[3.4] KissMeQuick's Pet Viper Strike | Starter for FRIENDS to fight against UBER ELDER with FRIENDS!

That explains when i pop vaal blight Everything on screen vanishes instantly even bosses lol. Great build, resist are tough to cap due to new league. T3s currently zero issues or deaths even with 40% resists. The shield is a big deal until you fix resists. Just go for as much life as possible on rares at the start. You get plenty of leach damage, just need a pool of hp to survive.

Level 80 now, Atriri down with lv 75.
But it feels not so satisfying, mabye with Breath of the Council.
I will try to switch VS with Blade Flurry and the Dendrobate Jacket,

I don't think its realistic to talk about empower and enlighten lvl 3/4 at the start of the league lol. I'm having second thoughts about the herald of purity, they seem kinda slow so they don't end up doing anything.

Melee splash seems like a must, I guess only for boss you could swap it out for phys if you really need it vs boss.

Thx for your build KMQ!

Tried Zeel's Amplifier and Melee Splash for some AOE action. Feels nice so far. :)

I do think this build has potential to be really effective, but still the buildup time of stacking poisons even with Pathfinder buffs and Herald of Agony carrying up front damage is a bit unintuitive. That and relying on various other skills like Vaal Blight is unusual but I guess it has it's place to help DPS.

Personally I dislike how Viper Strike plays. I'd rather get a different melee skill altogether if it can keep a similar form of poison stacking (Dendrobate with Vaal Double Strike/Double Strike or Blade Flurry as Schleimkeim suggested). I think VDS for usage on bosses would be pretty funny to use as well. Viper Strike's Poison damage though after so many stacks with Growing Agony threshold jewel easily craps on both Blade Flurry and Double Strike on a 6L dendrobate sadly. But keeping VS in Dendro on the other hand at least keeps it competitive with a Loreweave.

part of me wonders how well this build would work with toxic rain instead of viper strike(and dropping claw nodes for bow obviously). Anyone try it?

I felt somewhat squishy through act 3, but things cleared up once I finished normal lab and took Nature's Boon. I don't think I'd care much for an assassin version of this build. I highly recommend going that route for anyone leveling.

Anyways, things got kind of silly once I got my Wasp Nest. The dps boost once I hit merciless lab should be kind of huge, but it's not as if I'm suffering in that regard so far even without it.

Just my input. I'm currently level 78 cruising through maps. Breath of the council, 6linked up, wasp nest and bloodgrip basically on the gear side pretty much fully geared just need the potions, jewels and levels.

Ok so, if you're early levels i'd suggest going something flat damage, caustic arrow/bladeflurry etc. Vipers strike is def not a feels good skill without the gear. I'd use generic levelling until mightflay, swap to bladeflurry and get some phys dmg somewhere this will carry you right up until maps even. Caustic arrow can be done on a 4link with a pretty ordinary bow scaling the poison damage in the tree which you already scale would be pretty cruisey too.

I'm going to be making some minor tweaks to the build as i think 6k life is overkill for my playstyle and how broken the claw sustain is atm.

*** dropping revenge on the hunted in favor of more dmg.. Either the acquity cluster OR the physical/chaos outside shadow.

***** if you think you're not going to be getting breath of the council for whatever reason don't spec into that dual wield cluster just go shield cluster save your points.. honestly you'll have enough damage with lioneye's remorse or something and wasp nest. Breath of the council actually puts your damage through the roof.

Heralds i've currently tried 3linking and 4linking herald of agony with herald of purity (on a 2link) but i honestly think you can drop herald of purity in favor of a 5linked herald of agony on your gloves and using the 6link on viper strike....

Now Herald of Agony minion does a ridic amount of damage, buffing that seems only understandable for the minor loss in damage from not running purity with withering touch. you'll lose like 10%? ish damage but gain 45%ish??? on agony so in the end it's probably the same amount of damage anyways just split up around the tree.

Also recommend pushing for that 6link, our colours are super cheap 3g,2r,1b it's a big boi upgrade.

For me so far Viper Strike pathfinder with only 2 labs done (i get 20% attack speed/15%ms next lab) it's comparable to t1 single target skills. Mapping feels ok, it's hard to find the sweet spot while you're mapping at this level.

For delving it's actually godlike. your poison just reks everything there, enough regen to dip into dark spots and enough burst damage to wipe everything. Once you get bloodgrip i don't think you can die.

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part of me wonders how well this build would work with toxic rain instead of viper strike(and dropping claw nodes for bow obviously). Anyone try it?

I use Toxic rain atm as lvling and i have a blast

Maybe this can be reworked into a 6L Herald with some kind of bow build and drop purity?