If you're like me and you missed the Support Gems section and were looking through every gem picture one by one.. Here you go, the gem setup: Sigil of Power: Magnified Effect Decompose: Comorbidity Life remnants: Cannibalism, Clarity Hexblast: Controlled Destruction, Conc. Effect, Inspiration Dark Effigy: Withering Touch, Font of Mana Essence Drain: - Blasphemy: Despair, Temp. Chains Withering Presence: - Blink: Ingenuity, Arcane Tempo Contagion: Chaotic Freeze, Persistence Further Information: Stack Withered Effect on Jewels in Passive Tree (can go from 5% to 15%, aim for 10% or higher)
i have to say i enjoyed every single minute of this video, i’m new to poe so all the information and points you were addressing were so fascinating to me. can’t wait for the follow up and the full realization of this build.
Important note I somehow forgot to talk about - the reason I think you want a staff is because you then want a wand+shield weapon swap. I think shields are BUSTED for mages. 'raise shield' is an instant weapon swap with huge damage mitigation in 'oh shit' moments and something you can camp when dealing with boss mechanics. I did not do it much in the clips here, but I find myself slowly moving towards using shield over dashing away from an attack. It's just more reliable.
@@EGGDEATHBRINGER event horizon is so bad, wondering about sphagettifcation as well. I could only see it being worth to travel to those nodes if you were picking up the curse nodes too. But they’re not really needed because of the blasphemy set up
This is absolutely genius! Using Chaos Freeze to solve survival issues and Inspiration to address the problem of excessive life consumption completely resolved the issues I encountered while playing this build!
Привет, очень классное видео, все очень понравилось, особенно то, что ты очень тщательно и подробно всё рассказывал, основы и самые маленькие мелочи не остались без внимания, это очень важно для меня и всех зрителей. Пожалуйста продолжай в том же духе, буду с нетерпением ждать crit версию в конце этой недели. Большое спасибо! (Translated) Hello, very cool video, I really liked everything, especially the fact that you explained everything very carefully and in detail, the basics and the smallest details were not left unattended, this is very important for me and all viewers. Please keep up the good work, I'll be looking forward to the crit version later this week. Thank you very much!
This is so thorough and im really enjoying it. I myself wanted to try out ED+Contagion on Blood Mage. (i thought i could cook something up similar to forbidden rite in poe1 and having the Progenesis Flask as an ascendancy node seemed crazy) As I'm almost done with campaign now Ive noticed the damage starting to fall off and really wanted to try and make this work still. This video is gonna save me a lot of frustration, thank you!
I want to do something similar; I want to try eternal youth regen and see if the cost from sanguimancy / blood magic interrupts it. If so, into the trash can, and I'll build something with leech.
Thank You for sharing. I was playing with essence drain + contagion and struggled to progress, now thanks to You I understand where I made my errors. Have a great holiday season! 🌲
Which base types for gear are we looking for here, ES due to al the INT we are taking? Also, when automating Effigy, I understand it will still wither; However, when automating Contagion, won't we lose out on Chaotic Freeze?
i want to ask did you think about dabbling in the whole second weapon set and a second passive tree set aspect with this build? im very new to the game but i think having a second weapon set/a second passive tree set depending on what spell/skill being casted at the moment could open up a lot more possibilities, im not sure if it'll actually make any difference with this build, you're the expert here after all lol. awesome vid and great build.
Did a great job with that build thank you! Only the cast time is annoying sometimes but thats a Personal skill issue^^ very funny build! Cant wait for the crit transit
i played crono and extended the combo by A LOT, ideally i sigil - contagan - totem - essence drain - rewind - hex blast (this freezes) - hex blastx4/5 - time stop - re apply contagion and totem - hex blastx6 (freezes again usually)... it will get longer once i can re-do time freeze after the second freeze! thank you for the guide i was going full ES and died over 300 times in the campaign... if I was to go CI how would you recommend doing that? i REALLY want to go CI!
Nice detailed video! I'm building very similar thing on Acolyte of Chayula monk. Just respecced recently and still finishing act 6. I'm struggling with boss damage. But got some nice tips and ideas from here. Thanks!
lol you literally just recapped my own experience in poe 2 :D I had the same thoughts and I am playing basically the same build. PS: I like Controlled destruction support for decompose as well, cause it scales the poisen damage and the cloud dosn´t care that it can´t crit.
I think Chronomaner is busted for this build. Time freeze is good because you can Time freeze, then freeze.. then boss dead. Also, Time warp is a get out of jail free card.. and also can be used to refill mana. And you have nutty sustain. I get 70% of my HP back 3 seconds after taking damage.
From today's patch: "Updated the description on Hexblast to clarify that it only detonates a single Curse per Enemy in its radius." Build scuffed now? Maybe just CoC despair only.
I never expected there to be a buff to Hexblast, it feels balanced right now (t6 maps). I assumed they were going for no scaling of the hit over the number of curses so didn't see the point mentioning it in the video.
@@felkin1Hi there! Thanks for the build ideas. How will you handle mana for sigil once the chest is gone? Also if we are going Cast on Crit, won’t that feedback loop instantly drain our mana(and maybe life from blood mage)? If that’s not an issue, and we’re using lifetap on hex, then how will we stage up Sigil reliably? Does it make sense to just prioritize wand and shield in this case for more defenses? (Barring holding your shield up)
Great build. Trying something similar. Couple questions: 1) do you think travel distance is too far for the +1 chaos spell circle on the tree? 2) When planning your late game transition have you considered the time-lost jewels that could grant area of effect or crit to surrounding nodes & the jewel slot node would have good coverage of them with medium radius. The cluster near spaghettification looks appealing for the proximity to crit, chaos, and recoup.
how viable do you think this would be with chaluya monk? do you just not spec crit? also why didnt you take forthcoming is it because its not enough skill effect duration?
I really like the offensive scaling on this build and boss killing potential damage, but it feels like it'd be paper thin if the player doesn't get the first hit on the enemy, with giving up chestpiece for +100 spirit and no block due to weapon swapping shield--- leech is bad atm as a defensive layer due to leech res which youve mentioned in comments Any thoughts on how you plan to scale the builld defensicely besides capped res, high hp pool, freeze if you can get on top of enemy, and offhand shield to deal with emergencies?
This is a really good guide, especially for new players like me who need every detail explained to them, This was exactly the kind of video I was looking for. I now have hope for playing the build I want. I do have a few questions: If you were to pivot toward crit, would you consider adding Enfeeble to the build? Enfeeble isn't great on its own, but it has the Impending Doom supp gem, where Doom Blast has the ability to crit. it also has Decaying Hex which adds a chaos dmg dot to Enfeeble = to 30% of int /sec, which is potentially another dot for Hexblast to explode (when it gets fixed). It also adds extra damage to your Hexblast spam because Doom Blast It triggers when dots are removed. Enfeeble is also is decently expensive mana wise and could potentially still synergize well with Sigil of Power. Maybe would have to run a different chest piece though due to int scaling on the Decaying Hex dmg? Also maybe a noob question, but would it make sense at endgame to min/max int and str nodes on the passive skill tree in order to have more blood magic resources since inspiration supp gems are one of the only ways to actually reduce the life cost of spells imposed by Sanguimancy? If running Enfeeble though maybe it isn't worth it? I am also unaware of what the synergy (if any) between Enfeeble and Contagion is. Lastly, it seems like there is some flex in the build for skill slots: -If Decompose is being traded out when moving toward crit then what is it being traded out for? Should it even be traded out once they fix leech from ascendancy? -If Essence Drain isn't draining life or mana currently then maybe it should be exchanged for something or maybe the extra dot for Hexblast to explode is still good assuming Hexblast is fixed soon? -I saw in the comments you are running swap to wand + shield sometimes. Does this make blink kind of a flex since you are using the shield for mitigation and getting life regen from other places? If so what would you recommend replacing this with? Thanks again for a great video! Looking forward to seeing this build fully realized.
Very good questions! >enfeeble I have experimented with this idea a bit - zig-zagging between hexblast and an occasional manual temp chains. The issue is that you can't link chaos freeze to it. Decaying Hex is useless because it won't scale with crit. Doom Blast is too weak until you have an insane mana pool. Depending on whether there are some funky ways to speed up curses, there probably exists a way to do a mana-based doomblast build. It's the sort of thing I've tried in PoE1 already actually. Nevertheless, mixing em here won't work well I think. You will be better off just spamming hexblast. Also the mana cost is a bit too insane to sustain I think. > int/str minmaxing Ye, ideally you want to minimize int and maximize str. But we are very attribute-starved in PoE2, it will get too hard to use higher level skill gems (should go up to level 20 or so). No real synergies between enfeeble and contagion, enfeeble is just a defensive curse. >Decompose I'd want to trade those boots for ones with more life, resists and movement speed, that's all. I have now identified that chaos res is super important in poe2 and its not so easy to get capped on all resists now. Especially because one of my other item sockets has been occupied by a unique since i made this video :) Will show it off soon. >ED I don't really use ED anymore anyways, just throwing in contagions >blink for shield I would never trade away blink, it's too good. Not only is it a very reliable way to get out of bad situations (where the shield won't) it also speeds up your mapping by a lot. I can't imagine myself playing a build without it now. Unless I can somehow get +70% MS total increase.
For the effigy contagion loop, maybe u can have multiple duplicated skills, 1 effigy and 1 contagion as active skills as u have and then creating a duplicate of those 2 with skill gems and adding them to the cast on crit as support? Idk if this works or if what i said even makes sense, but maybe u can cook something. Mainly for procing the loop faster than just using hex 4 or 5 times till it charges cast on crit
thanks man it’s falling off and i keep hearing about hex blast but my experience was like yours when you said you first switched and it didn’t feel good and wasn’t doing damage. i’m only 48 now so i need a bit more points to bring this online one thing you may not have noticed is blasphemy reduces all curses by about 50% which i didn’t see until i saw the debuff had 22% on this build vs 55% on my cast able curse
I got an idea for mana stacking, Mind over matter; then enhanced by 50% recoup of mana via dmg received from the unique item midnight braid. Further enhanced by chronomancer 4 second recoup over 8 sec standard Add some chaos inoculation and it seems very efficient Not bloodmage but this is something I'm going to try work on my next character 😊
Sick build. I've been doing a super fast ed cont build but might give this a shot when I get bored or plateau in dmg. Hey beside the wither node on the tree and you tell me how you got wither to 80%? I'm stuck at 70.
really cool listen too. helped me with my idea. going with cof building with chaotic freeze on contagion and ed with bursting plague. blasphemy with dispair + enfeeble, cof with hexblast and biting frost.
Thoughts on playing this with a shield? I'm playing pure cold blood witch at the moment and would like to switch to this, but find the defense from block to be a little bit too good to want to give up.
Whispers of Doom + Doedre's Damning Ring (with "You can apply an additional Curse" mod.) = 3 active mods simultaneously. Might be worth a try, if hexblast detonates all 3 curses.
No. Don't even need to look at the numbers, because this is ingrained in PoE balance philosophy: DoTs are meant to be 'easy' to work with (fire and forget), but not scale very well, while crit is difficult (have to keep hitting the enemy), but has the highest damage potential. You can see this in practice when you note that crit damage % goes up to 400%+ while chaos damage magnitude is very hard to come by and will plateau very quickly.
Thoughts on dropping a lot of the skill effect duration nodes and frozen? Focusing more on crit/hexblast idk.. I just dont want to respec entirely into the duration tree, if I can do a straight crit/on hit swap.
Very good video! I was looking for a build just like this! Could you do me one favor and quickly go over the acquisition source of all the „ingredients“ that are needed to play this build? Ex.: it seems you need quite a bit of points in passive tree, so which min. Level is recommended to make this build work. Where do you get this robe from? I saw it can drop from this scrap King in an early zone but is that the only way? How do you get a sigil of power in a staff? Where do you get blink from? Etc I dropped the boots from a random boss btw so I got these already!
Minimum level: I'd say as soon as you can use hexblast, so 41 or so Sigil of Power: just random staff base that has it, keep checking vendor Blink: lvl 3 spirit gem Robes: in PoE, no one target-farms regular uniques. We buy them off other players using trade. There's a trade site up on the official website.
I just ascended to blood mage, was also independently looking at hexblast blood mage and I skipped the life remnant node entirely for now, it won't be worth assigning the ascendancy big node points until I can switch to hits to leech off and assign the first four points in one go
I'll follow your progression we have the same build idea a crit hexblast bloodmage the fluff man ! But it comes online very late sadly. I turned to cold spell for the moment waiting for the items to go back to hexblast. Edit : recent patch on cast on elemental ailments destroyed my build so i'll swap now xD
Crazy to see others doing the same kind of build im doing blind lol super tough to get through the early part of the game on bloodmage hexblast/ED/contagion
Hey boss how did you feel about defenses? I dont see any defence nodes on the tree besides the recoup cluster. Im playing softcore regradless but the new map system is pain with dying
good day sir, can you play this without uniques? For example, what do I do if there is no armor, where do I get 100 spirit? Also what would you say is the earliest you can start this build?
Hi, awesome build and video, I tried something like that for leveling but it didn't work out. I love your video man, but PLEASE add timestamps, its too long to be looking for specific info you mentioned
If we have +1 curse limit on a ring, I would add that to blasphemy as well, since anything else will just end up with your hexblast removing it. But I would seriously question the value of such a mod, because the curse is only half effect and without supports inside blasphemy. It made sense to go for two since they keystone was 'basically free'
Welp, now that CoC is gutted, i wonder where this goes, but i may actually transition my old CoC comet since it was giganerfed and try this instead....seems already much better
You have a level 19 skill with a DPS of 5254. I have a level 18 skill but a DPS of 2382. I haven’t taken the freezing mods, otherwise the tree is like yours. Tell me where you get this increase in damage?
i'm still wondering how to build should be viable in late game.. lets say we run another chest later (around 50 Spirit), some Spirit on the amulett..(around 40) we still just have ~120 Spirit.. how do we run all the aura/curse stuff then? or is there any plan of dropping the wand and going back to a malice scepter for 100 spirit + buff? also do you know if there is a bug at the moment with the support gems for the item skills? can't socket any support gem in this skills.. kinda sucks :(
how you manage your mana, actually my hexblast cost 81 life/mana and i cast twice a second (0.48s) there is no way to sustain mana to this. Other thing, vitality siphon are working how is supposed to be? My hexblast are hitting 9.1k on tooltip (not even cosidering wither or despair) 0.48s per cast so everage damage is like 4.5k vitality siphon give us like 11.2% spell leech, mathematically speaking, this was supposed to give me 1k of life leech along the seconds, but i dont see any leech from that.
The wiki has your answer, somewhat - monsters seem to have an invisible 'leech resistance ' stat which minimizes our actual leech. It kind of makes sense, since Poe1 solved the issue of leech being OP by limiting it to 20% of your total life/s. Here they indirectly do it via this resist. I assume it will start to feel a lot once we're in the 100k DPS range. At the very least, I can feel that it offsets my life costs. I initially solved mana by getting a very good mana flask. Now I have switched the body for a rare and stacked some mana regeneration. It covers about half my mana needs, the second half I solve with the flask.
im hoping they fix hexblast not consuming more curses cause that could increase the damage a ton, though would have to get more spirit for having more curses in blasphemy
Your DPS on your level 19 skill is 5254. I have this skill at level 18 and the tree is the same as yours and DPS is 2300. Where do you get such an increase in damage?True, we haven’t taken the freezing mods, the level doesn’t allow it yet)
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If you're like me and you missed the Support Gems section and were looking through every gem picture one by one.. Here you go, the gem setup:
Sigil of Power: Magnified Effect
Decompose: Comorbidity
Life remnants: Cannibalism, Clarity
Hexblast: Controlled Destruction, Conc. Effect, Inspiration
Dark Effigy: Withering Touch, Font of Mana
Essence Drain: -
Blasphemy: Despair, Temp. Chains
Withering Presence: -
Blink: Ingenuity, Arcane Tempo
Contagion: Chaotic Freeze, Persistence
Further Information:
Stack Withered Effect on Jewels in Passive Tree (can go from 5% to 15%, aim for 10% or higher)
You sir are a legend
Give this man a raise
mvp
Contagion: Chaotic Freeze, Persistence!
@@GrandLapika absolute gamechanger just got first lvl 3 supp
i have to say i enjoyed every single minute of this video, i’m new to poe so all the information and points you were addressing were so fascinating to me. can’t wait for the follow up and the full realization of this build.
Totally felt the same. Was super interesting Video. Even your thought process in between was amazing!
Important note I somehow forgot to talk about - the reason I think you want a staff is because you then want a wand+shield weapon swap. I think shields are BUSTED for mages. 'raise shield' is an instant weapon swap with huge damage mitigation in 'oh shit' moments and something you can camp when dealing with boss mechanics. I did not do it much in the clips here, but I find myself slowly moving towards using shield over dashing away from an attack. It's just more reliable.
You should pin this, also thoughts on going across for “Spaghettification” ? Event Horizon being the issue.
@@EGGDEATHBRINGER event horizon is so bad, wondering about sphagettifcation as well. I could only see it being worth to travel to those nodes if you were picking up the curse nodes too. But they’re not really needed because of the blasphemy set up
This is absolutely genius! Using Chaos Freeze to solve survival issues and Inspiration to address the problem of excessive life consumption completely resolved the issues I encountered while playing this build!
Привет, очень классное видео, все очень понравилось, особенно то, что ты очень тщательно и подробно всё рассказывал, основы и самые маленькие мелочи не остались без внимания, это очень важно для меня и всех зрителей. Пожалуйста продолжай в том же духе, буду с нетерпением ждать crit версию в конце этой недели. Большое спасибо!
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Hello, very cool video, I really liked everything, especially the fact that you explained everything very carefully and in detail, the basics and the smallest details were not left unattended, this is very important for me and all viewers. Please keep up the good work, I'll be looking forward to the crit version later this week. Thank you very much!
Thanks for the concept ! Can you provide a planner of your skills setup and tree ? it's a really interesting build please
This is so thorough and im really enjoying it. I myself wanted to try out ED+Contagion on Blood Mage. (i thought i could cook something up similar to forbidden rite in poe1 and having the Progenesis Flask as an ascendancy node seemed crazy) As I'm almost done with campaign now Ive noticed the damage starting to fall off and really wanted to try and make this work still. This video is gonna save me a lot of frustration, thank you!
I want to do something similar; I want to try eternal youth regen and see if the cost from sanguimancy / blood magic interrupts it. If so, into the trash can, and I'll build something with leech.
You have absolutely made my life, i was about to give up on my Hexblast Blood Mage
Thank you so much buddy.
Thank You for sharing. I was playing with essence drain + contagion and struggled to progress, now thanks to You I understand where I made my errors. Have a great holiday season! 🌲
Plays very well with the build! Thank you for your work and excellent explanations! I look forward to further development of your build!
Which base types for gear are we looking for here, ES due to al the INT we are taking?
Also, when automating Effigy, I understand it will still wither; However, when automating Contagion, won't we lose out on Chaotic Freeze?
looking forward to seeing how the build looks in a few days!
hexblast is only removing 1 curse btw. Once they fix this itll be alot more damage with exploding all curses
Do they know about this? And have said they going to fix it?
@@byute98 they stated that they added the description that hexblast only removes one curse. so it is intended this way :(
Guess it’s full cast speed then to make up for it thanks brother
@@byute98 actually they said in the most recent patch that the wording was incorrect so they fixed it, it will only blow up ONE curse
Following as this was what ive been looking for chaos and bloodmage
Can you make a update on the build?
And how did you manage to get 238 spirit?
i want to ask did you think about dabbling in the whole second weapon set and a second passive tree set aspect with this build?
im very new to the game but i think having a second weapon set/a second passive tree set depending on what spell/skill being casted at the moment could open up a lot more possibilities, im not sure if it'll actually make any difference with this build, you're the expert here after all lol.
awesome vid and great build.
Absolutely awesome video. I learned so much from this. Keep up the good work!
Subscribed and changing my Blood Mage to this build tomorrow...thanks!
Did a great job with that build thank you! Only the cast time is annoying sometimes but thats a Personal skill issue^^ very funny build! Cant wait for the crit transit
i played crono and extended the combo by A LOT, ideally i sigil - contagan - totem - essence drain - rewind - hex blast (this freezes) - hex blastx4/5 - time stop - re apply contagion and totem - hex blastx6 (freezes again usually)... it will get longer once i can re-do time freeze after the second freeze! thank you for the guide i was going full ES and died over 300 times in the campaign...
if I was to go CI how would you recommend doing that? i REALLY want to go CI!
Nice detailed video!
I'm building very similar thing on Acolyte of Chayula monk.
Just respecced recently and still finishing act 6.
I'm struggling with boss damage.
But got some nice tips and ideas from here.
Thanks!
lol you literally just recapped my own experience in poe 2 :D I had the same thoughts and I am playing basically the same build. PS: I like Controlled destruction support for decompose as well, cause it scales the poisen damage and the cloud dosn´t care that it can´t crit.
can't wait for an update already
I think Chronomaner is busted for this build. Time freeze is good because you can Time freeze, then freeze.. then boss dead.
Also, Time warp is a get out of jail free card.. and also can be used to refill mana.
And you have nutty sustain. I get 70% of my HP back 3 seconds after taking damage.
looking forward to a follow up on this video
From today's patch: "Updated the description on Hexblast to clarify that it only detonates a single Curse per Enemy in its radius." Build scuffed now? Maybe just CoC despair only.
there is nothing changed, its works like this before the patch
I never expected there to be a buff to Hexblast, it feels balanced right now (t6 maps). I assumed they were going for no scaling of the hit over the number of curses so didn't see the point mentioning it in the video.
@@felkin1 Awesome, this makes me more secure about the changes and i'll swap to this build, thank you sir! :D
Annoying that the video showcase in game for hexblast says it detonates all the curses
@@felkin1Hi there! Thanks for the build ideas. How will you handle mana for sigil once the chest is gone? Also if we are going Cast on Crit, won’t that feedback loop instantly drain our mana(and maybe life from blood mage)? If that’s not an issue, and we’re using lifetap on hex, then how will we stage up Sigil reliably? Does it make sense to just prioritize wand and shield in this case for more defenses? (Barring holding your shield up)
I switched from cast on freeze to this, and this feels so much better
Great video!
I'll try that. About the attribute nodes, what is the proportion of STR/DEX/INT? Do you have strong requirements?
Currently lvl 42 just using area nodes with icewall / manual curse, was going to transition to hext at about 50 so this video is reassuring ❤❤
Great build. Trying something similar. Couple questions: 1) do you think travel distance is too far for the +1 chaos spell circle on the tree? 2) When planning your late game transition have you considered the time-lost jewels that could grant area of effect or crit to surrounding nodes & the jewel slot node would have good coverage of them with medium radius. The cluster near spaghettification looks appealing for the proximity to crit, chaos, and recoup.
Now I am torn between this and my minions - but hot damn, this build cooks!
Waiting patiently for a follow up. Make it a diary series. ;)
does ritualistic curse work on blasphemy? support gem that gives 50% curse aoe but -activation delay i think, which wouldnt matter on blasphemy
We need more like this video
Will this work with Acolyte of Chayula?
how viable do you think this would be with chaluya monk? do you just not spec crit? also why didnt you take forthcoming is it because its not enough skill effect duration?
I really like the offensive scaling on this build and boss killing potential damage, but it feels like it'd be paper thin if the player doesn't get the first hit on the enemy, with giving up chestpiece for +100 spirit and no block due to weapon swapping shield--- leech is bad atm as a defensive layer due to leech res which youve mentioned in comments
Any thoughts on how you plan to scale the builld defensicely besides capped res, high hp pool, freeze if you can get on top of enemy, and offhand shield to deal with emergencies?
This is a really good guide, especially for new players like me who need every detail explained to them, This was exactly the kind of video I was looking for. I now have hope for playing the build I want. I do have a few questions:
If you were to pivot toward crit, would you consider adding Enfeeble to the build? Enfeeble isn't great on its own, but it has the Impending Doom supp gem, where Doom Blast has the ability to crit. it also has Decaying Hex which adds a chaos dmg dot to Enfeeble = to 30% of int /sec, which is potentially another dot for Hexblast to explode (when it gets fixed). It also adds extra damage to your Hexblast spam because Doom Blast It triggers when dots are removed. Enfeeble is also is decently expensive mana wise and could potentially still synergize well with Sigil of Power. Maybe would have to run a different chest piece though due to int scaling on the Decaying Hex dmg?
Also maybe a noob question, but would it make sense at endgame to min/max int and str nodes on the passive skill tree in order to have more blood magic resources since inspiration supp gems are one of the only ways to actually reduce the life cost of spells imposed by Sanguimancy? If running Enfeeble though maybe it isn't worth it? I am also unaware of what the synergy (if any) between Enfeeble and Contagion is.
Lastly, it seems like there is some flex in the build for skill slots:
-If Decompose is being traded out when moving toward crit then what is it being traded out for? Should it even be traded out once they fix leech from ascendancy?
-If Essence Drain isn't draining life or mana currently then maybe it should be exchanged for something or maybe the extra dot for Hexblast to explode is still good assuming Hexblast is fixed soon?
-I saw in the comments you are running swap to wand + shield sometimes. Does this make blink kind of a flex since you are using the shield for mitigation and getting life regen from other places? If so what would you recommend replacing this with?
Thanks again for a great video! Looking forward to seeing this build fully realized.
Very good questions!
>enfeeble
I have experimented with this idea a bit - zig-zagging between hexblast and an occasional manual temp chains. The issue is that you can't link chaos freeze to it. Decaying Hex is useless because it won't scale with crit. Doom Blast is too weak until you have an insane mana pool. Depending on whether there are some funky ways to speed up curses, there probably exists a way to do a mana-based doomblast build. It's the sort of thing I've tried in PoE1 already actually. Nevertheless, mixing em here won't work well I think. You will be better off just spamming hexblast. Also the mana cost is a bit too insane to sustain I think.
> int/str minmaxing
Ye, ideally you want to minimize int and maximize str. But we are very attribute-starved in PoE2, it will get too hard to use higher level skill gems (should go up to level 20 or so).
No real synergies between enfeeble and contagion, enfeeble is just a defensive curse.
>Decompose
I'd want to trade those boots for ones with more life, resists and movement speed, that's all. I have now identified that chaos res is super important in poe2 and its not so easy to get capped on all resists now. Especially because one of my other item sockets has been occupied by a unique since i made this video :) Will show it off soon.
>ED
I don't really use ED anymore anyways, just throwing in contagions
>blink for shield
I would never trade away blink, it's too good. Not only is it a very reliable way to get out of bad situations (where the shield won't) it also speeds up your mapping by a lot. I can't imagine myself playing a build without it now. Unless I can somehow get +70% MS total increase.
Nice video! Thanks for show your build!
We need to continue the build, friend, it's amazing. But I do not know how to improve the build in the endgame
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Oh this seems cool, i just dropped my ed contagion bloodmage because it was working. I should be able to try this without any respeccing.
keep it up man! this looks amazing
Holy fck u got my follow. This build is insanly fun. please make a build on some site so we can copy exactly for future also
For the effigy contagion loop, maybe u can have multiple duplicated skills, 1 effigy and 1 contagion as active skills as u have and then creating a duplicate of those 2 with skill gems and adding them to the cast on crit as support? Idk if this works or if what i said even makes sense, but maybe u can cook something. Mainly for procing the loop faster than just using hex 4 or 5 times till it charges cast on crit
Super cool build!! Ty for posting man.
thanks man it’s falling off and i keep hearing about hex blast but my experience was like yours when you said you first switched and it didn’t feel good and wasn’t doing damage. i’m only 48 now so i need a bit more points to bring this online
one thing you may not have noticed is blasphemy reduces all curses by about 50% which i didn’t see until i saw the debuff had 22% on this build vs 55% on my cast able curse
I got an idea for mana stacking,
Mind over matter; then enhanced by 50% recoup of mana via dmg received from the unique item midnight braid.
Further enhanced by chronomancer 4 second recoup over 8 sec standard
Add some chaos inoculation and it seems very efficient
Not bloodmage but this is something I'm going to try work on my next character 😊
Nicely detailed video!!
Sick build. I've been doing a super fast ed cont build but might give this a shot when I get bored or plateau in dmg. Hey beside the wither node on the tree and you tell me how you got wither to 80%? I'm stuck at 70.
same man, i think it might be the jewel slot on the ptree
What would be good Runes/Soul Cores for the Staff since we can get freeze or life/mana on kill or crit dmg?
really cool listen too. helped me with my idea. going with cof building with chaotic freeze on contagion and ed with bursting plague. blasphemy with dispair + enfeeble, cof with hexblast and biting frost.
Thoughts on playing this with a shield? I'm playing pure cold blood witch at the moment and would like to switch to this, but find the defense from block to be a little bit too good to want to give up.
Whispers of Doom + Doedre's Damning Ring (with "You can apply an additional Curse" mod.) = 3 active mods simultaneously.
Might be worth a try, if hexblast detonates all 3 curses.
Updated the description on Hexblast to clarify that it only detonates a single Curse per Enemy in its radius.
You saved me from respec, thank you :)
I'm doing the same! Glad I have a template now 🎉 subscribed
Thanks for the guide brother
These boots are going to get nerfed so bad. we must hide this video
Do you think its possible to compete with damage via focusing on pure damage over time ED instead of Hexblast & crit?
No. Don't even need to look at the numbers, because this is ingrained in PoE balance philosophy: DoTs are meant to be 'easy' to work with (fire and forget), but not scale very well, while crit is difficult (have to keep hitting the enemy), but has the highest damage potential. You can see this in practice when you note that crit damage % goes up to 400%+ while chaos damage magnitude is very hard to come by and will plateau very quickly.
Also got a question for you, which venom draught did you choose in act 3?
Thoughts on dropping a lot of the skill effect duration nodes and frozen? Focusing more on crit/hexblast idk.. I just dont want to respec entirely into the duration tree, if I can do a straight crit/on hit swap.
@@jesperransborg probably don’t have the gear needed to make crit worth it.
@@YoungsterJoey151 What do you think about gems for the boots? Using Comorbidity, magnification, spell echo, swift affli atm..
Very good video! I was looking for a build just like this! Could you do me one favor and quickly go over the acquisition source of all the „ingredients“ that are needed to play this build?
Ex.: it seems you need quite a bit of points in passive tree, so which min. Level is recommended to make this build work.
Where do you get this robe from? I saw it can drop from this scrap King in an early zone but is that the only way?
How do you get a sigil of power in a staff?
Where do you get blink from? Etc
I dropped the boots from a random boss btw so I got these already!
Minimum level: I'd say as soon as you can use hexblast, so 41 or so
Sigil of Power: just random staff base that has it, keep checking vendor
Blink: lvl 3 spirit gem
Robes: in PoE, no one target-farms regular uniques. We buy them off other players using trade. There's a trade site up on the official website.
@@felkin1 that answered all of it. thank you very much sir
Hey this looks really interesting, could you maybe provide a planner version of your current tree etc?
I just ascended to blood mage, was also independently looking at hexblast blood mage and I skipped the life remnant node entirely for now, it won't be worth assigning the ascendancy big node points until I can switch to hits to leech off and assign the first four points in one go
I'll follow your progression we have the same build idea a crit hexblast bloodmage the fluff man ! But it comes online very late sadly. I turned to cold spell for the moment waiting for the items to go back to hexblast.
Edit : recent patch on cast on elemental ailments destroyed my build so i'll swap now xD
Crazy to see others doing the same kind of build im doing blind lol super tough to get through the early part of the game on bloodmage hexblast/ED/contagion
i was interested in your support gem choice since i came up with the same thing
would be cool if you post it or use some website
Hello Mr young man, any update for your build? i enjoy your video btw
Hey boss how did you feel about defenses? I dont see any defence nodes on the tree besides the recoup cluster. Im playing softcore regradless but the new map system is pain with dying
I love this build
good day sir, can you play this without uniques? For example, what do I do if there is no armor, where do I get 100 spirit? Also what would you say is the earliest you can start this build?
Hi, awesome build and video, I tried something like that for leveling but it didn't work out.
I love your video man, but PLEASE add timestamps, its too long to be looking for specific info you mentioned
What do you think about the blood magic node to get rid of mana completely and use life for everything? Can you still use sigil of power with that?
Need 8th ascendency point so we can do crit + spell vamp. Then this is a thing, yes. Until then, impossible to sustain properly.
Can you share your support gem build on maxroll or something?
Thank you! I love it!
Wand scepter with malice would be the goal when you swap to crit? Or is sigil of power too valuable
I heard that lifetap does not "double" the life cost, effectively removing the mana cost for free. Might be worth testing
would the ring that gives the extra curse how u are planning on adding the last curse?
If we have +1 curse limit on a ring, I would add that to blasphemy as well, since anything else will just end up with your hexblast removing it. But I would seriously question the value of such a mod, because the curse is only half effect and without supports inside blasphemy. It made sense to go for two since they keystone was 'basically free'
Welp, now that CoC is gutted, i wonder where this goes, but i may actually transition my old CoC comet since it was giganerfed and try this instead....seems already much better
Have you considered using Alphas Howl helmet over Enfolding dawn (in future build)?
Probably very hard to get the dex required for this, not 100% sure though.
@ valid just looking at other spirit options there’s a unique necklace that rolls doubly spirit but haven’t done the math to see if it’s enough spirit
Heyo, since I cant find it anywhere. Does anyone know if impending doom/doomblast would work with this?
You have a level 19 skill with a DPS of 5254. I have a level 18 skill but a DPS of 2382. I haven’t taken the freezing mods, otherwise the tree is like yours. Tell me where you get this increase in damage?
excellent guide
What do you think of poison hexblast?
How are you sustaining mana?
i'm still wondering how to build should be viable in late game..
lets say we run another chest later (around 50 Spirit), some Spirit on the amulett..(around 40) we still just have ~120 Spirit.. how do we run all the aura/curse stuff then?
or is there any plan of dropping the wand and going back to a malice scepter for 100 spirit + buff?
also do you know if there is a bug at the moment with the support gems for the item skills? can't socket any support gem in this skills.. kinda sucks :(
You get 100 from quests
Future advise, please dont leave a bright ass box on the screen when showcasing on a dark map.
Do you have a link to a written guide on this?
can u post this on maxroll?
Hey man, whats the best way to level into this?
How is this build in early game and how is for HC? I'm still watching the video
You are the best +1 share for you bro❤
how you manage your mana, actually my hexblast cost 81 life/mana and i cast twice a second (0.48s) there is no way to sustain mana to this.
Other thing, vitality siphon are working how is supposed to be? My hexblast are hitting 9.1k on tooltip (not even cosidering wither or despair) 0.48s per cast so everage damage is like 4.5k vitality siphon give us like 11.2% spell leech, mathematically speaking, this was supposed to give me 1k of life leech along the seconds, but i dont see any leech from that.
The wiki has your answer, somewhat - monsters seem to have an invisible 'leech resistance ' stat which minimizes our actual leech. It kind of makes sense, since Poe1 solved the issue of leech being OP by limiting it to 20% of your total life/s. Here they indirectly do it via this resist. I assume it will start to feel a lot once we're in the 100k DPS range. At the very least, I can feel that it offsets my life costs.
I initially solved mana by getting a very good mana flask. Now I have switched the body for a rare and stacked some mana regeneration. It covers about half my mana needs, the second half I solve with the flask.
People say hexblast is bugged. It detonates only 1 curse at a time
how to get a spell temporal chains ???
im hoping they fix hexblast not consuming more curses cause that could increase the damage a ton, though would have to get more spirit for having more curses in blasphemy
so the chaos dot fall off
what a shame
i hope the 3rd asscendy will have something about dot
Pls, u can post your skill tree.
Thanks I went blood mage too and didn’t want to go with bone physical
Your DPS on your level 19 skill is 5254. I have this skill at level 18 and the tree is the same as yours and DPS is 2300. Where do you get such an increase in damage?True, we haven’t taken the freezing mods, the level doesn’t allow it yet)