The VIPER STRIKE of the MAMBA Build Guide That is Way Too Long & Detailed - PATH of EXILE AFFLICTION

Amazing guide ! I think I speak for everyone when I say that a full length ZiggyD build guide is a Christmas miracle. For everyone that has been watching since PoE beta this definitely takes us back. Praying that you tinker with some more of the skills. Another good retro one would be playing around with the old new sunder gem

Merry freakin xmas mates! My present to you is this longass guide to a build I really fell in love with (it's been a while since I've been motivated enough to make one of these!). Great fun to tinker with and play. I hope you have a great time with it or just on your holidays in general - :_ziggyHug: love from Ziggy, Amy & the wee baby Tully!

The first build I ever followed on this game was your southpaw reave character and it got me hooked on POE. I'm sure some newer players are going to follow this build guide religiously the same way I did when I started playing all those years ago. You're a legend Ziggy!

The closest thing to good melee ignite we will get. Great video

Great build and build guide! Been also playing mamba strike and it's super fun. I'm surprised to see a claw beating out rebuke in dps, but I think it's a difference in how your version is built and your scaling is prioritized - with claws you can opt to get flat damage to boost your number whereas with rebuke you want to prioritize dot multi and faster ailments. Granted rebuke makes gearing slightly easier since it's not so hard to get one corrupted with resolute technique, freeing up some suffixes and mana res and passives that you no longer need for accuracy. Just a note, PoB doesn't calculate the damage properly, but you can simulate it by adding your weapon damage as added damage in the config so that the "attack with damage of both weapons" is actually represented (otherwise it just takes 50% of each, which you can check in the dps calc)

As someone who has watched your content for many years, this is almost nostalgic! That's a damn good Christmas gift, Ziggy. Thanks for all you do.

Nice guide, good breakdown of the mechanics and nice of you to list all the options of taking this through endgame. I actually came up with an idea of building this two days back too, leveled yesterday and got most of my items barely half a day before this came out. Lucky me I guess xD Really loving the play style, I could see this getting more attention than I'd ever thought viper strike could ^^

Super high quality guide. I Wish all youtube build guides were like this.

In case anyone wanted an alternative link for withering touch: I’ve been running withering touch, lifetap, increased duration, and efficacy. I’m pretty sure increased duration on withering step also applies to the wither stacks applied by the skill - with a 3 second CD and near 6 second duration, you have pretty good single target uptime on max wither stacks without scaling quality super hard.

After having played this build for about a week now, I must say this is one of the most fun build for me since i've started playing poe 13 years ago (jesus, didn't realize it was that long lol). The way whole screens just go poof without any visual noise just feels so good :)

I was working on a Bleed Sadism character and while it was looking decent, this blew it out of the water. Rerolled to this and have been having a blast, the prolif is insane! I'm using Ralakesh and Olesya's with Frenzy/Affliction charges and it feels great. Still a ton of upgrades, don't even have my cluster jewels yet, but already blasting T16s!

I league launched Mamba on ruthless, I really loved it until maps when i had to drop dual wield for a shield and then it fell off- luckily I am using molten strike with a tincture in the meanwhile. Couldn't get a low tolerance jewel to roll just yet which I think will feel way better than just the tincture and the poison mastery. Can't wait to get a lightning coil and maybe a taste of hate before I can swap over to dual wield. Love the new gems and love the guide! Thanks for the video Ziggy

Great work ziggy! Thanks for taking the time to give us such an in depth guide

nice guide, is playing Mamba strike aswell :D, but went the DEX stack route. Hand of thought and motion x2, and split personality etc. This also makes suppress-cap easy and stun immune etc from evasion to armour conversion. we will probably see some cool new ways to to build with the new tinctures in the future. Thanks for a chill long video!

I have wanted to play a good vs build for years, I was excited when I saw mamba in the patch notes. Cheers mate, merry Christmas

Merry Christmas ZiggyD & Happy New Year! Haven't played PoE in a couple years, but I still like to check out your wacky builds.

As far as christmas gifts go this is pretty dang good, ty <3

So happy someone tried this skill and made it work. Also very happy to not see another scourge arrow or penence brand

What a banger. The first build i ever beat the campaign with was ziggys gc miner wayyyy back when. Great to see another ziggy build

Been thinking about trying to make this skill work in Ruthless. Was contemplating building around this with the Enduring Suffusion affliction notable with only a life flask equipped. 975% increased damage for poison with a perfect tincture. Not sure how to make the survivability work, though. For non-Ruthless, Bino's Kitchen Knife can give prolif, freeing up class/ascendancy choice which could be interesting.