Viper's Tongue
Rare uniqueWeaponRune DaggerVenom
+5% Increased Damage per Poison on the foe, up to +25%.
How it drops
Viper's Tongue is a rare unique for the weapon slot, always on a Rune Dagger base. A rare unique, power grade 2 of 5: it falls 4.4× less often than a standard unique. Uniques fall from the Risings; a floor drop is one only once in 100,000. Inside each tier a grade 5 falls 8× less often than a grade 1. Only one copy of a unique can be worn at a time.
Stats
Uniques roll a fixed set of affixes chosen to serve the power; only the values roll, from the depth the item drops at and its quality. Below is Viper's Tongue exactly as the game rolls it at quality 100, at three depths.
| Quality 100 | d 100 | d 1,000 | d 10,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical damage | 546 | 29,701 | 2,751,904 |
| Increased Critical Chance (implicit) | +21.6% | +21.6% | +21.6% |
| Damage vs Afflicted | +15% | +15% | +15% |
| Chance to Poison | +18% | +18% | +18% |
| Chaos Damage to Attacks | +128 | +6,968 | +645,608 |
| Attack Speed | +9% | +9% | +9% |
| Item score | 181 | 9,879 | 915,350 |
Percent affixes are fixed at a given quality; flat ones grow with depth. Quality runs 50–125% and multiplies every line.
Builds it belongs to
It lives in the Venom family of uniques, alongside Gorgon Fangs, Sin-Eater's Cowl, Plaguebearer's Urn, Toxicist's Band, Rotting Chains, Coralito's Vial. Stacking uniques from one family is how a mechanic is pushed past what affixes alone allow.
Other weapon uniques
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