"Tank" assassin Ethereal knives assasin, uber dread fight

https://pobb.in/DFJeO98AOr-m

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/allflame/character/nepnepgiveaway-6012/NepNepWillDiveDeepInYou?i=1&search=name%3Dnepn

God ethereal knives was such a pain to build around. It truly is a HH merchant, carried hard by hh buffs.

BUT i made it work, a actually ek build, not a hh or charlatan build that happens to use ek.

The only "jank" in the build is that the movement skill is charge dash to proc harbinger focus on malachai, basically "free" 20% dr. Wonder why worb players arent enshrouding harby of focus onto malachai, literally free 20% dr for those builds.

The build runs arakalii pantheon for wither applying

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For defenses the build have:

- 5 endu charges

- flesh and stone

- 10 fortify from king maker

- 20% dr from harby of focus (really only up during mapping)

- 12% phy taken as chaos chest implicit

- 32/75 attack/spell block

- 15% dr from companionship support

- 6% ele dr from lunaris pantheon

- malediction for 10% dr

- sigil of power for 17% dr during bosses

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Why chaos over ele:

- better scaling, unless your using hh or am a aura stacker, its almost impossible for a ele conversion to beat a chaos conversion on physical spells. WITHOUT going zhp, i can maybe get 20-30% more damage then this on elemental conversion to cold, BUT I would lose over halve my defenses for sure.

- Lycia node is just too good, give profane ground, chaotic might AND malediction and its small node is curse effect, its just too good of a generic node for chaos.

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Weakness of build:

- Phy hits, yep phy mitigation is way worse then ele, what a surprise

- Phy attack shotguns, due to the low attack block, mutiple hard hitting phy hits probably would kill it, havent died to any though

- Questionable recovery. The main source of recovery on build is leech with ghost reaver. Since the build uses shavrones ring for massive flat es and flat mana regen. It can't recharge or regen es. The build also has recover 5% es when getting hit by phy hits, so it should be alright.