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

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breedovsky963 wrote:

Hello again,
Im following your guide and I just lvled 2 enlighten to lvl 2. My unreserved mana is something like 50-60. My mana regen lets me spam EK, but my EK is lvl 19 and soon will be 20 (mana cost will be higher) and I will be in trouble. Any chance to use 3 aura's without lvl 3 enlighten?

More Mana is one way, probably the best. If most/all your gear has Mana, you'll do fine.

Hey cantrip,

I've been using your build for 2 leagues now and i have to say that i absolutely love it. I'm running a greedier MF version with andvarius, iir gem, etc and rocking tier 12+ vaaled maps with pretty much every mod.

I opted to go for a 6 link belly because of a few aspects that i'm interested in and i came here to ask for your advice.

I do not use blood dance due to the fact that i do not have enough regen too sustain my EK yet (have a few really good pieces that sadly can't roll REG.) so i went with Goldwyrm. Due to that i am also running poacher's with blasphemy.

What interests me most is that poachers gives 100% extra flask charges and in combination with Vinktar's vessel would make it so you can permanently keep it up. This gives me constant 10% extra max lightning resistances towards LC making it 25.5% reduction instead of 22.5%.

This brings me to the next question, do you think it's a viable choice to run physical to lightning over added fire for this reason?

A bit of math behind is (which is probably not 100% correct).

Let's say you have 80k dps with added fire.

Vinktar would give you leech based on (80*0.2=16k -- 16k*0.3=4800) 4800 of your DPS.

Where you too use Physical to lightning with the same DPS. It would give you (80*0.6=48k -- 48k*0.3:14.4k) 14.4k of your dps.

With the combination of extra flash charges gained through passives/poachers you'd be sitting on a permanent 18% life leech basically.. Instantly.. with your life regen added on top of that.

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CantripN wrote:

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breedovsky963 wrote:

Hello again,
Im following your guide and I just lvled 2 enlighten to lvl 2. My unreserved mana is something like 50-60. My mana regen lets me spam EK, but my EK is lvl 19 and soon will be 20 (mana cost will be higher) and I will be in trouble. Any chance to use 3 aura's without lvl 3 enlighten?

More Mana is one way, probably the best. If most/all your gear has Mana, you'll do fine.

I have maximum mana in everysingle item that can roll it. Winds of change, blood dance and belly of the beast can't have it and that's the problem.

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Sonido wrote:

This brings me to the next question, do you think it's a viable choice to run physical to lightning over added fire

Short Answer? Yes, if you can keep up the flask reasonably well and your DPS is high enough. I'd get 2 Flasks before I did that, though.

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breedovsky963 wrote:

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CantripN wrote:

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breedovsky963 wrote:

Hello again,
Im following your guide and I just lvled 2 enlighten to lvl 2. My unreserved mana is something like 50-60. My mana regen lets me spam EK, but my EK is lvl 19 and soon will be 20 (mana cost will be higher) and I will be in trouble. Any chance to use 3 aura's without lvl 3 enlighten?

More Mana is one way, probably the best. If most/all your gear has Mana, you'll do fine.

I have maximum mana in everysingle item that can roll it. Winds of change, blood dance and belly of the beast can't have it and that's the problem.

You can get the Charisma Aura circle for now. I think that should fix it?

Oh, I didn't notice it's somewhere near in tree. Thanks, Now it's fine :)

I recently just switched to this build and I must say I really like the bladefall variant. At the moment om not sure if I should start looking into getting either a carcass jack or a hyrri's ire. What are your thoughts on this?

At this point, I'd go with Hyrri's. You don't need more AoE/DPS, but you do need more Evasion and Dodge. But again, only as a 6L, otherwise might as well use a Tabula.

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CantripN wrote:

At this point, I'd go with Hyrri's. You don't need more AoE/DPS, but you do need more Evasion and Dodge. But again, only as a 6L, otherwise might as well use a Tabula.

Yeah indeed that's also what I feel about the bladefall, there's enough area damage from the spell alone.

Also I wonder how many chromes it's going to take to get 5-off colors on Hyrri.

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RestyPad wrote:

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CantripN wrote:

At this point, I'd go with Hyrri's. You don't need more AoE/DPS, but you do need more Evasion and Dodge. But again, only as a 6L, otherwise might as well use a Tabula.

Yeah indeed that's also what I feel about the bladefall, there's enough area damage from the spell alone.

Also I wonder how many chromes it's going to take to get 5-off colors on Hyrri.

I suggest using Poison instead of Empower anyway, tbh. Unless you have Empower 4 (and even then, it's debatable what's better, depending on gear/jewels).

For EK, Poison is 100% Better, and I even suggest using The Consuming Dark to convert Added Fire to Chaos along with it. Reason being, Projectile Damage from Jewels and the gloves boosts Poison, as well.

For Bladefall, this is less true, but still probably correct (since Area Damage does NOT boost Poison).

Either way, getting a 4 off-color Hyrri's is realistic. 5 off, not as much.

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I'm using Poison + Consuming Dark myself, and it feels very powerful. Also, Ele Reflect is no longer an issue.