Innovative Chaos Damage Build in Path of Exile

Muma's Viper Strike showcases an innovative build, leveraging chaos damage for exceptional gameplay potential.

### Innovative Chaos Damage Build: Ward Stacking in Path of Exile
* 🎮  Welcome back to the channel, where I'm exploring a new tech template focused on **Ward stacking to enhance chaos damage** in Path of Exile.
* ⚔️  The build revolves around achieving **between 400 to 1,200 flat chaos damage** with just **two and a half items**, making it a **highly versatile option** for various builds.
* 🛡️  The first key item is **Night Grip Runic Cages**, which has been nerfed but still provides **chaos damage based on Ward**, while the second item, the **Settler's League Y Stand Sted Leather Belt**, converts a **significant portion of armor and evasion to Ward**.
* 📈  With these two items, I demonstrated a Ward increase from **109 to over 4,000**, translating to **substantial chaos damage** added to all attacks and spells.
* 💥  Currently testing this build with Viper Strike of Muma, which offers a unique mechanic of **300% more damage with poisons**, but I'm open to exploring other skills that can leverage the **high chaos damage**.
* 🔍  The build incorporates a **pneumatic dagger** that ensures hits **can't be evaded**, further enhancing **damage output** and allowing for effective **poison application**.
* 💰  I aim to refine this build without overspending initially, ensuring its **viability before investing heavily in gear and upgrades**.
* 🤔  As I continue to experiment, I'm eager for suggestions on how to best utilize the **large amounts of flat chaos damage** being generated, and I look forward to sharing more updates.

Hello YouTube. Welcome back. This is ba Mage again, and we're bringing you some different tech I've never played with before. In the background, you'll see me playing the Viper Strike of Muma. Obviously, the idea for that came from just seeing Mouthless's video, which made Viper Strike and Mumble look incredibly good. But that's not what this video is about. This video is about the little template I'm doing, Ward stacking in a slightly different way. It provides me very little defense, but a ton, and I do mean an absolute ton, of flat chaos damage added to everything. This is a template that takes like 2 and a half items, and I'll get to what those are. I'll explain them. I got Path of Buildings and everything, but it takes like two and a half items, and we can apply it to absolutely any build to get between, depending on your investment, 400 to 800 flat chaos damage, to maybe even as high as 1,200 flat chaos damage, depending on how you go about it, which is an incredibly large amount of flat.

chaos damage to add to anything that is so ridiculously high it sounds wrong. Now, I'm not convinced that the first skill that I've tried being Viber strike of Muma in the background here. I'm not sure that that is. I'm not sure that that is the play, but I am sure that that's a ton of flat chaos, and I definitely want to do something with it. So, let's explain how it works first, right? So, these two items, they're going to be the real important ones. First item, night grip runic cages, just a rune unique. It's been nerfed recently. Um, it's actually been nerfed twice. It used to come with 25% of Ward gained as ADD damage. Then it was nerfed to 20. Then this league, we got access to way more Ward. It got nerfed to 10%. This is fine because our Ward numbers are way higher. All this does is give us a little bit of chaos damage, gain added chaos damage equal to 10% of your ward, and 75% of the damage.

taken by passes Ward. So, that means if you've got 4,000 Ward defensively, it's as if you only have 1,000 Ward. All right, so defensively, this is a lot less useful, but having a th000 ward over your life is still pretty useful, so it's not completely wasted. The second half, the reason we're able to get a ton more, is this guy right here, which was only introduced this league in Settler's League y stand sted leather belt. Unfortunately, bad base, but really interestingly, gain Ward instead of 50% of armor and evasion rating from your equipped Shield. This does respond to defense catalysts, which means it becomes 60%. So, 60% of the armor and evasion from your chest becomes Ward. So, with just those two items, we now, or just those two uniques, we now have access to quite a bit of Ward. So, I made a little showcase area right here. So, with just these two items on, right, just those two items, this gives me 109 Ward. So, you can see that's all we

have is 109 Ward, so if you put on something useful like a lightning coil here, it's got some armor and evasion. Not incredibly good armor or evasion. In fact, let's just max that roll out to give us the best look, right? It'll take our Ward from 109 all the way up to 1,500. That's a starter amount of Ward. That's 150, 10%. That's 150 flat chaos damage added to literally everything, Herald's attack spells, doesn't matter. That's okay. Other options, things like Brass Dome, way more armor, can come with up to Max, up to plus five Max res, etc., right? That brings us up to 3K Max Ward. We've got the one my character is currently wearing, which is an 8C item. I reforged to defense on twice just to have a chest to wear because I was too low level to wear any of the good bases. Um, this is not an impressive base at all. The rolls on it are bad. I've even got crafted armor and evasion and still

with just those items, we're at 2.4k. That's already 240 flat chaos, which is quite a bit. That's before we add any other gear in. And I put this one in, which is triple T1 prefixes on the best base. So this is like the best-case scenario for a chest you could make for defense, right? Throw that one on. That's with just those three items, no Global increased defense, no increased defense rolls anywhere, nothing giving us more Ward. That's already 4.4,000. So just with the gear I currently have on my character, that doesn't count new bases. So for instance, my boots right here, my boots right here at another 340 Ward. While if they were better rolled, also giving me could be 100 life, that would be great. These Boots are bad, but it's fine for now. You can also put on a helmet that's just a ward base. You don't need to do anything really special with it. You can just get a life roll, get a nice percent Ward roll on it, and that's

all I've got here. There's nothing special about it. It doesn't even have the um, doesn't even have like a flat Ward roll. It adds another 500. So every single one of these things adds a bunch more flat chaos. So that is just a fantastic idea that I haven't quite figured out how to do right now. So right now I'm testing out viper strike of the mumber. It is very cool. I'm doing it on a Pathfinder. Pathfinder already gets the prolif. I have not Uber ascended despite being level 90 because I just haven't been back to lab yet. I will definitely do that. Uh, we will uh, figure out what nodes we're going to take. Uh, this whole thing is like a template of like a stand-in. Does this idea work? The answer is it does because we're viper strike a Muma. I will quickly go over what I've done in this build, but I do want to say this could be not viper strike tomorrow. It could be viper strike completely differently tomorrow. It could

be a completely different thing. It could end up being a spell. It could end up being anything. I'm also open to any suggestions of how to deliver my large amount of chaos damage to things. So for now, I'm doing viper strike of mumber. It's special because 300% more damage with poisons, but you can only poison once. That's fantastic. Mixing that with perfect Agony. Non-crit can't make ailments crits do. For some reason, it doesn't show you [__] multi anymore, which your [__] multi now applies to damage over time multi instead. But in-game, we can see our [__] multi, which is right now 48%. So that'll get a little bit higher, but for now, that's what we're at. So that's a lot of damage. I also took this St. critical strikes with a dagg of poison enemy. Fantastic. So now I don't need poison chance. I don't need damage over time multi. I don't need any

of those things. It's all always crits all the time. We've got 100% crit. It'll poison. It'll poison off my [ __ ] multi. It's fantastic. We have stacked low tolerances everywhere, although we only have three of them currently. And I will take the other side of these as I get a few more levels. There's two there, one here, and there's going to go one more in this slot as well. So, there'll be four of them plus the Mastery should leave us out with one very large poison. Obviously, I am in scuffed gear. The idea was to find out if this works without spending an absolute truckload of currency and make sure that it's a good idea first before we go spending a lot of money. After our Shenanigans with shrines recently, I decided it would be better to prove to myself that the idea has legs before we go spending 80 or 100 divines putting a Build Together that might fail again. So far, flat damage-wise has been

Absolutely fantastic! The other thing we're doing that's a little different from other viper strike builds is we went with the pneumatic dagger. Just pneumatic, whatever that is called. I went with one of them. With hits can't be evaded, it ends up doing a pretty good amount of damage. It's got the CRP multi when there's a rare unique nearby, which is fantastic. It has hits can't be evaded, so I don't have to worry about accuracy at all, and I can't miss. And it's got more damage on it than the binos does, so I'm pretty happy with that. Because it's all hits with this weapon, can poison. We can just use ell rolls. We can just use elemental rolls for everything. It doesn't matter. Everything that goes under that weapon can poison, which is fantastic. We're not going to talk too hard about the links that I have here because they're the ones I could pick up from a vendor and color into my garbage chest. We're probably still going to put

melee Fizz in here, probably in place of efficacy, but I was just testing everything to make sure it worked. So, that's the theory. This has been it in practice. Obviously, my character is very squishy, although I have somehow nearly made it to level 90 on the first day. But it is very squishy, so we're going to have to work on that. And like I said, we might become a spell, we might become another attack, we might become any... we could become anything. Who knows what this character is going to be, but that's how it's going to work. I'm pretty excited to see what I can do. We have to come up with good ideas for that very large amount of flat chaos damage that's getting added, though. Need some... need some good ideas for that. Don't... not 100% sure how we're going to utilize it yet, but there it is. That's some exciting Tech. This is what we'll be working on for the next several days. Leave any ideas you've got that

go with this in the description. We'll have a look at everything. Uh, that is all I have, and I will see everybody next time. Goodbye.

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Innovative Ward Stacking for Chaos Damage

The video explores a unique template for ward stacking, offering a significant boost of flat chaos damage to any build.

It highlights two key items: Night Grip Runic Cages, which provides chaos damage based on ward, and a leather belt that converts armor and evasion rating to ward.

This combination can potentially yield between 400 to 1,200 flat chaos damage, making it a powerful strategy for damage enhancement.

Ward can be increased from 109 to 1,500 with useful items like a lightning coil.

The Brass Dome offers more armor and can provide up to 3K Max Ward.

With the right gear and rolls, it's possible to reach 4.

4K Ward, and additional items like boots and a helmet can further boost Ward and provide life rolls.

Testing a New Build: Viper Strike of the Mumber

The speaker is experimenting with a Viper Strike build on a Pathfinder, focusing on delivering chaos damage.

The build is unique due to the 300% more damage with poisons, but it can only poison once.

The speaker is open to suggestions for improving the build and plans to make adjustments in the future.

Experimenting with a Poison Viper Strike Build

The build focuses on achieving 100% critical hits and stacking low tolerances for maximum poison damage.

The player is using scuffed gear to test the effectiveness of the build before investing heavily.

A pneumatic dagger is chosen for its unique benefits, including hits that can't be evaded and increased damage, making it a key component of the poison strategy.

The speaker is experimenting with a melee Fizz character, aiming for level 90 on the first day despite its squishy nature.

They are considering various transformations for the character's abilities and are excited about the potential of the flat chaos damage being added.

The speaker is seeking ideas from others to help utilize the chaos damage effectively and will be working on the character build for the next several days.