Please Change Viper Strike!

It's painfully obvious that 1.2 Viper Strike is GGG's engagement ring to the bold new Shadow. At some point during the rework of the Shadow area GGG evidently fell totally in love with him and started showering him with gifts like +16% Elemental Damage, +15% Physical Damage, +16% Dual Wield damage, +18% max Mana, 2% Life Leech, and so on ad nauseam. But not even that was enough adoration, so they ripped out the Corruption and Growth & Decay Chaos and DoT damage clusters from the Duelist area, and tucked them discreetly into the Shadow's trousers.

Unfortunately, DoT damage was a bit of an awkward fit with the Shadow's exquisitely crafted Loath Bane dagger and velvet Acuity gloves. An appropriately refurbished poison melee attack was thus fashioned out of a dried up Viper Strike snake skin, bristling with crit-worthy double-dipped fortitude. The gift-wrapped package will be hand delivered to each new Shadow upon their auspicious arrival in Wraeclast.

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RogueMage a écrit :

It's painfully obvious that 1.2 Viper Strike is GGG's engagement ring to the bold new Shadow. At some point during the rework of the Shadow area GGG evidently fell totally in love with him and started showering him with gifts like +16% Elemental Damage, +15% Physical Damage, +16% Dual Wield damage, +18% max Mana, 2% Life Leech, and so on ad nauseam. But not even that was enough adoration, so they ripped out the Corruption and Growth & Decay Chaos and DoT damage clusters from the Duelist area, and tucked them discreetly into the Shadow's trousers.

Unfortunately, DoT damage was a bit of an awkward fit with the Shadow's exquisitely crafted Loath Bane dagger and velvet Acuity gloves. An appropriately refurbished poison melee attack was thus fashioned out of a dried up Viper Strike snake skin, bristling with crit-worthy double-dipped fortitude. The gift-wrapped package will be hand delivered to each new Shadow upon their auspicious arrival in Wraeclast.

I'm not sure what I just read, but boy do I like it.

Because all we need melting Atziris.

I'm just gonna have to put my +3 melee skill sword to use with an elemental hit character I guess.

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RogueMage a écrit :

It's painfully obvious that 1.2 Viper Strike is GGG's engagement ring to the bold new Shadow. At some point during the rework of the Shadow area GGG evidently fell totally in love with him and started showering him with gifts like +16% Elemental Damage, +15% Physical Damage, +16% Dual Wield damage, +18% max Mana, 2% Life Leech, and so on ad nauseam. But not even that was enough adoration, so they ripped out the Corruption and Growth & Decay Chaos and DoT damage clusters from the Duelist area, and tucked them discreetly into the Shadow's trousers.

Unfortunately, DoT damage was a bit of an awkward fit with the Shadow's exquisitely crafted Loath Bane dagger and velvet Acuity gloves. An appropriately refurbished poison melee attack was thus fashioned out of a dried up Viper Strike snake skin, bristling with crit-worthy double-dipped fortitude. The gift-wrapped package will be hand delivered to each new Shadow upon their auspicious arrival in Wraeclast.

Hands down the finest of posts I've read in these forums, and I've been here since Open Beta.
10/10

As written (hit damage, not phys hit damage) new VS actually scales with all damage on the hit, including Elemental and Chaos. So you don't need to bother with phys if you don't want to. I'd try a fire VS >.>

Crit + Fire Damage + DoT bonuses + Fire Damage Bonuses = MASSIVE DOT

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Amiag a écrit :

I think that rogue exile with viper strike is the one that will benefit the most out of this lol

Thena Moga :P

I have her on the radar, but she isn't really skilled she wastes so much time for useless Shieldcharging :P

She should get Shieldcharge/Melee Splash/Curse on Hit/Vulnerability and her Viper-Strike so that she isn't wasting time for cursing and Shieldcharging. Ion Darkshroud is the other Exile using Viper-Strike and he is even worse, mainly whirls around and flickers and he doesn't use Vulnerability.

As for the skill itself. Viper Strike always was odd and never really good to be fair. It could be used for the situations and in the way charan described but it was a really strange gameplay. And I don't think a skill like Viper-Strike really was the right place for such a mechanic. I would prefer a poison-trap for this, to remove all weapon-dependancy. But I doubt that after they went completly in the different direction (also scaling Shockwave-Totem off spelldamage) they implement a poison skill that scales with nothing but level and maybe quality and vulnerability so the only way to support it would be Enhance + Empower^^ (maybe inc. Area to get a stack on more enemies at once).

If they make such a skill I don't really care about the Viper-change you could basically switch it at random with Doublestrike I guess except for CoC/Discharge with Volls it might even be better for anything you don't kill in one hit.

I will surely try it out, because it seems like it would be fairly good for farm-runs exspecially since you don't have to bring down ES of some bosses.