Cast while Staticky: new spell trigger tech in Settlers league for “almost - autobombers”

[@chandlergordon8878]

bro EVERY creator should model their guides after this one. you set the standard for presentation. also, this is a very interesting build concept. i might try it.

[@ntma]

this. also I had no idea the alt qual for firestorm brought the OG spell back. thanks, OP o7

[@pizzamom555]

Right? I was thinking, this guy definitely does presentations for a living lol. Way more understandable than the ones who just clip their stream in full ADHD mode and call it a guide.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

@@pizzamom555 Well he has a PhD, so...

[@thomasgrimm1664]

Great visual presentation! Some other creators should take notes.

[@Frozen_Hope]

Bodyswap just being less controllable flicker is one of the greatest interactions of all time

[@Surgeon_General]

Stay tuned, I've been workshopping more bodyswap and will hopefully have something to show in a week or so

[@Frozen_Hope]

@@Surgeon_General Let's fkn goooooooooool

[@EntyFu]

i'm noticing a lot of "delivery" techniques as a new player. First the Manaforged Arrows for Frenzy as a Deadeye LA. Frostbolts for the Ice Nova Hiero. But instead, you're using an enchantment... one whole gem to make ALL the difference! that's sick! Also, thank you for great explanation, it was informative! awesome video!!

[@Dreschau]

I really like the chill presentation and clear explanations. Too many videos crank the hype up to 11.

[@HasXXXInCrocs]

Bro are you actually a doctor? This was giving "I teach 500 level physical chemistry to grad students" with how well you presented this complicated ass shit

[@Surgeon_General]

Ye, doctor but not that kind; 7 years in an engineering PhD, 10 years professionally and I make video game lectures for fun like the dweeb I am xD

[@HasXXXInCrocs]

@@Surgeon_General if you have a doctorate then you're a doctor my dude 🤷 But I have to ask, why the medical themeing with your channel name/picture/"doctor's office" if it's not a medical doctorate?

[@Surgeon_General]

@@HasXXXInCrocs just an old inside joke with friends. Didn’t expect the channel to get much traction, it’s just a hobby

[@Joel-kc5jk]

@@Surgeon_General Sir, you doctored this out.

[@Fragmentations]

Not sure if you know but you can trigger Static Strike with Hydrosphere, since you can hit it with your melee attacks. This allows for easy clearing of things like ritual where you dont want to chase mobs around but refresh the duration.

[@davidcardimen7535]

I almost never like videos, but this one deserves it. obviously a lot of hard work, much appreciated.

[@menchin11]

I understand this isn't a guide but this video reminds me of how Esoro used to format his guides, very well made and presented, I'll take 100 more please

[@qwertyuijamesop]

love the whole video. we need more videos like this for niche concepts.

[@artur.osmanov]

Great video, I rarely write comments but I wanted to appreciate all the brainstorm behind all techs in this and other videos. And you have nice voice without non-understandable accent, which is great to hear for non-english listener. You deserve more views and subscribers!

[@winter827]

saw this vid almost immediately when it came out (first time seeing you channel, love it so far) and spent 3 days on pob to figure out a scion version (ended up elementalist/inquisitor/slayer) just wanted to say thank you for the inspiration, this is by far one of the most fun builds ive played personally, and also the first time ive put together a passive tree that is higher than 1m dps on my own (currently 20m, and ive not even got a mageblood yet, along with plenty of other upgrades that i can still do after that). a few reasons i wanted to use scion -had wardloop laying around that i got tired of as it was my league start (and friends keep using auras that brick my loop) and this has a similar playstyle (kinda) -wanted to try unnatural instinct/light of meaning/might of the meek combo at its starting tree, as you get a bunch of fire damage from the light of meaning, and a good amount of aoe, duration, and ele res from other small passives around scion start -can make use of 3 large clusters, giving even more jewel sockets for all the jewels i had in mind -i like scion, and this is honestly one of the first builds (that isnt wardloop) that i thought could really make use of scion's ascendancy extremely well (and it does) id list my current pob, but im still working on it and is very prone to change (defense is kinda lacking atm, hoping to fix that after mageblood, and i have a few changes in mind for more damage but i dont have the currency for it at the moment), character name is telo_lete, if that helps, not sure how youd look it up tho (just connected my account to poe ninja, so hopefully it shows up there if anyone is interested) sorry about the wall of text, so much to talk about xD

[@Surgeon_General]

That’s so cool! Thanks for sharing, it’s rewarding to see someone take the idea and run with it. Yeah, I can definitely see why scion has a lot to offer. Someone else in comments had suggested LoM and I wish I’d have thought of it too so I wasn’t reliant on a specific timeless jewel. FYI, my tree has changed quite a bit - I was also dissatisfied with the defenses. It had good mitigation but no avoidance. I worked in about 50/70 attack/spell block by pathing north past Templar and using blue nightmare near the endurance/power charge socket. After that change I basically stopped dying entirely. Something to think about. I’ll check do a search for you on poe.ninja later to get some inspiration. Thanks for sharing

[@winter827]

@@Surgeon_General yea, block is how i went too, tho 68/65 using versatile combatant and tempest shield, then doppelganger guise for even more phys reduction, or to cap my crit when i need to, with added benefit of removing bodies so they cant be exploded (ive been running t16 strongboxes). immortal call over molten shell to make use of the duration and endurance charges im getting. slayer lets me keep my leech up (and culling strike ofc), and the tornados with 10% instant leech mastery make you very hard to kill outside of 1 shots. other notable defense that i rarely see, knockback, im using 3 tattoos so that the arcs from static strike keep stuff away, probably could use a bit more, but it is nice bloodnotch and immutable force help with some of the bigger hits i take, as at the moment im hovering ~3k life and most large hits that dont kill me end up stunning me, so i dont have the energy shield mastery for that combo (trying to work it in though, as that combined with doppelganger guise gives you a similar effect as using DoD) i will say, i did just get my mageblood (was on head hunter, which tbh felt really nice), so ive got alot of work to do as that opens almost all my ring suffix and was thinking about getting frenzy generation in there somewhere, or trying to get enough regen to add RF (which would be a huge dps increase) but tbh i was really lazy with the rings i had as i knew id have to re-craft them anyway. (along with most of my gear) basically, my build is gonna be a mess for a while as its 8:30 am here, and ive been up all night getting the last bit of currency for mageblood the endurance/power charge socket for me is using a thread of hope (medium) to get divine judgement/arcane capacitor/holy dominion (arcane surge was a bigger dps increase than i gave it credit for (now that i look at it, im not sure its actually doing anything, either way, its more mana regen, and im still 50/50 between hierophant and inquisitor anyway), and im on the fence for sanctum of thought, as i could drop one of my medium cluster jewels to get 90% reduced crit damage taken

[@linemat7887]

This looks sick. This league allows so many cool interactions with recombs/rune enchants

[@cordenhuman]

Great build guide and such a cool build, I myself have actually experimented a little bit with static strike with cast on crit in a build with a high crit chance, I wasn't able to make anything amazing but I had a ton of fun and this video also gave me new ideas for that build too lol

[@riceoflife]

Wake up babe. New flicker strike tech just dropped

[@OmegaDrifters]

I love it. Very creative and interesting idea. Thanks for the video

[@JohnDoe_69]

I kinda love the Jesus take the wheel one...

[@EvilWeiRamirez]

Spectral throw is an option because it keeps on hitting. Blade storm is another one if you scale aoe. Spectral Helix might be good or bad. Then lancing steel is an option because it keeps hitting. Also, volcanic fissure is something that hits multiple times, but you'll need snaking or to attack all the time. It's likely that static strike really gives the best qol because of the timing, but there are lots of options

[@Tibasu]

Since I play SSF, I much prefer this template/example of a build set up rather than a full out guide on what every gear piece should be since I'm obviously limited on what I can get. I do have enough power runes to get the enchant and was wondering what skills would be useful with it so this is very helpful. Even if It'll be awhile before I get a squire, I do want to at least enchant an axe base to have it sit in standard for future use since I use standard as a SSF gallery.

[@TheSecksyD3thcast]

Bro, best video ever. So we'll done!

[@chemicals8582]

I thought Static Strike looked like a real contender this league but I was going for a cast on crit setup. I liked the discussion of triggered spells used here.

[@MrShouting]

Excellent video

[@erickraudi8661]

Probably a bad idea, but I want to try Static strike to trigger a prismatic burst, I could use the inquisitor for the fanatic charges/fanaticism to get enough cast speed and deal with the mana cost. Great video

[@JanPapiezGaming]

Yoinking style of video for my future build guides xdd ty

[@jonfe.darontos]

I'm getting strong ianxoh4 vibes, love it.

[@Omaw77]

This is very similar to old tech doing essentially the same thing with static strike and Mjolnir, although obviously this opens up fire skills instead of lightning skills.

[@bhwung]

Awesome presentation.

[@ulamss5]

blazing salvo + rolling magma with return/nimis might be another good duo.

[@Beansswtf]

Poison blazing salvo and nimis would be pretty wild

[@joeanon8568]

Cool concept. Did you try other spells bot featured? Wave of conviction, purifying flame, fireball, flame wall (paired with a projectile obv.)? Also I think SRS is triggerable... I wonder if you can do some memes there? Could also be interesting to use the enchant in a double trigger kind of setup with COC

[@Surgeon_General]

I tried WoC but was overwriting waves too quick for it to be good. Purifying flame I slept on at first but it’s better than I thought and might replace Tornado (there’s another comment chain re: this). I couldn’t find a good support combo for fireball but I didn’t test extensively, I’m not a huge fan of the skill. Flame wall I didn’t test cause DoT but could be interesting to juice up projs.

[@jakubvondrejc7022]

It really seems like one could build this with Rathpith scaling for more endgame damage Very interesting

[@TR1D0M]

very well made

[@salihkizildag]

great vid, you earned a sub why don't you use a fire light of meaning below the scion start? it's about 33% more dps. and shouldn't the tornado count be 3 instead of 1 for full dps?

[@Surgeon_General]

Actually a really good idea, I forgot that jewel even existed and the build’s starved for % damage. My pathing has changed quite a bit but there’s probably somewhere it could be worked in just as effectively. Yes, 3 tornados is more accurate but don’t pay too much attention to the full DPS number. If tornado proccs cold or lightning it won’t do the same damage so 🤷‍♂️. Moreover, PoB doesn’t calculate firestorm damage correctly (google Firestorm of Pelting calculator) so I’ve been paper and penciling the DPS mostly.

[@smarmypapsmears634]

I could use this in so many ways

[@TheMaster2442]

Expensive on this build, but rolling magma with random projectile directions (available on nimis or a 2h mace enchantment) makes it very good for single target and clear on open maps. I played a cwc 2h mace version on a hiero and it felt really good

[@amarr85]

second this. too bad you can't get random direction in another way so you can keep the axe equipped.

[@kkeithf]

Good stuff man

[@TheOne23_]

I don’t normally comment on vids but I thought I would restate the other comments on the video presentation. Others creators take notes!

[@GhostPuppy]

Could you do this with the berserking rage vortex mana stacking build for supplimental damage (or body swap memes) even without the squire?

[@lewyselee6208]

I wonder if this could work in combination with a cast on crit desecrate heiro setup with volatile dead for an infinite army of seeking fire balls! I will test later and update

[@zubbeats2653]

Where‘s the update? 😝

[@gabrielkpl]

Thanks for the video - amazing idea. If we do not get the runecraft next league could it be reworked with mjolnir or cospri's for lightning / cold spells respectively? (good thing that ele tornado has all three tags!)

[@Surgeon_General]

Yes, those would both work (Cospri’s would require static strike to crit). You would lose the crit supports from explicits though and the empower scaling so you’d have to be clever about scaling damage in a way that doesn’t need a 8+ link

[@gabrielkpl]

@@Surgeon_General ah right, looked at your PoB, a lot of stats on that axe that would be lost if using mjolner/cospri. Shame, I really dig the idea but I doubt it will be possible next league. Well,we will see.

[@nikitakhomenko7513]

Decent. I wonder if there was potential for flame dash as a movement and main damage source. Previous leagues had frostblink of wintry blast and tornado warp - both dead💀

[@UltraSuperDuperFreak]

Thought about the new Svalin shield aswell ? ... On block cast any spell with any elemental tag at 0.25 rate aswell ? Which would give you access to spells from other elements that maybe can do single or aoe better ? While you still have your wand aswell.

[@Smaxy_]

You can't use svalynn and squire at the same time

[@UltraSuperDuperFreak]

@@Smaxy_ I know that ... Dont use Squire then clearly hehe.

[@arthuroliveira619]

I'll get a chance to this build...looks nice

[@lionheart4933]

Hi found you through palsteron. What you think a more expensive weapon will look like? You said mana stacking, but I notice this enchant is only on one hand axe so wand or scepter is no go

[@Surgeon_General]

TBH there aren't a lot of good mods on axes; if you have another solution for accuracy, you *could* essence spam a 2 influence base for fire pen + crit strike support + crit damage support, suffix cant be changed, veiled orb (50/50 remove the meta mod) and unveil spell damage, then benchcraft +2 support gems and vision slam for attack speed (probably with Locks). Would be about a 6% DPS upgrade for specific skills, more if you care about local attack speed. But giga expensive. The axe shown is straightforward to craft and 90% of the power. There's no way to get flat mana on axes apart from the benchcraft but i reckon +2 supports is always going to be better than 70 flat mana

[@lionheart4933]

@@Surgeon_Generalwhat do you think of ancestral call support mid?

[@kiemb]

How about tempest shield's arc for the triggering

[@whypick1_]

"But you can't stop flicking even if you want to" Wow, this video got NSFW in a hurry :P

[@tapeta12332624624]

did you consider cold to fire support together with avatar of fire (youre pathing nearby)? that opens up cold gems for you

[@daruqz2247]

Try using lancing steel of spraying as trigger?

[@nith5663]

Great presentation, but help me understand this setup better, is this so that you dont have to invest into cast speed? becasue 4casts per seconds is not much. Imagine a worse version of mjolner(mjolner is 0.15seconds trigger with free cast), i feel like for this to be good, the attack trigger itself has to be the main damage link and fire spell as a combo, i think the investment in your pob doesnt match the dps numbers.

[@Surgeon_General]

Mjolnir triggers 66% faster than the fire enchant, so let’s call that a 66% more multiplier. The fire enchant can go on a rare axe though which can be crafted to get the 2 crit support gems and +2 levels to supports. Obviously depends on the build but let’s call the crit supports to each give 25% more damage. +2 to supports gives empower another two levels and each level on the main skill is ~10% more damage. So because of the explicits, you have a 1.25 x 1.25 x 1.2 = 1.875 damage multiplier. Even with conservative numbers, the axe is at least competitive, maybe better than Mjolnir. This ignores skill-specific considerations too; more cast rate isn’t always better. For example, firestorm has 12 maximum storms so if you cast/proc it more than 12 times over its duration, your DPS doesn’t change at all because you’re just overwriting storms. You’re probably comparing to endgame archmage Mjolnir setups which are carried pretty hard by arcane cloak / mana stacking. You could implement this on a mana stacker and get similar results (I even mention archmage Heirophant as a potentially powerful option). I chose rage/warcry chieftain because I wanted to play new warcries and PoBing showed it would at least be viable. Like I said, the tech is versatile and could be applied to a lot of builds. Yeah, my setup is not cheap (and frankly doesn’t perform equivalent to the investment I put in) but at this point in the league I’m looking for currency sinks anyway. Cheers, hope the above makes sense

[@nith5663]

@@Surgeon_General hey thanks for explaining to me, the part about mjolner being good is really about the free cost for manastacking with indigon, but we don't have to touch that. What you said about the rare weapon and more link can also be applied to any spell you cast yourself, with the trigger the whole setup is just hard capped by the trigger rate with no scaling potential late game. I truly believe it has to be a combo spell-attack with synergy for this enchant to shine. But i think this current setup is cool and have good clear.

[@hyphaene]

Cast when Tsatziki

[@Worsens]

New vid yeaaaa!!!

[@genocidegrand2057]

how is purifying flame?

[@gabrielkpl]

Just one more quick question, are you not triggering tornado... too often? I mean with increased duration from tree the tornado should go far (as you mentioned in the video, sometimes even ahead of your character) but on the other hand with cast every .26 sec and max of 3 tornadoes you can easily overwrite existing ones. Did that ever come up as an issue?

[@Surgeon_General]

Yeah you’re absolutely right, really good question. That’s why it kinda sucks for single target. You overwrite tornados when you’re standing inside a pack, BUT once the pack is clear the tornado will move on to the next one, often ahead of you. If the tornado beats you there, your static never reprocs a new tornado and it can continue on. That’s why I like the Firestorm/Tornado combo. Firestorm is good for when you have to stand next to something tanky. Tornado is good when you want to project damage to the next pack of trash.

[@jmwintenn]

nice video.

[@proflubber]

Looks like the only skills you lited that were not showcased that don't have super clear drawbacks (very limited instances of firestorm, resetting WoC etc.) were fireball and purifying flame (+ transfigured version). Did you test these? I don't think they'd beat the setup you ended up with but I am a bit curious about how PF or revalations performs :)

[@Surgeon_General]

Fireball I just didn’t like, maybe personal taste only. PF I slept on at first, but I’ve gone back to it since because I realized that having the super consistent source of consecrated ground was very helpful for sustaining RF and Rite of Ruin degen. The only problem with it is that it only has 50% fire conversion; not a huge deal if you scale spell damage, but any sources of elemental damage are less effective unless you get full conversion (I wish I’d thought of this before completing gear).

[@proflubber]

@@Surgeon_General Haven't looked at your gear, but there are nice sources such as 40% on a fire mastery, gloves (implicit & explicit). Either will get you to 90%+ which is close enough except for reflect. How was the clear of PF of revalations? With aoe scaling and constant spread of concecrated ground I can imagine it would be quite nice

[@Surgeon_General]

@@proflubber Update: purifying flame is cracked. I didnt realize that Seismic Cry phys as extra fire works on attacks AND spells; with warcry scaling, its 40% more damage on PF. Also, re: getting to 100% conversion, I literally path right past Avatar of Flame, 1 point solution. Thanks for your suggestions, I'm going to play it for a while and see how I like it.

[@proflubber]

@@Surgeon_General Awesome! Please post a vid of some testing, would be great to see! Edit: Assuming you mean infernal cry

[@Surgeon_General]

@@proflubber Yes, infernal cry, sorry. Quick T16 alch/go testing video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHOnf2iXeNiDjas I'm not going to edit, script, etc so it's unlisted, but if you have the link you should see it.

[@thepatriotman]

Wouldn't a lancing steel of spraying be better? You are ranged, get a lot of hits, can do a life gain on hit setup and socket lifetap in your skills... Yes, less dmg, but don't need to deal with mana issues and the hit rate is very high. Same principal as with summon holy relic of conviction.

[@ElicatrothTV]

If this came out sooner int he league I'd so be going down this rabbit hole... however im trying to rap up my league so I can play Satisfactory now

[@nunya8412]

i know its unique and a new idea....but static strike+shockwave is already basically an autobomber if you build it right.

[@nikkosmit6985]

Great guide! but feedback: You had the flask Oriath’s End on for your gameplay showcases, and wasn’t mentioned. You could clear a t16 map with a stick and some rocks, if you had that turned on lol. Anyways, let’s see about that body swap hmmm…

[@mattcline_]

Are you able to use Added fire damage, cold to fire, and infernal legion support gems to have the fire tag added? If so, wouldn't this open up a lot of new possibilities for skills to use? I'd test it, but I'm too poor for this craft.

[@Surgeon_General]

I don’t believe this would work because the trigger is based off the literal tags on the gem, not the “pseudo” tags on the skill. Like how you can link RF with lifetap to make it benefit from Swift Affliction, but it will still not get a level from +1 duration skills. Good idea though, I will test to confirm.

[@tartinitrumpet]

@@Surgeon_General Does this work?

[@Surgeon_General]

@@tartinitrumpet no

[@SpiritMEOW]

You are my favourite person

[@Adoptulous]

Great video, insta sub

[@ElistaoDiolho]

Can you test the single target of rolling magma with nimis?

[@ElistaoDiolho]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGLGeoB9hrGrh7Msi=QnjrrGEBKeKnuEYt

[@Surgeon_General]

Gear on the character is too tight to give up the ring slot (I painted myself into a corner with rage/warcries) but I’d be interested if someone else could test

[@SwoleKitchen]

Static strike is great with Prismatic burst

[@bopowl4413]

this is neat but i don't see why people would do this over the cast when stunned build that is so popular

[@haman_karn]

For rolling magma you need Nimis

[@BurkhardNachtzehrer]

Would triggerbots be helpful here?

[@Surgeon_General]

In general, yes, specifically for Tornado + Firestorm, no; you’re limited to 3 tornados and 12 storms so increasing trigger rate isn’t super important. But for the projectile spells like Blazing Salvo, Rolling Magma, etc - for sure. Just gotta deal with double mana cost and the %less damage to triggered spells

[@LordGrizzlyTheAnnoyed]

That's not really new, except for the axe. You could do this playstyle, but weaker, wit a Mjöllner. Still a fun trigger skill

[@abdguerth3356]

herald autobomber elementalist using this

[@horyzons91]

Another creator is using static strike+old chieftan ascendancy wep+Sabo. Neat stuff

[@TheMaster2442]

Do you know who and what exactly theyre doing with it? I'm curious

[@faederSSF]

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[@MrRaja]

Static Strike Autobomber has been done many times before especially with Fire Burst via Essences.

[@Billy4321able]

Just wait until he finds out that lancing steel of spraying exists.

[@Surgeon_General]

Requires constant attacking, so not “autobomber-lite” friendly, but yes, same idea. My build has to piano warcries so I don’t want to have to attack all the time and it's hard to get aspd suffix on axe

[@UncleJay69]

@@Surgeon_General you use it for utility, I tried to use it as main source of dmg and it works great. Btw the best 2 skills I found (personally) so far to be best to trigger spells are Rage Vortex of Berserking, and Volcanic fissure of snaking (you can attack continuously and stack up the "hit rate" with little quality stacking, 1 slam erupt/hit 7 total times for me now. I'm doing a coc setup with desecrate and DD/Volatile dead. DD only in single target situation. VD (normal version) seems to be best for clear. You will offscreen everything with Snaking travels so far ahead, and also the VD will travel further itself P/s: Ragevortex of Berserking feels like old-school BV, except bigger

[@noxyk]

There's so many proj you don't need to constantly attack. Moveover you are now a ranged build, zero investment in duration, AoE, extra strike