It's slow, but it's safe, and it enables some cheesy strats we otherwise wouldn't have access to. While the hit and run play style vs bosses may suck to some, I think there's value in being able to whack a boss, and run away while it's health ticks down. In my opinion this makes for a much more comfortable farming experience with WW. Also unlike Phys/Magic WW, since we're poison and our damage is over time and not on hit, we don't need to go slow to maximize our hits and can get move speed on our boots. This synergizes with our WW leech passive, which scales based off of our max life. This allows us to put almost everything into VIT, getting us a really thicc boi life pool. For starters, since we use Snake Stance, our damage upgrades come from plus skills/spell damage/pierce, and don't scale with stats. Poison WW benefits from a lot of things the other WW builds wouldn't. This build can do scosglen, lab, and most major boss fights (some excluded).īuild Overview and why Poison over Phys/Magic A good guide worthy character should be able to do most major content comfortably. This is a guide designed to get you a good farming character, at the very least. 2.4 changes piranha swarmed nerfed out of broken status, flat damage removal from vilehand making it viable. Single target sustain can be a bit lackluster 'Hit and Run' tactic won't appeal to some Can be a slow boss killer and needs some getting used to

Requires much more gear for MF (we need the MO space on our items for poison dmg.

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