[3.6] Acid Molten Strike Assassin - Uber Elder-viable Poison Build

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Great build, Love seeing how you worked the gear together so nicely to make a great assassin build. Thanks for posting, going make this one.

Very nice build but I have a question. why dont you use gemini claw instead of wasp nest? This way you can drop thief's torment and grab 2 ring with high life roll for example. Your dps fall little bit while your life increase more than 500. However, it costs you few more exalts.
like this one

So i just geared this up and shit on shaper and all his guardians no problem, love the build.

What i am wondering is if its worth it to try and swap out the ring with some elder diamond rings with essence of delirium and aim for a life on hit roll and craft chaos dmg, and also swapping on a carnage heart on? Would be a 20kish dps gain on pob from the looks of it so far.

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Funinyourgame wrote:

Is Growing agony a good option to boost damage or does it ONLY affect the poison from Viper strike? I mean 2% increase damage with Viper Strike hits and Poison per Poison on the enemy, wouldn't it affect the Poison in general too?

Only works with Viper Strike, would be kinda broken with MS. You can do a weapon swap to VS in theory, but it's too clunky in my opinion.

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casaroli wrote:

Can this work on standard without the gloves?
What would be the best substitute?

Thanks.

It works without the gloves but you're missing out on a lot. Basically half of your slow effect & about 30% DPS.
The best substitute would be rare gloves or Embalmer I guess.

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SoMuch2Win wrote:

Very nice build but I have a question. why dont you use gemini claw instead of wasp nest? This way you can drop thief's torment and grab 2 ring with high life roll for example. Your dps fall little bit while your life increase more than 500. However, it costs you few more exalts.

like this one

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inflatablevillain wrote:

So i just geared this up and shit on shaper and all his guardians no problem, love the build.

What i am wondering is if its worth it to try and swap out the ring with some elder diamond rings with essence of delirium and aim for a life on hit roll and craft chaos dmg, and also swapping on a carnage heart on? Would be a 20kish dps gain on pob from the looks of it so far.

Well you'd need a really damn good claw to compete with Wasp Nest.
Basically the only way to outdamage it is with a Shaped claw that has chaos damage, IAS, crit, poison chance (and maybe a bit of phys damage).
You actually don't even need a gemini for mana sustain, some mana on hit from jewels and maybe rings should be enough.

The main reason I stuck with Thief's Torment is because of the life recovery.
It's not really posible to get that much LgoH without the Vitality Watcher's Eye, which requires you to run Vitality in the first place.
I'd rather have 150% more life recovery over ~600-700 extra health and some damage personally.

Congrats on getting BotW! Pretty cool.

How would you compare your build to the Elemental Claw Inquisitor:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1971701/page/1?

Thinking about ease of leveling, survival, damage, ability to do high level content, and overall build cost?

Thanks!

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Only for Uber Elder... probably something with Juggernaut. RF should be the safest I think.

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Hi, great build

I've some advices :
- Play a shield with Aspect of the spider craft
- Play these gloves :

- Play The Effigon Gold Amulet insteed of lycosidae (you blind enemy with your high attack speed)

I think that these improvement can rise your dps and your survability

What.A.Fun.Build. Love it dude, and congrats on BOTW.

Melting everything, including my gpu :p

My gears, no stygian as they are extremely expensive.

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saxisa wrote:

Congrats on getting BotW! Pretty cool.

How would you compare your build to the Elemental Claw Inquisitor:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1971701/page/1?

Thinking about ease of leveling, survival, damage, ability to do high level content, and overall build cost?

Thanks!

Eh, I don't really like comparing my builds with others but I'll try.

Leveling this is pretty much a faceroll as soon as you can wear a Thief's Torment.
The same goes for normal Molten Strike builds, but there you'll need the threshold jewels instead.

This build is more tanky, I went completely overboard with defenses because the poison scaling allows me to get away with it.
You can facetank the majority of endgame if you have enough life, which is something really rare these days I'd say.
The only problem is that you can die from lag a lot (that's where I got most of my deaths from).

Direct damage MS kills things faster most of the time.
You can bullshit the DPS on this build to 40 million in theory, but even Shaper's guardians die before you ever reach that number.

I did every content in the game on this build, you should be able to do most of it on as little as 1ex budget, using a 6-link rare chest and rare shield.
Uber Elder requires you to get good gear, though.
The Inquisitor pretty much deletes most bosses with enough gear, not sure if the build has killed Uber Elder yet.

The core of this build is really cheap, but if you want to get perfect gear it's probably going to cost you about 20ex.
The Inquisitor will cost you more for both minimum and maximum gear, though that doesn't mean you can't play it on a budget. You definitely can.

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aallassault wrote:

Hi, great build

I've some advices :
- Play a shield with Aspect of the spider craft
- Play these gloves :

- Play The Effigon Gold Amulet insteed of lycosidae (you blind enemy with your high attack speed)

I think that these improvement can rise your dps and your survability

I went over Volkuur's on the first page, they're not really worth it in my opinion.
Although you can try to convince me otherwise with a PoB link :p.

Effigon/shield has a lot of drawbacks over Lycosidae/amulet if you compare the potential stats.
5% chance to blind is only reliably going to work against bosses even with Molten Strike.
It might be a good budget option though.