Build Info & Playstyle

Learn more Info about the Static Strike Shockwave Slayer Build and its Playstyle!

The most important thing to understand about this build is that Static Strike is only used to constantly hit enemies, allowing your linked Shockwave Support to activatet! The damage of Static Strike itself is secondary.

After attacking with Static Strike, you gain static energy for a certain duration. This static energy seeks out and hits enemies around you and therefore activates Shockwaves without having to press any extra buttons.

You further scale the initial duration of 3s to ensure that you only have to press Static Strike every 6s, meanwhile Shield Charge through the map while everything around you dies. You achieve this by getting both the Helm Enchant that provides 45% increased Static Strike Duration, as well as the Exceptional Performance Cluster + more Skill Effect Duration Mastery on the Passive Skill Tree!

While this duration scaling does not technically increase damage, it makes for an incredibly fun gameplay experience!

It is important that you do NOT use anything that increases your Beam Frequency on Static Strike, as that would lead to inconsistant cooldown usage!

Your main source of damage comes from stacking as much Strength as possible, combined with certain Unique Items that support it. The following items are important and are "payoffs" for having a lot of Strength:

10 Strength naturally grants 2% Physical Melee Damage. However, you are scaling Chaos Damage and it would be a shame if you couldn't make use of the 400% increased damage that your 2000 Strength provides! So, convert the damage with the following trick:

The outcome is that you converted all the Melee Physical Damage to general Attack Damage and also significantly increased the damage bonus that Strength gives.

Assuming 2000 Strength, you just upgraded from 400% to 904% increased damage.

Frozen Legion is your Bossing Skill of choice. It provides an incredible damage burst at the start of a fight and recharges pretty quickly. You can summon up to 6 statues that do considerable damage when activated. Since your Static Strike activates your Shockwaves automatically, attacking with Frozen Legion doesn't interrupt any of that damage, giving you crazy extra damage with no downside.

Use this skill against big enemies where you need that bit of extra burst damage, or use frequently against bigger bosses. However, after you activate it once, you should always wait until you have 6 charges before you activate it again!

Attack Speed does not directly increase the damage of Static Strike, the resulting Shockwaves or Frozen Legion, simply because these are Cooldown Skills and therefore have a set activation rate that can hardly be interfered with.

However, Attack Speed provides a more fluid and fast gameplay experience, since Static Strikes initial attack is faster and Shield Charge will get you through maps quicker. This means that a bit of Attack Speed still goes a long way to insure that your build is actually FUN.

Usually, Life Leech is only valuable while directly in combat, as it gets removed once you reach Full Life again, meaning you have to constantly hit something to make use of it. Brutal Fervour changes this completely. Now, your Life Leech lingers and acts as an insane Life Regeneration Effect that stays for up to 10 seconds after you last hit an enemy.

It's hard to describe how strong this effect is without having tried it, but you don't want to miss it, that's for sure!

Rage grants increased Attack and Movement Speed per stack (up to 60), while also allowing you to use the extremely powerful Berserk. However, the Berserk Buff makes you lose Rage over Time, losing the Buff completely once you go to 0 and therefore has bad uptime.

You work against this by using Kaom's Spirit, which transforms Life Regeneration into Rage Regeneration. Since you have Slayer's Brutal Fervour, there's still plenty of Life Recovery from Leech, meaning you barely get any downside and a huge uptime of the Berserk Buff!

In order to achieve as much Rage uptime as possible, use the following:

While Mapping, use Static Strike every 6s to activate your Shockwaves. Make a habit of pressing Battlemage's Cry every 10s or so, it provides most of your increased damage. Then just Shield Charge around the map and let stuff around you explode.

If there are tankier enemies, use Frozen Legion to help burst them down.

Before the fight, swap your Blood and Sand into Blood Stance. If you boss a lot, you can include an Ancestral Warchief into the build and place it before the fight starts.

Once the Boss spawns, activate Withering Step while nearby to apply Wither and hit it with Static Strike immediately to ensure your Shockwaves are up. Then use Frozen Legion to do a ton of burst damage. Wait for the statues to recover, then use Frozen Legion again. Should your Static Strike Duration run out during the fight, reactivate it quickly.

As a mapping focused character you should focus on the mechanics listed below depending on what level of content your character is currently capable of completing. Clicking the League Mechanics below takes you to either a full Explanation Guide or a detailed Currency Farming Guide based around maximizing your profits from that mechanic or content.