[3.21] 🌿Ultimate Claw Poison Pathfinder - Untouchable Viper - Molten Strike update by FEL
" The explosions are coming from Cluster Jewel: Unspeakable Gifts. Its actually 10% chance to do 25% max life chaos explosion. |
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Interesting :)
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" Hey, yea I remember. I still play him to Delve when I max out my Sulphite, cause hes just much safer there(with Nebulochs at least), and I'll have to kill Sirius this time with him because I got too much XP on Pathfinder to throw it away whirling into a cloud. I've killed him deathless quite a bit, but I seem to always die the most when I'm about to level. The reason I think they play Viper wish Splash, is just becuase this is such a rippy league. If this was Blight or something who cares about life on hit. You stab the first mob in the line with Pestilent strike and wipe them out, and the rest of the map is just drab and easy anyways. You dont have this kind of map density beating on you in at least the last 2 leagues. Just think about this league compared to Blight and Meta. I've already said the next league is probably going to be incredibly boring becuase we will go back to non-Delirium mapping. Just look at the feel of a unique map, compared to a good delirium one. I dont even know if I'll play next league cause of that. Also, that safety feeling is the reason I play it. Its hard to die unless one of those grey meteors 1 shot me with the thousands of life on hit you get from Splashing dual striking claws. After that, you eventually reach a point where the DPS dont matter you can kill everything with anything, except for bosses, which Viper is better. Then you just play whichever one you think is faster or feels better or more fun or does what you want. I think they are pretty much the same. I wanted to get over my lvl 96 hump so I went back to Viper wish Splash, and now I'm at 75%. And, I mean the damage ain't bad. I do 12m Mapping damage with Melee Splash in. So, I mean the splash is 7.5m damage. And then strong cluster nodes that dont directly show on that damage sheet.(Explosions/Low Tolerance). On gear, well I mean you got a HH dude you good to go. I started off the league unable to play Pestilent. It just ran awful. As soon as I started stacking poisons on a mob it would drop me into the 20 fps/freeze frame range. Freeze all the time, etc. They have since tweaked the league mechanic so its not so laggy. So I played primarily Viper Strike with Splash into the 90s. Then, I started wanting to 4-5 orb maps, and well Viper did not have as good clear, at the time, in those. So I swapped back to Pestilent. But since then, Ive added a bunch of stuff. Tons of damage, cluster jewels with explosions, double low tolerance, etc. Now, the damage feels way better, and the survivability is better, so thats why I'm back to playing it. I die more playing Pestilent, I die way less playing Viper. I feel Viper's clearspeed, at least for me in my current gear, is as good as Pestilent, with extra survivability and better single target damage. I mean with Awakened Melee Splash, and +1 strike skills on gloves and neck, and prolif, it will hit the whole screen. Its more a matter of if it will kill it. It does for me. It feels way more like I'm playing Infernal Blow than Viper strike, if I'm being honest. I know this is a giant wall of text, lol. Editado por útlima vez por Destructodave#2478 en 29 abr. 2020 6:14:12
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" Yea 10% dont sound like much, but it happens way more than you think, and prolif/splash helps carry it out there, like Pestilent Strike, lol. I spent a fortune to play another skill, like Pestilent Strike. And, it comes on a Large Cluster that gives like 90% chaos damage, too, so its blowing up more than 25% damage. I actually played around in PoB with removing the rest of the dps nodes on the tree to see if another set of clusters would be better. Numbers wise, its not. But, a lot of the stuff that clusters give, don't really show up in PoB numbers, so I'd just have to invest in some and see. It may be something I try. Id really like to stack double large nodes to see what the explosions were like. I seriously doubt they are gonna let us stack clusters next league. I just feel like thats one of the nerfs thats gonna happen. So, if I wanna try out 20% chance to do 50% mob life as chaos damage explosions, with 180% more chaos dmg, better try it now. Or triple/quad Low Tolerance jewels, etc. |
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Love your build! Have a quick noob question though. Im using pestilent strike and having an issue with mana. In your video it looks like youre using blood magic for pestilent but in the guide you run PT in the 6L armor without it. So with malevolence, agony, spider and such Im stuck with 122 mana and semi decent regen but on the tougher end game stuff its not enough to hold up against. What am I missing? Thanks in advance.
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"Mana Sustain mostly comes from leech through Soul Raker. If your damage isn't high enough yet for leech to sustain you, consider using a Gemini Claw for the flat Mana gain on hit. That should definitely be enough to keep you up. There is never Blood Magic in the 6 link setup in this build (nor in any other that i know) |
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Hey, @Destructodave, I too followed you here from the Jugg forum... ;)
I've never played a Ranger before, so I'm even more of a noob here than usual. I'm looking at this build based on your recommendation. My main concern now is about cost. I know the original post mentions not to expect to shred the atlas with a 3 Ex investment. OK. But is it possible you could provide a WAG (wild-a**ed guess) on how much it would take to equip a character that could shred T16 maps? Reason I'm asking is I automatically ignore builds that feature HH in the mix. It's just not anything that a player as bad at me will ever achieve. I have already built several ~20 Ex characters this league. Because of that, I'm getting a little burned out on the constant farming/trading meta game, looking for good enough gear. Still haven't found that "killer" build that I actually want to grind with. I mean, I did like grinding away with the Molten Striker - he's fun to play, tanky as heck, and in the atlas had no issues. My problem with him was after the atlas, he struggled in a way that was definitely not fun. Anyways, I'd appreciate it if you could give me a rough estimate on how many Ex's I need to come up with to get a character with this build ready to face an A2 Sirius? Thanks! |
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With 20 Ex you can definitely get a good enough char with this build to run T16.
Leave out the Watcher's Eye and get some budget rolls on the rare items and you're pretty much good to go. Headhunter is far from necessary for this. It actually makes gearing pretty hard, because of resistance issues. But the build works absolutely fine without it. |
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" Mana leech as suggested. And you can also use 1-3 pieces of jewellery with "Non-channeling skills have -9 to total mana cost". This comes from either a temple mod ("Xopec's") or you can craft it as a prefix. If you search trade for this, make sure to also check the "crafted Non-channeling skills have # to total mana cost". |
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" Quoting a post from a few months ago: Has anyone got a jewel number for a glorious vanity doryani jewelwith the suggested "Ritual of Shadows" nodes? I have found 2 jewels that each give the 1 point notable as ritual of shadows (721 & 4002), but never a jewel that gives 2 ritual of shadows as shown in the picture. Check about 100 of them... The user quoted also took off all the gear from his character, so you can't get it from there :( |
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