So is Arakaali's Fang a viable build now?

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Arandur escribió:

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^^

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Arandur escribió:

https://pastebin.com/XMjBKK1X

There is my Pastebin I set up.

I use a Warlords Mark Shaper Ring in the Setup. Could potentially switch to an Assassins Mark Ring for even more damage if the life gain from "Toxic Delivery" is enough.

I simulated the gains from the spiders (more Poison damage and attack speed per Spider) by putting the stats on the second Ring. Will change that once the patch is worked into PoB.

The spiderdamage is not right in PoB atm, they will deal 33% more when the Patch is applied.

Further, I checked 60 Posions applied recently (because my Spiders have 3 APS, with 20 Spiders that's 60 Poison per second).
You can adjust the numbers yourself with 3-4 seconds of Bossfight with 180-240 poisons apllied on your own^^

The numbers are completely insane if PoB calculation is accurate.

By testing my char in standard with unoptimized gear and shitty gems it felt a bit slow on the clearing side. And the current Arakaali Spiders are way to random.

I think with the Patch, this build could be awesome.

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Arandur escribió:

https://pastebin.com/XMjBKK1X

There is my Pastebin I set up.

I use a Warlords Mark Shaper Ring in the Setup. Could potentially switch to an Assassins Mark Ring for even more damage if the life gain from "Toxic Delivery" is enough.

I simulated the gains from the spiders (more Poison damage and attack speed per Spider) by putting the stats on the second Ring. Will change that once the patch is worked into PoB.

The spiderdamage is not right in PoB atm, they will deal 33% more when the Patch is applied.

Further, I checked 60 Posions applied recently (because my Spiders have 3 APS, with 20 Spiders that's 60 Poison per second).
You can adjust the numbers yourself with 3-4 seconds of Bossfight with 180-240 poisons apllied on your own^^

The numbers are completely insane if PoB calculation is accurate.

By testing my char in standard with unoptimized gear and shitty gems it felt a bit slow on the clearing side. And the current Arakaali Spiders are way to random.

I think with the Patch, this build could be awesome.

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NITROAIDS escribió:

So is the dmg all coming from the viper stike? or do you think the spooders will actually be good? jw if using minion nodes would be good or naw?

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Arandur escribió:

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NITROAIDS escribió:

So is the dmg all coming from the viper stike? or do you think the spooders will actually be good? jw if using minion nodes would be good or naw?

Hard to say. My current setup has ~2,5k DPS on a Spider. With 20 Spiders that's 50k. With 33% more damage on the Spiders with the patch, that's still only 66,5k on 20 Spiders.

Viper Strike will do your ST damage, Crawler your clear. Spiders will only be there to support your poison stacking/buffing you/generating charges for your crawler.

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NITROAIDS escribió:

This might be a decent starter build tbh because most of the gear is weird uniques and rares lol

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Arandur escribió:

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NITROAIDS escribió:

This might be a decent starter build tbh because most of the gear is weird uniques and rares lol

I don't know if it will be a decent starter, cause Arakaali is not that common and costs about ~50c in standard. Should be about the same (maybe more because of the buff) in league.
I will definetley set my Lootfilter up to highlight white Fiend Daggers to chance them. If it's a lower Tier unique I may be lucky.

I did some further work on the build (thanks Mathil for the help^^) and updated the Tree:

https://pastebin.com/HBT5jR64

About the same Damage but more AS, slightly more Life and Evasion. Should be smoother than before.

Also, I checked on "Raise Spider" on PoE Wiki:

"Raise two spectral spiders from each nearby corpse that will leap towards and attack your enemies. Enemies will not engage the spiders directly."

I wondered allready on my standard character, that sometimes like 10-20 spiders jump out of a pile of corpses. Aparantly you can summon more than 1 at a time, if there are enough corpses.
My asumption that sustaining Spiders could be dificult was wrong. It will be a breeze. Pop a Worm-Jar, get 4 Spiders. Kill some adds in Bossfight, get Spiders.
With the base duration of 30 instead of the current 8....man....it will be great.

I will still start with my Champion (just a safe bet) but as soon as I get my hands on Arakaalis I will roll my Assassin. And my standard Char is just sitting their, waiting to be testet out in a hand full of maps in about ~5 hours^^