With the PTR now live, I created this thread so that players can post pictures/links of their PTR ethereals. It might be nice to see what all 21 look like. Also, it might be nice to reference the class when posting the picture.
2 handed class powers can be on 1 handed ethereals.
Edit: Oblivion has posted screenshots of the 3 wizard items (Post #2) and Rage has the stats on the 3 barb items (post #4).
Edit 2: Solo in post #12 has screenshots of all 3 representative ethereals for all 7 classes (=21 total)
Here’s the Wizard’s Ethereal Weapons that I’ve found thus far.
1st Ethereal Weapon is Wizardspike:
Random Legendary Power this case: The Furnace (Legendary 2-Handed Mace)
Random Class Passive this case: Arcano Dynamo
2nd Ethereal Weapon is The Oculus:
Random Legendary Power this case: Cosmic Strand (Legendary Wizard Orb/Source)
Random Class Passive this case: Evocation
3rd Ethereal Weapon is Mang Song’s Lesson:
Random Legendary Power this case: Aether Walker (Legendary Wand)
Random Class Passive this case: Dominance
Looking at the Wizardspike, this is possible. In fact, the ethereals can even roll with non-class specific legendary powers, so long as the legendary power in question is something that is available to your class from the start (or at least based what I’ve seen thus far).
Salvaging them gives a large amount of different crafting mats and sometimes even GR keys. So they are not tied to giving you one type of Salvage yield.
So… because we don’t know the exact stats on the DH weapons (missing info,for me at least) i can pretty much say, BOW= MS UE, no RCR, but a HUGE dmg increase. Dawn in cube, as always…
they will never learn, no love put into that.
they better keep,. readjust and add items, otherwise, i don’t see a bright future for such seasons.
Have to admit, the ethereals are interesting at the moment. Got my first one during the first rift as a drop. Went from barely killing to one-shotting everything at Expert.
(solo play)
Then after finding two blood shard gobs in that rift and the RG at the end, picked up several more from the vendor, though those were all level 70… LOL
Still. Interesting. I see the follower can’t equip them though. Too bad. Edit: Verified this. Simply says “Wrong type of item for this slot.”
But they have the kind of stats that I wish we had for the past 9 years on items. They have the feel of the Vanilla items, but with power. Rather than the forced 4/2 most items have become after the fall of the AH.
So essentially instead of just wielding Furnace we’ll equip Grandfather with the Furnace power and the only actual Ethereal bonuses are “Always has…” stats. Kind of underwhelming.
It would be much more interesting if these weapons rolled with powers from other classes, ie Blade of the tribes would roll with “Auto cast a Sentry every 5 seconds, dealing XY% of your damage”
Djank Me’em has a cache called PTR Fortune Cache or something, that one drops the Ethereals. Also note that this has to be done on a Seasonal character, as it does not drop for a Non-Seasonal character even on the PTR.
Increased movement speed on elite pack kill is interesting.
Applying fear on curse is interesting.
I wonder if the “+100% damage” and the “consecutive hits… up to 100% damage” are multiplicative ? In that case it does x2 x2 = x4 which is higher than the x3 of Trag’Oul’s Corroded Fang.
