Dear exiles, today's PoE build is about the Ignite Ethereal Knives Elementalist Build. This build will cost you a lot of currency.
Equipment
Budget
Expensive: it cost about 1200 Chaos Orbs.
Items Mods
Elemental Damage
Spell Damage
Fire Damage
Burning Damage
Damage over Time
Damage over Time Multiplier
Elemental Resistances
Dexterity
Strength
Life
Armour
Evasion
Mandatory Unique
Obliteration
This wand is what makes our Ethereal Knives so explosive. It grants 20% chance to kill enemies exploding, dealing 25% of their maximum life as chaos damage.
Gloomfang
Gloomfang grants +1 chain to our Ethereal Knives and causes projectiles that chain to gain up to 42% of non-chaos damage as extra chaos damage. Since all of our damage can ignite, this allows us to have much bigger ignites. We will use Hydrosphere to get the chain needed during the boss fights.
Polaric Devastation
This ring covers enemies in ash for a lot more fire damage. It also grants increased duration of ailments.
Above all, it also grants a large amount of cold and fire resistance and elemental damage.
Don't forget to equip it in your left ring slot.
Skin of the Loyal
The Skin of the Loyal is a great body armour with 6 links. It also grants +1 to the level of socketed gems, that in our case means 2, because we have Empower in our setup.
This body armour also grants 100% increased global defenses.
You need your Skin of the Loyal sockets to be: 2 green -3 red -1 blue.
Mandatory Gloves
Wrath Palm Carnal Mitts: need some life, chance to suppress spell damage, dexterity or strength, 1 free prefix to craft: "25% of physical damage converted to cold damage.
Mandatory Ring
Glyph Nail Sapphire Ring: needs some life, some elemental resistances, strength or dexterity, and curse enemies with flammability on hit.
Recommended Uniques
Atziri's Step
Rare Shield
Dire Barrier Lacquered Buckler: needs at least 80 life, 20% chance to suppress spell damage, and a bunch of evasions.
Pain Guard Harmonic Spirit Shield: needs some life, at least 80% increased spell damage, +1 to the level of all physical spell skill gems.
Recommended Flasks
Divine Life Flask
Granite Flask
Jade Flask
Quicksilver Flask
Taste of Hate
Atziri's Promise
Gems
Armour
Ethereal Knives - Burning Damage - Cold to Fire - Swift Affliction - Enpower - Unbound Ailments
Helmet
Arcanist Brand - Flame Surge - Hydrosphere - Combustion
Gloves
Malevolence - Haste - Divine Blessing - Increased Duration
Boots
Hatred - Determination - Discipline - Enlighten
Wand
Molten Shell - Increased Duration - Flame Dash
Shield
Summon Lightning Golem - Culling Strike - Herald of Ash
Jewels
Jewels Mods
Spell Damage
Fire Dot Multiplier
Fire Damage
Damage over Time
Burning Damage
Maximum Life
Unique Jewel
Inspired Learning
This jewel is not mandatory, but it acts like a Headhunter, except you only get 1 mod from each rare enemy you kill.
It's awesome to have, but don't worry if you can't.
Watcher's Eye
Watcher's Eye Prismatic Jewel: needs at least 35% of physical damage converted to cold damage while affected by Hatred.
Skill Tree
Ascendancy
Pantheon
Major God: Solaris
Minor God: Abberath
Leveling
Tips
Start using Spark on level 1 and change to Arc on level 12. Respec to Ethereal Knives when you reach level 70.
Pro tip: buy Sapphire Rings from Nessa in Act 1. At the end of Act 1, you face a hard boss that deals cold damage, and those rings will give you cold resistance.
Main Skills
1. Fireball: the first skill you get is Fireball. Use it until you reach the first town. There, talk to Nessa and purchase Spark.
2. Level 8: add Added Lightning Damage.
3. Level 10: activate Clarity for more mana regeneration.
4. Level 12: replace Spark with Arc, and use orb of storms as auxiliary damage.
5. Level 16: activate Summon Skitterbots for more damage and survivability.
6. Level 18: replace Arcane Surge with Faster Casting and add Elemental Focus. Also, add Elemental Focus and Increased Critical Strikes in your orb of storms setup.
7. Level 34: use Hydrosphere on bosses to reduce their lightning resistance.
8. Level 38: replace Faster Casting with Spell Echo.
9. Level 70: activate Hatred, Discipline, and Herald of Ash. And remove Clarity and Skitterbots. Start using Ethereal Knives.
Leveling Items
Tabula Rasa
Lochtonial Caress
Goldrim
Wanderlust
Lifesprig
Reverberation Rod
The Dark Seer
Cerberus Limb
Here is the end of this build. And all the above content is from Daniel's YouTube.
