Viper Strike of the Mamba +Profane Bloom = bad combo
" Okay? So try assassin with perfect agony, or trickster, or anything else which makes sense. Occultist for Viper Strike doesn't make sense, on any level, either practically or thematically. Please, explain your logic here: you've got a class which specializes in curses, damage over time spells, and energy shield. WHAT ABOUT THIS made you think "knife fighter?" I can decide that I want to play holy flame totem trap champion, but I certainly shouldn't complain when it doesn't work very well. |
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" Daggers with poison and chaos is occult arts, occultist fits perfectly Shadow fits less, Pathfinder even less You are the one who got it wrong brother flask chugging = NA simulator, not Fantasy RPG |
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" Find me the dagger and poison nodes in the Occultist tree please? Shadow literally starts with Viper Strike on the beach, my dude. This association only exists inside of your head. |
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" That's on GGG brother, not on me |
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You realise that you picked a skill + an ascendancy notable that is in conflict with the skill you're playing... right? That's not on GGG, that's on you for not thinking ahead. The skill and ascendancy notable work exactly as advertised.
96% of players on the poe.ninja ladder for VSotM noticed this. Of the 4% who chose Occultist anyway only 2 did not opt into Profane Bloom. One of them solves lack of easy clear by using Bino's, the other just has gigachad gear. You can check this yourself.. There's a reason why most people go Pathfinder, and that reason is access to poison proliferation without having to use Bino's. Anyway, good luck on your new build. Make informed choices! The opposite of knowledge is not illiteracy, but the illusion of knowledge.
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" "PoE, only one way to play a skill" Dixit a forum user from the "Feedback and Suggestion" category |
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" What a disingenous way of interpreting my post. Are you aware how disrespectful that is? Did you even check the alternatives to Occultist at all or however could you come to that conclusion? It was 2 clicks away, but since you are so intent on not doing anything but complain: https://poe.ninja/builds/settlers?skills=Viper+Strike+of+the+Mamba Pathfinder sits at 74% because it is the BEST way of playing that skill. However, Trickster and Assassin are rock-solid alternatives while Gladiator offers higher defences. The opposite of knowledge is not illiteracy, but the illusion of knowledge.
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Mathil literally playing VSM right now if you need help figuring out how to make the build work.
He's playing it on a Trickster, because that makes sense. |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcvVWBWz1XU
What the user posted above. This thing looks broken AF lol Honestly listening to him talk about it its like "Yea I just kind of threw this on, didnt really care about that... threw this on, had 15 extra passives that I didnt even trait and.... yea this build does a lot of damage" Funny how crazy it turned out with how little was put into it. Mash the clean Last edited by Mashgesture#2912 on Aug 13, 2024, 8:36:19 PM
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" as a person who loves doing my own thing, POE allows players to do their own thing to a great degree. the summary of what many people responded is simply you're not synergizing. theres ways to make occultists work with viper strike YOU made the build, YOU need to figure it out. mamba strike very specifically mentions the restrictions and you simply have to work around the restrictions. personally i've tried making an ignite echo forge build. its not possible, ignite is fire damage and echo forge disables non chaos damage. theres many ways i can make chaos ignite, but ignite is inherently fire. slapping a darkflame ring can make enemies take ignite damage as chaos, but since i cant even ignite to begin with all is naught. would i prefer if theres a way for ignite to be converted to chaos? yes but currently there is non. i for sure can suggest and mention it in the forums as "it would be cool if ignite damage be converted to chaos" but bitching about how its not working the way "I" specifically want it to work is really going to draw flak. thus, i would sadly say this is a YOU issue. you need to work with the puzzle pieces given to you if you want to make an interesting build. TBH i honestly feel like your IDEA is interesting tho it doesnt synergize well. and actually doesnt synergize at all [Removed by Support]
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