Viper Strike

multiple leagues removed from Affliction, I still think Mamba Strike is not a fun skill gem

you have to spend half a mirror's worth of divines on Voices just to deal less damage and be more fragile than other similarly-invested strike skills, and it's clunky and slow because of its negative scaling with attack speed

its design is unintuitive for new players since trans gems are presented as upgrades but you can't transition to Mamba smoothly from the base skill, on account of how little overlap there is between stuff vanilla Viper Strike wants vs what Mamba wants, and it's not feasible to use both for the same reason.

Most transfigured gems at least sort of resemble their original, Mamba is so different that it may as well just be its own base

can I please just have Viper Strike of Ambidexterity

Mamba C tier skill in 3.27. Completly gutted down for 3.28.

# Mamba cut
- Viper Strike of the Mamba: Now has 30% less Attack Speed if Dual Wielding.
- Each Weapon Hits separately if Dual Wielding,
- Dealing 20% less Damage (matching regular Viper Strike).
- It also now has Cannot inflict multiple Poisons in the same Hit.
- The Low Tolerance Cluster Jewel Notable now has Poisons you inflict on non-Poisoned Enemies deal 200% increased Damage (previously 300%).
- Autoexertion now has a Mana Reservation of 20% (previously 15%).

The biggest nerfs:
- Each Weapon Hits separately if Dual Wielding -> this i rly bad, this itself makes dual wielding meaningless. Combined with "Now has 30% less Attack Speed if Dual Wielding" it ist just sad.
- The Low Tolerance Cluster Jewel Notable now has Poisons you inflict on non-Poisoned Enemies deal 200% increased Damage (previously 300%).
We usually run 6 low tolerance jewels which reduces increased dmg from 1800% to 1200% ~ 33% reduction.

Basicaly instead of running duall daggers i just pick up shield because second dagger is worthless.

I would like to see some thinkinig process of the person who did this to Mamba. Poison dagger assasin archetype changed to..assasin with a shield..

# UPDATE01/03/2026
Viper Strike of the Mamba now has 30% less Attack Speed while Dual Wielding and 20% less Damage with Hits while Dual Wielding (matching regular Viper Strike). This modifier now explicitly states that it only applies to Damage with Hits rather than being ambiguous.

Viper Strike of the Mamba now also has Cannot inflict multiple Poisons in the same Hit, as additional ways to apply multiple Poisons in a single Hit would otherwise have to be significantly weakened for the sake of this Skill. This does not affect the Skill's normal Dual Wielding behaviour, as it causes a single Hit (and therefore applies a single Poison) based on the combined Damage of both weapons.

Removed Patch Notes:
The Low Tolerance Cluster Jewel Notable now has Poisons you inflict on non-Poisoned Enemies deal 200% increased Damage (previously 300%).
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Will follow this closely and switch to Fubgun's build if Mamba sucks.