[3.9] Plague Assassin Venom Guy (Gyre)/ 17 Mil+ DPS / 6 Mil+ Shaper DPS / All Content / Any Map Mods
 3.9 update: 10% Base Damage Buff! BUILD CONCEPT The main idea behind this build is using venom gyre as our main skill, plague bearer as our secondary skill and whirling blades as movement. High movement speed, high attack speed, fast playstyle. Can do any map mods. Average gear price is about 1 ex or less per slot. 6 Link Belly of the Beast is only 2.5 ex at the time of writing. Gameplay Videos Deathless Shaper: https://youtu.be/1Kq_cAnaqYs Deathless Uber Elder: https://youtu.be/6r0fhvoLQWY Deathless Chimera: https://youtu.be/5KJYQQz2Zsg Deathless Hydra: https://youtu.be/3BgzWY4ztFQ Deathless Minotaur: https://youtu.be/XmRlltf8lfQ Deathless Pheonix: https://youtu.be/t9a6JL4mH2k 6 Second Minotaur Kill: https://clips.twitch.tv/AnnoyingBeautifulHamsterTBTacoLeft Twitch I am streaming almost everyday so if you have any poe or build questions come ask me! https://www.twitch.tv/lunartuna Passive Tree
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Leveling Guide
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For leveling use cobra lash and forget about pierce until maps, prioritize life nodes and Soul Raker.
Use unique claws for leveling and then The Wasp Nest until you can get a decent rare claw: https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/List_of_unique_claws Once you get to maps take the pierce nodes and switch to Venom Gyre. Path of Building
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PoB: 3.9: https://pastebin.com/fTmbA3LN Note: "60% more damage with poison" is added to claws with "60% chance for Poisons inflicted with this Weapon to deal 100% more Damage" as it is not supported in PoB. Withering Touch Rank 1 is added to the main skills so we can add wither stacks in config for the helmet enchant and withering step. My personal Brutal Restraint Rare Jewel added as PoB doesnt support timeless jewels. You will have to do the same if you get a brutal restraint. 11% more damage multiplier added to impresence amulet do show effective damage increase of culling strike from ambush and assassinate. (11.1% not recognized in PoB) Skill Gem Links
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Body: Venom Gyre - Greater Multiple Projectiles - Vile Toxins - Deadly Ailements - Vicious Projectiles - Unbound Ailments
Claw/Shield: Plague Bearer - Increased Area Of Effect - Empower(Optional) Claw/Shield: Blasphemy - Despair Glove/Boot/Helm: Whirling Blades - Fortify - Power Charge on Crit - Blood Magic Glove/Boot/Helm: CWDT lev 1 - Immortal Call lev 3 - Withering Step lev 8 - Increased Duration lev 20 Glove/Boot/Helm: Vaal Haste - Increased Duration Single Skill gems you can put anywhere: Malevolence Summon Skitterbots Blood Rage Flame Dash(Optional) Gear
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We use belly simply because there is so much dps to be had in the passive tree almost no dps chest makes up for it. So we take belly to free up passive points for dps nodes. The only better chest would be a..
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ilvl 86+ Elder base and then just spam pristine fossil until you get  subbteranian and eldrich life mods, then t3+ life. T3 gives about the same about of life as belly. t1 and 2 more. the other mods on the rare are up to you, could be resists or some funky elder mod like the crit one. or add serrated in with prisine and go for -15cost of socketed skills. Desirable Claw Mods:
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60% chance for Poisons inflicted with this Weapon to deal 100% more Damage(Necessary)
# - # phys or # - # chaos(which provides higher dps depends on individual setups, for me flat phys is better) % increased phys Attack speed Crit chance Crit multi Damage with poison Poison Duration Claw Crafting:
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ilvl 83 base. Use perfect fossils until you get 30% quality. Orb of Scouring it then spam corroded fossils for the "60% chance for Poisons inflicted with this Weapon to deal 100% more Damage".
Desirable Claw Mods:
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60% chance for Poisons inflicted with this Weapon to deal 100% more Damage(Necessary)
# - # phys or # - # chaos(which provides higher dps depends on individual setups, for me flat phys is better) % increased phys Attack speed Crit chance Crit multi Damage with poison Poison Duration You have some options here: 1. Spam corroded and hope for "60% chance for Poisons inflicted with this Weapon to deal 100% more Damage" and good natural rolls of other useful stats. 2. Spam corroded until you get "60% chance for Poisons inflicted with this Weapon to deal 100% more Damage" and 26-27 increased attack speed as one of the other mods. Orb of Annulment the bad mods off until you have those 2 mods left. (takes some luck) Once you have the rare with just "60% chance for Poisons inflicted with this Weapon to deal 100% more Damage" and 26-27% increased attack speed, you can craft on "can have multiple crafted modifiers". Then craft on "adds # - # physical damage", 100%-129% increased physical damage, and the crit chance/quality combo mod. Then divine until you get good rolls. At least 125% on the % physical and at least adds 15-30 physical damage for the flat phys is desirable. Getting all perfect rolls is nearly impossible. I spent about 20ex in divines just out of curiosity to see how close i could get. So dont be afraid to settle on non perfect rolls. If you can get the damage range on the claw to at least 95- 250, you will melt any content with it. Optional Base for more attacks per second but lose mana on hit. Wont be able to do "cannot leech from monsters" maps.
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Optional final gear goal:
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More attack speed, movement speed and accuracy from the dex. I would only wear this if you can maintain at least 100 all resists and 4900 life. Flasks
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We do not need Unfreeze flask due to Shared Suffering on Leper's Alms Shield. Venom Gyre projectiles will transfer elemental ailments to mobs. Just make sure you throw some projectiles out before clicking any boxes, the returning projectiles will remove freeze/ignite/shock from you when they hit monsters. Jewels
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Rares with mods:
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% increased attack speed with claws
% increased attack speed while holding a shield % increased attack speed % increased damage with poison % increased damage over time % increased maximum life % to resistances Watcher's eye with Malevolence mods:
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+(18-22)% to Damage over Time Multiplier while affected by Malevolence
(20-30)% increased Skill Effect Duration while affected by Malevolence Unaffected by Bleeding while affected by Malevolence Unaffected by Poison while affected by Malevolence Damaging Ailments you inflict deal Damage (10-15)% faster while affected by Malevolence Optional Jewel:
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Brutal Restraint timeless jewel - Look for faster poison damage, increased poison damage, attack speed, life, dex, movement speed. It's an expensive jewel so we add it as optional. It's not necessary for the build at all.
Any rare/unique jewel corrupted with "Corrupted blood cannot be inflicted on you" is great for survivability. Asendancy
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1. Noxious Strike
2. Toxic Deilvery 3. Mistwalker 4. Ambush and Assassinate Pantheon
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Personal preference: Lunaris and Ralakesh
Bandits
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Kill All
Anointments
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Rings: We do a lot of damage so we just buff chilling towers to freeze blight monsters in place.
Your Chilling Towers deal 25% increased Damage(Allows us to freeze higher hp monsters) Your Chilling Towers freeze enemies for 0.2 seconds while they are affected by chilling beams (0.2 seconds/per damage tick. It freezes monsters for the entire duration of the chilling beam) Amulet: Anointment is Whispers of Doom. Feel free to submit your gameplay videos in the thread. I will try and stream as much gameplay as i can! https://www.twitch.tv/Lunartuna Follow for notification Special thanks: loczek123 Bromeek wakasm lagsmoke Changelog:
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Oct 4/19 - Added changelog.
Oct 4/19 - Added power charge on crit into whirling blades link. Oct 7/19 - Added alternative chest option. Ost 9/19 - Added in final gear goal helmet. Updated PoB link and pic. Oct 14/19 - Updated PoB for more accurate damage representation with culling strike from ambush and assassinate. Added brutal restraint to jewel section. Added "Corrupted blood cannot be inflicted on you" recommendation to jewel section. Added small leveling guide section. Tweaked overall layout. Oct 16/19 - Added section on claw crafting. Oct 24/19 - Adjustments to passive tree. twitch.tv/VtuberLunartuna Last edited by Lunartuna#7274 on Dec 14, 2019, 7:31:17 PM Last bumped on Apr 13, 2020, 6:17:47 PM
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Reserved.
twitch.tv/VtuberLunartuna Last edited by Lunartuna#7274 on Oct 2, 2019, 9:41:36 PM
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This build is working perfectly.
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Headhunter is highly optional, I would use Stygian Vise with overall 160 life, and 5% onslaught on kill jewel. I've done all content possible this league, like deathless uber elder, constant T16 maps, Shaper, Mastermind 83, Blighted T15 full modded etc. My setup is slightly different, than OP's, but the core is the same. https://pastebin.com/qGPhHMRz 17.1M DPS, 6.45M Shaper DPS, 5350 hp Last edited by Bromeek#0626 on Oct 2, 2019, 9:47:00 PM
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Thanks for the new thread on this spec. I had a question about your tree/flask set up - Why path to Perfect Agony and also take Coralito's Signature?
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" If you want to make any boss kill or hard map videos i would love to link them in the build! " Right! Thanks for asking.. Main reason being is consistency of having Perfect agony working with Ambush and Assassinate as much as possible. The flask also gives us about 2.5 seconds of poison duartion and lucky crit chance which also synergizes with Ambush and Assassinate and Mistwalker. I'll add that to the guide! twitch.tv/VtuberLunartuna
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" I'll try to record something during the weekend. |
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" Ah, okay, I understand where you're coming from now. I just got what I imagine will be my endgame weapons (apart from divining one of them). Would either you or Bromeek mind taking a look at my POB and seeing if a) it's calculated properly and b) any suggestions for further gear improvement? This is my second league and I could use a second pair of eyes. I know I need a better stygian but I'm not sure where else I could eek some extra DPS out. My spec is closer to loczek123's than yours, but you seem to be the most active theory crafter on the forum atm. Also, how do you feel about Opportunity vs. Ambush and Assassinate? https://pastebin.com/Xq1XMdfB Last edited by fiestaforesta#4955 on Oct 2, 2019, 10:29:42 PM
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" Looks like you using mostly the old build for mainly cobra lash. I would go through this new build. Have a look at skill gem links and gear and update what you have to that. Your dps looks great! I just plainly feel Ambush and Assassinate is better. Culling strike makes it better in my eyes. twitch.tv/VtuberLunartuna Last edited by Lunartuna#7274 on Oct 2, 2019, 10:38:43 PM
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Would you consider this HC Viable?
Also levelling? Last edited by Astroknight#1793 on Oct 3, 2019, 1:34:02 AM
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Thank you very much for making this spin-off guide!
It is really more comfortable to play. I'll write later, when get 90 and all unics)
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P.S. Yeah, its Cobra lash, i like it) |
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