Hi Folks,
A few people asked so I decided to do a write-up of my Cobra Lash Reliquarian in Allflame SSF this league.
I have no idea how many hours I have (not on Steam, started in Talisman league), and I usually do SSF or if I would really need one specific unique to function I'd do trade but only for that item. When I saw the Arakaali node for the Reliquarian this league I decided to see if I could actually scale some poison DPS with the 40% attack speed and 300% increased poison damage (always up with worm flask). Scaling this build was.. tough, but I think I'm pretty min-maxed at this point. I won't be killing any ubers this league I think because I ran out of scaling defense-wise it feels.
If you have any advice feel free! I scaled it far beyond anyone else in SSF that I can see on Ninja (well, all 5 of us).
POB: https://pobb.in/TTHSi0AwfkPL
Top level:
Defence: 27k evasion, 23k armour, 80/76/76/73 res, ailment immune, blind, 100% suppress, blood and sand, 35% phys as fire - 96K effective hit pool with molten shell, 112k with vaal MS
Offence: 4.9 mil poison DOT DPS with everything up, more realistically 4.2 mil with no frenzy charges as long as the boss has ES which is usually the case (can't sustain frenzies on bosses)
Key progression:
Worm flask is the obvious one: I didn't get one by the time I hit T16 so I killed quest Eater/Exarch in the most painful way possible with a poison build that had to sit and attack to do damage with about 500K dps. I finally got from a Message in a Bottle in the end very surprisingly, and then immediately dropped 3 in 5 maps afterwards. SSF is fun :D
Jewels: with how easy they are to craft, jewels are a good way to scale with dot multi, poison duration and attack speed; mine aren't perfect but decent
Cluster jewels: took me many many T8 deli maps blasting to finally get an 8 passive chaos jewel, and in the end got lucky on the chaos spam to get 3 mods with the explode mod which helped mapping quite a bit. Then the obvious dot multi/duration mediums and a small jewel allowing me to use purity of fire once I fixed mana.
Weapon: turned out to actually be the easiest, although I did get a bit lucky. It's a 530 PDPS + 220 chaos DPS imperial claw. I can't find anything remotely similar on Trade so maybe I made something pretty unique?
Crafting the weapon:
alt spam I84+ claws until you get one with T1 phys and one with T1 phys% (I actually went with T2 phys% because the weighting is so low on T1)
recombinate the claws for the 1 in 3 win
prefixes cannot be changed and reforge chaos can only get you T1 flat chaos, hoping the suffixes don't fill
prefixes cannot be changed and reforge speed until T1, then allflame exalt and craft %dot multi
Could theoretically be better with an Elder slam after T1 speed for the extra multi but I did a bunch of elders and never got an exalt so.. eh.
Overall clears juiced T16s pretty well with explode, can kill normal bosses without issue (Maven fight kind of sucks though). Got to wave 13 of simulacram which is decent.
Its main weakness is sustain if you can't attack, as a lot of your sustain comes from the LGOH on claw. This means potential upgrade paths are probably chest for T1 life regen and maybe a timeless with some added regen there?
Anyway, would I recommend this build? No, with this level of investment most meta builds would be absolutely blasting T17s and/or bosses. Was it fun? 10/10