ChurchOfMisery: HC Ethereal Knives Ranger guide
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The main idea is, i wanted to do some original EK build, not str EK mara tank or shadow start, so i just took the best proj dmg nodes which affect EK, 67% total increase, which is a really nice amount, i stacked massive armor and life so you can not die to physical reflect.
It has big armor(200%+), which is very useful now in 0.11, big life too against ele mobs, big Ek damage, i will post DPS numbers as i go on with the ranger and level it. Build at level 100: Passive skill tree build Thanks to Feels for helpin out, he found a better route to EB through the right of the tree! My current gear:
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Progression & Walkthrough:
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Level ~20: Passive skill tree build
You start off as a normal ranger, use split arrow for leveling until you get bored or find an EK gem level ~40: Passive skill tree build level ~60: Passive skill tree build level 80: Passive skill tree build Gearing
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As Gear goes try to get very high evasion gear (armor gear is good too, but not as good) and ES hybrid, with high life and resistances. You also need to get mana regeneration so you eliminate the need for mana leech link and you need to get high Intelligence on the gear so you can use wands.
Helmet: High evasion and energy shield, life, resists, nothing special here Chest: Again, High evasion and energy shield, life, resistances,and Intelligence try to get as many links on it hehe Boots:High evasion and energy shield, life, resistances and movement speed increase would be godly Gloves:High evasion, life resistances, again nothing too special here Belt: Rustic Sash base type mandatory here, very nice increase in physical damage for EK, try to get life and resistances on it. Rings: You need life, Mana/Mana regeneration so you can eliminate the need for mana leech, some resists are good here and of course Cast Speed is very good here, intelligence points are very useful here. Amulet: Lapis base type, life, spelldamage, cast speed, more intelligence, resists, a lot of good mdos to be had here, try to get some of these. Weapons: You can dual wield so you want 2 nice Scepters or Wands(int problem with wands) with big spell damage, cast speed, projectile speed(only wands) and maybe some mana regeneration or mana. Note: Only dual weild if your defensive stats are good, if not use an evasion shield and 1 scepter/wand, its safer. I dont suggest dual wielding in high maps unless you get really high level and ahve around 5k+ life, when you dual wield at around 80+ you should have like 4.2-4.4k life. If you feel to weak, stop dual wielding and just grab a big life eva/es shield. Bandit Rewards
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Normal-Help Oak (40 life)
Cruel-Help Oak(18% physical damage) Merciless-Help Oak(+1 Endurance charge) Auras
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Use Hatred, Clarity and Grace, then if you have enough mana you can put in Purity too for the extra maximum resists, Arctic armor when EB is up and running and fi you have enough mana you can probably squeeze determination in there too.
EK links
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4L: EK-LifeLeech-Mana Leech-Added Fire
5L: EK-LifeLeech-Mana Leech-Added Fire-Iron Will 6L: EK-LifeLeech-Mana Leech-Added Fire-Iron will-Faster Casting When you can sustain the EK without mana leech remove it and replace it with faster projectiles, if you already have enough projectile speed on gear (you shouldnt get too much because you might hit off screen reflect) just replace with added chaos damage. Curses
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You can use enfeeble for slow enemies that hit hard, Temporal chains to slow everything down (my favorite defensive curse) and vulnerbility for the DPS, i would keep temporal chains and vulnerability ready to use.
You can also use projectile weakness, which is better than vulnerability because it increases all of you damage, but people complain if you use it in parties because of the annoying knockback effect Totems
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Summon Skeletons linked to spell totem is a agro machine, very useful especially in HC.Decoy totem is pretty weak in my opinion, dovuring totem also works nice in HC, goo d health gain with it
Flasks
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Seething Hallowed Life flasks is what you need for the life, try to get mods of grounding and dispell freeze on them
Granite Flasks of Iron Skin will get you that extra damage reduction to make sure you cant be killed by any physical damage Mana flask as needed, i would always keep one handy even if EK is easily sustained by regen. I hope you enjoy the build, if you have any questions or feedback, please post it here. I carve and sell real animal skulls, check out my work here: https://www.instagram.com/victorseiche/ https://www.facebook.com/victorseicheart/ World first Uber Atziri as 2h and 2h RT build: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1058950 Highest level char in Closed Beta, Wytchfindergeneral Last edited by VictorDoom#6290 on Oct 17, 2013, 6:50:49 PM
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Oooooeeerrr....
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great job, always nice to see something diffrent
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I play almost the same with less tank nodes and more dmg from the middle tree. Good build overall but my ek marauder and even my ek ci shadow are overall the better ek builds.
Only play this build if you really want to be ranger by all cost and dont care too much for effectiveness. Last edited by Crescende#6550 on Jun 6, 2013, 11:35:54 AM
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I was thinking of trying this build out on my SC ranger to prepare for the league. Is this gear ok, and if not, what pieces needs to be swapped out? (used to be LA)
Last edited by Jackis#0849 on Jun 6, 2013, 11:42:08 AM
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" everything is good apart from the jewelry, try to get stuff with mana regeneration, mana and life on jewlery, some cast speed and spell damage on the amulet would be good too. Get 2 big spell damage wands, try to get some cast speed and mana regen on them too, that should be it. Your links would be EK-Lifeleech-Added fire damage-cast speed-iron will or faster projectiles (up to preference). Use hatred and Clarity auras, dont forget to get the mana regen nodes in teh tree, its ideal to run EK without having to use mana leech " In my opinion they are pretty comparable, this build has less life than a marauder EK build, for example Etup's build, but it does have 6 endurance charges and more armor, things which are more useful than life in 0.11, it also has more damage. in comparison to shadow builds, it has less DPS(cast speed mostly) but it is much more tanky and less likely to get a reflect death. And in comparison to crit builds like my templar EK ( dps/es screen herehttp://i.imgur.com/Rzqobkt.jpg ) it is much tankier and less likely to die to reflect but it also has a lot less dps. I think its a nice middle ground build to use in HC, anyone doing it and gets faster high level than me post some dps/life screens around here, i wont be leveling fast this time around since i got some exams coming up, paired with work, barely have time. I carve and sell real animal skulls, check out my work here: https://www.instagram.com/victorseiche/ https://www.facebook.com/victorseicheart/ World first Uber Atziri as 2h and 2h RT build: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1058950 Highest level char in Closed Beta, Wytchfindergeneral Last edited by VictorDoom#6290 on Jun 6, 2013, 3:04:21 PM
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Hello, using this build at anarchy league.
" I really wonder, but is it real that ranger can use wands, because at lvl 26 i can use it? And what about single target? |
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" Of course, any class can just use any weapons, wands require a lot of intelligence so you will need to stack on that stat if you want to use them, im playing onslaught with the ranger and im using a scepter/shield since my defensive stats arent yet that good to dual wield. and i dont have enough int for wands, i just use scepters, they can roll nice spell damage. this is my current scepter: For singles just use bear traps and ethereal knives I carve and sell real animal skulls, check out my work here: https://www.instagram.com/victorseiche/ https://www.facebook.com/victorseicheart/ World first Uber Atziri as 2h and 2h RT build: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1058950 Highest level char in Closed Beta, Wytchfindergeneral Last edited by VictorDoom#6290 on Jun 10, 2013, 1:39:18 PM
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" Seems like that that build can be usable by standard ranger, isn't it? But i don't like Bear trap+EK for single target, what do u think about Power Siphon+supports or Elemental Hit+supports? |
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" No point in going power siphon, youll need wands for that and youll only be able to use those engame cause the int req is high, also you dont have any passives in accuracy, and 67% inc damage is not much at all considering tha build also has no crit, Traps are much more effective, they also dont require many links, you can just link 3 bear traps to a added fire damage and you can hit an enemy 9 time with a LOT of damage, I carve and sell real animal skulls, check out my work here: https://www.instagram.com/victorseiche/
https://www.facebook.com/victorseicheart/ World first Uber Atziri as 2h and 2h RT build: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1058950 Highest level char in Closed Beta, Wytchfindergeneral |
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