Path of Exile 3.28 Viper Strike of the Mamba Glad Ward

Had fun making this. I wanted to play a mamba ward stacker, but I didnt want to use ambush to rely on crits, nor did I want to give up my ward by slapping on a nightgrip. If you don't mind ambush then you can make this stronger.

The build concept was stacking ward, then converting it to chaos through bloodline and the green nightmare. This setup provides a large amount of flat chaos damage, that we then scale with the traditional low tolerance setup.

Usually, ward stackers suffer from the ability to get a larger life pool, but I found by dropping some ward and picking up the ES helm and 100% mastery node, I can effectively double my available health very efficiently.

this gets endu power and frenzy charges, which feels fine for what I was trying to do. I built this to farm legion which binos knife does very well, but that content is very rippy. You can slot in an inspired learning over the rare jewel if you are going to run that. This build can do it, but there is a random phys dot ground degen that just murders you every now and then. I cannot solve it. Other than that, this build is incredibly tanky and shrugs off most everything using its numerous defensive layers.

I had fun making this, it had a lot of complicated problems to solve. There is still room for improvement, but its time for me to move on.

TLDR POB: https://pobb.in/2qdUznVPALLU

note: I did not show buffed config in pob so it doesnt seem "inflated" but the build applies 11 wither via withering step, uses elusive, and obviously blocked is usually recently, so take that in mind.

celestial mathematics in the custom config is the damage gained from ward. pob does not calculate it yet