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Ethereal Blade
Ethereal Blade icon
A flickering blade of a ghastly nature, it is capable of dealing damage in both magical and physical planes.
Cost 4300 Gold
Sell Value Full price refunded within 10s. 2150 Gold
Active Ether Blast
Bonus ? +10 Strength
+40 Agility
+10 Intelligence
Shareable No
Disassemble No
Usage Alert ? No
Recipe
Ethereal Blade (4300)
Components2
Eaglesong (2800)
Ghost Scepter (1500)

The Ethereal Blade is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Weapons. However, it can only be completed with items from the Secret Shop.

Additional information

Ability

Ether Blast
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. Lasts for 4 seconds on allies and 4 seconds on enemies.

Enemy targets are also slowed by 80%, and take 2x your primary attribute + 75 as magical damage.
Cast Range: 800
Base Damage: 75
Primary Attribute as Damage: 200%
Enemy Move Speed Slow: 80%
Magic Resistance Reduction: 40%
Duration: 4
Cooldown symbol
 20
Mana symbol
 100
Buff/Debuff
Modifiers [?]
Item Ethereal Blade Ethereal
Item Ethereal Blade Slow

  • Double clicking the item casts it on self.
  • The projectile travels at a speed of 1275.
  • Damage and slow is only applied when targeting an enemy unit.
  • Checks the caster's primary attribute upon projectile hit.
  • The blast first applies the ethereal debuff, then the damage, then the slow debuff.
    • This means it effectively amplifies its own damage.
  • Reduces most heroes' total magic resistance to -5%, assuming basic 25% magic resistance and no other sources of magic resistance.
    • Reduces Visage minimap icon Visage's total magic resistance to -5%, assuming his basic 25% magic resistance and no other sources of magic resistance.


Recommended heroes

Heroes whose default item build includes Ethereal Blade as a situational item

Agility: Nyx Assassin minimap icon Nyx Assassin, Morphling minimap icon Morphling, Gyrocopter minimap icon Gyrocopter, Bounty Hunter minimap icon Bounty Hunter.

Intelligence: Skywrath Mage minimap icon Skywrath Mage, Necrophos minimap icon Necrophos.

Recommend: Arc Warden minimap icon Arc Warden, Mirana minimap icon Mirana, Meepo minimap icon Meepo, Tinker minimap icon Tinker, Lion minimap icon Lion.

Tips

  • Ethereal Blade can be used in combination with Dagon icon Dagon for massive amounts of burst damage.

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