MF Ethereal Knives [IQ 141%/IR 193%][Guide]

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Furiouzly wrote:

At which lvl should I switch into low life and es build?
Is it worth before I get this shield?

You can go safely into low life at level 62 and that's only if you have the Shavronne's Wrappings.

You'll need to use a Blood Magic gem to reserve one of the 60% auras and also plan to take Pain Attunement at that level as it'll raise your damage significantly.

Then just grind areas until you hit level 68 and can equip the Prism Guardian. At that point you should be able to equip most of your auras depending on how high your Reduced Mana gems are.

How about lower lvls? Just go normally till then?

And when should I take passive, that makes Lifesteal apply to Energy shield instead of life?

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Furiouzly wrote:

How about lower lvls? Just go normally till then?

And when should I take passive, that makes Lifesteal apply to Energy shield instead of life?

Totally up to you.

You can start going low life in your 30's by linking Blood Magic/Reduced Mana gems to a 40% reserved aura like Purity/Vitality.

This is really only worth it if you're new and need some upgrades while farming non-chaos enemies like those found in Ledge/Fellshrine/Docks (albeit you have to always be on the lookout for chaos damage rogue exiles)

As for when you should take Ghost Reaver it's really up to your gear and if you have the free socket to use the LL gem. I took it around levels 55-60 I think.

Got the build where I want it but I'm getting a little bored with it so decided to roll another character.

Will hop back on once the patch is released to try to drop the new uniques.

Been following the build up to level 80 so far, bought shav's and got 70iiq/400iir together. I've rolled other MF builds and this one is the most enjoyable to play seeing as you actually do something when killing monsters. Very solid guide imo, but only for solo MF.

I have a question about rolling my own ring:



Does Eternal-Regaling outweigh the chances of getting this roll? Should I make crafting this ring a long term investment or just yolo regal exaltx3 and be done with it? (iLevel 77)

The roll is very hard to get and I'm not sure if I should continue.

Tough call with rings having such a large suffix pool.

Spending currency on MF builds is never a bad idea in my opinion because they can recoup the 'losses' fairly quickly in the end compared to any other build.

Tossing a few eternals at the ring wouldn't be terrible but you have to know when to cut your losses.

Good luck to you either way and hope you hit that of Excavation roll.

Came back to the build after a little break.

Decided to tackle Dominus runs and switched a few pieces around to get enough ES to comfortably do the fight.

Dropped my MF to 138/176 but am running with about 4.5K ES and it's been safe so far. Just keep throwing bear traps as soon as they recharge and keep firing into enemies to keep ES pool up and you should be fine.

I run with 4 Remove Bleeding granite flasks and it does the job in the end phase of the fight.

this build would not be viable without a shav's i supposed.

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chosk80 wrote:

this build would not be viable without a shav's i supposed.

For the most part yes.

Maps are not worth doing without Shavronnes because of chaos damage enemies.

If your intent is just to farm chaos free areas (with the exception of Rogue Exiles) then you can definitely adjust the build to effectively do that but if it's worth it or not is up to you.

I'm playing the build as-is currently and am just farming to save up exalts to get around 30-40 eternals before I start really crafting the helm.

The gear section has been updated and all important gems have been leveled up to 20 and the build is complete.

I was able to drop an Oro's Sacrifice sword and have been working on a new build that I plan on working on the next guide for.

Dayum, looks like I've found affordable IIQ+IIR build at last. Well, except shavs of course.

Finally i see where i can use iir+iiq stuff which is get dust covered at my stash :)

This one for example:


Oh by the way why red beak? Why not Divinarius? It have 90% critchance for spells.