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

You're using a 5L for DPS, an Armor Shield, and you have 1 Ring with NO LIFE and an ammy with shitty Life. Otherwise, I'd get more Mana Regen and Res on Gear if you can, but I understand it's a bit hard with LC.

Honestly? Drop the Lightning Coil, focus on killing from Range. But if you insist, at least get Jewels with Life+Damage+Light Res. All due respect to the coil, it's only ever worth it if you're not LOSING Life to use it, not to mention a TON of DPS.

Jewels... You have many with no Life, and a few you just didn't take. Jewels are a BIG FUCKING DEAL.

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Don't forget you can Shift+Click with Bladefall to use your full range rather than Melee range!

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CantripN wrote:

You're using a 5L for DPS, an Armor Shield, and you have 1 Ring with NO LIFE and an ammy with shitty Life. Otherwise, I'd get more Mana Regen and Res on Gear if you can, but I understand it's a bit hard with LC.

Honestly? Drop the Lightning Coil, focus on killing from Range. But if you insist, at least get Jewels with Life+Damage+Light Res. All due respect to the coil, it's only ever worth it if you're not LOSING Life to use it, not to mention a TON of DPS.

Jewels... You have many with no Life, and a few you just didn't take. Jewels are a BIG FUCKING DEAL.

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Don't forget you can Shift+Click with Bladefall to use your full range rather than Melee range!

Life + damage + light res?! Are you kidding me? Know how much those would sell for? Probably 30 chaos apiece!

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IlyaK1986 wrote:

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CantripN wrote:

You're using a 5L for DPS, an Armor Shield, and you have 1 Ring with NO LIFE and an ammy with shitty Life. Otherwise, I'd get more Mana Regen and Res on Gear if you can, but I understand it's a bit hard with LC.

Honestly? Drop the Lightning Coil, focus on killing from Range. But if you insist, at least get Jewels with Life+Damage+Light Res. All due respect to the coil, it's only ever worth it if you're not LOSING Life to use it, not to mention a TON of DPS.

Jewels... You have many with no Life, and a few you just didn't take. Jewels are a BIG FUCKING DEAL.

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Don't forget you can Shift+Click with Bladefall to use your full range rather than Melee range!

Life + damage + light res?! Are you kidding me? Know how much those would sell for? Probably 30 chaos apiece!

There is a price for safety in this world :)

is it HC viable ?

Scion Builds in General take Advantage of more Jewel Slots to Compare for literally no Damage Passives. Cantrip's whole Build is centered around that fact. But when you don't have the Jewels to make up for the Damage loss, just skip them until you get them and take Damage Passives from the Templar/Shadow start. When you get a Jewel with atleast 1 good Damage mod and Life for Example, respec one Damage Passive for a Jewel slot. Otherwise you will have a hard time.

cheers

The key to Lightning Coil is to get high resist rings. Look up for 50-60 life + 100 total resists, you can find a ton of good stuff for 20c or less (sometime clueless people even sell rings like that for a few chaos). The only real offensive you can get on rings as no-crit caster is cast speed, but the rolls are very very low (5-7%, come on, weapons can get up to 20!). Mana regen is nice too but it inflates the price massively. Even so with Rallying cry + low level clarity and a bunch of tree regen you can easily sustain 5l spells. Or just toss Blasphemy-WM and enjoy all the mana in the world.

As far as jewels are concerned, I'm a big fan of crafting my own. Just take a bunch, alteration spam them and when you get a usable combination (two damage rolls or life + damage) stop, put it for sale for 1 or 2 chaos and roll another (life + damage can sell for 5-10c). When you get a nice one for yourself just toss a regal and hope for the best.

Now on the topic of amazing gear: a friend found a very nice life + 2 bad resists corrupted belt with 5% increased aoe and it got me thinking. What would you take? good Rustic implicit, +1 end charge or 4-6% inc aoe?

hi mate, what should i do now, chrome it to BBBGR to use faster casting or use poison gem right now?
In case of poison gem, what nodes in the tree I need to take? Fatal Toxins?

Poison is better, and yes. Happy new year!

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Nurbel wrote:

Scion Builds in General take Advantage of more Jewel Slots to Compare for literally no Damage Passives. Cantrip's whole Build is centered around that fact. But when you don't have the Jewels to make up for the Damage loss, just skip them until you get them and take Damage Passives from the Templar/Shadow start. When you get a Jewel with atleast 1 good Damage mod and Life for Example, respec one Damage Passive for a Jewel slot. Otherwise you will have a hard time.

cheers

Here's my tree. Problem being? I'm level 86. I don't have a lot more room to get those remaining jewel slots.

https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwAABLMFtQhnFm8Wvxg8GFYZiho4GmwajRqPHNwi6iP2JKomlScvKPopTy2oMHEwfDGeMtE1kjY9Nuk6QjrYPs9Bh0VHRZ1LV0t4TZJN41FHU1JVS1WFWyZfsGHiYlpirGjybIxtbG-edf18S3_7gseDCYRvhMWNfY2_jxqQVZM6lnSXBprgm7WdqqIApcumV7GQtQS1SLc-t9a4k7vjvSe95r6AwGbA48M6xKLKStQj1ELVpti921ndqN-Y42rkIud06Nbr7uw48B_xs_ba-ej7Cf4K_o_-ug==?accountName=IlyaK1986&characterName=EtherealDance

My tooltip is currently 25k ish pre-frenzy (this is with flame golem and hatred aura going).

My 5L is EK + faster casting + echo + added fire + faster projectiles in a coil. Have a 22% rustic sash, and around 70% added spell damage on both my dagger and shield apiece.

I'm guessing that the missing jewel slots are an issue, as well as the lack of a sixth link. But god damn it if the build requires that sixth link level 4 empower.

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IlyaK1986 wrote:

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Nurbel wrote:

blabla x)

Here's my tree. Problem being? I'm level 86. I don't have a lot more room to get those remaining jewel slots.

https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwAABLMFtQhnFm8Wvxg8GFYZiho4GmwajRqPHNwi6iP2JKomlScvKPopTy2oMHEwfDGeMtE1kjY9Nuk6QjrYPs9Bh0VHRZ1LV0t4TZJN41FHU1JVS1WFWyZfsGHiYlpirGjybIxtbG-edf18S3_7gseDCYRvhMWNfY2_jxqQVZM6lnSXBprgm7WdqqIApcumV7GQtQS1SLc-t9a4k7vjvSe95r6AwGbA48M6xKLKStQj1ELVpti921ndqN-Y42rkIud06Nbr7uw48B_xs_ba-ej7Cf4K_o_-ug==?accountName=IlyaK1986&characterName=EtherealDance

My tooltip is currently 25k ish pre-frenzy (this is with flame golem and hatred aura going).

My 5L is EK + faster casting + echo + added fire + faster projectiles in a coil. Have a 22% rustic sash, and around 70% added spell damage on both my dagger and shield apiece.

I'm guessing that the missing jewel slots are an issue, as well as the lack of a sixth link. But god damn it if the build requires that sixth link level 4 empower.

Hi,

i don't play Cantrip's Build myself. But as i can tell from my EK Build, you definately need very good Jewels to get high end Damage. I dont know your EK Gem level, but when you compare a lvl 20 EK to a lvl 24 EK, you increase your base Damage by around 50%. After that, all other multipliers are added. In my case 1 Extra Level of EK gives me around 10k DPS, so the Gem level by itself is a big deal and that's how Damage Scaling works in PoE. As i remember, you keep struggeling to get the right colours for your Gem Setup. But what you can try is to replace Faster Casting with Controlled Destruction. This will not increase your Tooltip DPS by much, but you will hit a lot harder. More multipliers are multiplied with each other, so every additional mutliplier will be a lot better. As an example, in case of my EK RF Build, i have ~30k tooltip in my 6link with Hatred and Flame Golem. But with 5 Frenzy Charges and Righteous Fire i will end up at 70k DPS.

So higher Base Damage is scaled up by alot and every % increased Damage and every % more Damage will make up the difference. And the same applies for an additional Support Gem.
In case of Physical Spells, because of Added Fire and Hatred, the Gem level is more important than for other Spells.

I wish you and all other guys out there a Happy new Year