Amazing guide ! I think I speak for everyone when I say that a full length ZiggyD build guide is a Christmas miracle. For everyone that has been watching since PoE beta this definitely takes us back. Praying that you tinker with some more of the skills. Another good retro one would be playing around with the old new sunder gem

Merry freakin xmas mates! My present to you is this longass guide to a build I really fell in love with (it's been a while since I've been motivated enough to make one of these!). Great fun to tinker with and play. I hope you have a great time with it or just on your holidays in general - love from Ziggy, Amy & the wee baby Tully!

The first build I ever followed on this game was your southpaw reave character and it got me hooked on POE. I'm sure some newer players are going to follow this build guide religiously the same way I did when I started playing all those years ago. You're a legend Ziggy!

The closest thing to good melee ignite we will get. Great video

As someone who has watched your content for many years, this is almost nostalgic! That's a damn good Christmas gift, Ziggy. Thanks for all you do.

In case anyone wanted an alternative link for withering touch: I’ve been running withering touch, lifetap, increased duration, and efficacy. I’m pretty sure increased duration on withering step also applies to the wither stacks applied by the skill - with a 3 second CD and near 6 second duration, you have pretty good single target uptime on max wither stacks without scaling quality super hard.

Super high quality guide. I Wish all youtube build guides were like this.

Nice guide, good breakdown of the mechanics and nice of you to list all the options of taking this through endgame. I actually came up with an idea of building this two days back too, leveled yesterday and got most of my items barely half a day before this came out. Lucky me I guess xD Really loving the play style, I could see this getting more attention than I'd ever thought viper strike could ^^

I was working on a Bleed Sadism character and while it was looking decent, this blew it out of the water. Rerolled to this and have been having a blast, the prolif is insane! I'm using Ralakesh and Olesya's with Frenzy/Affliction charges and it feels great. Still a ton of upgrades, don't even have my cluster jewels yet, but already blasting T16s!

Great build and build guide! Been also playing mamba strike and it's super fun. I'm surprised to see a claw beating out rebuke in dps, but I think it's a difference in how your version is built and your scaling is prioritized - with claws you can opt to get flat damage to boost your number whereas with rebuke you want to prioritize dot multi and faster ailments. Granted rebuke makes gearing slightly easier since it's not so hard to get one corrupted with resolute technique, freeing up some suffixes and mana res and passives that you no longer need for accuracy. Just a note, PoB doesn't calculate the damage properly, but you can simulate it by adding your weapon damage as added damage in the config so that the "attack with damage of both weapons" is actually represented (otherwise it just takes 50% of each, which you can check in the dps calc)

Great work ziggy! Thanks for taking the time to give us such an in depth guide

After having played this build for about a week now, I must say this is one of the most fun build for me since i've started playing poe 13 years ago (jesus, didn't realize it was that long lol). The way whole screens just go poof without any visual noise just feels so good :)

As far as christmas gifts go this is pretty dang good, ty

I have wanted to play a good vs build for years, I was excited when I saw mamba in the patch notes. Cheers mate, merry Christmas

Im leveling a pathfinder now! thank you for the awesome guide.

I league launched Mamba on ruthless, I really loved it until maps when i had to drop dual wield for a shield and then it fell off- luckily I am using molten strike with a tincture in the meanwhile. Couldn't get a low tolerance jewel to roll just yet which I think will feel way better than just the tincture and the poison mastery. Can't wait to get a lightning coil and maybe a taste of hate before I can swap over to dual wield. Love the new gems and love the guide! Thanks for the video Ziggy

Nice build, thanks for the guide.

Have you noticed that with Viper Strike of the Mamba, if you stand and attack an enemy repeatedly, it only applies poison every other hit (regardless how low you get your poison duration)? I suspect this is because it checks if the current target is poisoned when the attack BEGINS -- not when the hit lands. And so, since the target will ALWAYS be poisoned when the next attack BEGINS, it poisons every other hit. I don't like it for obvious reasons, but also for a non-obvious one -- it promotes the use of a macro to SIGNIFICANTLY increase dps when attacking with it. I submitted a bug report for it (which will likely get ignored), but it's weird that no one mentions it.

nice guide, is playing Mamba strike aswell :D, but went the DEX stack route. Hand of thought and motion x2, and split personality etc. This also makes suppress-cap easy and stun immune etc from evasion to armour conversion. we will probably see some cool new ways to to build with the new tinctures in the future. Thanks for a chill long video!

No way, a chunky build from the OG? That's messed up, that's actually messed up Thank you big man, happy big holidays and much love your way!

Merry Christmas ZiggyD & Happy New Year! Haven't played PoE in a couple years, but I still like to check out your wacky builds.

So happy someone tried this skill and made it work. Also very happy to not see another scourge arrow or penence brand

Been missing full blown Ziggy guides. I think I'm gonna try this in ssf without ashes

What an epic Guide, great Job!!

Great video man! Thanks for the awesome guide!

You know its a good league when ziggy is still making content over 2 weeks in

holy holiday miracle a BIG FULL GIRTHY ziggyd build guide.

What a banger. The first build i ever beat the campaign with was ziggys gc miner wayyyy back when. Great to see another ziggy build

This is why you're my favourite PoE Streamer/Content/Build Creator!

This rules. Thank you so much and Happy Holidays to you and the fam.

I'm hoping the "all damage poisons" survives into Necropolis in some form. Really want to run this build.

You know it's a good league when this guy is making a guide instead of jumping on the next big game one week in.

Amazing work Ziggy!

Banger maximum effort video, i love these sorts of things ^_^

Lol i subbed just because of the honesty in that thumbnail. GGs.

Been thinking about trying to make this skill work in Ruthless. Was contemplating building around this with the Enduring Suffusion affliction notable with only a life flask equipped. 975% increased damage for poison with a perfect tincture. Not sure how to make the survivability work, though. For non-Ruthless, Bino's Kitchen Knife can give prolif, freeing up class/ascendancy choice which could be interesting.

you got me at no frame drops lmao

thanks for the xmas present!

This is the reason why poe is as amazing as it is Build 100% not on my radar Looks really fun Completely viable And there are hundreds like it

I run tight on sockets, so you can take meat shield out of the guardians blessing link and make it a 3 link.. you do have to cast it more often as the DM's die together more often due to being less tanky and not always near you(though they have never been out of range of the aura effect on my character.)

This is an absolutely awesome build guide, though I'm curious if you looked into how it would function without the tincture for next league?

You can really feel the effort

I don't think I saw it mentioned, but something that we ran into when testing this gem earlier in the league was that you can't just look at attack speed versus poison duration, since the gem checks at the BEGINNING of your attack animation if the target's poisoned, instead of when the attack lands. That leads to some jank where the attack lands and you go 'but he was clearly not poisoned, what gives?'

Rebuke of the Vaal also an excellent option for Viper Strike of the Mamba.

Oh nice, I wanted to try this one but ended up going instead with Dual Strike of Ambidexterity

Does it makes sense for single target to get Pneumatic Dagger and use Warlock ascendancy for Penance Mark. Those Shackled Phantasms can spawn once per second, so 3 phantasms every second or 3 poisons stacks should be crazy

For single target, i think an automated writhing jar would increase dps massively

Cheers for the in-depth guide. Do you think going for pneumatic daggers + Primalist ascendancy could be worthwhile, or are the charms not worth it to forego the comfiness of claws + flask effect/sustain? Damage-wise I haven't seen charms that are particularly good for single poison builds apart from wither effect. The +100% poison duration one doesn't help this build very much. You can get +20% elemental resistances or 5% chaos res per endurance charge per charm though, so that lessens pressure on gear immensely.

There is one on the forum that use the ambush support gem and goes crit with perfect agony node.

i think damage supports might work on alchemist's mark since it has the same wording as flame surge (which also doesn't let damage mods apply, while allowing supports)

I'm playing something like this but I was wondering if writhing jar would be good for proliferation of poisons on single target

For solo enemy bosses what about using the worm jar flask to spawn mobs that you can kill for stacking proliferation poisons?

ihavent played PoE in ages and i was so happy to see when i googled Viper Strike build a ziggyd build come up. my favorite poe guru. is ziggyd australian? i cant tell the accent

Would getting the Heist pneumatic dagger bases and switching to Wildwood Primalist and charms be suitable for pushing the build even further?

7:00 Atziri viable build. Certified

Hydra dying within a second of getting stacked with several Mamba Viper Strike poisons was so dope

Amazing build and video but quick question with malevolence linked to guardians blessing I hit the malevolence skill and all I get is a cool down 1.2 second timer ? Should I not have a timer on a buff displayed on screen if it’s active and no longer an aura :/? Cheers

Thanks for the build guide Ziggy but, is it Atziri viable?

Would wurm flask be good with this for bossing? For quickly stacking up poisons

Did you consider/test Olesya's delight belt? 40% more damage with ailments is pretty huge if you can work some frenzy charge gain into the build. Also some cheap tech for before you have strike implicit on gloves: Ancestral cry. Extra strike range, 2 extra targets, and lasts ages. Doesn't work with the multistrike version though sadly :(

can you use the worm flask for bossing?

I was thinking about the ring that doesn't let withering touch expire as long as the enemy is burning. Build has elem damage and with some crit it's easy to have perma ignite. Would it help to keep full wither stacks on bosses?

when u change to viper strike in POB Levelling, when do u respec out of the melee nodes between duellist..?

I missed the part where you are getting poison scaling from an elemental claw? How is the elemental damage being applied to the poison base damage? Oh, the poisonberry tincture, which doesn't exist in 3.24. Big sad.

awesome.

This one build is literally more interesting, deep, and complex than all of Diablo 4 and what it has to *lol* offer.

would penance mark work with this build? its from the Warlock tree and spawns small enemys around the cursed target may solve the issue with bosses and may buff the proliferation insanely

I've got a friend that I'm going to send this one to that will hopefully get him playing something other than toxic rain.

What about going with a two hander to gain way more flat for a far more potent poison like a bleed or ignite build or does the skill gem's 'combined dual wield' damage equal or surpass that i wonder?

Giga chad ziggy finally figured out a use for sadism support.

For actual single target, what about dropping Sadism as a support and getting an Ambush gem with Perfect Agony? With 20% quality, it's something like 35% base crit + 300% multi. Alchemist Mark with such a crit will be very high damage.

I _do_ owe you. the buttons have been pressed.

Hey Ziggy, does Nature's reprisal win over Nature's boon, even though we do not hit that often? Trying out the build, already epic at lvl 74

use writhing jar for addless bosses/targets.

no herald of agony becasue if he poison an enemy before you, you don't have all bonuses from low tolerance right?

@ZiggyDGaming just curious how you think lack of tinctures best navigated in 3.24. or am I fool for trying the build at league start :P

Hey Ziggy, Single Target Damage is kinda low when I'm playing this build. Is it really necessary to have Vaal Breach to ramp up the single target damage? Vaal Breach is expensive right now.

I'm wondering, since we now have one big poison, and the black flame ring, is it possible with this skill to effectively use poison and ignite at the same time?

I know this video is old by know, and I am also kinda sure you had a video about this at some point, alas I can't find it. So how does the chillest PoE youtuber goes about 6-linking an armour he likes? Example, I found not one but two Restless Wards now after buying one with 6 white sockets for convinience. But let's say I didn't ...

How will the build do next league when we don't have All Damage Can Poison?

Hi! I'm playing the build and all fine so far. I am confused about Malevolence tho and its interaction with guardians blessing. If i toggle Malevolence on it lasts around 5 seconds before shutting off. I see when you fight Maven at 41mins or so it stays up. What am I missing? thanks, i'm probs being dumb lol

will this build be as viable in this upcoming league when there are no tinctures?

Do you think this would also work as warlock with the Penance Mark to always spawn enemies to proliferate from?

More ziggy!

Great build, now, isnt there a flask you can use that summon enemy worms? Wouldnt that be gold for this build especially when bossing?

21:53 You got cold damage recouped as life in the screenshot not fire damage. Just want to let you know, in case you didn't already change that.

Hey Ziggy your helm had cold damage recouped, not fire, was that intentional?

oh hey ziggy beat me to making this happen, get see how a pro handles the clear speed. also suprised Ambush wasnt thrown in as an easy alpha strike for bosses

Maybe i missed it? What specters are you using?

Penance Mark ? getting more targets for bossing?

not a big fan of sadism (so no multistrike) on that build , played it quite a bit in ssf and i consider sadism straight out a downgrade. for several reason : 1) you just made your dot build into a pseudo hit build you have no damage uptime vs dangerous monsters (ubers/ wisped up essences etc) forcing yourself to chain attack in melee when you could just not do that. 2) you miss out on a buffed gem this league : ambush , with quality ambush you get up to 35 base crit , its insanely easy to get 100% critchance on the ambush hit and with ambush giving you 138% crit multi you can actually just take the one pointer in perfect agony and hit for 100% more damage on the ambush crit nearly , which will last for 3/4 seconds , nearly enough to have perfect uptime on ambush crit poisons. 3) pure uptime : with ambush you get to be melee for one hit every 4ish seconds and your damage is always on, with multistrike sadism everytime the boss attacks and you have to dodge or move you lose damage. on pinnacles with ambush being a teleportation you can legit do ambush hit frostblink out when your damage has been applied and it took you maybe 0.4/0.5 seconds in melee and you're out all in all on a practice dummy you probably get out more damage out of sadism multistrike if you get the multistrike 3rd hit on the 20% chance from pathfinder to double the dot for alchemist mark. But it really seems not worth in 99% of content (unless you're really overgeared for the content you do and have no risk in facetanking all the abilities and can one phase bosses so them moving around isnt a problem)

Does the writhing jar worms prolif the poison?

would a blizzard crown be good for this?

i have one question does the build work with mageblood?

Maybe I am missing something big here. I am almost 40 and having a real hard time killing any type of boss. Seems weaker than any build I have done this season. Gear seems fine at this level, tree looks like your swap tree in POB. So not sure what is going on.

RIP my strategy to purchase Vaal Breach later... Price jumped 100%

can this be used as a league starter?

Hey ziggy, is this build defunct without tinctures?

Ahhh....so that's why I'm seeing nearly everyone with rebuke of the vaal swords.

Huh... Neat alternative to my current blight of contagion build.