Viper strike(57k)Reave(32k) fast clear,great tankyness.Moderate gear prices.

Hello everyone,I'm here to introduce you to my viper strike ,reave shadow dagger crit build :)

For the start i'm going to talk about some basic stuff about the build.

So when rampage league started I decided to run new char since new skill tree sort of fuckd up my witch.
With previous patch they buffed viper strike a little but just enough to help it to be ok gem maybe not the best ,but I found it fun to play and I decided to use it.

When i picked viper strike i decided to go with bino's kitchen knife + BoR. Since both items have loads of phys dmg as well as crit chance/dmg it works awesome with the fact that u can get tons of DoT dmg while doing a lot of dmg on hit as well.
Now I had singe target dps ,but my aoe wasn't really good so next part was to get pretty solid aoe melee skill and i decided to use reave.Why reave? Well it has ok range,it scales pretty well and with previous patch we got herald of ashe,now thats what it gives real power,remember Bino's has dmg over time,herald gives burning which is also dmg over time and here we come to the part where i explain why is this build really good.

With all this dps which u get from phys dmg nodes,and aura gems (hatred,herald of ash) + crit dmg and crit chance the best part comes after u kill first wave of mobs.As then poison from bino's + burning from ash its sick.You gotta trust me on this once since i wont be posting any videos but yeh ill give you some screen shots of my tooltips.

Pros : A lot of dmg,great clear,singe target dps
Can do most of map mods even lowered mana/hp regen mods
Pretty cheap gear
Unique melee build(fuck those all ranged chars)
Fun to play even at lower levels.
Good tankyness against most of stuff

Cons: Sort of low hp,can get bursted if not careful
For the reflect map mod u need to be pretty careful to not 1 shot yourself
If you are really new some uniques can be expensive for you.
Its not really for HC unless u sacrifice some dmg
Can not clear wave of mobs which aren't on your screen like some boring ranged builds.





Anyhow lets get to the gear,gems and skill tree first of all skill tree.
I wont brake it down to the process ,ill just post my current lvl 87 skill tree.


https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgYABX0FtQ5ID6sRlha_HoEhAyLqI_Yk_SaVKgss4S1VMHEwfDIBNj06Qj3iRwZLCkt4S41LxE2SUUdRTFKvUzVW9V5FYQZh4mKsZfFn_GqMbIxtbG-ecFJwVnaCdwd9438rhxOMC419jb-OipAbkvOX0JoTmyabtZyknaqi2aOKpn-nNKk0rEesZq1KsNixs7IZtMW00bVIt9O32bk-uXzDOsgMyBTKSs960AnQ0NQj1orXy9h2227b1Nvn3ajjhOdU53To1un-7LDtQfPq9W_2_Prr_xw=

As u can see my key passives are acrobatics,phase acrobatics,and ondar's guile.Also I tried to get as much as possible crit chance + crit dmg and on top of it phys dmg,I took some accr and ofc hp where I could.Also for defense i have quite a lot of evasion nodes.
I took dmg over time passive nodes as well and mind drinker so i have enough of mana leech without too big mana pool and mana regen.

So here it comes where we start having problems,as far as i realized they are nerfing blocking so as u can see i got some passive nodes in my skill tree and it works extremely well with BoR ,but with this nerfs i think i wont get so many of them ill instead go for some more dmg and HP.Ill update this section once the new tree is out tho.


SS of my skills:
Since i wont be adding screens of my offensive and defensive stats,ill just point out the most important stuff
Offensive : 90% chance to hit,+56% atk speed,72% crit chance atm,455% crit multi
Defensive : chance to evade 37%,60% with flask,chance to dodge atks 40% /spells 30%
57% chance to block,maxed resistances 76% cold,chance to block spells 13%.
I might swap boots after new patch with some rare unless any good unique comes out.

Reave http://i62.tinypic.com/dpfes1.png
Viper strike http://i60.tinypic.com/2yy85ma.png

Viper strike is in legacy BoR which is lets say mid range item price wise and i connected it to increased crit dmg,multistrike,added fire dmg.
Reave is in my boots and its connected to multistrike,melee physical dmg,increased crit dmg.
NOTE: here is the thing of preference u can place reave into BoR as well if u want more aoe dmg in general.

Now here is i guess the most interesting part my gear.First of all im going to talk about the prices,so like i said earlier BoR is around 15ish ex with good rolls legacy one,Bino's is around 10ex so those are the most expensive items which i got.
So why BoR and not anything else,well if u'd want to have this much dmg u'd need at least 5l chest which isn't hard to get ,u'd probably reach maxed resistances easier since u can get them in chest too,but BoR gives just so much dmg and hp like its much easier to just get 1 good item than 2 good rares or uniques doesn't matter + u have that crit dmg in BoR and it works awesome with your current build path anyway also u get a lot of block which works again really well with your current build path.

Now heres the rest of my gear:


So as u can see i use maligaros ,atziri mirror and rainbows. ALl uniques + phys doryanis belt to max out my resistances easier.
Amulet is pretty awesome tho,HP and crit stuff + accr same goes for my blood twirl and the 2nd ring has strenght + phys dmg + solid other stuff not the best tho.But thats the point gear isn't really expensive.Also i gotta add one more NOTE.I'm using this shield for the intelligence as well as evasion + it gives resistances .Now to max out my resistances im using purity of elements ,but you probably wouldn't need it if u have better rings,the reason why I'm using this ring is cos of the strenght and i need it for my Cast when dmg taken set up and some items ,same goes for the intelligence i need it for the Bino's.
For movement i'm using whirling blades.
The curse i use is vulnerability again it works so well with dmg over time and phys dmg char.
My pots are atziri flask ,evasion flask and hp pots with remove bleeding and burning + quicksilver potion to reach places easier or to dodge.
My hp is sort of low tho 2700 but i get away with it due to other defensive stats.

Now that would be it,ill describe some gameplay as well and future plans.
Well as for the future plans first of all i need to see new tree,well so far it seems like ill just have to satisfy with sort of low block chance but more hp.Also ill lvl up my gems and im expecting pretty nice boost to my dmg from that.
For the items,i hope for some good intelligence shield,unique one or just some really good unique rings.

As for the gameplay its pretty simple u get into mobs,curse them and reave them,kill rare ones with viper ,use unique flask ofc that will give u additional 10k dmg as well,as for the bosses just viper them to death .As u have so much passive defense which is evasion and block u don't need to worry about dying most of the time,beside ofc receiving huge burst or not dodging anything at all . The reason why u dont have problems with high phys dmg mobs is ofc cast when dmg taken set up,and u dodge pretty much anything they throw at u.
With life leech and regen from bino's even when you are out of potions u can get hp back fast.
And u'd guess i have low amount of mana left which is 80 (20 lvl reduced mana) but thats just enough to cast curse and atk since u have a lot of phys dmg 2% mana leech is enough for u to use your atk skills all the time .

That would be it,for additional questions and if i forgot to mention somehting just ask me in comments. Thx for reading and good luck!

Edit: Well if GGG decides to fuck up melee builds more with new patch which seems to be their way with upcoming block nerfs,it might be harder progress in 75 + lvl maps.
Unless they add some better uniques to swap my current shield and rings + ammy.But as for now build is fun to play ,huge dmg and easy to get.
Edit 2: Forgot to mention that i plan on swapping my rainbows with some rare boots or some unique ones if anything good comes out since block chance will be low anyway that bonus to spell block will be waste .

Acrobatics also will come with a 30% LESS (spell) block penalty in case you missed it. Makes wearing rainbowstride a moot choice. From 57/13 you will go down to 30/6 without block nodes. Better get some rare boots with resistances and life.
There also should be better shields out there. With block going down the drain you need more life on gear.

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Bada_Bing wrote:

Acrobatics also will come with a 30% LESS (spell) block penalty in case you missed it. Makes wearing rainbowstride a moot choice. From 57/13 you will go down to 30/6 without block nodes. Better get some rare boots with resistances and life.
There also should be better shields out there. With block going down the drain you need more life on gear.

Idk why I didn't add that into the guide,thats exactly what I wanted to mention as well in future plans but thx for heads up and yeh I hope for the better shields or maybe even some boots which would help out instead of rare ones.