PoE Cobra Lash Build 3.25 – Path of Exile: Settlers of Kalguur

Cobra Lash is a versatile and deadly skill in Path of Exile that excels in dealing chaos damage and applying poison to enemies. This build is ideal for players who enjoy fast-paced, projectile-based gameplay with a focus on chaos damage and ailment application. Here’s a comprehensive guide to mastering the Cobra Lash build in Path of Exile 3.25.

Cobra Lash Skill Mechanics

Cobra Lash (Level 20):

  • Type: Attack, Projectile, Chaos
  • Mana Cost: 8
  • Attack Speed: 120% of base
  • Attack Damage: 205% of base
  • Effectiveness of Added Damage: 205%
  • Quality: +20%
  • Requires: Level 70, 98 Dexterity, 68 Intelligence
  • Skill Mechanics:
    • Damage Boost: 8% more damage with hits and ailments for each remaining chain.
    • Chains: +7 times.
    • Chaos Conversion: 60% of physical damage converted to chaos damage.
    • Poison Chance: 40% chance to poison on hit.

PoE Cobra Lash Build 3.25

Building a Cobra Lash Character

Weapon Choice

  • Dagger or Claw: Choose weapons with high attack speed, chaos damage, critical strike chance, and added physical damage to maximize the effectiveness of Cobra Lash.

Passive Skill Tree

Focus on Nodes that Enhance:

  • Chaos Damage: Increase the chaos damage dealt by your attacks.
  • Poison Damage: Boost the damage over time effects of your poisons.
  • Attack Speed: Improve your attack speed for faster projectile firing.
  • Critical Strike Chance and Multiplier: Enhance your critical strike chance and multiplier for more consistent and powerful critical hits.
  • Life and Evasion: Ensure survivability and avoid enemy attacks.

Ascendancy Choices

1. Assassin (Shadow):

  • Ambush and Assassinate: Increases critical strike chance and multiplier.
  • Noxious Strike: Provides poison damage and life recovery on kill.
  • Toxic Delivery: Boosts poison damage and critical strike chance.
  • Opportunistic: Enhances damage against enemies on low life and increases movement speed.

2. Trickster (Shadow):

  • Patient Reaper: Provides recovery of life, mana, and energy shield on kill.
  • Prolonged Pain: Increases damage over time and skill effect duration.
  • Swift Killer: Grants frenzy and power charges on kill.
  • Ghost Dance: Provides evasion and energy shield bonuses.

Support Gems

Main Skill Setup:

  • Cobra Lash: Primary attack skill.
  • Support Gems: Lesser Multiple Projectiles, Unbound Ailments, Deadly Ailments, Void Manipulation, and Added Chaos Damage.

Utility Skills:

  • Wither: Increases chaos damage taken by enemies.
  • Despair: Curses enemies, making them take increased chaos damage.
  • Whirling Blades: Provides quick movement and positioning.
  • Malevolence: Aura that increases skill effect duration and damage over time.

Gear and Accessories

1. Armor:

  • Body Armor: Seek high life, resistances, evasion, and added chaos damage.
  • Helmet, Gloves, and Boots: Prioritize life, resistances, and attack speed.

2. Accessories:

  • Amulet and Rings: Focus on increased chaos damage, life, resistances, critical strike chance, and critical strike multiplier.
  • Belt: A Stygian Vise with high life, resistances, and added chaos damage is ideal.

Flask Setup

1. Life Flask:

  • Instant Recovery: For emergency healing.

2. Utility Flasks:

  • Quicksilver Flask: Increases movement speed for repositioning.
  • Diamond Flask: Provides increased critical strike chance.
  • Basalt Flask: Provides physical damage reduction.
  • Atziri’s Promise: Grants chaos damage based on physical and elemental damage and life leech.

Combat Strategy

1. Engaging Enemies:

  • Use Cobra Lash to fire projectiles that chain between enemies, applying poison and chaos damage effectively.

2. Maximizing Damage:

  • Activate Malevolence to boost your damage over time effects.
  • Apply Despair to tough enemies to increase their chaos damage taken.
  • Use Wither to stack debuffs on enemies, further increasing their chaos damage taken.

3. Positioning:

  • Utilize Whirling Blades and Quicksilver Flask to stay mobile and avoid enemy attacks while maintaining optimal positioning for maximum damage output.

Example Build

Assassin Cobra Lash Build:

  • Focus: Increased chaos damage, poison damage, attack speed, and critical strike chance.
  • Key Passives: Ambush and Assassinate, Noxious Strike, Toxic Delivery, Opportunistic.
  • Support Gems: Lesser Multiple Projectiles, Unbound Ailments, Deadly Ailments, Void Manipulation, Added Chaos Damage.

Conclusion

The Cobra Lash build offers a unique and engaging playstyle for Path of Exile players who enjoy fast-paced, projectile-based combat with a focus on chaos damage and poison. By focusing on enhancing chaos damage, poison damage, attack speed, and critical strike chance, you can create a powerful character capable of clearing endgame content with ease. Equip your dagger or claw, unleash your poisonous projectiles, and dominate your enemies with Cobra Lash in Path of Exile 3.25.

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