Ethereal Knives

Ethereal Knives (often referred to as EK) is a spell that throws ten knives in front of the caster that deal physical damage. Multiple knives cannot hit the same target. The angle of the spell's arc is fixed and does not depend on where the cursor is, unlike other projectile skills.

Despite the fact that it does physical damage, Ethereal Knives is a spell and not an attack. It does not utilize weapon damage in any way.

Skill functions and interactions

 * Lingering Blades: One in three projectiles from Ethereal Knives will leave a Lingering Blade on the ground. These blades can be detonated with or animated with . Lingering Blades have a duration of 6 seconds.


 * Physical spell damage: Ethereal Knives is affected by modifiers to, , and . Its damage can also be improved by , , , , and.


 * Projectile speed: The projectiles move at an average speed of close to 120 units/s for roughly 0.25 seconds, putting their effective range at somewhere around 30ish units. Then inherently have a variation of +/&minus;40% base speed, but the average will be around 30. Modifiers to projectile speed will increase the average distance that Ethereal Knives projectiles travel before they fade, effectively increasing the maximum range of the spell.


 * Leech: Since it is a spell, Ethereal Knives is not affected by or . However, unspecified leech such as  will function with Ethereal Knives.


 * Can be used in left mouse button slot to cast and move.

Version history

 * Can now create Lingering Blades. These can be animated with or destroyed with . These blades have a base duration of 6 seconds at all gem levels.


 * Mana Cost at gem level 20 is now 20 (was 23).
 * Now deals 7 to 10 Physical damage at gem level 1 (from 6 to 9) and 633 to 949 Physical damage at gem level 20 (from 457 to 685).
 * Now has an added damage effectiveness of 120% (from 100%).


 * Now deals 6-9 physical damage at gem level 1 (up from 4-6), up to 457-685 physical damage at gem level 20 (down from 459-688).


 * Damage increased by around 20% higher at level 20.
 * Now gains 1% projectile speed per gem level over 1.


 * Now grants 1% Increased projectile speed per 1% quality instead of increased projectile damage. Base Cast Speed has been decreased from a cast time of 800ms to 600ms, the mana costs have been reduced to compensate for the increase in cast speed. Critical Strike Chance has been increased from 5% to 6%.


 * Ethereal Knives casts 25% faster (from 1 to 0.8 seconds), the damage and mana cost have been reduced by 20% to compensate.


 * Ethereal Knives' mana cost is reduced.


 * Fixed a bug with Ethereal Knives that would cause you to walk closer than needed if the range was affected by projectile speed.


 * The damage progression of Ethereal Knives has been reduced.


 * Damage increased by 10%.


 * From 1% projectile damage per quality point to 0.5%.


 * Fixed the randomness of Ethereal Knives when used with traps.


 * Fixed a problem where the character would not run into range of an enemy before using the skill.


 * Ethereal Knives has been added to the game.
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