I Cast Magic Missile! - Cantrip's Guide to Ethereal Knives

Update: Got Faster Casting Q20. Leveling it now.

A few pages back you posted that you had a Void Battery on Standard along with a couple other things, and you said your DPS was higher. How does that work with Void Battery if it has 80% reduced spell damage?

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xvxslave wrote:

A few pages back you posted that you had a Void Battery on Standard along with a couple other things, and you said your DPS was higher. How does that work with Void Battery if it has 80% reduced spell damage?

It also has 20% Base Spell Damage and +25% Spell Damage per Power Charge, and +1 Max. Power Charges. I had 8 Power Charge, with that. Also, there's a node that adds 3% Spell Damage per Power Charge, so that's 3% more.

8 x 25% - 80% + 20% + 3% = +143% Spell Damage

It also has +20% Cast Speed, and +60%ish Crit Chance as well as the +50% from the extra Power Charge.
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How many wands do you know with 143% Spell Damage, 20% Cast Speed, 110%+ Critical Chance with Spells? Oh, and free Mana, because why not?

Huge retraining on my part, got Inner Force and more Mana/Life, lost Heart of Oak, Cast Speed Nodes. Clearly a better option, since while I lost 100 Life, I got a lot of Mana/Mana Regen, DPS is the same (but costs less mana to do), AA is stronger, allies' auras are stronger too...

In a level or 2, I'll retrain some more into the whole Templar Area stuff I want all at once. Otherwise I lose too much Life. Besides, I'm almost broke :(

Would investing heavily into crits after you're done with the second build (EB+ shadow area nodes) be viable,as there's a lot of crit multi/chance nodes on the way. This would of course be for softcore/domination where i don't really care if i die once in a while. Or should i just stack health afterwards.

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Xkcdone wrote:

Would investing heavily into crits after you're done with the second build (EB+ shadow area nodes) be viable,as there's a lot of crit multi/chance nodes on the way. This would of course be for softcore/domination where i don't really care if i die once in a while. Or should i just stack health afterwards.

Viable? Yes. You'll just be squishier, and have more DPS. I wouldn't suggest it if you plan on doing 76+ maps, but you'll be fine otherwise.

A word to the wise, though. Inner Force is more DPS than a LOT of DPS nodes put together if you have Hatred and Haste around.

I think this discussion on page 2 could be interesting for this build:

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/600494/page/2

Interesting Read.

In other news, made that respec to Templar Nodes, lost about 200 Life, but I can run Haste now. Or have almost 800 mana free for MoM. Depends on the area.

bump.

Thinking of adding Tempest Shield + Life Leech into the build. It works well, but I wonder if I have enough Block to make it worth it?

I see you dropped cast when stunned and changed things around.

How was Cast when Stunned working out for you? I just made some changes to my gear (realizing that carnage heart didn't actually give me any life leech and thus was mainly a waste and doing me harm). Not really sure what I should do as far as upgrades are from here and as far as gems go



I have a good 6 exalt saved up but am having trouble finding a really good chest I wouldn't mind 5Linking/6Linking myself or a good 5L chest that would benefit me.

So a few questions with the links
Have you used culling strike with Lightning warp? Was it satisfactory?

I was thinking for my links (I had a high level CwDT in the boots before, it was almost useless):


I think I scored pretty good on the wand, so I'm trying to level up my other gear to either accommodate for Lightning Coil or Alpha's Cowl if I can get a decent one of either.