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

Thank you very much for the tree :* www.poeurl.com/cU7I

Started with this build, it's pretty decent overall so far. It's a lot of fun and enjoyable to play, while being pretty steadily powerful throughout. The first 30 levels or so are rough compared to a caster or melee, but then it's a cruise to maps. I ran with a 4 link all the way to maps, and am only using a 5 link now, having just started maps. Maybe have done like 30 maps so far.

It's a little squishy, no acro/phase acro and no dodge chance since it takes Iron Reflexs, I haven't taken it yet as my Evasion isn't really high enough since my gear is ragtag shit I threw together to cap resists and get life on it.

Leveling with Venom Gyre, picking up the pierce nodes really helped a lot, but I will drop it once I can get the annointment.

The one thing I'd like to see is a more detailed and halpful leveling guide, but I'm already level so fuck'em lol.

Good build, hope it scales well without needing 30ex claws to pull more than 1m dps.

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The one thing I'd like to see is a more detailed and halpful leveling guide, but I'm already level so fuck'em lol.

The current one was from me. Curious about your comment, what didn´t you like about the leveling section? Constructive critisism is always welcome, I´d like to improve the part if you see anyhting that lacks information.

Okay, Cluster Gem Notable weighing is out aaaand... It's a mess. Getting a decent Cluster is going to be thousands of chaos unless you shortcut it via Harvest somehow. Getting a large with three good notables and two jewel sockets is going to cost an eye.

Sooo... I think for new we better stick to the clusterless tree. It's a good thing that this build wasn't planned around clusters at all cause they butchered them. Not a fan of locking so much power behind currency but that's GGG for you.

Leveling with cobra lash until lvl 30-40 feels pretty shit. I 4linked it quite early but still haha. I should've used plague bearer for bosses I guess it would have helped me tho. And ye even with vile toxin switch it felt kinda bad in single target.

Now I'm at the map and its a blast, good clear speed and even single target right now is good with 2 wasp nest claw.

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Orangesilk wrote:

Okay, Cluster Gem Notable weighing is out aaaand... It's a mess. Getting a decent Cluster is going to be thousands of chaos unless you shortcut it via Harvest somehow. Getting a large with three good notables and two jewel sockets is going to cost an eye.

Sooo... I think for new we better stick to the clusterless tree. It's a good thing that this build wasn't planned around clusters at all cause they butchered them. Not a fan of locking so much power behind currency but that's GGG for you.

Why is that? They messed up clusters too?

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Orangesilk wrote:

Okay, Cluster Gem Notable weighing is out aaaand... It's a mess. Getting a decent Cluster is going to be thousands of chaos unless you shortcut it via Harvest somehow. Getting a large with three good notables and two jewel sockets is going to cost an eye.

Sooo... I think for new we better stick to the clusterless tree. It's a good thing that this build wasn't planned around clusters at all cause they butchered them. Not a fan of locking so much power behind currency but that's GGG for you.

I can't agree. Even if you get a good two noder large cluster, disease vector and a couple low tolerance nodes are going to be really strong I feel. Disease vector at least would be worth getting I think. Negating an enemies life regen is pretty big.

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JeroyStillRollin wrote:

I can't agree. Even if you get a good two noder large cluster, disease vector and a couple low tolerance nodes are going to be really strong I feel. Disease vector at least would be worth getting I think. Negating an enemies life regen is pretty big.

I strongly disagree. Getting a large with disease vector is going to cost you 3 passives to unlock the cluster and then at the very least 4 passives to get there. I don't believe that Disease Vector is worth 7 points at all. Health regen is only really relevant against Metamorphs and very specific map bosses. Sirius and UE don't have sizable health regen. Clusters come at a steep price to even get there.

Getting Disease Vector and 2 sockets costs on average 400alts, and getting a good regal is easily 1/10. Crafting costs for a bare minimum jewel get crazy immediately.

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Orangesilk wrote:

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JeroyStillRollin wrote:

I can't agree. Even if you get a good two noder large cluster, disease vector and a couple low tolerance nodes are going to be really strong I feel. Disease vector at least would be worth getting I think. Negating an enemies life regen is pretty big.

I strongly disagree. Getting a large with disease vector is going to cost you 3 passives to unlock the cluster and then at the very least 4 passives to get there. I don't believe that Disease Vector is worth 7 points at all. Health regen is only really relevant against Metamorphs and very specific map bosses. Sirius and UE don't have sizable health regen. Clusters come at a steep price to even get there.

Getting Disease Vector and 2 sockets costs on average 400alts, and getting a good regal is easily 1/10. Crafting costs for a bare minimum jewel get crazy immediately.

On second thought, I can't really argue with you. You make good points. I feel like eventually, I might try finding a solid megalomaniac and see if I can make it work with a good low tolerance combo. Maybe get lucky and get low tolerance and fettle or something.

I'm very new to this build, and relatively new to the game. I just go to mapping and I'm having a little trouble even with t2 maps.

My resistances are all at 75, but I only have 2500 health. Should I focus on getting some currency and upping my health?

Also, I love, love, love cobra lash for the clear speed, which is working great, but I'm running into mana issues against single target bosses as my mana flask runs out. Is there a quick fix for mana issues? 18 mana per cobralash right now, which goes quick with how much attack speed I have.

Other than that, this guide was great! Slow start, but once I hit about level 30 I breezed through the rest of the acts to mapping in record time (for me).