An off-meta tanky spellcaster using chieftains' easy fire conversion. Very good for mapping since we run Herald of Ash Herald of Ash and Haste Haste. Lots of armor and evasion, plus Petrified Blood with massive regen, feels very solid in high-tier maps. Requiring not many buttons is only the icing around the cake.

Overview

Pros

No Meta Tax: Ethereal Knives Ethereal Knives brings lots of value with no added tax, there aren't any big ticket uniques required.

Easy League start: Very few required uniques, just running Doon Cuebiyari Doon Cuebiyari, The Magnate, and Crown o,f Thorns for the early league.

Smooth Mapping: Haste Haste, Herald of Ash Herald of Ash, perma-phasing, big range, this build just feels great to map with.

Cons

Bosses: Maven, Sirus, etc, aren't any problem, but DPS is low for that Uber-Ubers.

Uncommon Gear: With a small market for the gear we use, it’s sometimes difficult to find. This can be fixed by crafting it yourself.

How Does it Play?

Ethereal Knives Ethereal Knives is a frontal cone with a big range, if you notice a pack just start blasting. The spell includes multiple overlapping projectiles that don’t shotgun but could pierce, therefore we stack 3-4 pierces to create packs melt. All that and you will take a hit too.

Damage and Defensive Scaling

Our Ethereal Knives Ethereal Knives is fully fire converted so both %phys and %fire increase work, but gem levels and cast speed would be the big mods for all of us, together with spell damage. Using Petrified Blood Petrified Blood gives the use of Pain Attunement through Crown of Thorns Crown of Thorns and then Skin from the Lords Skin from the Lords.

For defense, we now have Determination Determination and Grace Grace plus Defiance Banner and Defiance Banner. Elemental Resistances are 80/78/78. Ailment Immunity is simple to accomplish since we obtain Ignite from your ascend and Freeze from Pantheon, just leaving shock. Our ascend also provides for us leech and MASSIVE regen. The final layer is Forbidden Jewels for either Untiring or Unbreakable.

PoB Imports

Don’t use Avatar of Fire before doing the first lab, should you don’t have 100% fire conversion it cuts your damage in two!

Do the mud flats and tidal island quest have a templar first, this gives use of Arcane Surge Support Arcane Surge Support which we wouldn’t otherwise get. The extra Quicksilver Flask plus free Holy Flame Totem and Frostblink Frostblink are nice also. Caster marauders will lag within the first 3 acts therefore we want to set ourselves up for achievement.

Don’t level arcane surge excessively, you would like the buff to possess maximum uptime.

You will require a few transmutes to purchase gems and have them by obtaining blue what to the vendor without identifying. Any excess transmutes you choose can themselves be vendored for wisdom scrolls.

Remember that Rustic Sash Rustic Sash is a DPS increase for EK.

It’s normal to become riding your flasks pretty hard before killing Brutus, I usually save a portal scroll and employ it right when I engage him. When I exhaust flasks I quickly part off and go back to finish my dream.

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