Now this build is what it's about! Stupid investment, crap ascendancy, cool concept. Tbh making stupid shit work will teach more than anything else will. I'm proud of you for making this dumb thing work 💪
I expected a lot of things when I clicked this video. I expected to be informed and to see a unique concept What I did *not* expect was to be entertained. Consider be subscribbled.
My biggest problem with bloodmage is that there's basically zero creativity in the ascendancy choices. You are forced to take life remnants 1st, which everyone is already aware of the issues with that since it can make you weaker until you get more ascendancy points etc. But then to mitigate that, by far the best option is to get spell leech next. So for 95% of blood mage builds that's half your points with no thought or choice behind them. Then since you're doing a caster build, whelp might as well pick the 2 crit nodes. There are other nodes that seem cool but barely any use cases for actually taking them. Like if you want the extra health from body armor node on the right, now you can only take 1 extra thing and if you want a lot of life and no spell crit you might as well play gemling and stack strength
Saw a build using burden of shadows (spell damage per cost of life) and purposely taking several different forms of bloodmage to essentially make the cost 300% for the spell then went crit and instant life leech on crit. Definitely some cool stuff out there.
feel your pain. started as a blood mage, ditched it at level 50. after I had my invoker/deadeye/sparker at level 94 decided to do the "choir" build but without temporalis and it sucked big time. so much fuss. maybe try ardura shield with cooldown reduction - it might help tiny bit
Your eHP calc is a bit wrong. What happens is 20-25% of damage bypasses Energy Shield. You then apply 32% of mana before life. So your damage breakdown if you take 1000 Damage with a 20% Bypass Roll you would take 800 damage to ES, and then 136 to Life and 64 to Mana. If you wanted to split the damage better, a higher Bypass roll is most important here. You can get up to a 30% corruption. Which would make the damage split for 1000 damage, 700 to ES and 204 Life 94 Mana.
I've been using a variation of this with frost bomb and frost wall with aoe/spell power jewels. Add in energy generation and cdr passives and slaps in mapping. Bossing is just ok though, working on that.
make your cast on crit cast Ice wall + eye of winter and use trampletoe trimmed greaves, benefit. For more benefit use killjoy linen wraps as well. One shot bosses, and the screen made simple. Melting Maelstrom Mana Flask for mana issues and +2% / 4% mana on kill jewels. And rank your ice wall accordingly. Should prolly be lvl 9 or so depending on +spell lvl. I do specc into base crit ascendancy though. That +15% makes it so easy to specc offense
Cast on x got so gutted. I had a pure spark build, strong as but was missing some zest so i gutted it out and speced into full cast on shock lightning conduit. I literally have 300% energy gain and 70% chance to refund energy... it still doesent proc that often and i feel like it never refunds, the counter always goes back to zero on a proc 😵💫 i have generally slower clear now and bossing is slower then having a mostly spark focused setup with cast on shock tacked on with 150% energy gain from a few jewels 😂 i get they nerfed cast on x but youd think itd still be a good option if you commited to it
Ive personally been running cast on minion comet and using fireball to spawn minion. I think BernstoneTV has a very similar build and its much more consistent than cast on crit. He uses it on storm sorc but on witch it works decent for me.
Was building a life stacking build trying to abuse the keystone to make life recharge like es on blood mage... BUT unlike poe1, life costs interrupts the life recharge as if you were taking damage. So character went to the bin with a few divs of investment. Sucks to suck i guess.
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Hilarious build log. Sorry you went through all this, but thanks for the content. Subscribed, keep it up!
70 div for a love letter? Thats like tipping a stripper thinking that she loves you
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Now this build is what it's about! Stupid investment, crap ascendancy, cool concept. Tbh making stupid shit work will teach more than anything else will. I'm proud of you for making this dumb thing work 💪
If a build uses Temporalis, its for a reason.
Dude you’re hilarious, this is top tier content right here
I expected a lot of things when I clicked this video.
I expected to be informed and to see a unique concept
What I did *not* expect was to be entertained.
Consider be subscribbled.
The Mad Scientist is back with another build LFG
another banger
Hey man do you have some videos of you talking nonsense for a few hours? Would be great for when I do chores or smthng
he said he would stream soon, so then youll have exactly that with stream vods
you have a therefore bloodmage too!
another Klove Klassic
My biggest problem with bloodmage is that there's basically zero creativity in the ascendancy choices. You are forced to take life remnants 1st, which everyone is already aware of the issues with that since it can make you weaker until you get more ascendancy points etc. But then to mitigate that, by far the best option is to get spell leech next. So for 95% of blood mage builds that's half your points with no thought or choice behind them. Then since you're doing a caster build, whelp might as well pick the 2 crit nodes. There are other nodes that seem cool but barely any use cases for actually taking them. Like if you want the extra health from body armor node on the right, now you can only take 1 extra thing and if you want a lot of life and no spell crit you might as well play gemling and stack strength
I love your content!
What's 70 more div?
Saw a build using burden of shadows (spell damage per cost of life) and purposely taking several different forms of bloodmage to essentially make the cost 300% for the spell then went crit and instant life leech on crit. Definitely some cool stuff out there.
feel your pain. started as a blood mage, ditched it at level 50. after I had my invoker/deadeye/sparker at level 94 decided to do the "choir" build but without temporalis and it sucked big time. so much fuss. maybe try ardura shield with cooldown reduction - it might help tiny bit
Your eHP calc is a bit wrong. What happens is 20-25% of damage bypasses Energy Shield. You then apply 32% of mana before life. So your damage breakdown if you take 1000 Damage with a 20% Bypass Roll you would take 800 damage to ES, and then 136 to Life and 64 to Mana. If you wanted to split the damage better, a higher Bypass roll is most important here. You can get up to a 30% corruption. Which would make the damage split for 1000 damage, 700 to ES and 204 Life 94 Mana.
I've been using a variation of this with frost bomb and frost wall with aoe/spell power jewels. Add in energy generation and cdr passives and slaps in mapping. Bossing is just ok though, working on that.
Absolute top tier commentary.
make your cast on crit cast Ice wall + eye of winter and use trampletoe trimmed greaves, benefit.
For more benefit use killjoy linen wraps as well.
One shot bosses, and the screen made simple.
Melting Maelstrom Mana Flask for mana issues and +2% / 4% mana on kill jewels.
And rank your ice wall accordingly. Should prolly be lvl 9 or so depending on +spell lvl.
I do specc into base crit ascendancy though. That +15% makes it so easy to specc offense
Cast on x got so gutted. I had a pure spark build, strong as but was missing some zest so i gutted it out and speced into full cast on shock lightning conduit. I literally have 300% energy gain and 70% chance to refund energy... it still doesent proc that often and i feel like it never refunds, the counter always goes back to zero on a proc 😵💫 i have generally slower clear now and bossing is slower then having a mostly spark focused setup with cast on shock tacked on with 150% energy gain from a few jewels 😂 i get they nerfed cast on x but youd think itd still be a good option if you commited to it
Last I tested the spell leech was bugged, didn't work at all. Did they fix that?
Damn, Shakepeare would be proud.
Ive personally been running cast on minion comet and using fireball to spawn minion. I think BernstoneTV has a very similar build and its much more consistent than cast on crit. He uses it on storm sorc but on witch it works decent for me.
I hate how strong archmage is that if you're any caster you're just playing from a defeciet if you don't take it.
Was building a life stacking build trying to abuse the keystone to make life recharge like es on blood mage... BUT unlike poe1, life costs interrupts the life recharge as if you were taking damage. So character went to the bin with a few divs of investment. Sucks to suck i guess.
Ironic how today Mathil released his Blood mage video as well.
I can only imagine his was roughly 500000x better than mine lmao 🤣
@@klovehitch Especially funny cause he uses Bone skills.
Less ICD on Choir and more constraints on temporalis would have been nice...
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Damn how did you not about the Temporalis combo? Shame!!!!!!!
cheeto finger, jupiter orbiting???
just throw some teampletoes on like everybody else
Not Demon Form. Build invalid.