PoE Boneshatter of Complex Trauma Build 3.25 – Path of Exile: Settlers of Kalguur

The Boneshatter of Complex Trauma build in Path of Exile offers a unique and high-risk, high-reward playstyle focused on accumulating Trauma to deal massive damage. This guide provides a comprehensive look at how to build around Boneshatter of Complex Trauma effectively in the 3.25 patch.

Key Features of Boneshatter of Complex Trauma

Boneshatter of Complex Trauma (Level 20):

• Attack, Melee, Strike, AoE, Duration, Physical: Boneshatter of Complex Trauma is a forceful melee strike that deals significant damage to enemies and the user. Successive uses increase damage to both enemies and the user. Stunning an enemy releases a damaging pulse.
• Mana Cost: 12 mana.
• Attack Speed: 85% of base.
• Attack Damage: 338.3% of base.
• Effectiveness of Added Damage: 338%.
• Weapon Requirements: Requires Level 70, 155 Strength, and a Mace, Sceptre, Axe, or Staff.
• Damage Mechanics:
  • 158 to 238 Added Attack Physical Damage.
  • Lose all Trauma on reaching 10 Trauma.
  • Gain 1 Trauma the first time this Attack Hits an Enemy.
  • Take 582 Physical Damage per Trauma when you gain Trauma.
  • Trauma lasts 6.0 seconds.
  • 20% more Damage per Trauma, up to 200%.
• Pulse Mechanics: Stunning an enemy releases a damaging pulse with 15% increased Area of Effect per 0.1s of Stun Duration, up to 400%.

Building Around Boneshatter of Complex Trauma

1. Weapon Choice:

• Maces, Sceptres, Axes, or Staves: Choose high-damage weapons with added physical damage, increased attack speed, and critical strike chance to maximize your damage output.

2. Passive Skill Tree:

• Focus on nodes that enhance melee damage, stun duration, attack speed, critical strike chance, life, and physical damage mitigation. Specific clusters to prioritize include those near the Marauder, Duelist, and Templar start areas.
• Consider pathing to nodes that increase life regeneration, armour, and resistances.

Ascendancy Choices

1. Juggernaut:

• Unflinching: Grants endurance charge generation and reduces physical damage taken.
• Unyielding: Increases the effectiveness of fortify and grants damage reduction.
• Unbreakable: Increases armour and grants life recovery based on physical damage prevention.
• Unstoppable: Grants immunity to stuns and slows, and increases movement speed.

2. Slayer:

• Headsman: Increases damage and grants culling strike.
• Bane of Legends: Grants increased damage against unique enemies and culling strike.
• Endless Hunger: Grants life leech effects that continue past full life.
• Brutal Fervour: Enhances leech effects and grants immunity to stun while leeching.

Support Gems

1. Main Skill Setup:

• Boneshatter of Complex Trauma: Primary attack skill.
• Support Gems: Brutality, Melee Physical Damage, Multistrike, Fortify, Pulverise, and Ruthless.

2. Secondary Skill Setup:

• Ancestral Warchief: Totem skill to enhance melee damage.
• Support Gems: Multiple Totems, Melee Physical Damage, and Brutality.

3. Utility Skills:

• Leap Slam: For mobility.
• Steelskin / Immortal Call: For defense.
• Blood and Sand: To switch between Blood and Sand stances.
• Precision: For increased critical strike chance and accuracy.

Armor and Accessories

1. Armor:

• Body Armor: Prioritize armor with high life, resistances, and physical damage reduction. Consider options like Belly of the Beast for increased life and resistances.
• Helmet, Gloves, and Boots: Look for items that boost melee damage, attack speed, life, and resistances. Consider using items with life regeneration to mitigate self-damage from Trauma.

2. Accessories:

• Amulet and Rings: Focus on items that enhance physical damage, life, resistances, and critical strike chance. Look for mods that increase stun duration and damage mitigation.
• Belt: A Stygian Vise with life, resistances, and increased physical damage is ideal.

Flask Setup

1. Life Flask:

• Instant Recovery: For emergency healing.

2. Utility Flasks:

• Quicksilver Flask: For increased movement speed.
• Basalt Flask: For physical damage reduction.
• Jade Flask: For increased evasion.
• Atziri’s Promise: For additional chaos damage and life leech.

Combat Strategy

1. Engaging Enemies:

• Use Boneshatter of Complex Trauma to deal high damage to enemies while managing the self-damage from Trauma. Utilize your flasks and defensive skills to mitigate the self-damage and stay alive.
• Stun enemies to release damaging pulses and control the battlefield.

2. Utilizing Ascendancy Passives:

• Leverage the Juggernaut or Slayer passives to enhance survivability and damage output. Use Juggernaut for a focus on physical damage mitigation and endurance charges, and Slayer for leeching and culling strike.

3. Managing Buffs and Debuffs:

• Maintain high uptime on Blood and Sand stances and leverage the increased damage and control provided by each stance.
• Use your flasks to boost damage, resistances, and survivability during combat.

Example Builds

1. Juggernaut Boneshatter of Complex Trauma Build:

• Focus on physical damage mitigation and endurance charges.
• Utilize Unflinching and Unyielding to maximize survivability.
• Use support gems that enhance physical damage and fortify effects.

2. Slayer Boneshatter of Complex Trauma Build:

• Focus on leeching and culling strike.
• Utilize Headsman and Bane of Legends to increase damage and survivability.
• Use support gems that enhance physical damage and leech effects.

Conclusion

The Boneshatter of Complex Trauma build for Path of Exile 3.25 offers a high-risk, high-reward playstyle for melee enthusiasts who enjoy combining powerful strikes with unique self-damaging mechanics. By focusing on maximizing damage, attack speed, and physical damage mitigation, players can effectively dominate both single-target and group encounters. Proper gear selection, passive skill tree planning, and strategic use of ascendancy passives will ensure that you unleash the full potential of this powerful skill. Equip your weapons, prepare your flasks, and crush your enemies with the devastating power of Boneshatter of Complex Trauma.