How to boost damage on Poison pathfinder

I'd not played poison this season and wanted to give it a go, I tried to buy a build on discord if with a couple of k div to spend if people weren't playing it any more but couldn't find anyone who would sell me one, so I've put this scuff one together with bits I had, and cheap bits off the market. Could anyone point me in the direction of some pointers how I could say double my damage? My tooltip for poison arrow is 33k, and poeninja says I've about 300k dot dps, with the top builds on there doing about 35m(!!), I'm not looking for anything like that, but I feel my damage is really really lacking.

I've got + 5 proj on the bow, phys dam, crit

Got crit on the helmet (not gone vertex as I've got subterfuge mask, is that wrong?)

Visceral quiver with +2 proj, proj speed, crit

Some average rings with flat dam on I had knocking around

27% gain heart of the well

A crit chance/crit dam ailments time-lost

Are there any quick wins here give me a massive boost so I could try the build? Not looking for 35m damage, but 500k-1m would be great.

Like I mentioned, I had a couple of thousand div to try and buy a build so could spend that on upgrades to this one

Thanks for any help

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Mors2020-1491/character/MorsPath

Comments

Zimvol•5 months ago•1

You're missing the biggest damage increase available to this build: projectile speed.

You have 3 points going towards Subterfurge Mask but have Subterfurge Mask anointed on your amulet. This anoint should be Feathered Fletching.

You also don't have Projectile Acceleration III on any of your skills. Combined with Feathered Fletching, you double dip on projectile speed bonuses since one is projectile dmg and the other is bow dmg. With your quiver bonuses you're prob missing like 100% increased damage from your quiver alone.

You should also use Garukhan's Resolve on your Poisonburst Arrow, as you're building crit. That's probably the biggest increase you will see numbers wise on ninja since pob calculates bifurcated crits correctly there. You're at a point where you can drop the bleed / herald of blood interaction and focus on maxing your poison damage so that you can screen clear with just herald of plague.

If you can get a bow with >150% surpassing you can drop fork also and get another damage multiplier like Rigwald's Ferocity / Deliberation / Overextend

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