[3.24] The Pestilent Viper 🐍 New video : The Viper (improved) & The Mamba (saved from nerfs !)

New in 3.11



- Resolute Technique. We don't use crit anyway.

- Wind Dancer

- Crystal Skin + Soul of Steel, for 84% elemental resistances.
+ Barbarism : 85% fire resistance



- Tribal Fury cluster, which allows to forego Ancestral Call entirely. No more support gem swap for bosses ! You can even farm with Viper Strike.

- Call to Arms keystone for instant Warcry. I've chosen Enduring Cry for more tankiness.
Put the skill on your movement button to proc it automatically.

(Ancestral Cry allows to hit up to 6 additional nearby enemies, but prevents the use of Multistrike, which is not good.)

- Life and DPS are unchanged.

- I have removed Acrobatics and haven't taken the new Elusive cluster. As we go into the Marauder zone, we get some more armour.

- I may test Imbalanced Guard and different defensive flasks.

- First message entirely updated. Outdated infos removed. Incandescent Heart is no more recommended. Two new sections about resistances and poison.

- New videos coming.

Good luck and have fun, Exiles :)

Here is a first video in 3.11 : the Redeemer fight at tier 15.

Veritania is wasting her time with me, as I am...

#1 : Unredeemable

Hope you like it :)

More videos coming, with the Eradicator and some delving.

Farming with Pestilent Strike feels very smooth, but the good thing with Viper Strike is that you can quickly fill your plague-meter. This way, most of the map will be just running through packs with Plague Bearer.
And you have Viper Strike ready for the fat single targets, like those Null Portals from Elder maps.
This is what I show in this new video.
Beware...

#2 : The Strike of the Viper

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Next time : The Eradicator

Nice work! I did indeed start Harvest with Viper Strike Occultist and got to yellow maps and lvl85 before starting to have a problem with conquerors around A3/4. Ended up re-rolling and am crushing with some meta slave s***, but am thinking about viper strike again now that I have some $. It's calling me. :0)

Might do PF again though, heh.

Question regarding Ascendancy order: do you go Void Beacon (gives mobs -Chaos resist) path first or Profane Bloom (chance to explode on death)? And travel each path to end before swapping to other path?

(NVM, went with Profane Bloom so that I can keep using Viper Strike and get a bit of help with clear).

Just wanted to ask what is your leveling process?

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Gescom wrote:

Nice work! I did indeed start Harvest with Viper Strike Occultist and got to yellow maps and lvl85 before starting to have a problem with conquerors around A3/4. Ended up re-rolling and am crushing with some meta slave s***, but am thinking about viper strike again now that I have some $. It's calling me. :0)

Might do PF again though, heh.

There are those builds you play to make $$$, and then, there are the ones you play for fun ;-)

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Ayeartee wrote:

Question regarding Ascendancy order: do you go Void Beacon (gives mobs -Chaos resist) path first or Profane Bloom (chance to explode on death)? And travel each path to end before swapping to other path?

For the Ascendancies, I'd recommand this order :
1) Profane Bloom --> because Plaguesplosions !
2) Void Beacon
3) Withering Presence --> we need it to cap max chaos res
4) Malediction --> nice QoL. First curse should be Temporal Chains IMO, as it's a good def AND also a huge buff to poison DoT.

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thelostshana wrote:

Just wanted to ask what is your leveling process?

Tbh, I haven't levelled this build. I've respecced an old Necro when I came up with this build.
I see you have a level 22 Witch in league. She has perfect levelling gear.
Some general advice for levelling :
- Cobra Lash is good for starter : no level requirement. Same for Viper Strike.
- Venom Gyre is available at level 12
- Pestilent Strike, level 28
--> do Siosa quest in act 3 to buy them early without trading

For the act, any stuff you can find is good actually. Tabula Rasa is ok.

Wasp Nest claw and Bino's Kitchen are very cheap.

When you begin Atlas, you need a lot of chaos res to cap it at 75%.

Golden Rule jewel : 1c
Maw of Conquest helmet, level 48, 4c.
Apep's Slumber shield : 1c. Apep's Supremacy : 80c.

And then, you're good to poison yourself !

When you reach red maps :
- Solstice Vigil amulet : 35c. Before that, Witchfire flask.
- A ring or amulet with Aspect of the Spider : 40c

For t15-16 :
Glorious Vanity timeless jewel / Xibaqua : 2ex

Hope this helps !

Gl & hf :)

Here is a new video : T14 Eradicator, with shocking ground.

#3 : The Viper Strikes Back !

I really like the idea of a melee witch. Been trying to find/make a 2h build and wanted to ask if running with a twohander instead of dagger+shield would still work in favour of this build. I would loose the self-poisoning, yes, but that would be a dps loss if i got that correctly. maybe with good stats it would also make the build tankier.

Well, that would be another build. But you could go Cyclone with a good 2H. I would call it smth like : The Unholy Cyclone :D

You would still have the self-poisoning with the Golden Rule jewel, but not the + max res while poisoned. That would still work with the sextant mod for dmg and speed per poison.

Weapons of choice :
- Edge of Madness sword would fit thematically, but it's not a very good weapon.
- The Disintegrator staff with full Elder equipment.
- Wings of Entropy seems pretty cool.
- Kongor's Undying Rage mace seems a solid choice. No extra dmg with crit, hits can't be evaded, Onslaught on crit.