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Venomous bite on a buff camp and gives you enough movement speed to hunt down almost anyone.
When it comes to wards/potions/chalices it's entirely preference so I left it out of the build, but I usually use both chalices out of habit. This build has to potential to heal you from very low hp to full if you use
Venomous bite on a buff camp and gives you enough movement speed to hunt down almost anyone.
Assassin's Blessing
Golden Blade
Stone Cutting Sword
Qin's Sais
Ichaival
The Crusher
Bloodforge
This is a nice alternative if you prefer some beef.
Assassin's Blessing
Golden Blade
Stone Cutting Sword
Qin's Sais
Hide of the Urchin
Berserker's Shield
Shifter's Shield
In case you really hate tanky gods, Especially the ones with annoying heals.
Assassin's Blessing
Golden Blade
Stone Cutting Sword
Qin's Sais
Toxic Blade
The Executioner
Bloodforge
This should eat any defense and the slow or wrap will increase the rate at which you eat as well.
Assassin's Blessing
Golden Blade
Stone Cutting Sword
Qin's Sais
The Crusher
Asi
Runeforged Hammer
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Web as it will help you clear those early camps or slow/distract any visitors in your jungle.
Venomous Bite, but I recommend not using it very often unless camps are beating you down a lot and you need to heal or you're under attack as it does take slightly more mana than
Web and you don't have too large of a pool early on.
Cocoon at 3 and another level of
Venomous Bite at 4
Night Crawler and now it's your time to feed as it gives you an escape or chasing opportunity.
Assassin's Blessing (Assuming you're the jungle this is a must have)
Golden Blade will put splash on those basics and make camp clearing a breeze along with the speed.
Stone Cutting Sword will give you even more speed in movement and good power.
Qin's Sais will also add to your attack speed and increase how you shred HP.
Ichaival Will grant a lot of attack speed while reducing the targets.
The Crusher is even more attack speed and a slight bit of pen/damage over time.
Bloodforge will be a huge boost in power and give you lifesteal and a shield upon kills.
Hide of the Urchin and
Shifter's Shield will grant a lot of raw defense while
Berserker's Shield will grant you HP as you attack.
Toxic Blade for anti-heal and
The Executioner to cut through high protections targets.
Runeforged Hammer to make the wrap and webs increase your damage,
Stone Cutting Sword to work down defenses while keeping speed,
The Crusher for attack speed and pen with some damage over time, and
Qin's Sais so you can cut down HP even more.
Web ->
Cocoon ->
Venomous Bite -> and then finish off or escape with
Night Crawler
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You've got the start right. And there really shouldn't be saying you've got stuff "wrong," per se, but I'll point out reasons why other build directions are considered better right now.
- MS is OP. That said, when you prioritize your first MS item as
Golden Blade (which is very, very important for her jungle clear), you'll be better served by just skipping Tabi altogether. Yes, the price is good, and I'm sure you feel the early AS is helpful (especially for quicker GB AOE procs). But you're better served by getting additional MS from more items in the Katana tree.
- In all 4 builds, up through 3rd main item (not counting the blessing), note that you don't have any early pen. Early flat pen is a very powerful thing. When enemy protections are naturally low, cutting their protections significantly increases your damage output. The key item I'm talking about here is
Stone Cutting Sword, and besides the higher power and pen function, the stacks help you absorb minion damage and all incoming physical god damage. The stacks also synergize with 
Cocoon, but that's sort of beside the point.
- In your first 2 builds, you prioritize
Hastened Katana, and you do so before considering pen. Now, understand that in previous years, this item (or its original form, Hastened Fatalis) was considered more of a luxury item for her. Why? She's got a great slow in her 
Web. If you're using that in the middle of a fight, you're able to control their speed and you may need the Haste effect less. Now...that's not to say it's not a good item, especially now...as said above, MS is OP, and more isn't ever bad to have. But if you see how the pros build, they prioritize it a bit later...specifically, after pen (Stone Cutting). This is the suggested way to go.
- In a way, getting Katana a bit later is the same kind of reason you find some decent use out of
Runeforged Hammer in your 4th build. You can get good Runeforged passive damage boost because of the Web slow. Although Rune isn't a bad item for her...I still think it would be a lower priority item.
- Now...you only have
Qin's Sais in one of your builds. It's a fairly important item for her...if you don't consider it core, it's borderline. Her basic attack progression is 0.5 / 1 / 1x. This gives Arachne greater benefit than many other gods with regard to Qin's passive. It should probably be seen in more of your builds. If you don't understand the attack progression thing, I'll direct you to my items guide, in the "basic attack progression" chapter.
Arachne already has lifesteal in her kit. You getting 
Bloodforge AND 
Asi in the first build is nice, yes, if they don't counter with anti-heal, but that build also lacks in enough pen (15 flat from Asi in the entire build isn't enough), and also in items that will probably do more for you, like SCS, Qin's, etc. If you want the added LS, I'm thinking a late BF would be fine for some survivability upon getting a kill (and the high power), but it should be more like a Tabi or blessing replacement in most cases.
Hydra's Lament is an interesting option. I know people don't get it often, but I can see how you like it. The specific reason it's probably not a great choice is because, again, the attack progression. So, after you use an ability, your next basic deals that bonus damage. And yes, you could use attack canceling quite a bit with her kit. That said, the first attack in her chain (which you're likely looking to connect) is that 0.5 progression. That means it's only 1/2 as powerful as her other 2 attacks will be. So instead of dealing 150% damage (50% increase on 100%), you're only dealing 75% damage (50% increase on 50%). You just don't get that much out of it.
The Crusher, although it has AS power and pen, is probably not the best item for her. I think (but don't quote me) that it only procs on her ult and her 1. If this is accurate, you don't get that much out of it like you would with other gods that might proc on at least 2 regular abilities that you can get the proc off more often, for example.
- Your "death to defense" build doesn't have the best things that help her chew through defense. You might say that
Titan's Bane is better, but universally for her, it's not. Yes, at very high protections, it has more top end potential just on the % pen scale, but she's a basic attack god, and you're missing the basic attack version of Titan's in this build, which is 
The Executioner. It's also missing the other key item that is great against tanks (typically because they also build a good amount of health), and that's 
Qin's Sais. An anti-tank build should have both of these items (and more than 50% of Arachne builds in general should have both of these items, IMO).
Altogther, your normal start should beLet me know if you have any questions. If you prefer what you prefer, that's fine too, but I hope I've provided enough info to explain an alternate opinion to yours.
Your build is auto attack based, and you're missing any significant penetration. Bunch of other things i want to go over with you but those will have to wait.