Energy blade supports?

It has spell + lightning tags, so if you take those nodes on the tree, does it increase the buff total dmg? And energy cost which is 600 at gem lvl 20?

So if you add controlled desctruction and elemental focus, does it increase the dmg 70% and cost also 70% (140%+130%)?

Say we got 4k es, 80% reduced buff on, roughly 1k es.
Base added lightning dmg is 5-100% about 50-1000 lightning dmg to attacks.
Would this increase it to 100-1700 lightning dmg, and the 600 es cost to 1000?

Nope the skill itself is just a trigger, reducing your ES by 80% and replacing your equipped weapon with energy blades. The blades dmg will be based on the remaining 20% of your ES.

Then you need to have a attack skill that works with swords, like Frost Blades or whatever you prefer.
Link Frost Blades with whichever supports you want and thats now your dmg setup.

Energy Blades itself doesnt need any supports at all except for maybe Enhance/Empower. Thats it

Did a inquisitor, helix staff, 60% crit, 500% multi, 350k dps, 2.5 mill full dps. Pretty nice when pob isn't even counting energy blades yet. I might toy around with it after farming currency on my trapper starter.

What's weird is my 44/30 block.
The safeguard cluster small nodes say +3 spell block while holding a STAFF or shield, which I am, but toggling these on/off doesn't change my values at all.
So if I have to guess I should have 44/60 block.

Add tornado + flamewall maybe in cwdt and energy blades buff once they come into pob, the full dps should be pretty sick.
Crappy average gear though so only 3300 es/hp/armor.

But I'll definately try this for fun as alt.

Anything displayed in red colors in PoB isnt calculated at all.
PoB simply doesnt know what to do with those mods, so you have to do the math yourself ;)

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Orbaal wrote:

Nope the skill itself is just a trigger, reducing your ES by 80% and replacing your equipped weapon with energy blades. The blades dmg will be based on the remaining 20% of your ES.

wtf i thought of initial. it's already big investment in to ES just to be cut by 8/10 AND have survivability with anything scaling,but it's actually scaling of what's left ? what a dogshit skill. the only way it would be usable if it adds that damage to the weapon you have,not replacing it.

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Nibelton wrote:

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Orbaal wrote:

Nope the skill itself is just a trigger, reducing your ES by 80% and replacing your equipped weapon with energy blades. The blades dmg will be based on the remaining 20% of your ES.

wtf i thought of initial. it's already big investment in to ES just to be cut by 8/10 AND have survivability with anything scaling,but it's actually scaling of what's left ? what a dogshit skill. the only way it would be usable if it adds that damage to the weapon you have,not replacing it.

They actually already made a change to it.

"One last buff to mention before we launch Path of Exile: Scourge in less than 12 hours - Energy Blade previously gave you 80% less ES. It’s now 50% and the damage has been adjusted so that it’s now 2%-40%, keeping the damage the same while leaving more ES available for defence."
https://twitter.com/pathofexile/status/1451460921075724288

That's a handy change. I've been a-googling, thinking about trying it out, but... it looks like that while the buff is active, sure you get the lightning damage, but any stats or mods you had on the weapon are inactive. Is that correct?

So if you needed stats on the weapon to hold on to something else, or keep a skill gem active, or any other nice things like a plus to socketed gems and so on, etc, you lose ALL or any of that for the duration of the buff. So I'm not touching it unless they come out with a red micro transaction for it.