[3.6] Herald of Viper Assassin - Melt all Content! - [BUDGET FRIENDLY] - 2 MIL+ DPS

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Converge57 เขียน:

Hi,

I'm just levelling up to get the build going and was wondering how are you dealing only fire damage to kick off the EE buff please? :)

Also, have you tried Necromancer? Some nice damage buffs there? Though have to find a way to get the final 20% chance to poison i guess.

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Bakuhakubasugasu เขียน:

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Converge57 เขียน:

Hi,

I'm just levelling up to get the build going and was wondering how are you dealing only fire damage to kick off the EE buff please? :)

Also, have you tried Necromancer? Some nice damage buffs there? Though have to find a way to get the final 20% chance to poison i guess.

You can just get some added flat fire damage to attacks through rings, jewels and etc. A jewel might be easier though. Just make sure you look at all of your other items and jewels and make sure you aren't dealing any other elements.

If you're worried, you can also pull your character into Path of Building, and then look at the calculations tab. That way you can see what elements your Viper Strike is hitting as.

But yeah, get some flat fire damage to attacks on your jewel and you're set. :)

Good luck!

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Converge57 เขียน:

Ah cool thanks, I thought it was some other sort of mechanic i just hadn't seen! cheers :)

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fluteboxlee เขียน:

So, there are lots of changes affecting the build.

Bone Helmet got nerfed, Hatred nerfed. Endgame got affected with the attack speed removal from Tombfist.

The new ring looks nice but doesn't work together with the build's chest armor. I don't think replacing the chest with the new ring will be worth it.

So what's your take on all this?

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SayroMovie เขียน:

Hello!

I am currently trying this out in Synthesis.
Must say the levelling process is actually much easier than I feared.
That crawler hits like a freight train.

I was just wondering if going trickster for the added sustain and survivability would be a benefit or not.
With Viper Strike and HoA we're sitting on 80% poison chance. With the claw for non evadable hits I'd say we're good enough on that front, no?

I don't know. Trickster just seems like the superior choice, Noxious Strike excluded. But with 80% poison chance we'll be "wasting" 20% from Noxious Strike.
The Ghost Dance + Escape Artist + Patient Reaper from Trickster just seems so much more tasty or I might be biased against Assassin.

I read that you're not currently playing, but I'd still like your take on this comparison?

Thanks for your work so far!

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Bakuhakubasugasu เขียน:

To be honest, Trickster is my favorite ascendancy in the game. Unfortunately for this build, it would not work too well. The Trickster's notable passives are definitely strong, but they do not fit this build. I'll break it down for you a bit.

Ghost Dance relies on having energy shield. Our build is not energy shield based at all and just strictly life. If you notice, most of the mods for Ghost Dance deal with energy shield. The only thing we would be getting is 3% reduced damage taken per Ghost Shroud. We cannot put much use of this node to use because of the energy shield factor. If you do switch over to energy shield, then I could see it happening.

Escape Artist is pretty much the same as Ghost Dance. Most of the mods point to energy shield when we are a life build. The only benefits we get from this node is the potential stun immunity if we have Ghost Shrouds, and the 12% increased attack and cast speed per Ghost Shroud. For our build, since the Agony Crawler does most of the work, we are not too worried about our attack speed. Just going off of the skill tree and Multistrike nets us enough attack speed to stack Virulence stacks.

As for Patient Reaper, we are barely getting any benefit from it at all. First off, rarely do we ever kill something since the Agony Crawler just decimates everything. There are times, but it is a very rare. This isn't the problem though. The problem is that we will only get 2% life, mana and energy shield on OUR kill, not the Agony Crawlers. Minions are not included in these type of mods. Whenever a mod says YOU specifically or do not clarify, then minions, totems and others do not grant us these mods most of the time. Rarely will you ever trigger Patient Reaper. Damage over time does not matter to us for this build either, though we poison. Our damage does not matter, but just the actually infliction of poison.

Hopefully this clears it up for you a bit more. Trust me, just reading up on the Ghost Shrouds and the reworkings to the Trickster build already made me think of a build to try when coming back to Synthesis.

Good luck, exile!

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SayroMovie เขียน:

I see where you're comming from yeah.
I was just looking at all the power charge/crit stuff and thinking "Why does that matter at all?" but I suppose the Trickster nodes doesn't really provide too much either.

I was not aware that Patient Reaper did not work with the crawler. Never tried a minion skill with it. Last I did Trickster was ED+Contagion in Abyss league. More of a Witch person myself :D

Regardless, thank you for the response!