Thinking of Doing Poison Throw Barb - Need Feed Back

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Ophiophagus

Ophiophagus
Balanced Axe (Sacred)
Throw Damage: (224 - 279) to (287 - 348)
One-Hand Damage: (130 - 156) to (198 - 231)
(Barbarian Only)
Required Level: 120
Item Level: 120
Strength Damage Bonus: (0.14 per Strength)%
-1% to Enemy Poison Resist per 1% Block Chance
15% of Dexterity added as Weapon Physical Damage
+5 to Barbarian Skill Levels
Adds 45-90 Damage
+(130 to 200)% Enhanced Damage
Maximum Life +5%
Maximum Poison Resist +2%
Maximum Block Chance +10%
Requirements -100%
Socketed (6)

and go dex for easy max block and decent sustain from life leech, huge qol improvement.

Has anybody else had any luck with this build post-nerf? Looking to switch my barb back to poison throw and want to have an idea of some decent mid-level gear to get before switching over and before being able to afford the items Drewjgo mentioned above

Still good. Mid game Raptor runeword throwing axe with ber jewels. Poison rune barb shield (yes you will need to farm teganze for that, or buy them) outside of that shield not sure but a shimmering crafted barb shield may work until you get the poison shield. That shield is a cornerstone of the build. Shimmering crafted barb helm and gauntlets. Shimmering crafted armor or queen of glass with No runes in it. Astrogha set belt, boots, ammy (crafts can work till you get that, and a random -poison res ammy). -poison res rings. Don’t worry about max block in glad dominance till you get ophiophagous axe. The full throw barb set is good, but not for poison throw barb, good for overkill physical though and rebound. You want to reach pierce so you will likely need to socket no runes in everything. Max snake bite, 6 points stampede for clearing. Max snake stance and glad dominance. 1 point all the way up support tree maxing ancient blood for levels in bite and stance. 1 point both 90 and 115 Uber skills. Just move and kite mobs till snake stance takes them out. If you have 135 pierce, bosses will die, but will take some time. Hit 170 and bosses still melt. Instead of a 2 bite Astrogha it’s a 5-7 bite astrogha to give a frame of reference for damage changes.

Sounds good - thanks a lot for the tips! So No runes would be better than Nef runes which boost poison duration? I guess Pierce > Duration even though duration skyrockets the sheet dmg.

rugby_1 wrote:Sounds good - thanks a lot for the tips! So No runes would be better than Nef runes which boost poison duration? I guess Pierce > Duration even though duration skyrockets the sheet dmg.

It skyrockets the sheet damage, but it doesnt increase the damage per tick because poison damage doesnt stack.

You guys want an advice... Do not use Poison Rune shield

MagnuS wrote:You guys want an advice... Do not use Poison Rune shield

How come and which shield would you recommend?

rugby_1 wrote:
MagnuS wrote:You guys want an advice... Do not use Poison Rune shield

How come and which shield would you recommend?

To optimize poison damage builds you don't want more than one extra source of dmg... The poison shield Runeword is made of 4 po runes and each of it counts as a source of poison dmg which isn't the best option.

I would go with a Shimmering craft. Other options are

Toraja's Champion

Toraja's Champion
Gilded Shield (Sacred)
Defense: (7944 - 8978) to (9847 - 11129)
Chance to Block: 1%
(Barbarian Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 700
Item Level: 105
+(2 to 3) to Barbarian Skill Levels
+2 to Maximum Barbarian Minions
+(30 to 38)% Damage to Protector Spirit Bloodlust
40% Cast Speed
+(21 to 25)% to Summoned Minion Damage
+(115 to 143)% Enhanced Defense
+500 to Life
+250 to Mana
Elemental Resists +10%
+10 Life on Striking
+(6 to 7) Mana on Striking
Socketed (4)

and

Destiny

Destiny
Gilded Shield (Sacred)
Defense: (8868 - 9976) to (10992 - 12366)
Chance to Block: 1%
(Barbarian Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 700
Item Level: 1
+2 to All Skills when using an Apple
+3 to Barbarian Skill Levels
+(41 to 50)% to Summoned Minion Life
+(11 to 15)% to Summoned Minion Resistances
+(140 to 170)% Enhanced Defense
+2% to Runemaster Defense Bonus
Maximum Mana +15%
Regenerate Mana +(31 to 50)%
Socketed (4)

Spirits of the Nephalem
(Barbarian Shaman Set)

because at some point you want to scale your snake bite from +skills.