[3.19]Double Viperstrike Duration Molten Shell Build

https://pastebin.com/TzAmK9BR

Gems:
Weapon: Viperstrike - Multistrike, Void Manipulation, Cruelty, Unbound Ailments, Melee Physical Damage (single target)
Armor: Viperstrike - Multistrike, Melee Splash, Ancestral Call, Withering Touch, Rage (Crowd Clearance, stacking withering stacks)
Helm: Plague Bearer, Withering Step, Herald of Agony, Berserk
Gloves: Vaal Molten Shell, Duration Support, Efficacy Support, Defiance Banner
Boots: Despair, Leap, Determination, Malevolence


Play style:

Clear crowds with viperstrike-melee splash, will deal with white, magic, and most rares.
Tanky targets- Self cast Despair hit a couple times with Single target damage main ability, Spam Melee Splash Viperstrike which will max out the wither stacks on the target and alchemist mark will reapply your higher damage Viperstrike at 70% damage and add a ground effect.
Herald of Agony just passively adds 1M dps.
Move around using leap, withering step, and quicksilver flask, Very high mobility build.

Molten shell lasts 11 seconds and VMS lasts 31 seconds. Keep up whenever fighting a rare or try evading until the cd (2.86 sec) is up.

A youtube video of a similar tree that doesn't use Ming's Heart and has terrible mic, gonna need to turn down the sound, sorry :/ https://youtu.be/njqUL3G84qk



To increase tankiness, swap herald of agony with arctic armor and don't use a Ming's Heart. Can also swap damage flasks for flasks that give evasion.

Self proc adrenaline option: Drop herald of agony and move defiance banner over, replace with Gloves: Vaal Molten Shell, Duration Support, Life tap, Corrupting Fever.

Uniques:
Deodre's Damning- Only required unique for 2 curses (Alchemist mark and despair). Perseverence, Elevore helpful for elemental ailment immunity and spell supression capping. Coralito's flask adds some damage. For more damage, Ming's Heart and Ryslatha's Coil can be considered. Lethal Pride -Kaom 16032 (double damage) helpful but not necessary.

Other comments: Get lots of evasion and armor on gear. This build does not use grace and really doesn't need it as long as you have a molten shell up. Try to get 50% evasion. Build has lots of buttons, sry :/

Leveling uniques: Praxis, Weapon Goddess Bound (upgrade to Goddess Scorned at level 28 by selling it with Elegant Sword (sword must be 20% quality and match the socket#,links,color for recipe to work) Combustion support, and Orb of Fusing), Edge of Madness, Terminus Est, Goldrim, Lochtonial caress, carnage heart, wanderlust, Daresso's Salute, Wurm's Molt, Dendrobate, Cherubim's Maleficence, Death's Oath, Windscream boots (if you don't have deodre's damning)

Bandits: Kill all.

Forgot to mention, this is an SSF build. I defeated Maven with this not too long ago. It's more of a character fantasy build than a pure power build. It just feels good to me as a melee ;)

Going to post a leveling guide if anyone's interested.. will add the youtube link when I get it posted.

guide link: https://youtu.be/7A8wNKxqqgo


Character at level 95 wearing only normal items, spell suppression capped, and elemental ailment 70% resist, resists F:75/C:75/L:65/Ch:-8 : https://pastebin.com/HBjCnzr5 565k dps 6l/ 400k 5l/ 300k 4l. Time to go on a normal item ruthless run?


***Early Maps Update at level 78, rolling smoothly into maps,

Youtube vid with gameplay (rare T3) https://youtu.be/mLHybjWg25U with awesome MTX,

PoB: https://pastebin.com/BBAVimWx

Calling the build "Chaos Knight" Hope that's not taken already. ;3