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aer0's Cold Ethereal Knives Assassin Mapper

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I wanted to BLAST, so i decided to revive an old favorite of mine: Ethereal Knives Cold Assassin. As always, I welcome criticism of my builds (and you guys often make them better!) but please be sure to watch the video first, as I explain my reasoning for a lot of the issues you may spot.

HUGE disclaimer: this isn't a standard build guide. I made this build to blast maps and it is FAR from optimized, so consider this more of a showcase. Spell suppress isn't capped, mana cost isnt perfect, frenzy charges and leech are only on-kill. This build cant boss without some adjustments. However, the whole thing cost me well under 10 divines, so if thats cheap to you, min-maxing will take you MUCH further.

That being said, this build perfectly hits the spot for farming juiced T16 maps. I ran breach, legion, deli, abyss, both Eater and Exarch juiced altars, and this build handled all of it with ease. It can easily take down max charge crucibles. Because our individual hits from EK are so big (almost a million without heatshiver), it is trivial to freeze everything. I feel like heatshiver is nice PoB dps on any cold build if you just tick "enemy is frozen," but this build ACTUALLY makes sure they are!

I hope you enjoy!

PoB: https://pastebin.com/vtKK2qRK

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Life

2285

Mana

371

Energy Shield

1286

DPS

7M

Effective Hit Pool

21.34K

Chaos Res

15

Fire Res

74

Cold Res

76

Lightning Res

79

Armour

0

Evasion

9K

Block

26 | 0

Crit Chance

90%

Crit Multi

465%

Rage

0

Strength

157

Intelligence

289

Dexterity

199

Ward

0

Item Quantity

0%

Item Rarity

6%

Movement Speed

144%

Unstable Infusion
Unstable Infusion
Opportunistic
Opportunistic
Mistwalker
Mistwalker
Deadly Infusion
Deadly Infusion
Pain Attunement
Pain Attunement
Ghost Dance
Ghost Dance
Assassination
Assassination
Ballistics
Ballistics
Blood Drinker
Blood Drinker
Blood Siphon
Blood Siphon
Charisma
Charisma
Coordination
Coordination
Cruel Preparation
Cruel Preparation
Disciple of the Forbidden
Disciple of the Forbidden
Doom Cast
Doom Cast
Heart of Oak
Heart of Oak
Influence
Influence
Infused
Infused
Instability
Instability
Instinct
Instinct
Inveterate
Inveterate
Melding
Melding
Nimbleness
Nimbleness
Piercing Shots
Piercing Shots
Revenge of the Hunted
Revenge of the Hunted
Snowforged
Snowforged
Trickery
Trickery
Written in Blood
Written in Blood
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  • HatredHatred
  • Petrified BloodPetrified Blood

  • Immortal CallImmortal Call
  • Cast when Damage TakenCast when Damage Taken
  • FrostblinkFrostblink
  • TornadoTornado

  • VortexVortex
  • Arcane SurgeArcane Surge
  • BonechillBonechill

  • PortalPortal
  • Vaal HasteVaal Haste
  • Faster AttacksFaster Attacks
  • Shield ChargeShield Charge

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