[3.8] Pestilent Strike & Viper Strike Poison Assassin | Fast & Deadly | 6M Shaper DPS

24/9/2019 - Added Enchant option and budget anoint in gear explanation
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Note: Gear explanation and alternatives/budget choices below.

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Did some assumption on the character, like the stacks of poison etc. may be higher or lower dps in reality.

Single Target(Viper Strike):


Clearing Skills(Pestilent Strike):

Note: If you haven't got Tribal Fury on the amulet yet, use Ancestral Call Support instead of Multistrike

Movement Skill:
Note: Can link Faster Attack on it if you have more sockets than needed

Aura:
Note: Despair only if you have the Impresence amulet or you can save that and use Witchfire Brew and change the amulet to others. Some other Aura can be used like Flesh and Stone, SkitterBots etc.
Can use Aspect of Spiders if you have enough mana unreserved.

Utility:
Note: Strongest Skill for poison build ever IMO. Even without Empower it's still great for clearing.

Note: Use it whenever you can especially when you're dealing with boss. It saves your life and also boost a lot of damage.
Blood Rage can be used if you have sockets left.

CWDT Setup:

Still experimenting Evasion based build or Armour, this setup can be changed to suit your preferences.

Helmet:
Budget: Starkonja's Head, great life and survivability and you can even use it till the end.
Optimal: Rare Helm with high life and -9 chaos resistance to near enemies.(Pristine Fossil and Aberrant Fossil)
For Enchant,
Single Target: Viper Strike Duration
Faster Clear: Pestilent Strike AoE

Chest:
A lot of choices for chest depending on your own playstyle.
For budget and survivability concern, Belly of the Beast is what I recommend and using myself.
DPS wise, Dendrobate should provide higher dps but no life.

Belt:
Budget: Soul Tether / any rare belt with high life and res
Optimal: Stygian Vise with high life, increased chaos damage% and increased damage with ailments.
Soul Tether provide more eHP for you character and allows you to leech and survive in most situation but the drawback is that you have to leech and anything that will one-shot you will still do the same.

Boots:
Budget & Optimal: High life, res and some movement speed(we use movement skill to travel a lot so movement speed isn't that matter)
If you are rich enough you can craft the cannot be frozen/chilled with some movement speed on boots to avoid lower attack speed on chilling ground.

Gloves:
Budget: The Embalmer / Elder-based gloves that support socketed gems with poison and faster attacks, with some life(crafted or native)
Optimal: Support socketed gems with poison, faster attacks and +50% crit multiplier with some life or res in it.

Amulet:
Budget: Rare amulet with high life, res and some crit multiplier etc.
Optimal: Impresence(Despair one) with Tribal Fury on it.(Gold-Silver-Opalescent Oil)
Budget Anoint(Actually you can anoint anything to fit your situation and playstyle but I'll still give you two suggestions):
Defensive:Silent Steps(with Dazzling Strikes/flesh and stone, it provides pretty good damage mitigation)
Offensive:Brinkmanship(+2 range, AoE, it provides better environment to do damage and gives you better feeling of the melee combat)

Rings:
Budget: Two rare rings with life and res
Optimal: One being Circle of Nostalgia while another one with high life and res. Best affix for the Circle of Nostalgia is:

Weapon:
Budget: The Wasp Nest
Optimal: Fossil Crafted(Aberrant + Corroded + Metalic) and multi-mod claws, one being Imperial Claw and Gemini Claw for off-hand. Example:

Before you watch the video as reference, please understand that I have a potato pc and my frames are not stable at all especially when playing poison build and this league's optimization is just not for me. Therefore, a uber elder video cannot be provided but a screenshot is fine. Other than that, enjoy the videos!T16 Mino Full Run
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