[2.2] I Cast Magic Missile! - Cantrip's guide to Ethereal Knives / Bladefall. 7K Life, 100K+ DPS!

The +X levels from the Tabula +1 and Empower is much more important for DPS than you think. And yeah, EK isn't optimal for MoM.

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In other news, how come no one told me about Winds of Change?! This is a must-have for this build, especially now that Faster Projectiles won't be used anymore.

Hey boys, I am brewing an offshoot of this build that uses pledge of hands and Kaoms rather than the +1 tabula. I think I can make up for the loss of damage of two levels of EK with the 10% more cast speed, the extra gem slot (thank you so much GGG for controlled destruction, don't HAVE to go crit anymore) and the fact that I can drop most of the mana nodes we take on the tree because of the 100% inc mana bonus. In addition, I am pretty sure I can hit 9k life with a kaoms, and the 40% inc fire damage doesn't hurt our dps that bad either.

I originally wanted to go an MoM build but since we pretty much are required to run hatred it doesn't really work. If you could get away with running just hatred and clairty you could have about 1.2k mana unreserved with a level 4 enlighten, but if you want to run a defensive aura you can only hit about 500 mana unreserved, which really isn't worth it.

What I really wanted to bring up and discuss is the new gem blasphemy. I am planning to drop arctic armour and instead use enfeeble, which is 30 - 31% less damage from enemies. What do you boys think about this?

Since you'd not be using Life Leech, it's either that, or Warlords Mark as an aura, I think. War Mark would also sustain charges and give Mana Leech.

Both viable, but I'll be going with War Mark.

I used to be convinced that I would need life leech to run this build, but I'm pretty sold on the blood dance setup, especially with the 210%+ inc life and kaoms. The main benefit to using warlords mark on this build is that it would probably solve both life and mana issues, making the dagger shield tabula build far more attractive. I haven't tested yet but I assume you may even be able to drop clarity, which would allow you to run two offensive auras (or possibly even two curses if you could get +1 curse on a piece of gear). And herald of ash is a VERY real DPS buff.

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CantripN wrote:

The +X levels from the Tabula +1 and Empower is much more important for DPS than you think. And yeah, EK isn't optimal for MoM.

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In other news, how come no one told me about Winds of Change?! This is a must-have for this build, especially now that Faster Projectiles won't be used anymore.

really nice guide, i didnt think noncrit EK would be so strong, impressive deeps !

FP is not used anymore? What will you link then?
The gloves are nice, ifyou get a high roll, also can be mass corrupted for COH vuln or cast speed implicit.

Your tree is really well done. abusing jewels to push dps to the max while picking up so much life, wow !

Controlled Destruction is the new support. MORE Spell Damage, probably up to 40% !

No massive changes on the JSON tree so far:


Cope-Paste to the Skill Tree Planner to see this. Of course, that's ignoring the Warlord's Mark Aura (which is amazing for this build), so we can probably build with a LOT less Mana Regen on the tree if we so want. Not sure what else to use those points for, though :D

I wonder if EK is getting 20% MORE Damage, too? That would be hilarious.

yeah EK's gonna actually be broken if they buff the top end damage ofr the spell.

more damage from new support? more projectile speed so you dont need faster proj ? the unique gloves ? 20% more damage on top ? opop ?

Yeah, I'm surprised. OP, indeed. :D

p.s don't forget Warlord's Mark Aura and +2 Mana Per Level, making Mana a non-issue, and free Life Leech + free Endurance Charges.