[3.21] 🌿Ultimate Claw Poison Pathfinder - Untouchable Viper - Molten Strike update by FEL

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Problem is I want that 15% faster poison elevated so I assume you get that first before awakening the item and imprinting it in case I roll a non-removable suffix.
So The item should look like this:
3 random rem-prefixes
15% faster poisons elevated
10% spell dodge
1 random rem-suffix

My thinking was if I dont hit tailwind with aug influence, try to annul save it whether with actual annuls or remove harvest craft; since there are some suffixes with tags. And if I brick it I have my imprint ready to awakener orb again.
I am pretty sure it wont work well trying to go for aug chaos and r/a
Do you think there is a better approach I am missing?

No, you are not missing anything - aside the fact that Tailwinds action-speed is more important than additional 5% faster poisons. That´s why I personally wouldn´t try to go for some crazy quadriple elevated boots (which would be obviously the best). I would rather go for the elevated tailwind, elevated dodge (though we don´t need that elevated, but ... fuck it xD) and the normal faster poisons which can then be added with easy aug-remove chaos. That´s my take on it, hence I crafted it today:

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Vennto escreveu:

No, you are not missing anything - aside the fact that Tailwinds action-speed is more important than additional 5% faster poisons. That´s why I personally wouldn´t try to go for some crazy quadriple elevated boots (which would be obviously the best). I would rather go for the elevated tailwind, elevated dodge (though we don´t need that elevated, but ... fuck it xD) and the normal faster poisons which can then be added with easy aug-remove chaos. That´s my take on it, hence I crafted it today:

Those are some nice boots! I almost finished mine 2 days ago (mot is bullying me for t3 life D: XD)
elevated poisons also gives 20% duration for poison. I think its too good to pass on and I was wondering what I could do to get that tailwind in :P Guess I'll craft another pair XD

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mot is bullying me for t3 life D: XD

He does that to me all the time as well, get used to it xD

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elevated poisons also gives 20% duration for poison. I think its too good to pass on and I was wondering what I could do to get that tailwind in :P Guess I'll craft another pair XD

Since I am swapping to Viper Strike I don´t feel like I need the 20% incr. poison duration as well, but if you stay on Pestilent Strike it holds a different value, so yeah, I get it. I just like this build for it´s tankyness so I value the 10% dodge quite high and they are horrible to force afterwards (basically not possible without a bunch of luck) and Tailwind... well, I don´t think we need to discuss how good it is :D

But yours also look great and with the upcoming harvest changes I would most likely go for something like yours, they are perfectly fine and extremely strong too!

I still have over 200ex leftover so I think I´ll do another set of triple elevated gloves just to round the build up completely - using harvest as long as it´s this strong :D

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I still have over 200ex leftover so I think I´ll do another set of triple elevated gloves just to round the build up completely - using harvest as long as it´s this strong :D

Btw it seems that duration of ailmetns is stronger than fucking elevated warlords dot at least gives more dps on pob.. Any idea why is that cause I thought it shouldnt be that way

Ye doing the same with harvest D: Remember to close your eyes when you exalt!

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Btw it seems that duration of ailmetns is stronger than fucking elevated warlords dot at least gives more dps on pob.. Any idea why is that cause I thought it shouldnt be that way

Ye doing the same with harvest D: Remember to close your eyes when you exalt!

It´s not, it only seems that way in PoE as the increased duration of Poisons mean more stacks in total. You could reach some ridiculous numbers like this, so you always have to watch that the max-number of poison stacks is realistic. 7 seconds poison duration on a boss is more than enough, and this is pretty much what I have right now with Viper Strike. Even that seems quite a lot when I think about how fast stuff dies or phases. So ailment-duration might LOOK better in terms of max-dps in PoB, but it´s actually not.

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It´s not, it only seems that way in PoE as the increased duration of Poisons mean more stacks in total. You could reach some ridiculous numbers like this, so you always have to watch that the max-number of poison stacks is realistic. 7 seconds poison duration on a boss is more than enough, and this is pretty much what I have right now with Viper Strike. Even that seems quite a lot when I think about how fast stuff dies or phases. So ailment-duration might LOOK better in terms of max-dps in PoB, but it´s actually not.

That's good to know now I know its 100ex well spent xD :P

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That's good to know now I know its 100ex well spent xD :P

Yeah don´t worry, your gloves are fine. I will go for a different base type and try to get the t1 attack speed, aside from that yours are pretty much BiS.

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Yeah don´t worry, your gloves are fine. I will go for a different base type and try to get the t1 attack speed, aside from that yours are pretty much BiS.

For me I really need to decide t1 attack speed on gloves or tailwind! And i will most likely choose tailwind but I need to recraft the boots :P Don't even wanna know how many exalts it will cost but I will go for it!

Hey people, I think it's about time I pay my respect to the creator, TorsteinTheFallen for this godlike build.



So after starting with caustic arrow, through trying desperately to make cobra lash work in high tier maps, and finally switching to pestilent strike/viper strike set up, I think I've done it.


I min-maxed it to it's full potential, and I am fairly sure I hold the #1 spot on dps ladder of viper/pestilence, at least according to poe.ninja.
I am pushing for level 100 to get those extra 2m dps from my last passive point.

If you want to skip everything and you are just curious about the number, my shaper dps is 90,571,954 million.

On to the fun stuff!

My PoB


My gear:



Some cool stats



Things I would like to somehow improve, if anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate it:


Build can be further divined to perfection, but won't squeeze meaningful dps increase, unless:
- changing crab to spider aspect, losing on our phys reduction but gaining 4-5m dps along with spider web slows
- triple elevated suffix boots: tailwind, poison and onslaught. Huge risk when crafting, for those extra 5-6m dps. If anyone has few mirrors to throw at it, I'll take donations :p

All in all, it was a pleasure playing it, still have some easy challenges for 40/40, and I will be playing it for next league too I'm sure.

If you have any questions regarding the character, I will try and be more active on the forum, or hit me up in game @indigocobra

Once again, thank you Torstein, you made me fall in love with the game once again.

quick note:

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I min-maxed it to it's full potential, and I am fairly sure I hold the #1 spot on dps ladder of viper/pestilence, at least according to poe.ninja.
I am pushing for level 100 to get those extra 2m dps from my last passive point.

If you want to skip everything and you are just curious about the number, my shaper dps is 90,571,954 million.

Let me first say: Yes, you have great gear overall. No discussion about that. But honestly, that DPS-Number really is just PoB-Warrior-Mode :D

First of all, if we wanna measure boss-dps you don´t tick max frenzy charges and frankly max power charges, unless I oversaw some mechanic where you get them from? That gets your 90million already down to 71 Million. Secondly, and that´s the part that I dislike the most, is that you say you didn´t try to go for longer poison durations. But you actually did a lot:

- 19% duration on boots (legit, since u want the 15% faster poisons)
- 9% on ring (not needed, in fact 40% incr. poison damage essence craft is stronger)
- 10% skill effect duration on Misery everlasting
- 20% skill effect duration on Wicked Pall (2x)

Yalpe already showed a Cluster-Jewel setup that gives more dps in terms of real damage, rather than pushing the duration past 10 seconds.

So to summarize: Big Fan of your overall minmaxing and gear in general. Not a big fan of that Number 1 DPS claim ;-)