Ethereal Blade

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

Ethereal Blade
A flickering blade of a ghastly nature, it is capable of dealing damage in both magical and physical planes.
Magical Cost 5200 (900) Sell Value 2600 Active Ether Blast Bonus ? +24 Strength +24 Agility +24 Intelligence Shareable 0 Disassemble 0 Usage Alert ? 0 Recipe

Additional Information

• The item's attributes grant the following additional stats:
• 528 health and 2.4 health regeneration.
• 288 mana, 1.2 mana regeneration and 2.4% flat base magic resistance.
• 24 attack speed and 4 main armor.
• 24 main attack damage to all / / heroes.
• 32.4 main attack damage to universal heroes.

Ability

Ether Blast

Ether Blast

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Ability

Unit

Affects

Allies / Enemies

Damage

Spell / Magical

Blasts the target with an projectile that turns them ethereal, rendering them immune to physical damage and not attackable, but more vulnerable to magical damage, as well as disarming them.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Cast Range:  800

Magic Resistance Reduction: 30%

Duration: 4

If the target is an enemy, they also have their movement speed is slowed, and take damage based on the sum of the caster's attributes.

Base Damage: 50

Summed Attributes as Damage: 100%

Move Speed Slow: 80%

Ethereal effects are disabled while debuff immune.

Shares cooldowns with Ghost Scepter.

Downtime: 22

22

100

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• ↓↓ Double-tapping automatically target self.

• 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 2.5%.
  • With the magic resistance reduction from this source, every 10 points of intelligence further increases the total magic resistance by 1.3%. [?]

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

• Checks the caster's attributes upon projectile hit.

modifier_item_ethereal_blade_ethereal

Ether Blast: Ethereal Form. Taking x% increased magic damage and cannot attack or be attacked.

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Ether Blast: Ethereal Form. Taking x% increased magic damage and cannot attack or be attacked.

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Ethereal Blade Slow: Movement speed reduced by x%.

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  • Affected enemy heroes now have the following magic resistance values:

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| style="width:400px;" | BaseMagRes = 2.5% |- | style="width:400px;" | Reduces the total by 0.3% per int.

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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
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  Low Violence icon

Recent Changes

Main Article: Ethereal Blade/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.41
(2026-03-24)

• Can no longer be disassembled.

7.40
(2025-12-15)

• REWORKED recipe and stats.

 OLD    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

 NEW    Ethereal Blade  Recipe:  Ultimate Orb ( 2800 ),  Ghost Scepter ( 1500 ),  Recipe ( 900 ) 

Total cost: 5200 Strength bonus: 24 Agility bonus: 24 Intelligence bonus: 24

• Ether Blast
  • No longer deals 50 + 150% of the target's primary attribute as damage to enemies.
  • No longer deals 50 + 45% of all attributes as damage bonus to universal heroes.
  • Now deals 50 + 100% of the sum of the caster's attributes as damage to enemies.
  • Reduced magic resistance reduction from 40% to 30%.

7.39e
(2025-10-02)

• Ether Blast 's ethereal effects are now disabled while the affected unit is debuff immune.