I love bow poison builds, but...

I really love seeing stuff melt on the screen, I don't mind if it is weaker than other "meta" stuff, BUT early levels suck, vine arrow helps a lot, but lightning is still far better for clear (I don't mind killing bosses with poison, and taking longer, but I'm having to constantly disengage from white monsters).

Problems IMO:

  • Mostly poison support gems have a bigger downside than others
  • Needing to scale phys because chaos bows are bad
  • Poison passives on the tree have downsides
  • EVEN A FRICKING ASCENDANCY PASSIVE has a downside
  • It is considered better in general to use the gloves that increase the number of poisons on target or the ones that makes every type of damage contribute to poison magnitude
  • Quivers are "chance to poison"

What I would like to happen:

  • Chaos damage having a higher conversion to poison than phys
  • More chaos bows/quivers bases
  • Make the downsides less bad, remove some, or all of them for all I care.
  • Remove downside from ascendancy, obviously
  • I would also love more supports/skills poison related for sure.

Thank you for listening.

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Comments

Crossedge2094 months ago1

Quiver is not chance to poison.. all poison skills are already 100% chance to poison thats why visceral is BiS

Away_Possibility63194 months ago1

Do what I'm doing right now.I'm building a rage tacking shaman.I'm going to have poison deals faster parade age.I'm gonna Crown of eyes to wear a spell.Damage increases attack.I'm gonna grab both the nodes that increase spell damage per rage

Shadilinn4 months ago1

The downsides aren't that bad. If you build around multiple poison stacks you want to constantly apply them anyways.

The alternative would be one big poison throu poisonburst arrow and duration scaling.

30+ seconds poison duration is not that hard to archive and then you pop it with acidic concoction for roughly 45s poison value.