Eth weapon durability loss by getting hit

Hi there, a question about

Eth weapons: normally an

Eth weapon loses durability as a normal weapon, does this also include by getting hit? Wanted to use a runeword on an

Eth for my caster

No, weapons will not lose durability when used to cast a spell, regardless of you getting hit or not.
Now that weapon will have a chance to lose durability if you swing it for even a normal attack.

Like Knapp said, a weapon can only lose durability when being swung at an enemy. Skills that don't use the weapon (like sorceress spells) don't affect durability cause you're not swinging the weapon at the enemy. When hit by an enemy, only armor parts may lose durability, not the weapon.

Tip: If you don't have specific skill you that want to use on left click, then set left click to anything except normal attack, like the throw "skill". That means you can't accidentally take a swing at an enemy in the heat of the moment and risk losing durability (if you set it to "throw" then your character will just stand there and say "I can't do that!" if you accidentally left click a mob).

Just adding to the confirmation that ethereal weapons do not lose durability when you get hit. I was using an ethereal

Blade Of Ali Baba for a week or two on my Sorceress as a weapon switch before killing bosses. It hasn't lost a single point of durability even when I died with it.