Ethereal Blade

• Item
• Changelogs
• Old Abilities

Ethereal Blade is an item purchasable at the Base Shop, under Weapons.

Ethereal Blade
A flickering blade of a ghastly nature, it is capable of dealing damage in both magical and physical planes.
Weapons Cost 5375 (1600) Sell Value 2687.5 Active Ether Blast Bonus ? +8 Strength +8 Agility +8 Intelligence +300 Mana +3 Mana Regeneration +250 Cast Range Shareable Disassemble Usage Alert ? Recipe

Additional Information

• The item's attributes grants the following additional bonuses:
• 176 health and 0.8 health regeneration.
• 96 mana, 0.4 mana regeneration and 0.8% flat base magic resistance.
• 8 attack speed and 1.33 main armor.
• 8 main attack damage to all / / heroes.
• 16.8 main attack damage to universal heroes.

Ability

Ether Blast

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Allies / Enemies

Damage
Magical

Converts the target unit to ethereal form, rendering them immune to physical damage, but unable to attack and 40% more vulnerable to magic damage.

Enemy targets are also slowed by 80%, and take 1.5x your target's primary attribute + 50 as magical damage.

Cast Range: 800

Base Damage: 50

Primary Attribute as Damage Bonus: 150%

Universal Attributes as Damage Bonus: 60%

Enemy Move Speed Slow: 80%

Magic Resistance Reduction: 40%

Duration: 4

 22

 100

Spell Block / Reflection Notes:

Blocked upon impact.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_item_ethereal_blade_ethereal

Any

modifier_item_ethereal_blade_slow

Any

NOTES

• The damage and movement speed slow are only applied to enemy targets.
  • ↓↓ Double-tapping automatically target self.

• Ether Blast first applies the ethereal debuff, the damage, then the movement speed slow debuff.

• Turns the target ethereal, disarming them, rendering them attack immune, and granting 100% physical damage resistance.
  • Magic resistance reduction of multiple ethereal sources does not stack, the one with higher value takes priority.

• Stacks multiplicatively with other magic resistance sources.
  • Reduces most heroes' magic resistance to -5%.
  • With the magic resistance reduction from this source, every 10 points of intelligence further increases the total magic resistance by 1.4%. [?]

• The projectile travels at a speed of 1275.

• Checks the caster's primary attribute upon projectile hit.
  • Heroes with primary attribute:
    EXPR
    50 + 1.5 × CurrentPrimaryAttribute
  • Universal heroes:
    EXPR
    50 + 0.6 × ΣAttributes

• Shares cooldown with Ghost Scepter-based items.

Recommended Heroes

This item is one of the must-haves of a damaging spellcaster's inventory, most especially for Intelligence heroes. The active ability can be used on enemies to make them significantly more vulnerable against magical damage. The active ability deals more damage proportional to the hero's primary attribute, which makes it even more effective in the hands of intelligence heroes who gain more benefits from its stat bonuses. Ether Blast's ability to increase vulnerability to magic damage is boosted by the item's passive bonus of spell damage.

Since it applies an ethereal status on the target, it is an excellent disable that can cripple targets who rely on right clicks. The added slow effect not only allows you to catch up to fast or moving targets, but it also slows them down so that point-click abilities can be landed much easier with less risk of missing your crucial spells. Care must be taken though, as Ether Blast can render targets immune to physical damage, disrupting allies who may be trying to aid you in taking down your target with their physical damage.

When used on self, it can interrupt enemies who are harming you with physical damage. You will not be slowed by Ether Blast unlike its effect on enemies, so this ability is a good source of protection for heroes who are vulnerable to physical damage and have little to no use for their right clicks. It can be exploited by heroes with excellent escape capabilities, giving their physical damage dealing enemies something else to cry about. Beware though, for the enemy may have a source of magic damage that will turn your ethereal protection against you, plus some physical damage spells with debilitating debuffs like stuns can still affect you, if not damage you.

Last but not least, the passive bonus of spell lifesteal amplification and mana regen amplification is a welcome boost for all spellcasters. For the former bonus, the hero must have a source of spell lifesteal for the amplification to actually work.

Tips

• Can be used in combination with Dagon for massive amounts of burst damage.

Gallery

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  Ethereal Blade's projectile

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  Warlock hit by Ethereal Blade

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  Ethereal state

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  Item icon progress

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  Early item icon concept

Recent Changes

Main Article: Ethereal Blade/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.37
(2024-07-31)

• Increased Ether Blast projectile speed from 1275 to 1400.

7.35
(2023-12-14)

• REWORKED recipe and stats.

 OLD    Ethereal Blade  Recipe:  Kaya ( 2050 ),  Ghost Scepter ( 1500 ),  Recipe ( 1100 ) 

Total cost: 4650 Strength bonus: 5 Agility bonus: 5 Intelligence bonus: 5 Spell damage bonus: 12% Mana regen amplification bonus: 75% Spell lifesteal amplification bonus: 24%

 NEW    Ethereal Blade  Recipe:  Aether Lens ( 2275 ),  Ghost Scepter ( 1500 ),  Recipe ( 1600 ) 

Total cost: 5375 Strength bonus: 8 Agility bonus: 8 Intelligence bonus: 8 Mana bonus: 300 Mana regeneration bonus: 3 Cast range bonus: 250

• U Can now be disassembled.

7.33
(2023-04-20)

• Ether Blast now deals 0.6 * AllAttributes as damage bonus to universal heroes.