ZiggyD's Etheral Knives Mana Shield Scion/Shadow Build Guide - Hardcore (Updated for 1.1)

with my 73 scion with lvl 17 reduced mana 0 uniques. 60% auras take up 27%, tempest shield takes up 11%.
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"Getting all life nods on passive tree should give additional survival, not the mandatory basic survival."
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im doing pretty decent with this build..
im soloing 71 maps pretty easy. tho this build kind of lacks the damage.
its pretty nice solo build actually but in party the damage is awful.

As curses i use projectile weakness as offensive and for defensive i use enfeeble.

Im currently level 84.
My current gear:





With the current setup i get like 6,2k+ dps. (can change grace to haste and my +2 artic armour shield to better dps shield and i get like 7,2k)

Life: 4551 Mana: 891/2645

Not quite sure what to do next.
Maybe better 6 link and mings heart.
Or maybe change build totally to something else.
Putting empower to 6link when it levels up and buying other empower to put to artic armour is prolly next.
Last edited by maratus on Jan 6, 2014, 3:19:09 PM
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maratus wrote:
im doing pretty decent with this build..
im soloing 71 maps pretty easy. tho this build kind of lacks the damage.
its pretty nice solo build actually but in party the damage is awful.

As curses i use projectile weakness as offensive and for defensive i use enfeeble.

Im currently level 84.
My current gear:





Not quite sure what to do next.
Maybe better 6 link and mings heart.
Or maybe change build totally to something else.
Putting empower to 6link when it levels up and buying other empower to put to artic armour is prolly next.


Get a shield with Spell Damage and Life or +2 Cold Gems. Or both, if that exists on Nemesis. All that ES is nice, but worse than DPS.

But the BEST way to upgrade your DPS? All your gems lack quality!
EK has 12% Proj. Damag, Added Fire has 15% Fire (so like 4-5% Spell Damage), Iron Will lacks 15% Spell Damage, Faster Casting is 10% Cast Speed, Faster Projectiles is 10% Cast Speed...
=
31% Spell Damage, 20% Cast Speed!

Bless the belt for 24%, or get another one (it's not bad, though).

And I honestly think you don't need Grace on 71 maps with AA level 19-21 :)
You won't be taking ANY damage with Leech, either way. So run Haste!
Now, level 76+ maps, that's another ball-game, especially with mods, but 71s, nah.

One last thing. You don't need 2 Empower gems. Snapshotting still works, after all. Just activate AA and then put the Empower back on EK.
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Last edited by CantripN on Jan 6, 2014, 3:19:21 PM
@CantripN

Standard League

How does the below build look (Hybrid of yours and Ziggys)? With all the armor/energy shield does this make up for the lack of health nodes?

I am losing the 6life/8mana x 6nodes and the 12% cast speed wheel? Is that worth the armor/ES i'm gaining by keeping Ziggy's portion of the Templar tree and "Body and Sou"?


My proposed tweak to what you and Ziggy have


http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgABCGcMfRB_EZYVIBcvGDwY2xmKGjgajxzcHRQdqiHDKPoppSpNLOktgy2oL28xnjWSNuk62D8nQ2NGcUp9SshN2E3jTipVxlXWVi1X4Vj1WlJbr2TnZp5noG6qb55wu3FNdPF_xoCkgh6Cx4MJhTKHdojxjHaPRpBVkNaTJ5M6lwaaz5tdm7WdxKKjplenCKeEqJqsWax_sZC0DLXytzG31riTvSfAGsHzwzrEosaeykrPZdDQ2RPbC9tZ3Q3hiONq6-7sOPKX9tr5Zfno-tL7CfzF_o8=



Current gear at lvl 75







Edit (going from memory):
~3900 dps
~3200 life
~625 unreserved mana
75/73/70 fire/cold/lightning
~26% physical reduc

Passive tree stats

+130 to Strength
+190 to Dexterity
+260 to Intelligence
+526 to maximum Mana
+639 to maximum Life
Evasion Rating: 305
+3 Maximum Endurance Charge
+3 Maximum Frenzy Charge
+3 Maximum Power Charge
4% Additional Elemental Resistance per Endurance Charge
4% Physical Damage Reduction per Endurance Charge
5% Attack Speed Increase per Frenzy Charge
5% Cast Speed Increase per Frenzy Charge
50% Critical Strike Chance Increase per Power Charge
120% increased Mana Regeneration Rate
42% increased Spell Damage
41% increased Projectile Damage
15% increased Cast Speed
48% increased maximum Mana
1% of Life Regenerated per Second
10% increased Attack Speed
6% increased Movement Speed
24% increased Evasion Rating and Armour
+26% to all Elemental Resistances
54% increased effect of Auras you Cast
41% reduced Mana Reserved
152% increased maximum Life
24% increased Effect of Buffs on You
24% increased Radius of Auras
12% increased Physical Damage
Converts all Evasion Rating to Armour. Dexterity provides no bonus to Evasion Rating
+8% to Chaos Resistance
Converts all Energy Shield to Mana
When Hit, 30% of Damage is taken from Mana before Life
88% increased Armour
68% increased maximum Energy Shield
20% increased Projectile Speed
+52% Energy Shield
+26% increased Melee Physical Damage
+380 Accuracy Rating
38% increased Evasion Rating



Thanks for the info.
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Last edited by haenic on Jan 6, 2014, 6:53:14 PM
Well, I like your gear, mostly, at least. That ammy needs and upgrade BAD, though (and the Flasks, too).

Honestly, I don't think losing the Life and Mana nodes is a good idea, since they add to your "Life" twice, but try it out. Mostly looks ok, but I just never felt you need THAT much Armor with a high level AA. I think your idea might work very well if you don't have a Lightning Coil, since you need the armor more, then.


If/when you get one of those, it's not needed at all to have quite THAT much Armour.

The mana you get from the armour/es nodes should be plenty enough, not sure about the Life. You'll have quite low life, I fear.
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Last edited by CantripN on Jan 6, 2014, 6:59:09 PM
Im useing somewhat this build now.

Currently 400 dps and 1.1k hp at lvl 71 :)
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Just wanted to post another quick update on my take of this build. It's still basically the same, just with fewer life nodes, more spell damage and cast speed nodes. I can solo just about any map up to 75, and took down a twinned vaal map without much of a problem.

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Basic Stats
All stats were taken with Clarity, Discipline, and Hatred turned on.
Life: 3934
Mana: 4327
Unreserved Mana: ~1333
Mana regen: 337.7
Armour: 2850
Resistances (F/C/L/CH): 75/75/75/-52
EK Tooltip DPS: 8942.7

Skill Tree

Gear


Flasks

Guys how can i show my items here as you do?
Thx in advance :)
hey currently loving this build,need some advice.Im lvl 64 btw.

Note:This is my second character so not very rich infact spent 15(all my chaos) chaos to get shield and on chromatics,next step should be to 5link my chest.currently do 2200 dps kinda low but my Ek gem is also low level.

Here is my gear.

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Last edited by Singharsh28081993 on Jan 7, 2014, 6:52:47 PM
I'm finding it very difficult to cull sometimes with Bear Trap. Been wondering if I should change it to something else.

My build is very similar to CantripN's, but here it is:

Passives
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Skill Tree
I plan to respec the STR node once I have enough from gear, and then also the 3 Resist nodes near the start of the Scion.


Gear
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Some of the pieces could really use an upgrade, and fortunately I just won a 10 exalt lottery a few hours ago, so I have now got some currency to buy with.


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