Viper Strike - Path of Exile

Viper Strike Viper Strike is an active skill gem.

Hits enemies, converting some of your physical damage to chaos damage and inflicting poison which will be affected by modifiers to skill duration. If dual wielding, will strike with both weapons. Requires a claw, dagger or sword.

Attack, Duration, Melee, Strike, Chaos. Level: 1–20. Cost: 5 Mana. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 90–154%. Requires Level 1.

  • 30% Less Attack Speed if Dual Wielding
  • Each Weapon Hits separately if Dual Wielding, dealing 20% less Damage
  • Base duration is 4 seconds
  • (5–169) to (7–254) Added Chaos Damage
  • 60% of Physical Damage Converted to Chaos Damage
  • 60% chance to Poison on Hit

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

NameAdditional Effects From QualityWeight
Viper Strike(0–10)% increased Attack Speed
(0–10)% increased Poison Duration		50

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Related Gems

Level Effect

LevelRequires LevelDexterityBase Damage5 to 7 Added Chaos DamageExperience
111090%5, 770
221293.4%5, 8308
341696.7%6, 101,554
4722100.1%8, 126,667
51131103.5%11, 1726,047
61641106.8%16, 2449,725
72050110.2%20, 3095,714
82458113.6%25, 37169,595
92867116.9%30, 46283,759
103275120.3%37, 55453,996
113683123.7%44, 66703,128
124092127.1%53, 791,061,223
1344100130.4%63, 942,065,870
1448109133.8%74, 1112,507,110
1552117137.2%86, 1305,798,936
1656125140.5%101, 15115,083,919
1760134143.9%117, 17627,792,735
1864142147.3%136, 20443,869,739
1967148150.6%152, 228242,081,556
2070155154%169, 254
2172157.4%181, 272
2274160.7%195, 292
2376164.1%209, 313
2478167.5%224, 335
2580170.8%239, 359
2682174.2%256, 384
2784177.6%274, 411
2886180.9%293, 440
2988184.3%314, 470
3090187.7%335, 503
3191189.4%346, 519
3292191.1%358, 537
3393192.7%370, 555
3494194.4%382, 573
3595196.1%395, 592
3696197.8%408, 612
3797199.5%421, 632
3898201.2%435, 653
3999202.8%449, 674
40100204.5%464, 696

Viper Strike is a claw / dagger / sword melee strike attack skill. It hits the enemy, converting physical damage to chaos damage, and applies poison, dealing chaos damage over time based on the combined physical and chaos damage dealt. It uses both weapons to deal damage if you are dual wielding.

Skill functions and interactions

Viper Strike applies poison with a 4-second duration on hit. Viper Strike specifically overrides the base poison duration with its own base skill duration. Increased Duration Support, Less Duration Support, Unbound Ailments Support and Swift Affliction Support all affect the duration of that poison.

Dual Wielding: Calculates and applies two separate hits (one from each weapon) simultaneously and thus applying two poison stacks, unlike Cleave or Dual Strike which only apply one per attack.

Some beneficial curses and auras for Viper Strike include Despair, Temporal Chains and Malevolence.

Viper Strike is a Strike attack, thus:

  • Multistrike Support allows to automatically target nearby enemies for two additional strikes. Note that even though this support gem lessens attack damage, poison does not scale from attack damage modifiers.
  • Melee Splash Support causes Viper Strike to hit enemies around the initial target, poisoning each.
  • Ancestral Call Support, Strike Skills target an additional nearby Enemy prefix modifier on hunter-influenced gloves, and annointable passive Tribal Fury all work with Viper Strike.

Item acquisition

Viper Strike can drop anywhere. Drop level: 5.

Recipes

Viper Strike can be created from the following recipes:

Amount Part Description
3 The Bitter Blossom Random corrupted level 21 Chaos gem with 23% quality
6 The Fox Random level 20 gem
8 Dying Anguish Random level 19 gem with 19% alternative quality
8 The Hook Random corrupted level 21 gem with 23% alternative quality
3 Gemcutter's Promise Random gem with 20% quality
1 Gemcutter's Incubator Random gem with 1–20% quality
1 The Void Random divination card set exchange

Vendor reward

This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:

Class → Witch Shadow Ranger Duelist Marauder Templar Scion
Quest ↓
Enemy at the Gate
Act 1
Nessa		 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓
A Fixture of Fate
Act 3
Siosa		 ✓
Fallen from Grace
Act 6
Lilly Roth		 ✓

In addition, Viper Strike is the starting skill gem for Shadow. It drops after killing the first monster of the game, Hungry Corpse.

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Viper Strike:

Item Limit Radius Stats

Drop disabled

The following threshold jewels augment Viper Strike, but drop disabled:

(Drop-disabled item can still be acquired in the permanent leagues by trading with other players)

Item Base Item Level Stats
Growing Agony Viridian Jewel 1 (8-12)% increased Damage over Time
With at least 40 Dexterity in Radius, Viper Strike deals 2% increased Damage with Hits and Poison for each Poison on the Enemy
With at least 40 Dexterity in Radius, Viper Strike has a 10% chance per Poison on Enemy to grant Unholy Might for 4 seconds on Hit

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Viper Strike.

Name Level Labyrinth Stats Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Viper Strike Critical Strike Chance 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 60% increased Viper Strike Critical Strike Chance helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Viper Strike Critical Strike Chance 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 90% increased Viper Strike Critical Strike Chance helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Viper Strike Damage 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 25% increased Viper Strike Damage helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Viper Strike Damage 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 40% increased Viper Strike Damage helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Viper Strike Poison Duration 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 20% increased Viper Strike Duration helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Viper Strike Poison Duration 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 30% increased Viper Strike Duration helmet 100
default 0