POE Path of Exile 3.22 Boneshatter - Trauma Stacks and Why They Kill You

I had a question in one of my previous videos about Trauma stacks and why they were killing people. I have also had a few people ask this question in game. While I am new to Boneshatter and melee, I am pretty familiar with Armor and Mitigation in POE, and wanted to talk about how Trauma stacks work, how they do damage, and how to mitigate it, especially if they are killing you. The audio should be better, though possibly a little low. Let me know if this is helpful. Warning, I do go through POB and spend some time with numbers so it does get more detailed then some may want.
Keep in mind, some of the suggestions here, specifically around not using certain skills, are merely temporary work arounds until a player can improve their regen or mitigation to prevent killing themselves. Sometimes killing faster is the solution. This video is mostly to explain how Trauma works so you can work out the best fix.

[@saronphilippi2023]

a suggestion is to get '10% of leech is instant' from a leech mastery node, it help me a lot, thx for the video!

[@swhitjose9588]

nice video brother i rlly needed this one i keep dying when i get over 20-25 trauma stacks

[@orcadigital]

Thanks!

[@ThanePL]

a lot explained, very helpful, thanks!

[@bebotheking1743]

this was very informative thank you very much for sharing

[@randomdamian]

Good video
Feedback: I need to turn up my volume quite a bit on your videos.

[@michaeltravis7499]

man I've upgraded my Amulet to Ashes of the Stars and kept dying trying to figure it out, turns out 50% quality (and im using Boneshatter Complex Trauma) that I take 676 physical per Trauma which is whats killing me especially when I berserk and blood rage. So yeah this is helpful and I gotta use regular trauma till I figure more mitigation

[@Midasview]

this works with boneshatter of trauma to ?

[@creativez9819]

hi how can u use walk action without it being on the skill box?

[@orcadigital]

Many skills when placed on the left click of the hotbar still allow movement, but then also trigger whenever you click to move or on cooldown if you hold down the left mouse button to move. Things like Molten Shell, Phase Run, etc can be good options as it basically automates you using them. Pro play would be to use every ability as needed, but for me, and I am pretty sure a fair number of players, this is a common practice. In fact, Cold DOT builds will have Vortex on left click, so they cast it automatically on cooldown as they move. I am not sure the technical restrictions of which skills work and which do not, but insta cast seems to be part of it. Hope that helps!

[@creativez9819]

@@orcadigital Sorry for the reply , this is a lot of help thank you so much , in my case i use the war cry on my left button at it works perfectly! :D

[@Mojomasonlovin]

I can't build trauma at all for some reason. Max I can get and sustain is like 6 and I'm hitting with boneshatter often and pretty fast

[@Mojomasonlovin]

Wow. Thank you so much for the detailed response. This helps me very much to have some notes to look back at. Thank you my friend for taking the time to help me out!

[@flowless1773]

@@skulvercan ask you something ? I have a mageblood build boneshatter high budget but i want to do more damage currently sitting at 40-45 stacks i cant get more i see manu builds taking points on skill effect duration + gem but im afraid i can die easy later so i was thinking to take skill effect points on three and test it without the gem and see if i can survive and maybe later add the gem ? Wath you think

[@ThePlnaa]

@@flowless1773 you can try that, also you can try anything in Trials of the ancestors right now, you don't die there and can change build however you want without any riskis.

[@yeah5874]

Based and bonezonepilled