Verb wrote:
seeing as you can get about lvl 65 venom with oskill I would assume that would be better then actually sticking points in to venom. Even though the items with oskill venom is kinda high lvl(pestilence rw at lvl 47).
Though I've never actually tried venom at all, mostly just what I've read.
Won't work. OSkills are capped at +3 for classes that already have the skill. (Meaning Pestilence will give +3 to Venom, not +10) In order to reach those levels, you absolutely need maxed Venom.
The crappiest part about Venom Sins now, is that without skillers, Barbarians will hit higher Venom for a lot of the game. Even then, a Sin should have significantly better Venom, but they don't (caps @ lvl 66 for a Sin in full +skills pre-buff gear).
LockDown wrote:
Reading Cloak and thinking I should max that... not quite sure though. Mostly just wanna play around with a quasi melee sin.
Most people use OSkill Whirlwind granted by Chaos for Venom sins. I highly suggest you max Claw Mastery in addition to Fade/DS/Venom for the added AR & Damage to Whirlwind. The other option people use Venom with is normally Blade Fury, which hurts for AR as well and benefits from Claw Mastery, so you can't go wrong with the skill.