[3.21] 🌿Ultimate Claw Poison Pathfinder - Untouchable Viper - Molten Strike update by FEL
"I don't recommend going for a hunter helmet until you have most of your other stuff figured out. With the fossil crafting changes the -9 to x resistance helmets have become luxury items. In your case a watcher's eye is probably the next best thing to go for. Other things to look out for: -Witchfire brew! Super important. The curse is responsible for a LOT of this builds damage. Atziris doesnt give you any damage since you deal neither phys nor elemental damage. -Ring with accuracy -Amulet with chaos dot multiplier -one of these with free prefix for -9 mana cost craft (helps a lot) Those should be the biggest things. After that you can start to get into influenced helm and maybe belt. Get better boots etc. But definitely fix the flask first. |
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Thx! The flask is my mistake ofc i was too pumped up when i was buying stuff i guess since the first char i ever wanted to Play was Viper strike with claws but its was long ago and it didnt work out. When i saw this build it was destiny 😁 i will try to go watcher with low tolerance probably
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Since the league is near the end i try to find something different
Is quite fun and safe, if i could get a +1 curse amulet is near perfection |
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" Maybe try annointing Whispers of Doom? |
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" Lol you're right |
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Very fun build to play, thank you Torstein for posting it!!!
This build restores my faith in non-spell builds :) All melee i tried before were unplayable at endgame if not using cheats (like trading) or investing a lot of currency to craft. And this build is very satisfying and challenging while playing SSF. Current budget is 0 chaos lol. If someone is interested, look what SSF trash u can use and still be ok at delirium in t13 maps with this build ( lvl 88, 1 death ). Btw, not using Iron Reflexes currently (but planning in future). Acro + Phase Acro (with Atziri's Step) + Flesh and Stone + flusk buffs+ Arctic Armor + Steelskin is surprisingly solid.
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TLDR: playing this build self-found way is fun as hell |
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The fact that the bis claws are so easy to craft makes me wonder if I should league start this again next time. I tried five other builds and they all got stuck into red maps without significant investments.
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"Trading is cheating now? Welp, time to get banned I think. Great that you have fun playing SSF, but please don't call trading "cheating" that's just bull... About leaguestarting: It is decently easy getting sufficient damage with this build. Survivability was way more of an issue for me in the early stages of the league. Maybe swapping out Malevolence for Grace in the early stages could be a good option to boost survivability. Malevolence only really takes off when you have a Watcher's Eye for it anyway. About the weapons: Crafting them now is cheap and easy, but Ilvl 83 Elder claws were 2ex in the first week of the league, no reason why that should be any different next league. Also we don't know if fossils will be as common next league as they are this league. With delirium probably not appearing in every map they are likely to become more expensive, if the next league mechanic doesn't also drop them en masse. But: Wasp Nest is just not that bad for it's 2c price tag. Even way into red maps it's still enough damage. Personally I will definitely not start with this build again, not because it's bad or anything, just because I need something new after so much time playing and optimizing it this league. If I go with the same build again I'll just end up comparing it to my current version, which will probably take several weeks to reach again, if at all. |
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" Couldn´t agree more. Still, some counterpoints: Since that build works good in delves I don´t see why we couldn´t just farm the fossils ourselves. And the other thing: A lot of builds depend on fossil-crafting at some point, so you would have to find a build that excels on a cheap unique-weapon that is still a good league-starter with great scaling at not a too big pricetag. Kinda hard to do in my opinion :D " In the end that is totally down to personal preference. For me, I am 99% sure I will start with this one, just because I know the build inside out and know how to quickly get ahead in the league. For me, that is what a league-starter is supposed to do. I won´t be getting corrupted uniques this time, will skip awakened multistrike, no -9 chaos res helmet and possibly no 21/23 stones. Also, the first claws with t4 attackspeed and open prefix will do, no optimizing for +1 amulet etc. Like that the build suddenly drops from a 140ex pricetag down to like 6-7ex and with that I´ll farm the build that I am planning on actually playing the league with. If you can´t stop optimizing a char then u might as well start with your final build anyway :D |
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"Yep, that's the plan. I generally start with something I don't know yet, just to explore it from beginning to end. At least as long as it's somewhat leaguestart viable. I know it's not ideal, it's of course better to start with something you know in and out to make the big buck in the early days of the league, but there's no fun in that for me. So: new season, new build. Maybe I'll come back to this in a future season, but surely not 3.11 |
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