Physical Projectile Attack Damage and Ethereal Knives
" Yeah, dude I know what supports EK can use. I play non crit EK. Before 1.1 I was doing 15k dps now I've lost quite a bit, partially from losing roughly 100 str. I am leveling an empower and hopefully it is stronger at lvl 2 than an iron will gem with 170 str is at 19/20 Keep PoE2 Difficult.
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170 Str is 34% Increased Damage. Woop?
+2 Gem levels is roughly 20% More Damage for EK. That's going to be considerably more powerful, yes. Gem levels are generally pretty good for Spells. Last edited by Vipermagi#0984 on Mar 14, 2014, 9:24:31 AM
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EK does a shitload of damage, if attack support gems boosted the damage then they would have to nerf the spells' base damage.
It fires 10 projectiles and does 543.5dps per projectile at level 20. To put it into perspective a maxed out Lioneye's Bow is 436.5 dps, with level 20 split arrow you are firing 6 arrows at 548.2dps. You would out-dps someone with a maxed out Lioneye's bow and split arrow with your starting wand. It is why there are a lot more boosts for attacks than spells and a lot more boosts for melee than ranged, they are heavily reliant on the weapon for their damage and it is exceptionally difficult to find the best maxed out weapons. Still, a lot of the boosts work with EK, projectile damage nodes, physical damage nodes, projectile speed, faster casting, cast speed nodes, spell damage nodes as well as the normal crit/spell crit and the multipliers. EK also works well with added fire damage and the hatred aura. Last edited by Zvim#3037 on Mar 14, 2014, 9:29:23 AM
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" Must admit, i lolled reading this. Basically if you cant find a weapon upgrade, get a crit weapon + coc + ek, there upgraded your weapon :D! Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
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" me too, because i must love it. you can have all the melee diversity you want as long as you run hatred and link in multistrike. |
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I'm so f*cking glad Phys. Proj. Attack Dmg. doesn't work with EK.
Physical, seemingly projectile-based, spells are already retarded enough. What, it's projectiles, but no evasion? What, it's projectiles, but no projectile attack damage support? Oh, it's not projectiles? Why it look like projectiles then? For see and for know? Wait, it is projectiles? Uh.. TY to those who called me out on my BS on these forums. There is no benefit to being so selfish as to fail to acknowledge others' differing beliefs of what "should be" or believe your own opinions so supreme as to be factual and thus dismiss others' opinions as being somehow a lie or delusional. Last edited by Perfect_Black#6704 on Mar 14, 2014, 2:37:30 PM
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Another question: Does spell damage increase the damage done by Ethereal Knives, or just increased physical damage?
Edit: How do you get 15k dps with EK? At level 20, EK does an average of 1,707 when you have Hatred and Added Fire Damage. (1,366-2,048 damage total) I find it impossible to get 15k from that unless spell damage applies to EK. Last edited by Natharias#4684 on Mar 14, 2014, 7:31:04 PM
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" EK is a spell so spell damage boosts it. |
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" it does. spell, physical, and projectile go towards EK increased damage. factor in multiplicative dps sources such as fcr, crit chance, crit multi, empower, add fire/hatred, pain attunement...and 15k is a mere fraction of its damage potential |
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" So EK would probably be the absolute best dps skill for an aura build, since you'll be at low life, need one point for Pain Attunement, and already have the necessary aura and easily acquire the supports for it? |
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