Poe Cobra Lash is a skill that relies heavily on poison to attack enemies. This skill utilizes high attack speed to inflict poison at a greater chance while giving critical damage. This skill was known for the campaign as it can clear the mob easily while lacking the single target damage. However, after the latest patch, there is a decent upscale from 125% to 205% at gem level 20. This is good news because now you can have this build again even against a single target enemy.
Building Your POE Cobra Lash with Defensive Gears
A very well-known fact about this build is that it is squishy. To make this build viable, you need to get 90% (the maximum) physical damage reduction without armor. You can do that by getting 12 endurance charges and looking for at least 150K of armor. To further prevent your demise, you also need to maximize the elemental resistance modifier on the jewels. You can do that by utilizing transcendence which increases elemental damage inflicted to you, but your armor now protects you from elemental damage.
Another way to boost your defensive capability is by wearing Loreweave which can give you 76-78% maximum resistance. After you use any items that can boost your resistance to that number, you don’t have to worry about the map with elemental reduction as it will stay at maximum resistance.
If you want to take the defensive route further, you can always rely on Ralakesh. It gives you 15-25% cold and chaos resistance. However, it doesn’t increase movement speed anymore. The best combo with the boots is always Restless Ward. It increases your movement speed while regenerating life per second. To complete the build, you can add eldritch implicits to your helmet which can help to add stats to your final build.
Gems
For the gems, you want to use Vaal Molten Shell with the support gem Cast when Damage Taken. Additionally, you will need Whirling Blades with Faster Attacks and Lifetap which will use your life instead of Mana to activate the skill. For the PoE Cobra Lash, you want to have the following support gems: Awakened Unbound Ailment, Ice Bite, Awakened Deadly Ailments, Awakened Vicious Projectiles, and Awakened Elemental Damage with Attacks.
To further increase the damage, you need to use Despair with Lifetap support and use Temporal Chains with Cast when Damage Taken, More Duration, and Lifetap. Lastly, Use Malevolence with Enlighten support, Determination, and Grace to complete the build.
This build relies heavily on defensive gears, and it is designed to be usable even for the late game. With the excessive defensive stats, you now can defeat the bosses fairly quickly and easily. It is also possible if you do Ubers as long as your investment in equipment and gems is good enough to make the damage from the boss irrelevant. Although PoE Cobra Lash is a very interesting build, especially for campaign mode, you may struggle in League Starter mode since it requires heavy investment to make it dependable.
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