Thanks, GGG, for not forgetting us POE1-only folks—and a special shoutout to the one GigaChad intern keeping the trade API, website, new content, and balance updates alive. God bless your soul. Now if you could maybe take a peek at the absurd number of disconnects happening since league start... much appreciated in advance.

Starting off the league with a Poison Concoction of Bouncing build, then transitioning into Life-based Mamba that gets deleted by even the slightest movements of air molecules. I then painstakingly progress the atlas and hunting Mercs down for gear to swap over to CI on day 2, sitting around 4.5k ES, and started farming red altars stacked with essences and beasts.

Later on, I swapped out Ungil's for a Malevolence Aul to pick up Discipline without committing to an Enlighten 4. Honestly? Even when I am sitting at ~50% crit chance without Ambush, it doesn't feel as painful as I thought. Second Wind makes Ambush smoother and way less clunky to manage. If you're willing to go all in on Ashes and and E4, you could squeeze out more damage—but then you lose Discipline and any Watcher's Eye synergy, so... give and take I guess ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Overall, I think CI (specifically Trickster) offers way better defensive scaling, and it's just easier to manage. We're definitely not lacking in damage either—it’s trivial to scale it up with low tolerance stacking. As for the second dagger: just snipe what you can, slam with recombinators, and pray.

Next up: I’ll be farming for a Starcaller build in the coming weeks. After that... maybe I'll finally get around to chasing a MB and HH as usual.

My pob

https://pobb.in/I1FirNmi7Vu_

PoeNinja

https://poe.ninja/builds/mercenaries/character/Nirvaxstiel-7458/MambaSnakeOil?i=3&search=skills%3DViper%2520Strike%2520of%2520the%2520Mamba%26class%3DTrickster%26sort%3Dehp

Pseudo progression pob? I don't know, take it if you will. I used this when tryna transition from Pconc to Mamba to CI Mamba.

https://pobb.in/cNgVcEOOFE-z

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I stream sporadically on week days, but I do stream on weekends as long as the league isn't shit, around 5pm GMT+8.Check me out on https://www.twitch.tv/nirvaxstiel

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Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfFYDUTrL30

Also,

Rue is cat, POE2Bad, thanks so much, now back to my map.