EK Power Charge Stacking Fast Mapper Budget and Invested
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Welcome Exiles to my EK Build, which I was playing in 3.14
I always loved EK but there are not many builds with it nowadays so i tried to make my own.It turned out to be really nice on clearing maps fast and i ended up having a lot of fun with it. Pro's & Con's + Fast and fun clearing + Aoe makes it feel nice on ultimatums + Headhunter is not a must build gets fast without it (altho its best in slot if u got one) + we attack in all directions so it should be kinda easy to play - Low single target dps - Kinda squishy - Having an aurabot is so much fun that feels bad when u r back to solo (or its just me idk cause we get fast anyway xD) Gear life version scaling phys budget
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Weapons:We go with 2xvoid battery here they provide a lot of spell damage and 2 power charges that provides us a lot of bonuses. Helmet:We go with a rare.Craft it with life and some resistances Body armour:We go with a rare.Pick up a rare 6 link and craft it with some life and resistances Gloves:We go with rares.Life and resistances as well and dex if needed Boots:We go with rares.We need 30% movement speed and some life and resistances Belt:Belts are cheap pick up an abyssal belt with life and res and strength if needed Rings:We go with rares.Get some life and res or attributes if needed Amulet:Badge of the brotherhood.That amulet is just too good not to use on this build and since it can drop everywhere instead of being a blight unique the price got way lower than past leagues Gear when ready to swap to ES and fire version (a bit more cost to start with but a lot more dps)
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Weapons:Void batteries they are just too good for this build Helmet:hubris circlet with some ES and resistances.If u wanna invest more on it try warlord hubris for <nearby enemies have -fire res> or <+1 maximum power charges> or both Body armour:Shavronne's Wrappings 6L.This item is required to start our low life version it saves us from chaos damage and allow us to go on low life.Best in slot would be a 6L shavronne with +2 to proj gems or +2 to duration gems corrupt or both but that proves to be too expensive Gloves:We go with rares.Try get some ES and some res and must have an open prefix.We need to craft phys converted to fire on this one 23% to 25%.If u wanna invest more try <chance to Unnerve on hit > or <culling strike> or both Boots:Voidwalker.Gives us pierce so we dont have to use pierce support gem and also gives us a lot of dexterity that is quite helpful.Use pierce support until u get the boots Belt:Bated Breath is quite nice for a tone of ES.Personally i prefer a synthesised base with ES% implicit.Craft it with dense fossil or essences until u get flat es roll and some resistances.U can hardly outdo the ES from bated breath but having resistances can help a lot.Best in slot is Headhunter with a nice corrupt since we dont need life but thats too expensive Rings:Rare rings.ES and some resistances and a lot of strength if needed. Having one of the two rings being synthesised with <flamability on hit> implicit will help a lot and its not that expensive Best in slot will be synthesied ones with <+1 to maximum power charges> implicit which is super expensive. Amulet:Badge of the brotherhood.Offers too much on our build Flasks
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Flasks is a big part of every built since they are adding so much utility We use: Quicksilver flask Diamond flask Jade flask And last two are optional if u run the life version we go with life flask and atziri promise if we play avatar of fire low life atziri promise becomes useless since we can only do fire damage and we dont need life flask since we go ES so we go with a Cindersawllow try for max ES roll and maybe mana too u dont care for life roll and personally use a rumis concoction for extra defense u could also go with a stibnite flask but i recomend the rumi's Jewels
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This builds needs a few unique jewel leaving no much space for rares. The most important jewel <Ring of blades>.It upgrades our EK into attacking in a circle arround you instead of just in front of you.It just feels so nice and its very cheap since u can pick this as a reward from a quest When swapping to fire Avatar of fire converts 50% of our damage.We have 25% more on gloves so we only miss 25%.We will use Watchers eye with <phys converted to fire while being affected by anger> this can roll from 25-40% we only need 25 so u dont need to overpay for a max roll one.Best in slot would be the convert combined with energy shield on hit by discipline or fire damage with anger or anything that boosts our build For low life we also run a thread of hope very large ring since we can get some big ES nodes with very few points.Try to a -10 res they shoul be cheap And last unique we can use is inspired learning.It lets us steal a modifier from every rare monster like a budget Headhunter.With ultimatum having so many rares getting all this modifiers can be really fun. Those unique jewel besides watchers eye have a specific place in the tree or they wont work as intented.Everything is covered in the last trees on the passive tree section. Last but not least we can use a rare jewel or optionally a cluster but we dont have much points so maybe a small one if u push some levels. We want ES% and a combination of Projectile speed,spell damage while dual wielding,global crit multi,spell damage,attribute(if needed),all res(if needed) Skill Gems
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6L Main EK EK-spell echo-power charge on crit-increased critical damage Last two slot depend on the version u are at: low budget phys version:increased crit chance-pierce Fire version:inspiration-Pierce When u get Voidwalker drop pierce for elemental focus for maximum dps 4L Arma for bosses Arma brand-hextouch-vulnerability-culling strike Swap vulnerability to flamability when changing to fire Swap hextouch and curse when u get curse on hit ring to combustion and immolate it will boost ur dps a lot 4L Auras Phys version:Pride-Herald of purity-clarity-enlighten Fire version:Anger-Herald of ash-clarity-enlighten last 4L Life version:stone golem-steelskin-increased duration-arcane surge On Low-Life version we get some more auras:Vitality-arrogance-discipline-stone golem 3L Movement skill: flame dash-second wind-arcane surge 3L Rightous fire-portal While on low life:Rightous fire-steelskin-increased duration Passive Tree
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For trees i use POB(Path of Building) https://pastebin.com/U0hLnM9p with pastebin includes leveling trees and the endgame after switching to avatar of fire and low life Playstyle
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This Build is kinda squishy and fast so what we do is dash in a monster pack cast a few EK dash again.I personally prefer to have steelskin on left click so its always up its quite nice defensively.When trying to do a boss,map boss or whatever always cast ur armageddon brand to boost ur dps not only the initial hit from arma does some damage but either the curse or combustion depends on ur setup makes enemies take a lot more damage from any source. Media
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Discord:NightkillerXXVI#0429.U can dm me there and ask me anything or suggest me anything about the build or the guide.
Often questions that people may have
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1:When is it worth to swap to ES
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Shavrone is a must to start ES.I dont recomend swaping to ES until u can get a 6L shavronne at least and maybe some of the ES bases too so the build wont feel too bad after the swap.I also recomend swaping at a higher level so u can pick up all the passives that makes low life better.Picking up a level 20 discipline with no quality may be nice too usually its too cheap and gives u a lot of Es to start with instead of having too low Es until it levels up
2:Dont have enough mana/life to reserve
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Keep clarity and vitality on a level that fits in ur build EK is quite costy when we get so much cast speed so be carefull with that
3:I keep dying by using RF and Vaal RF this league is too risky
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Dont use RF until u re confident u can sustain it we ve got some regen on the build some ES leech some ES on kill and maybe an ES on hit from watchers.RF is a big boost to DPS but its not worth dying for only use it when u get all ur ES gain sources
4:My Char has too low ES
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Try get some better ES bases rares with ES rolls flat and % maybe drop some dps too if needed since we get too much for just mapping anyway
5:I cant sustain spamming EK dont have enough mana
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Try and pick up Divergent version of inspiration it will further decrease the mana cost.If u still cant sustain and ur rings have an open slot u can craft <Non-Channeling skills have -8 mana to mana cost> that should be enough since we have some mana regen too and some mana on kill with cinder flask
6:I dont have enough attributes i miss strenght or dex
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Dex should be covered from boots but if its still not enough try to get some in ur rings.Strenght is not covered from any unique so we need some of our rares to have some.Personally crafted my rings with strenght essences and got it from there.You could have strenght on belt or maybe on ur rare jewel even up to 26 but that could be costy so i wuoldnt go for this high roll on jewel
7:Can i play other phys spells with the same guide
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I wouldnt recomend reap or exsanguinate they scale more dot that the actual damage of the hit and we mostly scale our hits.Tho Blade vortex is playable but u have to change a few stuff for example u dont need pierce at all,u dont need spell echo but unleash and u need to scale area of effect instead of proj speed
8:This character cant do x boss (Sirus,maven,shaper or whatever)
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It needs quite some investement to do the high end bosses and even so u need to learn the boss mechanics pretty well.I dont recomend playing this build as boss killer it just needs too much when a summoner or a miner can do bosses on way lower budget.But in maps we outdo every miner and speed clearing while also having fun is what this character was aiming for in first place.
Last edited by NIghtkiller26#4296 on May 28, 2021, 10:42:08 AM Last bumped on May 28, 2021, 9:58:23 AM
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