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

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WinterSphinx wrote:

Yeah, the reflect and huge AoE of Bladefall is my main concern. I guess using non-quality and swapping a blue gem for Conc Effect can solve that issue. Heck, even respec the 2 points in AoE by Scion start.

How do you survive with Tabula and 178%-ish life? I'm sitting at 5.6k with a coil and still had some close calls in 79s

Kiting. And Stunlocking to a quick death.

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WinterSphinx wrote:

Now that level 90 is out of the way, the big question appears: is my Bladefall ready for Atziri? Did anyone try her with this skill?

I'm doing normal Atziri with 5,5k hp. Vaals + trio is not a problem.
Reallyeasy with this on atziri, shoot one or two time, evade spells and repet.
The little problem is only using "spell echo" with 0,25 cast speed and it must cast 2 times so... fast reaction is little problematic (specialy on 4x atziri clone)

Normal Atziri is dead. Died once on trio (thought I used Vaal Grace but turns out I didn't) and 2 times on Atziri herself (got 1-shot in split phase by a projectile, twice). Swapped Echo for Conc Effect to lower the animation lock and to play safe vs reflect. Whirling Blades was MVP and got me out of Flameblasts with good time to spare.

Blech. Got this build to 83, but IMO the MASSIVE damage takes a ton of gearing. I mean, you have a level 5 empower effectively, and 20 Q'd level 20 gems on a 6L EK. I have around 4800 life with a lightning coil (still on 4L because Vorici is being stupid with the colors, have it on RRGBB atm), and it RIPs like crazy, even with the coil and arctic armor up. I suppose my gear is utter junk, but the build is still freaking squishy as hell going with the phase acrobatics build. Frankly, I think the ranger end is a complete trap, since the physical still wrecks even with a coil + arctic armor, and it may be a better build going templar/marauder/shadow, and sticking with five frenzy charges.

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IlyaK1986 wrote:

Blech. Got this build to 83, but IMO the MASSIVE damage takes a ton of gearing. I mean, you have a level 5 empower effectively, and 20 Q'd level 20 gems on a 6L EK. I have around 4800 life with a lightning coil (still on 4L because Vorici is being stupid with the colors, have it on RRGBB atm), and it RIPs like crazy, even with the coil and arctic armor up. I suppose my gear is utter junk, but the build is still freaking squishy as hell going with the phase acrobatics build. Frankly, I think the ranger end is a complete trap, since the physical still wrecks even with a coil + arctic armor, and it may be a better build going templar/marauder/shadow, and sticking with five frenzy charges.

It's a matter of playstyle. PA can get to 100 on HC with 0 Armor, and that's fine. Just learn to not get hit :D. You know, Evade.

I find that with Vaal Grace up I never die, and with it takes me being stupid to die. With a Hyrri's Ire (50/56 Dodge, good Evasion), it's REALLY hard to die. You just need a bigger Life pool, 4800 is crappy.

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IlyaK1986 wrote:

Blech. Got this build to 83, but IMO the MASSIVE damage takes a ton of gearing. I mean, you have a level 5 empower effectively, and 20 Q'd level 20 gems on a 6L EK. I have around 4800 life with a lightning coil (still on 4L because Vorici is being stupid with the colors, have it on RRGBB atm), and it RIPs like crazy, even with the coil and arctic armor up. I suppose my gear is utter junk, but the build is still freaking squishy as hell going with the phase acrobatics build. Frankly, I think the ranger end is a complete trap, since the physical still wrecks even with a coil + arctic armor, and it may be a better build going templar/marauder/shadow, and sticking with five frenzy charges.

Use Blasphemy WM for endurance charges and get a cast on damage taken IC setup. I use lvl 8 cwdt - lvl 10 IC - Inc Duration - Vaal Grace (vaal skills cant be triggered so I just use the link for Inc Duration). With the basic 3 end charges it gives 2-3s of physical dmg immunity and it helps a ton with stunlocks. Gives you the time to WB away.

4800 hp also seems low but without seeing your character I can't really tell you why.

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/jamar/characters
Just got lv87 in here in Talisman HC. Roughtly, stats are 5.7k HP, 25kdps in town, 33Kdps with frenzies. Damage is with Bladefall 5L with Spell Echo, Added Fire dmg, Faster Casting, Controlled Destruction. I switch faster casting to Physical to Lightning according the situation (phys reflect). I have lightning coil so it helps. Doing my road to lv90.

I leveled to 87 doing mostly tier 4-5-6 maps. Never went higher. This is my first char on this league, zero rip yet.

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jamar wrote:

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Just got lv87 in here in Talisman HC. Roughtly, stats are 5.7k HP, 25kdps in town, 33Kdps with frenzies. Damage is with Bladefall 5L with Spell Echo, Added Fire dmg, Faster Casting, Controlled Destruction. I switch faster casting to Physical to Lightning according the situation (phys reflect). I have lightning coil so it helps. Doing my road to lv90.

I leveled to 87 doing mostly tier 4-5-6 maps. Never went higher. This is my first char on this league, zero rip yet.

Would like to see what you did, actually sitting at 5K HP lv85 :) but your profile is set private.


It feels like Poison adds a lot more DPS than FC. Don't have a 5L yet, but I will drop Tabula Rasa when i'll get it. Really feel too squishy with it.

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WinterSphinx wrote:

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IlyaK1986 wrote:

Blech. Got this build to 83, but IMO the MASSIVE damage takes a ton of gearing. I mean, you have a level 5 empower effectively, and 20 Q'd level 20 gems on a 6L EK. I have around 4800 life with a lightning coil (still on 4L because Vorici is being stupid with the colors, have it on RRGBB atm), and it RIPs like crazy, even with the coil and arctic armor up. I suppose my gear is utter junk, but the build is still freaking squishy as hell going with the phase acrobatics build. Frankly, I think the ranger end is a complete trap, since the physical still wrecks even with a coil + arctic armor, and it may be a better build going templar/marauder/shadow, and sticking with five frenzy charges.

Use Blasphemy WM for endurance charges and get a cast on damage taken IC setup. I use lvl 8 cwdt - lvl 10 IC - Inc Duration - Vaal Grace (vaal skills cant be triggered so I just use the link for Inc Duration). With the basic 3 end charges it gives 2-3s of physical dmg immunity and it helps a ton with stunlocks. Gives you the time to WB away.

4800 hp also seems low but without seeing your character I can't really tell you why.

Not sure how to link to character :(

Getting like 16k tooltip on EK. Not sure what exactly is wrong. Is it that my jewels are junk, not enough jewels? Odds are, the gear is trash. Tried apex of sacrifice twice and trio just hardcore rekt me both times (2x death on Vaals...fkn ouch).

Essentially, I'm trying to run lightning coil without purity of lightning and capping resists is a bitch (still running at 59 fire res b/c no level 7 master to scour my cold resist).

I mean my only good piece of gear is the freaking coil that I can't even get to RGGBB as I'm supposed to (aka everything but the empower).

Also, how the hell are you supposed to do some of those Vorici missions...it feels like you have to painstakingly lure the target but not the guards because one stray knife and mission failed >_<.

Also, I feel like vulnerability or temporal chains just ruins this build's day on maps =/. Maybe it's because I don't have my fifth link and have basically no gems set up except whirling blades and my EK, which just goes to show how much of a cheat code whirling blades + spellcasting is.

I mean to put it in perspective, when I played tornado shot rangers, jungle valley just ruined my day, and this build can do Jungle Valley (including the boss!) pretty consistently. However, at only 16k tooltip DPS, the Apex trio just ruins my day. Odds are, I need far more DPS than 16k (can't really sustain my blood rage).

I mean I suppose it's a gear check at this point, and my gear is just all sorts of garbage, but I can't substitute any of it out because elemental resistances >_<.

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jamar wrote:

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Just got lv87 in here in Talisman HC. Roughtly, stats are 5.7k HP, 25kdps in town, 33Kdps with frenzies. Damage is with Bladefall 5L with Spell Echo, Added Fire dmg, Faster Casting, Controlled Destruction. I switch faster casting to Physical to Lightning according the situation (phys reflect). I have lightning coil so it helps. Doing my road to lv90.

I leveled to 87 doing mostly tier 4-5-6 maps. Never went higher. This is my first char on this league, zero rip yet.

Would like to see what you did, actually sitting at 5K HP lv85 :) but your profile is set private.


It feels like Poison adds a lot more DPS than FC. Don't have a 5L yet, but I will drop Tabula Rasa when i'll get it. Really feel too squishy with it.

I just set my profile public. You can see my gear and skill tree.
https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/jamar/characters
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