Ethereal Blade

Ethereal Blade
	A flickering blade of a ghastly nature, it is capable of dealing damage in both magical and physical planes.
Cost; 4300 Bought From; Weapons
Active	Ether Blast
Bonus [?]	+10 Strength; +40 Agility; +10 Intelligence;
Disassemble?	Yes
Alert allies?	No
Recipe

Item

Changelogs

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[edit]

For strength heroes, it grants 200 health, 1 health regen, 6.67 armor, 40 attack speed, 120 mana, 0.5 mana regen and 10 attack damage.
For agility heroes, it grants 200 health, 1 health regen, 6.67 armor, 40 attack speed, 120 mana, 0.5 mana regen and 40 attack damage.
For intelligence heroes, it grants 200 health, 1 health regen, 6.67 armor, 40 attack speed, 120 mana, 0.5 mana regen and 10 attack damage.

Ability[edit]

Ether Blast

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

Enemy targets are also slowed by 80%, and take 1.5x your primary attribute + 125 as magical damage.

Cast Range: 800

Base Damage: 125

Primary Attribute as Damage: 150%

Enemy Move Speed Slow: 80%

Magic Resistance Reduction: 40%

Duration: 4

20

100

All effects persist if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled.

Blocked upon impact.

Can be disjointed by enemies and allies.

Modifiers

modifier_item_ethereal_blade_ethereal: Dispellable with any dispel.

modifier_item_ethereal_blade_slow: Dispellable with any dispel.

Notes:

↓↓ Double-tapping automatically target self.

The projectile travels at a speed of 1275.

Turns the target ethereal, disarming them, rendering them attack immune, and granting 100% physical damage resistance.

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.

Ether Blast's magic resistance reduction does not stack with other ethereal effects, the one with higher value takes priority.

Shares cooldown with Ghost Scepter.

Recommended Heroes[edit]

Morphling

Morphling's Attribute Shift (Agility Gain) allows him to dramatically increase his agility, making Ether Burst deal more damage from the primary attribute gain. This can be comboed into Waveform and Adaptive Strike (Agility) for massive magical damage increased by Ether Blast's magic resistance reduction.

Meepo

Ethereal Blade is economically efficient cost per point of / / all attributes for Meepo. Meepo and his clones benefit from the attributes, increasing their health and mana pool, and also increases their armor, attack speed and damage output. Ether Blast can be also be used defensively to convert one of his clones into ethereal form, temporary saving them from being targeted by physical damage.