So is Arakaali's Fang a viable build now?

33% more damage, 100% chance to poison, buffs for you for each spider... I wouldn't try as league starter, but a Necro-assasin or Necro-pathfinder scion is so tempting. Maybe a poison BF with spiders and the carrion crawler on top of it, for the definitive arachnid summonner. You'll have to run to bosses before the spiders expire, but if that happens you still have the crawler.

Just add Speaker's wreath so you get the kills.

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Keyen escribió:

Cast on kill means you won't have any spider against boss (except map boss). Them being immune to damage or not doesn't change much if they aren't here to begins with.

With 30 seconds duration, you can take a few into the boss fight and then top off during the adds phases. Maybe get some spider Specters on top for fun and to stick with the theme.

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Mythabril escribió:

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Keyen escribió:

Cast on kill means you won't have any spider against boss (except map boss). Them being immune to damage or not doesn't change much if they aren't here to begins with.

With 30 seconds duration, you can take a few into the boss fight and then top off during the adds phases. Maybe get some spider Specters on top for fun and to stick with the theme.

If you have minnion Duration on the tree and Socket a Increased duration am sure a necromancer could get spiders up to 2 or 3 minutes???

Also there is no Max number of spiders????

So 1 spider off each dagger each second.
If you can kill 60 creatures in 60 seconds that is 120 spiders O_o ...............................................................................................................................................................................................OMG..............................................................................................................................tell me I can do this wtf is this

- max limit is 18 spiders currently(no mention of this limit being removed)
- increased duration does not support them currently (no mention of change)

And the most hilarious part was the "leap" with multistrike for lol bonus mode and they took that away.

So yeah it could be something but it will be high maintenance to pull off.

Peace,

-Boem-

edit : ow yeah forgot to mention, dual wielding doesn't increase the cap to 36 either. It just grants a "skill on kill" so similar to how srs/skeletons have an internal max limit so do these.

It sounds like the kind of build I would be interested in, but I would totally fail at :)

Don't forget the Writhing Jar to help with bosses and I'd even consider using The Scourge in the off hand for additional minion damage, or perhaps even The Wasp Nest.

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Boem escribió:

- max limit is 18 spiders currently(no mention of this limit being removed)
- increased duration does not support them currently (no mention of change)

And the most hilarious part was the "leap" with multistrike for lol bonus mode and they took that away.

So yeah it could be something but it will be high maintenance to pull off.

Peace,

-Boem-

edit : ow yeah forgot to mention, dual wielding doesn't increase the cap to 36 either. It just grants a "skill on kill" so similar to how srs/skeletons have an internal max limit so do these.

Limited to 18 is interesting. In Terms of Duration, the Patchnotes mention explicitly "base duration" so I think you can scale them in some way.
With Minion Speed, Multistrike and Withered Support it should be a ridiculous support for a Viper Strike bosskilling style Assassin with Dendrobate though.
I could see potentially insame numbers of poison on enemies. Just need a way for good clear. Maybe a 4-link Agony Crawler would be enough.
Will definetly check it out as my 2nd/3rd character after I set up my Dual Banner Impale Crown of the Pale King reflect-heal Champion^^

Any1 have a pob of a possible Fang/ BF build or something?

As was said before: Not sure it'd be considered "viable". There's no good universally accepted definition for that. Can you bring it to red maps? Yeah, probably. Could you do Shaper, Elder, Uber Elder with it? Probably not.

But let's focus on one thing people keep harping about: The on kill mechanic.

"It won't work because you won't have spiders."

Have people already forgotten about The Writhing Jar? Use one or two of these flasks and you are guaranteed spiders before a boss fight.

This doesn't make the dagger's DPS any less abysmal. But it should be clarified that any one playing with the dagger for its special effect should never lack spiders.

I like spiders. I have never had an Arakaali's Fang drop, but I would definitely try a build with one if I could.

So apparantley I theorycrafted a build with dual Arakaali on a Poison Assassin and build it on one of my old standard Characters.

He's only level 78 (Flashbackflurryisreal on my account, characters should be public) and the gems aren't leveled, but it works surprinsingly well even with current Arakaalis.
I have ~10 Spiders all the time while clearing+my Crawler. I just Whirling Blade through packs, poison them, the Crawler pops them and I get some Spiders. ST with Viper Strike is allready solid.

With the additional 240% Poison damage and the 100% chance to poison on the Spiders, this could be broken af.

Only need some source of manaleech, other than that, could be great^^