3.23 Affliction Hardcore: Uber DOT Capped Viper Strike Champion - The Best Build You've Never Played

https://youtu.be/kof-B0hzr-k

https://pobb.in/xNK1YmmDtwV8

https://poe.ninja/builds/afflictionhc/?skills=Viper+Strike

SSS111 showcased viper strike on champion in HC Sanctum league which inspired me to recreate a version in 3.23 AHC using power creep available this trade league in the form of:
- Charms
- Void Fangs
- Covenant
- Awakened gems (trade league)
- Balance of Terror (wither)
- Flame/Flesh

I'm extremely happy with the result and would love to see more people experience this build. Great single target damage (pinnacle >50million dps, over DOT cap) with plague bearer and single attacks easily clearing map packs. The build excels on bosses, essence, harvest and made me hundreds of divines this league.

Poison duration charms in 3.23 Affliction league are likely the strongest buff to poison builds in the history of Path of Exile. Combining Viper Strike, with a base duration of 4 seconds, duration scaling, and combining with Champion, we have an extremely strong and fun melee build.

The build is currently greater than 50million poison dps with Covenant equipped, significantly over the DOT cap of 35.8mil allowing for faster ailment / poison scaling if desired.

For uber bosses, elemental mitigation is the priority and I have two uber showcases using Loreweave and Eternal Damnation to keep a degree of safety at the cost of some damage.

Featured in the youtube showcase are Uber eater, Uber shaper and various other showcases all on HC.

POB:
https://pobb.in/xNK1YmmDtwV8

Account: Jarudy
IGN: Rudy_Viper_Strike

Stay safe, exile.

I hate it when people make false advertisements. I just watched the first seconds of the eater-fight and already it is very clear that the damage-numbers are heavily inflated.

You have a poison duration of 20 seconds, meaning to reach your theoretical damage maximum you must be attacking permanently for 20 seconds straight in order to reach your "more than dot cap" dps. But you are not facetanking, not at all.

Doesn´t mean the build can´t be good per se, but please, when it comes to poison, u need to be considerate what numbers you´re actually throwing in there.

For example, you´re stating in PoB that you have 72 stacks of poison applied recently. Yet your attacks per second are at 9.4. The game refers to "recently" to the last 4 seconds, meaning that you can - at max - have applied 37 stacks of poison recently, not 72.

You also do not have 100% uptime on focus, you probably will not have permanently 15 wither stacks and most likely not perma flask uptime, meaning your uber pinnacle dps is more like 12mio.

That all being said: It is still a overall solid setup. A lot of armor, evasion, resistance, recovery for that kind of power and kind of low investment makes it a worthwile build. But cmon, more realistic pob plz.

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Vennto wrote:

For example, you´re stating in PoB that you have 72 stacks of poison applied recently. Yet your attacks per second are at 9.4. The game refers to "recently" to the last 4 seconds, meaning that you can - at max - have applied 37 stacks of poison recently, not 72.

The main hand and offhand both apply poisons, so my 72 poisons recently when attacking for 4 seconds uninterrupted is correct. The uber bossing in HC POB uses loreweave + ED, make sure to change gear in POB to "bossing".