What's a build that uses aether?

[Lukja]

I can only find like... two skills that do it naturally. Maybe three if you count a skill that changes anothers' damage type.

[Safarel]

Caster like this https://www.grimtools.com/calc/d2jA5wvN ?
idk, there is a lot (really lot) aether builds in game

[Lukja]

Originally posted by Safarel:

Caster like this https://www.grimtools.com/calc/d2jA5wvN ?
idk, there is a lot (really lot) aether builds in game

Is there? I'm just going based off skills that don't have their damage type changed.

[Safarel]

Just look in drain essence mods and you could see that 100% vitality converts to aether damage

Albrecht Aether Ray and Callidor's Tempest has base aether damage, as example

[Lukja]

Originally posted by Safarel:

Just look in drain essence mods and you could see that 100% vitality converts to aether damage

Albrecht Aether Ray and Callidor's Tempest has base aether damage, as example

Isn't drain essence kinda bad?

[Uzul]

There is no point in trying to deal damage with aether alone. DoT-s are not converted to aether. It is logical to rock aeither vital damage or lightning along with aether. A lot of necromancer skills are sharpened on vitality + aether, plus native RR are available. The arcanist and inquisitor also have a lot of bundles for lightning + aether, plus a whole branch of constellations is allocated, including the Widow and the Spear of Heaven.

This is my hardcore Apostate build - https://www.grimtools.com/calc/p25Ekro2

[Safarel]

Originally posted by Lukja:

isn't drain essence kinda bad?

That build that I post above is one of the strongest caster that I ever made for all my GD playtime

[gNuff!~©~gNom3™]

Originally posted by Uzul:

There is no point in trying to deal damage with aether alone. DoT-s are not converted to aether. It is logical to rock aeither vital damage or lightning along with aether.

what kind of BS is this, or is it like a mistranslation/misinterpretation of the actual intent?
Yes aether dmg is totally viable and doable as sole focus build "this is what vast majority aether builds have been doing for years"
if you're referring to "accidental" secondary dmg because DoTs are not converted then yes this is true; but it generally doesn't factor in to the build because you don't scale those damages, or at best scale them to a degree where it's a fraction of your overall dmg

aether, chaos and pierce works totally fine, you don't have to go duo dmg focus "to benefit from some dot" nor does most builds deliberately do this

If you get vitality dmg as aether build; it's usually because you just happen to get some on +aether items "because most items in GD gives 2-3 dmg types", doesn't mean you actually scale vit dmg because you wont get much RR for it without focus (let alone as mage hunter), nor will you get a combined total vit bonus boosting the DoT or duration effects of it in a significant way.
Same goes for Lightning, without scaling electrocute and additional duration your dot amounts to tickles, and again you're in limited RR territory (both magehunter and spellbinder) for the pitance of electro you do have
*also worth to know that with direct conversion DoT can be be entirely lost, not just not converted, gone, poof, doesn't exist, making its scaling that much worse

[GD4Ever]

Haven't tried Callidors yet but that Aether Ray build is killer especially when you find that nice off hand that boosts the damage and skill by a ton.