[0.9.13] Ethereal Knives Crit Witch (CI Cookie Cutter Edition)

I'm all about the witches though. And EB/CI builds. And a templar would be wasting points. Probably even if you just wanted to max out life and ES for HC. Which I don't, since I only play default outside of races. :)

I wouldn't be hoping for a CI change either, since it was never broken for casters. Only when GR was introduced and melee builds became viable did people start to complain about it. Only issue I see with CI is the too easy availability of high ES on gear compared to life for life builds.

So with the big clarity and Discipline nerf (I haven't taken CI yet) I find myself with 1100ES and 400HP at level 50 and having a really touch time with this build, even after diverting course for the extra ES nodes under the witch starting location.

Maybe this build needs to go ghost reaver/life leech now? There's also mana gain on kill close by the witch starting area that might work.

This build doesn't really work because CI is now a choice rather than an OP must. In 90% of situations hybrid life/ES chars are going to be better going forward. Go CI if you have 1: amazing ES items, 2:enough mana to sustain life leech on a 6 link 3:nothing in the game kills you except chaos dmg.

This build is also a littel out of date. You don't want to crit with EK. Forking or chained crits will 1 shot you on reflect mobs.