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

Actually I think the strong part about it is, that you don't need the gear.

I just happen to play another EK char (not this approach but similar) and a LA spammer (which is considered op) simultaneously. And I really got to say, EK shines when having low gear. Basically most important is handling your defense, EK alone scales incredibly well in terms of damage. As a LA spammer you'll have to gather way better stuff to come even close to the output (while still keeping your survivability).

EK is really awesome and very much beginners-friendly.

The downside is that you won't feel as happy while equipping. There's nothing like finding a new sick piece of gear or even a weapon and doubling your char's power. That's not so much happening with a build like this (imo). But I prefer gear-independency, since I love playing various characters and therefore don't want to heavily invest into some specific items.

To cut all the crap:

EK yay!

^^

What skills did you use while leveling? I'm using fire trap x2 and poison arrow until my mana can sustain it.

so which is better now
chain or fork?
and why?

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asdf2000 wrote:

so which is better now
chain or fork?
and why?

I too am having a hard time distinguising

I just got the quillrain/heavy quiver combo - (5L on quill ilvl67) but im having a hard time determining which is better chain or fork...chain takes too much mana imho

Would this be a good EK dagger?



I'm thinking about creating an EK shadow...but if not I might sell it, not sure yet.

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ChocolateDrop wrote:

Would this be a good EK dagger?

I'm thinking about creating an EK shadow...but if not I might sell it, not sure yet.

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you can buy an incredibly better wand.

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Alabugin wrote:

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ChocolateDrop wrote:

Would this be a good EK dagger?

I'm thinking about creating an EK shadow...but if not I might sell it, not sure yet.

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you can buy an incredibly better wand.

you need a kris, they have 80% crit chance, along with spell dmg, knives and daggers only have 40%, and wands dont some fixed with crit chance unless rolled with it but wont be 80% unless its $$$ with high spell dmg

also, how does this guy manage to get 130 hp per second and 64 mana per second with only vitality and 63 regen per minute gloves which is really only 1 life per second

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SourLemon wrote:

also, how does this guy manage to get 130 hp per second and 64 mana per second with only vitality and 63 regen per minute gloves which is really only 1 life per second

Well, he has a lot of life, the regeneration node from the templar area and Inner Force for Vitality. That will net you some nice hp regen.

EB leads to huge amounts of mana which leads to big regeneration.

It's that simple, really.

i got a couple of questions regarding this build.

i wanna ask about about fork/chain on EK.

If i understood corectly fork splits each dagger of the 10 that hit into 2 that then hit other targets.

Chain makes each of the 10 knives hit 2 more targets.

they both hit for an absurd amount of targets but they both produce 30 knives in total.
Amiright? i think i am loosing the benefit of one over the other.

also i see a lot of folks supporting knives with faster projectiles.Is this purely for the projectile damage and cast speed if it has quality or faster projectiles actually does something usefull?

thanks for your time and most importanlty thanks for the guide inva.