9kTcLvsGI_62wuCHs96shkyAZsm6NbndNQjBbU6Qkt43agwccSilwYF-RqP9tr7CRmKLYP-urvjgKQXL_rS42oWb5BVGjjAGmaeJy-aO4Kb7DjVpu084XOiAASzwGZTUkWdmuDr7riTxp4Qfwx9gsco-ti9_gq3PkGH-egxnqZXOuHyReq6DXxXyYMJRnG0DB2q4YiTJxzcf8Yy0UVHJLBCo4hCwcXLveaB

The lower life isn't ideal, but the power, mwhahaha!

That should work, too. I prefer the version with more Life, but I have no doubt either works. What you propose is my old tree, before I switched my pathing to go through the top.

In 1.2 at the time: "In short, I lost 1.2K DPS, 6% MS, and got 400 Life."
With perspective, I can say it's about the same, just more life and some res vs slightly more DPS and MS.

"Physical to Lightning" sounds interesting, for sure. Might be able to add Shock now, with % to Shock passives, or crit.

I hope you're updating this build for 1.3, I'm excitied to try it on Torment.

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MrWily wrote:

I hope you're updating this build for 1.3, I'm excitied to try it on Torment.

There's a 1.3 update on this page. Will update the main page on Monday.

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CantripN wrote:

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MrWily wrote:

I hope you're updating this build for 1.3, I'm excitied to try it on Torment.

There's a 1.3 update on this page. Will update the main page on Monday.

Oh, sorry missed that one. Trying the build now, one question so far:

I picked the Bloodrinker passive for 2% life leech, it doesn't show on my EK listing but it does on my dual strike, should EK be able to leech from that passive or do you pick it for the 8% life only?