Ethereal Knives

Oh, players overrate tooltip DPS so much.
You're a caster, fighting from a mostly safe range. You're not supposed to deal as much damage as melee characters.

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Delirii wrote:

Oh, players overrate tooltip DPS so much.
You're a caster, fighting from a mostly safe range. You're not supposed to deal as much damage as melee characters.

I'm not talking tool tip dps. EK Has about the same if not less range as Ground Slam and Reave at full charges and It has much less range than Spectral Throw which can go off screen.

My Crit EK, over 22K dps with 6 power charges up.


The boot setup handles physical reflect. I almost never use health pots due to the consecrated ground effect from the Gifts From Above ring. The dps can still go higher with quality EK and quality Faster Projectile.

Here's my tree if anyone is interested. My next level up will let me get "Doom Cast". This build was actually finished at 89 pts. Throatseeker, Nimbleness, and Doom Cast are just icing on the cake.

Nice build. I love it when someone creates their own build. It gives the characters character. I changed my build and gave up a little block and now I'm at 8.3k EK. It's good enough for me because I prefer defensiveness so I can do crazy rip maps.

yea, 22K dps is overkill. The build came together when I gave up on the power charge above the witch, it free up 11 or 12 passive points and also when I came across the CoDT/enduring cry/immortal call combo.

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IchiMorghulis wrote:

My Crit EK, over 22K dps with 6 power charges up.

The boot setup handles physical reflect. I almost never use health pots due to the consecrated ground effect from the Gifts From Above ring. The dps can still go higher with quality EK and quality Faster Projectile.

Here's my tree if anyone is interested. My next level up will let me get "Doom Cast". This build was actually finished at 89 pts. Throatseeker, Nimbleness, and Doom Cast are just icing on the cake.

Spoiler

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgAAAnEEsw5ID8QRlhRNFecWvxbzGYUaOBpsHNwkPCSqJjwmlSepKU8tqC-dMZ41kjbpOtg64Tt8PC1GcUlRSshM_03jUEJVS1pSWm1apl3yYeJirGNDbqpwUnDVc7N8u3_GgwmFfYfbiPGMNo5kkFWTJ5tdnaOdqqIAoi6io6ZXp1ynhKiarFmvbLGQtAy18rb6tz631rjKwFHFisau1U_WndtZ3Mfed-Nq44TkIudj7DjwH_Br8XbyRfKX8-r3pvyr_gr-j8HFiELyHQ==

Interesting... I played a lot ok EK builds (Ek is by far one of my favourite skills) and I'd never thought this would work...
I mean you have nothing in your build I considered a must have for EK:

- no EB and no mana/manareg at all.
how do you get those huge amounts of mana EK needs (a lvl 17 EK with LL,addFire,fasterCast,Powercharge needs 93 mana per cast!!!!)?

- no reduced mana reserved nodes (so with your low mana and without reduced mana reserved passives you only use clarity? or clarity+hatred?

- how do you keep your powercharges up with the slow EK while skipping up to 160% crit chance???

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Interesting... I played a lot ok EK builds

Hatred and Haste on mana, Blood Magic gem on everything else. Voll's Protector for the power charges. My chance to crit is at 35%, 50% with 6 power charges. The high dps leeches back a lot of life, I also get a lot of life regen from the consecrated ground effect. My life bar rarely moves. I also have a lot of cast speed, currently at about 1.96 per second.

Hey all! I did some searching (on here and general interwebs) but couldn't find any data on the faster casting breakpoints for EK. Does anyone have a handy link for such data? Thanks!

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chilipino wrote:

Hey all! I did some searching (on here and general interwebs) but couldn't find any data on the faster casting breakpoints for EK. Does anyone have a handy link for such data? Thanks!

what do you mean by breakpoints? the game doesn't "snap" to certain values. although it sometimes rounds for effects, it does have a habit of rounding for display limitations... which is the case for cast speed.

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soul4hdwn wrote:

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chilipino wrote:

Hey all! I did some searching (on here and general interwebs) but couldn't find any data on the faster casting breakpoints for EK. Does anyone have a handy link for such data? Thanks!

what do you mean by breakpoints? the game doesn't "snap" to certain values. although it sometimes rounds for effects, it does have a habit of rounding for display limitations... which is the case for cast speed.

Ah, yes. It helps if I explain myself better :P I was wondering if there was some kind of diminishing returns on FCR for EK. I'm unsure if there is a "minimum delay" due to cast animation or what not. If there isn't then it's just math :) Thanks for the reply!