cobra lash

i am trying out a cobra lash build i have full resistance 4k evaision and 2k armour i cant even do alched maps they the bosses 1 shot me all the time i have over 70k dps

At a glance, I can see that you are new and your build is nice and new which is great to see!


A few lessons and tips that can help, but I really don't want to just butcher everything so please take my suggestions into consideration and mess around.

1) You need way more life. If you are in maps, you should have a minimum of 4000-4500 life. As a newer player, you might want to push this even higher. Get at least a t2 or t3 life roll on every piece of rare gear that you have. Add more life nodes in the tree. (I would remove and ignore cluster jewels for now...they are wasting points).

2) Keep moving. Often the most damaging things are ground effects and big slams. These will almost always miss you if you just stay in motion in a circle around the boss.

3) Don't focus on BOTH armour and evasion, only focus on one. You'll never be able to get enough of both to make much of a difference defensively.

4) Your life mastery "10% more maximum life if you allocated 6 life masteries" isn't correct: that is your ONLY life mastery.

5) Your build is leveraging poison damage based on your support gems, yet you are investing in crit and not damage over time multiplier. Instead, change your ascendancy nodes and your tree to leverage poison and damage over time multipliers. Ascendancy points should probably be: Noxious Strike, Toxic Delivery, and Opportunistic for now.

6) Get rid of Cast on Critical Strike, Tornado, and Sniper's Mark. Again, you are leveraging poison damage, not hit or projectile damage. You want to use despair. I recommend hextouch (max level) + despair (max level) + cast when damage taken (lvl 1) + maybe storm brand (lvl 1).

7) Get rid of either determination or grace, only run the one you match your new chosen defense to. Instead, run Herald of Agony which adds chaos damage and poison chance.

There are other fixes you can make, but that should get you progressing.

Basically the "trick" is to take one thing, offense and defense, and push it to the limit.

If you are going for "hit" or "projectile" damage, then get rid of everything relating to poison and damage over time. If, instead, you are going for poison and damage over time, get rid of anything hit or projectile-related. Cobra Lash works best as a poison delivery system, so I would suggest focusing on poison (100% chance at a minimum), poison dot, chaos dot, dot multiplier.

Defensively, same sort of rule: focus on one thing. If you choose evasion, get evasion and life on every piece of gear, run grace, run a jade flask. Armour, get armour + life on every piece of gear, determination, granite flask.

Those are going to be your starting points.

i tried the poison ascendancy nodes it didnt work for me i am doing a poison crit build i found a guide that said the build was for this league but was told it was not

also i removed all private stuff in settings in my profile i still cant import my character in pob

Should be working now I think? I can see you in POB, might of just taken some time.

Damage looks not too bad but does look very squishy. Particularly against physical damage. Might be better with more evasion and suppression, but under 3k life is low as well. I think you cold res is also a bit short on being capped. You do have all that free mana, so going to be able to fit in a 50% aura. Putting in grace, getting lucky suppression from suppress mastery and another 30 or so base suppress would probably be a good start. Not sure if that is going to work for defense in the long run, but might be worth a try.

Not sure how useful that unnatural instincts is. Need to at least unallocated the life node so you get the life and the extra skill point. If that is what the guide suggests, it may be right, but you are also loosing the 16 spell suppress, so other jewel might be superior. If you fix the life node I guess it is pretty good, just might need to find the suppress from somewhere else. Levelled and qualled gems will help a bit with the damage.

I think you've got some nodes on your tree that you can save, there's at least one dex node that is redundant. Cluster jewel doesn't looks to be used efficiently, that could just be the POB, but two extra jewels nodes should help.

On the poe.ninja profile you linked on your other thread, I don't exactly understand why two automations are needed. I can see there are a lot of other instant skill to be automated than just the guard skill, but it seems to me it would all fit in the 6-link with a single guard skill. I would need to read the build guide to know what is going on with that. I've tried to get multiple guard skills triggering in alternating fasion like that before, but as far as I know there's not a way to get around the shared cooldown, so it results in the same one always triggering first.

If it is possible, linking the build guide might be helpful, to see if any differences can be improved.