[3.21] 🌿Ultimate Claw Poison Pathfinder - Untouchable Viper - Molten Strike update by FEL

I really don't understand the people complaining about the survivability of this build lol.
After Delirium aurastacker and prenerf CI ES VP builds(15k+ ES with instant leech) this is probably the tankiest build I've ever played.

Curious about the belt enchant..
Does it activate if your totems apply it, or only if you apply it(Withering Step)?

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gabriel_vulneraria написал:

Downed Maven deathless today. Jk, I died 5 times to the memory games lol

Best build I've played in PoE, period. Plenty of upgrades to take, build is flexible (to a point), most of the equipment can be crafted/bought in the market for accessible prices as it is not a meta build (thank God), zoom zoom af, tankier than everything I've played. My equip is not THAT good, and damage is still insane.

Managed to 'finish' the game again, for a noob:
- Killed Maven (she's not that hard, the memory games are hard lol)
- Killed A9 Sirus like he was A4
- Made the Twisted and Hidden encounters, easily
- Farmed 100% Delirious maps, deathless
- Made Simulacrums (I skipped that league, had not idead what was waiting for me, and it was a breeze)
- Gonna probably do Uber Elder and The Feared just for the lols, this build is more than capable of doing this encounter easily

Only con to this build: made the game too trivial haha there seems to be almost no challenge now, everything dies too fast, and you don't.

As I finished the game (for me), I can quit the league in the next few days and wait for the next one.

Thanks Torstein and everyone who help us in this thread! This build is a precious gem!

Do you have a Path of Building? I'm curious how you went about it/which variant you did.

Having issue with damage on this build, can barely do t3 maps, trying to unveil chaos over time but havent had luck yet. Just need some quick tips on what to increase/spec into to increase damage so i can farm quicker.

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ZariiX написал:

Having issue with damage on this build, can barely do t3 maps, trying to unveil chaos over time but havent had luck yet. Just need some quick tips on what to increase/spec into to increase damage so i can farm quicker.

What's your current setup look like? I was able to use 2x Wasps Nest and a 5L Perfect Form for a good bit until I started to hit like... T8-T10 or so and was able to acrue enough resources to start buying pricier gear. You can get the majority of this build running and off the ground for like... 20c or so if youre a savvy shopper?

Hard to find a Militant Faith Timeless Jewel that doen't change my passiv

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CairoOvercoat написал:

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ZariiX написал:

Having issue with damage on this build, can barely do t3 maps, trying to unveil chaos over time but havent had luck yet. Just need some quick tips on what to increase/spec into to increase damage so i can farm quicker.

What's your current setup look like? I was able to use 2x Wasps Nest and a 5L Perfect Form for a good bit until I started to hit like... T8-T10 or so and was able to acrue enough resources to start buying pricier gear. You can get the majority of this build running and off the ground for like... 20c or so if youre a savvy shopper?

He is playing Solo Self Found though.
@ZariiX: You can try chancing Wasp Nest's. With them you can make it to red tier maps.
Essence of Envy lets you put chaos damage on your amulet.
Getting a cheap amulet annoint (Poisonous Fangs) and then spending those points elsewhere.

Generally speaking the melee version does a fair bit more damage and if you can outplay the big telegraphed boss hits, you don't die all the time.

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CairoOvercoat написал:

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gabriel_vulneraria написал:

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Do you have a Path of Building? I'm curious how you went about it/which variant you did.

Just put his account name into PoB and load his ritual Pathfinder.

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ZariiX написал:

Having issue with damage on this build, can barely do t3 maps, trying to unveil chaos over time but havent had luck yet. Just need some quick tips on what to increase/spec into to increase damage so i can farm quicker.

I noticed that your on ssf so I'll try to keep these suggestions as ssf friendly as possible. Also, I might have missed some things.

1) Venom gyre and cobra lash are unfortunately quite weak without good weapons so I would recommend using pestilent strike/viper strike (viper strike is insane and good clear with melee splash) until you can get more damage.
2) Speaking of weapons, you could use an upgrade. I know it's hard to get good weapons in ssf, but I would roll your weapons and focus on getting added chaos damage mods on both your weapons (if i could only choose 1 mod to get). These will go a long way. Crafting best-in-slot weapons would be difficult, but you may be able to wasp nest from beastcrafting recipes. The ones that give random unique claws/ convert a unique into another unique(I believe for the unique conversion recipe, ilvl is maintained so keep that in mind) (not sure if there are other ways to target farm them). Still rng, but in ssf, you take those chances (esspecially since wasp nest are good enough to be your endgame weapons unless you want to spend all your time farming fossils to craft better ones). If you can only get 1 good weapon, it might be worth it to use a shield and swap around the dual-wield passives in the meantime.
3) A six-link is big, for now, I would use any 6-link you have or farm for tabula rasa in blood aqueducts (Humility Divination card). If you need to balance resists, you could move them to your neck since they dont have a lot atm.
4) [If you switch to pestilent strike/viper strike] Since you probably dont have the oil to anoint tribal fury (or waiting till you get a good amulet), it may be worth giving up points to get tribal fury on the tree. It hurts losing those points, but having to take ancestral call is a big dps loss. The range also lets you be safer.
4) Diamond flask doesnt do anything unless you have perfect agony allocated, which isnt worth taking so you can use another flask.
5) You can free up another flask spot by doing your last two labs which is big. You're a pathfinder so flasks are very important for your defenses.
6) If you're not already, hit molten shell as often as possible since you basically become twice as tanky with as long as it's up

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Missyl написал:

Hard to find a Militant Faith Timeless Jewel that doen't change my passiv

But, but, but.. Your militant faith is in wrong place... You need slot it near point blank. You have there cluster jewel. Take him off and slot militant there

Thx again Vennto and Torstein for your time on this build !
As you say and we talked about Torstein, yeah, when u're new to the new, you're kinda lost between all the different versions ! It's really getting clearer to me now but some parts are still confusing sometimes ^^
Just wanted to share my recent experience, and raise a couple of questions ^^
My atlas was already A8 as I league-started with a BB/BF chieftain. My objective was to rush lvl90 so I didnt progress on Sirus/Maven while leveling (didnt want to face Sirus A8 at lvl 75 ^^). Was dying a LOT until I switched to transcendence version at lvl 80 I guess, was getting constantly 1hit. IM soon 93 and die once... on Sirus. About Sirus, let's talk about it ! I was killing a8 conquerors before they can start doing anything nasty and it was time to face Sirus. Iread that Viper is better for single target, so I switched the gem right ? and man, not sure what's the HP difference between conquerors and Sirus but I felt like my dps was shit ! Loooot of ppl say they kill Sirus' last phase in less than 10 seconds, no way for me ! I know my stuff all-in-all is bad (except claws) and I miss like -9res helm, +1 gems-lvl, watchers eye, etc.. but still ! I could dps him for 10 full seconds, and after the poison ended he was like 70%hps, not dead at all ! I guess next try, I'll try with Pestilent strike because it was weird... ! That leads to the questions :
1) does the Viper jewel is good ? I only put the gem in and I wasn't sure about the agony jewel so I didnt us it (running %life + 3 damage mods)

2) about my claw here :


the ultimate version is to use Harvest "remove life" right ? Im bad at crafting but it'll remove "Life gain on hit" in theory ? Then Im thinking about adding "Poison deal damage faster" with awakener's orb ?
2-b) or the other claw, Im screw and have to stick with the int right ?


3) about "poison deal damage faster", does it reduce the duration then ?
3-b) that mod is good it seems, but nobody uses "Divergent Vile Toxins Support Poisons from Supported Skills deal Damage (0–5)% faster" ?! Why ?

4) It's a bit about what I was saying 1st (overall guide comprehension) and it's now even harder because with cluster it seems like we're reaching a point where we can't simply "switch Viper gem in" for bosses because we'd have to switch clusters too ?

(nb : about ppl complaining about dying, when you got just transcendance + Loreweave + flasks up, it's really really hard to die, Im just 93 with 10-50c stuff in every slot - Except Loreweave/Claws - and I can facetank about anything beyond++/deli/whatever...)

thx again u all for ur help !