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

15k is low dps for ek

Despite this build being good and surely viable i find it a bit outdated, For instance. My marauder who was nowhere near perfect gear managed to hit 35k ek dps. Thats without! Going lowlife or crit. I would recommend you try to work rf into this build somehow. I think it would benefit greatly from it

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thecolefax wrote:

Despite this build being good and surely viable i find it a bit outdated, For instance. My marauder who was nowhere near perfect gear managed to hit 35k ek dps. Thats without! Going lowlife or crit. I would recommend you try to work rf into this build somehow. I think it would benefit greatly from it

I agree, RF is the right choice late-game if you want DPS. This is only true at level 85+ or so, though.
I'd like to see your gear if you reach 35K, though. That's more than I think is possible without Crit (or Echo ;) )

Well, with the recent changes, Echo and Added Chaos are worthwhile gems for EK.

New 6L: EK / Added Fire / Added Chaos / Echo / Faster Projectiles / Life Leech.

If you somehow get your hands on the new Staff, add Faster Casting (or Empower level 3-4, possibly).

Will be remade as a Shadow, once the patch is out. It might be possible to do without Faster Projectiles now, if you get both Projectile Speed areas.

Tentative Shadow Build for level 80:


Links:
4L on G. Crest = EK / Added Fire / Faster Casting / Spell Echo (replace Faster Casting with Faster Projectiles if you don't have a wand with it).
5L = EK / Added Fire / Faster Casting / Spell Echo / Faster Projectiles
6L = EK / Added Fire / Faster Casting / Spell Echo / Faster Projectiles / Empower

Suggested Gear (need a LOT of Mana Regen):


Buffs:
Clarity / Hatred / Haste / Herald of Ash / Arctic Armor

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No need for Iron Reflexes, unless you're playing in HC and prefer it. It's quite tanky without it, but the sudden damage spike will happen.

Build is up @Shadow. Will be checking that one, this one is no longer supported by me.

I Cast Magic Missile! - Cantrip's guide to Ethereal Knives 1.2

Running this build and so far it is awesome! I just have to get the ninja star MTX and it will be glorious.