Ethereal Knives

Ethereal Knives (also commonly referred to as "EK") 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 .

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, even if you use daggers.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Like all other spells, only the and support gems will grant leech effects to Ethereal Knives. All other forms of leeching work only on physical damage from attacks.

Physical Spell Damage: Because Ethereal Knives deals physical damage, it can be boosted by supports and skills that are more commonly used to modify attacks, such as the support gem and the Hatred aura. Note again that Ethereal Knives is a spell though, auras specifically restricted to attacks like Anger or Wrath do not affect it.

Projectile Speed: Projectile Speed will increase the average distance that Ethereal Knives projectiles travel before they fade, effectively increasing the maximum range of the spell.

Gem level progression

Template:GemLevelTable |- ! 1 | 4 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A || 7 || 6–9 || 841 |- ! 2 | 6 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A || 8 || 7–11 || 3,099 |- ! 3 | 9 || 17 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A || 9 || 10–15 || 7,433 |- ! 4 | 12 || 21 || 14 || 10 || 13–19 || 15,249 |- ! 5 | 15 || 25 || 17 || 12 || 16–24 || 41,517 |- ! 6 | 19 || 30 || 21 || 14 || 22–33 || 81,983 |- ! 7 | 23 || 35 || 25 || 15 || 29–43 || 199,180 |- ! 8 | 28 || 42 || 29 || 18 || 39–59 || 604,431 |- ! 9 | 33 || 49 || 34 || 20 || 54–80 || 631,832 |- ! 10 | 39 || 57 || 39 || 22 || 76–114 || 959,669 |- ! 11 | 43 || 62 || 43 || 25 || 95–143 || 1,426,490 |- ! 12 | 46 || 66 || 46 || 26 || 112–168 || 2,737,323 |- ! 13 | 49 || 70 || 48 || 27 || 132–198 || 3,289,072 |- ! 14 | 52 || 74 || 51 || 29 || 154–232 || 3,351,223 |- ! 15 | 55 || 78 || 54 || 30 || 181–271 || 9,936,192 |- ! 16 | 58 || 82 || 57 || 31 || 211–316 || 21,346,246 |- ! 17 | 61 || 86 || 60 || 33 || 245–368 || 50,693,883 |- ! 18 | 64 || 90 || 62 || 34 || 285–428 || 90,050,361 |- ! 19 | 66 || 92 || 64 || 34 || 315–473 || 147,034,294 |- ! 20 | 68 || 95 || 66 || 36 || 348–522 || |- ! 21 | 68 || 95 || 66 || 37 || 384–575 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 22 | 68 || 95 || 66 || 38* || 423–634* || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 23 | 68 || 95 || 66 || 38* || 466–698* || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 24 | 68 || 95 || 66 || 39* || 513–770* || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 25 | 68 || 95 || 66 || 40* || 565–846* || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 26 | 68 || 95 || 66 || 41* || 621–931* || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 27 | 68 || 95 || 66 || 42* || 682–1024* || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 28 | 68 || 95 || 66 || 42* || 750–1125* || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 29 | 68 || 95 || 66 || 44* || 824–1235* || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 30 | 68 || 95 || 66 || 45* || 904–1356* || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |}

*) With version 1.1.5 the damage and mana costs were adjusted. The given values for gem level 22-30 are estimates based on the pre-patch values and might be off by a few points due to rounding.

Quest reward

This skill can be gained as a reward for finishing quests:

• Breaking Some Eggs in Act 1 (Normal) for Shadow and Witch

Alternate skill effects

Name	Cost	Description
Ethereal Stars EffectEthereal Stars EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Ethereal Knives become a volley of spinning throwing stars	35	Replaces the standard knife effects on an gem with spinning, black throwing stars. Preview

Version history

Version	Changes
1.1.5	Ethereal Knives casts 25% faster (from 1 to 0.8 seconds), the damage and mana cost have been reduced by 20% to compensate.
1.0.0	Ethereal Knives' mana cost is reduced.
0.11.4	Fixed a bug with Ethereal Knives that would cause you to walk closer than needed if the range was affected by projectile speed.
0.11.0	The damage progression of Ethereal Knives has been reduced.
0.9.12s	Damage increased by 10%.
0.9.12qq	From 1% Projectile damage per quality point to 0.5%.
0.9.11i	Fixed the randomness of Ethereal Knives when used with Traps.
0.9.9b	Fixed a problem where the character would not run into range of an enemy before using the skill.
0.9.9	Ethereal Knives has been added to the game.