Re: Venomtongue Mantle. Imho it’s pretty specifically aimed at witchhunter shoulder that can go with the vile pact set.
For example, this is Nery’s: Vile pact witch hunter with Zantarin’s Shoulder
And if you juggle some points into Witchfire, maybe like so: Nery’s build with Venomtongue and some skill juggling
So you gain another 25% chaos->acid convert. But it still doesn’t really fit that well.
Hi Hamster!
I really cannot think venomtongue can fit the build. Yes conversion is good, but raw stats and skill bonus is also important.
Venomtongue stats are really bad and it gives irrelevant skill bonus. Reordering the skill points around will make it worse as solael’s witchfire will only give (at max) its 80% flat and attack speed which we don’t really need in this build. It will need to take points in merciless repertoire and BoD, both of which will lower your stats and global acid damage.
I also meant to ask you Nery (as this build’s creator) if you have thoughts on this. It’s a shame that this mantle doesn’t fit anywhere else (imho).
Maybe it has limited use as a filler until a good MI is found? Or is an any-affix MI better than venomtongue?
@hammyhamster1 Skill bonuses and stats are just not enough to justify using it, at least not here. Plus I need stun resistance. So if I want to build no green, will have to use Radaggan shoulders.
TLDR.
general opinion seems to be that this shoulder really doesn’t fit, surprisingly even where the skill bonuses are targeted.
So maybe change bleed resist to something else and add some bonus skills to other masteries, such that the conversion can be useful in other combos.
ie, tweak it in the next update away from it’s current focus of witch hunter.