STATIC SCAVENGING IS ON

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Big shoutout to tenosyn for abusing tawhoa's chosen with static strike originally on a sabo for big cdr and double proc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1b4yqYay_k

That build was really cool but clunky to build and with junky levels of gear because it got tawhoa from the tawhoa falling weapon which is super trash dps.

This build however comfortably cruises throu the left side of the tree grabbing so much qol for melee builds and damage nodes.

So, the base interaction is:^7

Tawhoa's Chosen creates a mirage warrior that uses a strike or slam you use once, with a 1 second cooldown.

Static Strike is .... a Strike.

The catch is that Static Strike has a lingering 3 second beam effect that hits for 60% of the original strike's damage.

Hence we have 2 great new ways to scale our damage: CDR & SKILL DURATION.

The mirages stand still and channel the beams for said duration then disappear, so you have to ramp the damage on ONE SPOT which is the clunky part of the build. This might feel bad for bosses that move a lot like eater. Total ramp time is effectively the skill effect duration of your Static Strike.

Big boy stuff about static strike:

Gem levels LOWER the beam proc rate and increase the base dmg by ~3.5%

Quality scales beam frequency %

So with admirals arrogance and ashes of the stars we get upwards of lvl 25 + 50% Quality Static which translates to 420% base WD and 0.2 sec proc rate. This means 1260% WD/sec by beams, and every mirage deals that amount of dps.

This dps is completely unrelated to your attack speed. Attack speed should be considered only for making the proc of the beams not feel clunky (just get to 2+ aps to not hate yourself) and efficiently proc the mirages.

You can get 15-20% CDR from shaper/sader belt and 5% from exarch boots or 10-15% from shaper boots. Thats a max of 35% cdr for shaper gear which then means you need 1/0.65=1.53 aps target or double that. For this setup i went for shaper belt + exarch boots which in the case of 15+5=20% cdr you need 1.25 or 2.5 attack speed which is more realistic.

After adding all the above your max dps should be 5 mirages + yourself ^7= 6 x beams dps + strike dps^7 = 3.6m x 6 + 3m = 24.6m^7

Of course there wont be many cases outside of bosses where you will get this up, however static strike feels pretty ok for mapping and i even add melee splash from tree to get some more classic strike clear feel to it. Without any mirages at all you can still pump a solid 6.6m dps.

>>>GEAR<<<

/// Mandatory items for scaling: ADMIRAL'S ARROGANCE & ASHES OF THE STARS. These two alone almost double your beam dps as described above.

/// Weapon = Axe early, then exquisite sword (or another accuracy base if u dont wanna starv for accuracy) with starforge runesmith enchant for giga damage. Suffixes are kinda easy coz you want crafted attack speed to align your dps with CDR breakpoints and then some crit for good measure.

/// Rest of the gear is only filler rare stuff. Pay attention to accuracy and hunt for WED on jewelry. DONT FORGET CDR SHAPER BELT its a straight multiplier for your max dps.

No timeless no watchers eyes. You can get this build a lot further, this is just the baseline with decent gear.

^7That's all, check my other junky build here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/1ipij98/abyss_slammer_build_volcanic_fissure_blind/