Poison Whirlwind Barb; A Comprehensive Guide (with 135 uber gear)

[Siosilvar]

Crafted jewels with 2% psd and 2% xp gain (for 8% total psd) are almost certainly better than Atomus if you're going that route.

[gm_binlid]

Crafted jewels with 2% psd and 2% xp gain (for 8% total psd) are almost certainly better than Atomus if you're going that route.

You can craft 2% spell damage jewels and roll 2% psd on it along with 2% xp, a lot longer process and more expensive but that would be a total of 10% psd per jewel. My question is can you make up for the huge loss in poison pierce and losing infected roots?

[Siosilvar]

Crafted jewels with 2% psd and 2% xp gain (for 8% total psd) are almost certainly better than Atomus if you're going that route.

You can craft 2% spell damage jewels and roll 2% psd on it along with 2% xp, a lot longer process and more expensive but that would be a total of 10% psd per jewel. My question is can you make up for the huge loss in poison pierce and losing infected roots?

You can't get 2% XP with a spell damage craft. The XP craft adds 1% of the XP.

This would be a single-target build only, anyway, so losing procs isn't a concern.

[Opgedronken]

For pure spell damage I'd even guess dual wielding blacktongues will outperform the staff.
The + skills are only for the prebuff so you could use cheaper suicide notes for that.

[chaucer1978]

Hello

I am really liking this build so far bit I have a quick question. Is there certain places to get certain sacred uniques. I have been farming TA and Duncraig with over 200 mf and no luck finding the blacktongue flamberge or the armor piece listed. I did find othe sacred uniques but no for this build.

Thank you

[B_ATAKY]

Hello

I am really liking this build so far bit I have a quick question. Is there certain places to get certain sacred uniques. I have been farming TA and Duncraig with over 200 mf and no luck finding the blacktongue flamberge or the armor piece listed. I did find othe sacred uniques but no for this build.

Thank you

Duncraig the best place for farming SU uniques. But its pure random overall. Keep farming and ull find what u want.

[magz_]

Hello

I am really liking this build so far bit I have a quick question. Is there certain places to get certain sacred uniques. I have been farming TA and Duncraig with over 200 mf and no luck finding the blacktongue flamberge or the armor piece listed. I did find othe sacred uniques but no for this build.

Thank you

Hey there, if you're having trouble with those SUs it may just be bad luck. Dunc is a good farming spot, and so is fauzt. You can actually clear bremmtown before you can clear fauzt so I recommend clearing that area a bit with some high MF. bremm has OK drops.

[magz_]

Crafted jewels with 2% psd and 2% xp gain (for 8% total psd) are almost certainly better than Atomus if you're going that route.

Most likely this then. When I was figuring it out I just did "ctrl f + exp" and didn't really consider crafted jewels. I'm unsure how much value 1all skills has for snake stance vs psd. If you're right this build would get considerably cheaper and I may be able to make it this patch after all

[magz_]

Crafted jewels with 2% psd and 2% xp gain (for 8% total psd) are almost certainly better than Atomus if you're going that route.

You can craft 2% spell damage jewels and roll 2% psd on it along with 2% xp, a lot longer process and more expensive but that would be a total of 10% psd per jewel. My question is can you make up for the huge loss in poison pierce and losing infected roots?

With the astro set, SOTS/drake, mith gloves (if not using something like lamha), you should be fine. You can even go back to using amanita in the helm if you REALLY need it. As sio said, this is a single target variant, so you wouldn't really care about procs. You would only switch to this when you're in full boss kill mode, so I'd only transition to this when you're ready to farm high level Uber bosses.

[smartasss]

U will never kill Sam / Deimos with snake stance alone. And with Cain u can only get mediocre SOTS Arachnomancy proc.