Velyna's Ethereal Knives PoB and Skills (PoE Crucible)

Life Mastery: +50 life
Elemental Mastery: 25% chance to treat monster resistances as inverted
Reservation Mastery: 20% increased life reservation efficiency
Reservation Mastery: 8% increased damage per aura
Fire Mastery: Regenerate 1 life per 1% uncapped fire resistance
Protection Mastery: Resistances cannot be lowered by curses
Recovery Mastery: Regenerate 50 life per second

August 23rd, 2023, 12:56

PoB Imports

Don’t use Avatar of Fire before first lab, without 100% conversion it cuts damage in half!

This build has multiple stages to work through as your character improves, that way you always know what to be upgrading from leaguestart to endgame.

Leaguestart: This is for either a fresh league or a start with zero currency. The only goal of this PoB is to make it through acts into early maps, and allow you to farm. Doon Cuebiyari is a fantastic item that will scale with your character, and The Magnate naturally synergizes with it and our build. When you have Petrified Blood running, make sure to buy Crown of Thorns. It doesn’t look like much but Pain Attunement is one of the strongest buffs out there if you can use it.

Midrange: Only a couple big changes here, the main one is buying a Skin of the Lords with Pain Attunement. Make sure it has the right colors (RRBBBG), because they cannot be changed. Until you get this you are stuck with Crown of Thorns. When you do replace the helmet it’s a huge spike in power. The belt from last stage is replaced by Arn's Anguish but make sure to have the small cluster for endurance charges. Get some decent gloves and start trying to hit the eldritch implicits, do the same with your helmet when you finally replace the crown. Start working on cluster jewels, they are needed for our aura setup, to get pierce, and to generate charges.

Endgame: Replacing Doon Cuebiyari with an Oscillating Sceptre allows us to remove a buch of points from the top of our tree and put them in cluster jewels instead. Rings are replaced by Circle of Anguish with -mana cost implicits and buff effect + increased fire damage. Ailment avoidance can be tackled by crafting boots with essences and eldritch currency. At some point during this stage you will change to scepter+shield to pick up some resists and ailment avoid in that slot as well.