1.1UPDATED- ETHEREAL KNIVES CRIT & MAP GUIDE - ES TANK w/ CHAOS INOC- LVLING INFO + PASSIVES + VIDS

I would really love to use Chain, but its very hard to maintain mana with it unless every pack is huge.

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johnmdotme wrote:

I would really love to use Chain, but its very hard to maintain mana with it unless every pack is huge.

Avoid chain completely. It is way too costly and it won't give you the output that fork or faster projectile will. Your gear looks decent, if anything you might just be missing a bit of res. A couple of ES upgrades would be very noticeable too. I'd try to get some higher ES / res gloves and maybe boots. I notice you don't have a temporal and got a deodre's damming. Temporal will really help out on the faster monsters and since you can have two curses up I strongly recommend throwing up temporal + enfeeble on enemies. It might seem like a hassle at times but it will make a massive difference on more challenging monsters. Increased crit damage is a decent support, it is a bit costly though.

I got a couple pieces of gear put aside for you that you can have if you need. Gonna pm you / can message me in game anytime.

Working quite well for me so far (only at level 40 though atm), and it is a really fun build.

Wanted to share something that works for me: As some people were wondering how to handle single targets, something that really works well for me with this build is Ice Spear (+ Crit Damage/Projectile speed for me).

With the enormous crit bonus at range + all the crit nodes from this class you can permafreeze a lot of tough elites/uniques easily, also off screen.

Plus it is handy for picking of annoying ranged attackers as the missile pierces through nearby melee mobs.

Seems to mesh really well with the build, at least at low-mid level (currently at cruel act 2).

Probably won't need it at higher levels but for now it is quite handy :).

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Evil_Dutch_Man wrote:

Working quite well for me so far (only at level 40 though atm), and it is a really fun build.

Wanted to share something that works for me: As some people were wondering how to handle single targets, something that really works well for me with this build is Ice Spear (+ Crit Damage/Projectile speed for me).

With the enormous crit bonus at range + all the crit nodes from this class you can permafreeze a lot of tough elites/uniques easily, also off screen.

Plus it is handy for picking of annoying ranged attackers as the missile pierces through nearby melee mobs.

Seems to mesh really well with the build, at least at low-mid level (currently at cruel act 2).

Probably won't need it at higher levels but for now it is quite handy :).

Ahoy, happy to hear you are enjoying your character. Thanks for the post and tip as well, always appreciate hearing how it's handling from other's and ways that helped make leveling easier.

Mana leech got a buff in recent patch so hopefully this will help out with lower level mana troubles anyone might have. If you are able to, a quality mana leech is great to increase your max leech rate. A lot of the time you will already hit 20% of your max mana a sec and the quality is needed to get more mana a sec.

Just made it through Act 2 merci and got 0 Exp lol. Started the Act at 0% 59 and ended at 0% 59.

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Thomasmgp wrote:

Just made it through Act 2 merci and got 0 Exp lol. Started the Act at 0% 59 and ended at 0% 59.

lol what the heck?!

What was killing you / troubling? Should be able to easily farm Fellshrine there. Lots of monsters. Just do a path along the road or a couple laps to one side and back. Level there until almost docks.

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terrex wrote:

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Thomasmgp wrote:

Just made it through Act 2 merci and got 0 Exp lol. Started the Act at 0% 59 and ended at 0% 59.

lol what the heck?!

What was killing you / troubling? Should be able to easily farm Fellshrine there. Lots of monsters. Just do a path along the road or a couple laps to one side and back. Level there until almost docks.

I got Jay Wilsoned while leveling. At 60 now and only have 2400 ES and like -30 all resists. Tried doing docks at 60 but every time I would get 2-3 bubs of EXP I just die and lose it all, even if in a group. Farmed ledge from 55-60 and never got anything worth using. Also everything I blew all my alchs and chaos on trying to craft turned out to be garbage as well.

Hitting Ledge some more now since its faceroll even with my terrible gear. Will do it until it stops giving EXP or until I get upgrades.

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Thomasmgp wrote:

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terrex wrote:

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Thomasmgp wrote:

Just made it through Act 2 merci and got 0 Exp lol. Started the Act at 0% 59 and ended at 0% 59.

lol what the heck?!

What was killing you / troubling? Should be able to easily farm Fellshrine there. Lots of monsters. Just do a path along the road or a couple laps to one side and back. Level there until almost docks.

I got Jay Wilsoned while leveling. At 60 now and only have 2400 ES and like -30 all resists. Tried doing docks at 60 but every time I would get 2-3 bubs of EXP I just die and lose it all, even if in a group. Farmed ledge from 55-60 and never got anything worth using. Also everything I blew all my alchs and chaos on trying to craft turned out to be garbage as well.

Hitting Ledge some more now since its faceroll even with my terrible gear. Will do it until it stops giving EXP or until I get upgrades.

Should be able to farm Fellshrine. Only zombies, skeleton archers, melee skeletons and slow rock guys there. One of the best farming spots because of the monsters. It's a good route to just stay along the road or like I mentioned, doing a couple laps then resetting it. It's higher level then ledge so will give you much more xp / potential better drops. Avoid big magic pack of archers or archers with damage buff aura. Just keep a good pace going, don't slow down, skip annoying long fight monsters to maximize xp gain.

Probably gonna stay at Ledge for a bit longer. Halfway to 61 already. If it tanks after I hit 61 will head to Felshrine.

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Thomasmgp wrote:

Probably gonna stay at Ledge for a bit longer. Halfway to 61 already. If it tanks after I hit 61 will head to Felshrine.

Hope you get some good rng. :P

Updated OP on maps. If anyone still has any questions or would like more info, feel free to message me in game or pm.