[0.10.0] Eldritch Battery Ethereal Knives Shadow [Videos Included]

- Why not level clarity past 3?

- Why not take Doomcast (60% inc Crit chance for spells) that is 1 point away?

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jooozek wrote:

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BEWBTUBE wrote:

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I've got only 1800 health currently and 600 es. Gems got messed up because I've changed my setup since that post, here is my current setup:

I've got Spell Totem/Summon Skeletons in my stash so gonna put them on my shield. About Frost Wall, my projectiles can pierce through it? Also, yeah, was thinking about getting temporal chains since it seems like it's pretty much needed for maps.

Thanks for advices.

EDIT: oh yeah, I didn't go for spell damage on my rings/amulet because I already have loads on my shield and dagger (148% in fact), I'll try for cast speed/critical chance.

EDIT2: forgot to mention about divine toughness, I was about to get it on next level.

EK goes through Ice Wall if you have Fork/Chain supp'd. That said, why faster projectiles over Fork/Chain? The bounce/fork significantly increases damage output in AoE and significantly increases mana returned via Mana Leech.

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Haggisahh wrote:

How likely would you say it is to roll 3 green 2 red sockets on a pure armor chest?
I have started to look for a 5L, but I am kinda going back and forth between pure armor (would be best for the build) and armor/evasion (should make rolling 3 green 2 red WAY easier).

Edit: I actually found

but I guess it is quite hard to roll 3 green 2 red on that?

It's actually pretty hard. I'm currently using a fairly low level pure armor chest just because it's 3 green 2 red and I had to craft it by dumping something like 30 Chromatic Orbs on the chest.

I keep my eyes peeled for any likely chest upgrades in both $Trade and on the ground (white 5L chests that are likely to give me a green+red combo. I think finding a good chest is probably going to be the hardest piece of gear to obtain.

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Rogromer wrote:

- Why not level clarity past 3?

- Why not take Doomcast (60% inc Crit chance for spells) that is 1 point away?

At level 3 it's only a 100 mana reservation which is a drop in the barrel once you have EB. However, before you have EB you barely have the mana pool to sustain that 100 mana when you NEED to be running Discipline and Hatred. You should actually phase clarity out of your aura rotation once you get mana leech as the fork + mana leech should be more than enough to sustain you in all but boss fights. Once you have EB you won't even need to run clarity as your mana regeneration should be high enough and with all of the auras running you'll only have a mana pool of 250-350 or so and if you need to run clarity 4.1 mana per second + the Inner Focus buff is MORE than enough to make sure you can cast EK or Bear Trap.

Thanks for the help, I was lucky enough to trade for a pure armour chest and roll it to 3 green 2 red (it took me but 5 tries!).
So, I am playing with 2 other players at all times, we are currently progressing through merciless act 2 (currently lvl 62 HC). Because of this, I have deviated somewhat from your build, mainly by picking up EB earlier than you suggest due to mana issues.

That being said, what would you say I should focus on improving now? I consider the amu kinda shit, and I have pretty big mana issues if i use 4 auras (discipline, clarity, determination, hatred).

Does leech from gear work for EK? If so, that could maybe be a solution, I would love to be able to drop my mana leech support gem and use a faster projectile one instead since the added range makes me feel a lot safer.

Here is my current gear:

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Haggisahh wrote:

Thanks for the help, I was lucky enough to trade for a pure armour chest and roll it to 3 green 2 red (it took me but 5 tries!).
So, I am playing with 2 other players at all times, we are currently progressing through merciless act 2 (currently lvl 62 HC). Because of this, I have deviated somewhat from your build, mainly by picking up EB earlier than you suggest due to mana issues.

That being said, what would you say I should focus on improving now? I consider the amu kinda shit, and I have pretty big mana issues if i use 4 auras (discipline, clarity, determination, hatred).

Does leech from gear work for EK? If so, that could maybe be a solution, I would love to be able to drop my mana leech support gem and use a faster projectile one instead since the added range makes me feel a lot safer.

Here is my current gear:

Run these auras: Discipline, Determination, Hatred, Vitality.

If you're having mana problems replace chain with fork and that'll fix a ton of them.

As for your items. Look for either an Armor/ES or a pure ES pair of gloves to replace the ones you currently have. Get a spirit shield with %Increased Spell damage (so it'll have like a base of %10 Increased Spell Damage and then a bonus %Increased Spell Damage). Replace that prismatic ring with a ring that has +spell damage/+cast speed/+spell crit. I'd just say buy a couple of Onyx/Amber Amulets and throw a few Alchs at them and see if you can roll one with a bunch of +stats

You'll be getting an additional 150-250 mana from ES by replacing your regular shield with a spirit shield and your armor/evasion gloves with pure ES or armor/ES gloves boosts from your passives.

Thanks for the advice, i'll go shopping :p
As for my last question, do you know if leech on items work with EK?

Oh, and how important would you say caster stats such as elemental dmg %, spell dmg %, crit chance, crit multiplier and cast speed are for the dps? the build doesnt actually pick up a lot of dps talents.

Im level 66 now. Having some issues, mainly not being able to find the right gear I guess. I only have 1640 Life - 240 ES and 700 mana. I can only run hatred aura and I cant even spec into Eldritch Battery yet. My etheral knives is only 3 linked and I'm still using fork. Im getting frustrated.

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Zixxman wrote:

Im level 66 now. Having some issues, mainly not being able to find the right gear I guess. I only have 1640 Life - 240 ES and 700 mana. I can only run hatred aura and I cant even spec into Eldritch Battery yet. My etheral knives is only 3 linked and I'm still using fork. Im getting frustrated.

what's your passives look like I was EB running all my auras at lvl 59.

Just some feedback on the build so far:

Hit lvl50, act 1 Merciless. Got 70-76% all resists, chaos negative. HP pool at 2100, running Eldrich battery since level 40. Currently able to sustain 2 auras: hatred and purity (need to run due to get cap on resists). Remaining mana pool is enough to sustain EK+Fork+FasterProjectiles+ManaLeech. Leveling chain on swapped weapon.

DPS wise my EK has around 790 with Fork and 1-2 shots white mobs. Bear trap has around 4500.

Things I like:

- extremely fun
- great clear speed of leveling areas (ledge, fellshrine, docks)
- good survivability with frost wall and temporal chains

Things I don't like:

- extremely mana hungry (as damage for mana leech and ES from gear increase should be able to eliminate this)
- Very hard on bosses/fat rare mobs. Bear traps deal good damage but their cd is just not enough. EK deals very low damage on single target and due to low mana leech its very hard to spam.
- Difficult to find right sockets for EK gem combo

So far so good, gonna level further and update!
P.S Character is on HC
P.S.S Currenty running with +58% Spell damage mace, increases DPS by a tonn. Does that really affect anything? Haven't found any good dagger/wand yet.

P.S.S.S Running ledge for exp, pretty easy all well another pack of mobs, rare in the middle.. EK, EK, Ressurect (O_o). Well 'Allies reflect physical daamage' wasn't expected by me while AoEing 30 skeletons. Too bad swapped my granite for quicksilver and barely had any armor gear... Back to Witch it is I guess!

Is there an alternative to EK for mobs that reflect physical damage? Would spark also benefit from essentially the same setup (Its a projectile and a spell afterall).

I could see keeping a quality spark on hand so that you can cast it from behind walls and stuff for the nasty nasty shit that you just cant bear to stand against.

Thoughts?

Just started this build on hardcore - around LVL 20 and easy so far obviously. I...had (tear*) a CI Dagger Crit on default at lvl 62...and my 4yr old accidently deleted him when trying to look at the witch on character screen lolol...

Its k though, Hardcore >>>> softcore.

Why put culling strike on Bear Trap? I understand it could be useful but it doesn't seem that great unless I am missing something I'm not seeing. Thanks.