Additionally, I found that using the gloves Atziri's Acuity can maximize the life leech effect. As long as you don't get one-shot, your health stays in a pretty good state. Moreover, it also provides a significant critical strike chance bonus, which is highly beneficial for our build.
If you use double curse in blasphemy you need to use doedre ring for additional curse for impending doom to work. This is an even bigger sacrifice imo since rings are so good. There’s a lot of minmaxing left to do here, if you really need spirit (idk what you would use though, blink maybe) you could get against the darkness jewel with spirit or replace defiance
Looks satisfying destructive ! I liked playing the Death's Oath build in poe. Throwing blasting curses around feels awesome, when it actually hurts. But to get there though >.>
awesome. this was so informative. i was wondering if cursed ground worked like it did in poe1 also does increased cooldown recovery rate work with impending doom?
I played vixens build a long long time ago and from what I remember the cdr was important for vixens itself not ID? Either way I wouldn't worry about it here since ID is only used to one shot screens not single target dps
Hi i'm running a similar build but with Archmage and blasphemy. I found that if you scale area and curse area high enough you only need hexblast for clearing very comfortably. I also use a weapon swap soul offering to almost double my damage for 20s I have a video on my channel of it in action it's way faster clear if you just one hexblast every pack.
I improved my gear a bit since the video and have a lot more aoe now. Even then I do not think clearing with Hexblast has any merit. Impending doom is just so much better with coverage and you can get 2 six links in poe2 anyway. I use ID 95% of the time, only use Hexblast to one shot a rare or kill bosses. Archmage is interesting but so expensive , will test that
@@aitchpe yeah and with kitoko's gloves archmage lets me permanently electrocute rares and 1/2times in boss fights. So many ways to build hexblast i'm glad people are making videos on it I learn a lot to improve. The chestpiece options you gave was very good info
I 'league started' this character doing multiple respecs on the way trying different skills. If I had to level now I'd do minions or spark. Chaos spells are really slow until maps imo
I switched to this in act 2 cruel but it really picks up when you get the 15% base crit ascendancy. You can skip crit nodes for chaos dmg and aoe until then
I wonder if itd be possible to go even harder into mana stacking and keeping the Black Doubt. For example, Atziri's disdain coupd grant you something like 600 mana from Eldritch battery and taking some mana nodes and focusing t8 mana as well on gear could go really hard. Would scale up impending doom better and also give you higher regen. What do you think?
Atziris disdain doesn’t work like that. Other than that I think with mirror tier gear this setup would be the best for sustain and allow us to drop defiance. Captain lance has 5k mana and. 1.6k regen(but he has arcane surge scaling). You need at least 15% mana regen per second for it to feel good imo. This is a lot of stats to manage - mana, life, mana regen, crit, crit damage, res. You could also get spirit on against the darkness and run archmage, but this needs even more mana regen and only benefits single target, I already one shot normal mobs. Overall good idea but we’re talking Disneyland or months of farming to get there.
Infernalist is currently better in almost every way. You just have to gear and work around the penalties (degen, reserved life and resists) but it is worth it
Another question - does the level of the curse influence the impending doom damage? Cause it seems very hard to manage the life costs with high level curses.
No, I forgot to mention it in the video, the curse you use for impending doom doesn’t matter since you want it to expire instantly. You can use any low level curse
maybe we can swap shield to sceptre to get more spirit for aura/ coc ? And we can utilising the sceptre aura (malice) to further increase our crit chance
Replacing a focus with a sceptre sucks imo. Sceptres have no good stats for crit builds and malice has an unimpressive radius. On top of that I’m currently on 89% crit chance so no need for malice really. I don’t see the case for spirit either, there are no interesting auras for this build I think and there is no reason to use coc when you one shot screens. Atm I think the only thing which replaces a focus is the surrender unique shield.
I use the 100 base spirit since I don’t see the need for more. If you do then there are 3 options - replace defiance for rare amulet, against the darkness jewel with spirit, unique shield with spirit
@aitchpe Got it thanks. I have having a blast last night with the new build but for some reason my aura stopped working now my whole character is bricked. Not sure what to do. Going to do some more research.
@@aitchpe I see. Wouldn't the recent essence drain buff help with single target damage? Since it doesn't at all with crit, guess it would be nice for infernalist. Idk tho
No point since there are no armor nodes at the top of the tree. I heard steelmage say on stream that 'armor is not noticable until u hit 10k, at 10k you start feeling really good'. Aint no way you are hitting 10k without tree scaling. If you want pdr outside progenesis and taken as mana there is an affix on str shields 'extra phys reduction'
"This build is absolutely brilliant! By giving up the practically useless Energy Shield (ES), it gains a massive pool of Mana instead. Plus, curses can trigger Impending Doom by overwriting each other-this is so cool! Finally, we can kill monsters from a distance, instead of having to walk up close to cast Hexblast applied. "Moreover, using low-level curses to reduce enemy damage while also lowering the HP lost from casting skills is really, really awesome!" I’m from Taiwan-would you allow me to share your build on our local gaming forum? It’s truly amazing!"
Here's the translation of your addition: "I also think using Eye of Winter to apply Wither is excellent! The setup is: Eye of Winter / Withering Touch / Unleash / Chain."
Additionally, I found that using the gloves Atziri's Acuity can maximize the life leech effect. As long as you don't get one-shot, your health stays in a pretty good state Moreover, it also provides a significant critical strike chance bonus, which is highly beneficial for our build. .@@aitchpe
Additionally, I found that using the gloves Atziri's Acuity can maximize the life leech effect. As long as you don't get one-shot, your health stays in a pretty good state.
Moreover, it also provides a significant critical strike chance bonus, which is highly beneficial for our build.
You need life Res and mana, trading that for 30% crit chance sounds really bad. Leech is 1s unlike poe1 so the instant leech is insignificant as well
I love the ideas here! I think I might try Covenant in my build; though you lose out on Spirit and I'm using double-curse Blasphemy.
If you use double curse in blasphemy you need to use doedre ring for additional curse for impending doom to work. This is an even bigger sacrifice imo since rings are so good.
There’s a lot of minmaxing left to do here, if you really need spirit (idk what you would use though, blink maybe) you could get against the darkness jewel with spirit or replace defiance
curse the helm, hope you get spirit on it i got +20 on mine
How did you scale the damage ? I have 2.3 k mana and does only 5k damage
Looks satisfying destructive ! I liked playing the Death's Oath build in poe. Throwing blasting curses around feels awesome, when it actually hurts. But to get there though >.>
nice build!
Maxroll pls
awesome. this was so informative. i was wondering if cursed ground worked like it did in poe1
also does increased cooldown recovery rate work with impending doom?
I played vixens build a long long time ago and from what I remember the cdr was important for vixens itself not ID? Either way I wouldn't worry about it here since ID is only used to one shot screens not single target dps
Hi i'm running a similar build but with Archmage and blasphemy. I found that if you scale area and curse area high enough you only need hexblast for clearing very comfortably. I also use a weapon swap soul offering to almost double my damage for 20s I have a video on my channel of it in action it's way faster clear if you just one hexblast every pack.
I improved my gear a bit since the video and have a lot more aoe now.
Even then I do not think clearing with Hexblast has any merit. Impending doom is just so much better with coverage and you can get 2 six links in poe2 anyway. I use ID 95% of the time, only use Hexblast to one shot a rare or kill bosses.
Archmage is interesting but so expensive , will test that
@@aitchpe yeah and with kitoko's gloves archmage lets me permanently electrocute rares and 1/2times in boss fights. So many ways to build hexblast i'm glad people are making videos on it I learn a lot to improve. The chestpiece options you gave was very good info
How many buttons do you press ? I would love to play your build 🥰
cool build how did you level up it ?
I 'league started' this character doing multiple respecs on the way trying different skills. If I had to level now I'd do minions or spark. Chaos spells are really slow until maps imo
@@aitchpe around what level would you say it'd be ok to start running this build?
I switched to this in act 2 cruel but it really picks up when you get the 15% base crit ascendancy. You can skip crit nodes for chaos dmg and aoe until then
How do you get to 31 damage taken from mana before life? 16 from tree, and it seems you dont even have every jewel socket with that stat?
I anoint mental perseverance. I might path there eventually in the endgame tree and anoint another defensive or offensive node
I wonder if itd be possible to go even harder into mana stacking and keeping the Black Doubt.
For example, Atziri's disdain coupd grant you something like 600 mana from Eldritch battery and taking some mana nodes and focusing t8 mana as well on gear could go really hard.
Would scale up impending doom better and also give you higher regen. What do you think?
Atziris disdain doesn’t work like that.
Other than that I think with mirror tier gear this setup would be the best for sustain and allow us to drop defiance. Captain lance has 5k mana and. 1.6k regen(but he has arcane surge scaling). You need at least 15% mana regen per second for it to feel good imo. This is a lot of stats to manage - mana, life, mana regen, crit, crit damage, res.
You could also get spirit on against the darkness and run archmage, but this needs even more mana regen and only benefits single target, I already one shot normal mobs.
Overall good idea but we’re talking Disneyland or months of farming to get there.
Thanks ;-). Do u think infernalist is better and tankier than bloodmage ? It seems difficult to level bloodmage (im level 43). Ty
Infernalist is currently better in almost every way. You just have to gear and work around the penalties (degen, reserved life and resists) but it is worth it
on single target, do you just spam hexblast, or go curse -> hexblast, curse -> hexblast, etc.?
You run blasphemy which curses mobs in range so you're just hex blasting away
Another question - does the level of the curse influence the impending doom damage? Cause it seems very hard to manage the life costs with high level curses.
No, I forgot to mention it in the video, the curse you use for impending doom doesn’t matter since you want it to expire instantly. You can use any low level curse
"The advantage of using low-level curses is that it reduces both life and mana costs, making recovery much easier to manage."
maybe we can swap shield to sceptre to get more spirit for aura/ coc ? And we can utilising the sceptre aura (malice) to further increase our crit chance
Replacing a focus with a sceptre sucks imo. Sceptres have no good stats for crit builds and malice has an unimpressive radius. On top of that I’m currently on 89% crit chance so no need for malice really. I don’t see the case for spirit either, there are no interesting auras for this build I think and there is no reason to use coc when you one shot screens. Atm I think the only thing which replaces a focus is the surrender unique shield.
jewel focus curse or critical ?
Hey, I wanted to know where else you're getting spirit from. I am having a hard time without having spirit on my gear.
I use the 100 base spirit since I don’t see the need for more. If you do then there are 3 options - replace defiance for rare amulet, against the darkness jewel with spirit, unique shield with spirit
@aitchpe Got it thanks. I have having a blast last night with the new build but for some reason my aura stopped working now my whole character is bricked. Not sure what to do. Going to do some more research.
how do you feel about hexblast infernalist? how is it compared to hexblast bloodmage?
Hard to scale damage without crit on hexblast
@@aitchpe I see. Wouldn't the recent essence drain buff help with single target damage? Since it doesn't at all with crit, guess it would be nice for infernalist. Idk tho
@@aitchpe Archmage?
@@aitchpe infernalist gets demonform. provides infinite damage scaling on all spells. dont need crit
what do u think about armor pieces with armor which will give some extra defense (i know we will lose some es points) ?
No point since there are no armor nodes at the top of the tree.
I heard steelmage say on stream that 'armor is not noticable until u hit 10k, at 10k you start feeling really good'. Aint no way you are hitting 10k without tree scaling. If you want pdr outside progenesis and taken as mana there is an affix on str shields 'extra phys reduction'
With this chest I lose all hp in 2 cast. I don't understand why you are not dying.
Are you using a low level curse?
early players need to take "eternal youth" notable. and go for a ES build.
Shhh dont tell people theyll nerf our build 🤣
Poe rules!!! Subbed!! 2025!!!
"This build is absolutely brilliant!
By giving up the practically useless Energy Shield (ES), it gains a massive pool of Mana instead. Plus, curses can trigger Impending Doom by overwriting each other-this is so cool!
Finally, we can kill monsters from a distance, instead of having to walk up close to cast Hexblast applied.
"Moreover, using low-level curses to reduce enemy damage while also lowering the HP lost from casting skills is really, really awesome!"
I’m from Taiwan-would you allow me to share your build on our local gaming forum? It’s truly amazing!"
Here's the translation of your addition:
"I also think using Eye of Winter to apply Wither is excellent! The setup is:
Eye of Winter / Withering Touch / Unleash / Chain."
The eye of winter tech is really interesting, I will have to try it out. And yes you can share the build, that’s why I posted it :)
@@aitchpe Thank you！
Additionally, I found that using the gloves Atziri's Acuity can maximize the life leech effect. As long as you don't get one-shot, your health stays in a pretty good state
Moreover, it also provides a significant critical strike chance bonus, which is highly beneficial for our build.
.@@aitchpe
How come it doesnt cost mana to cast enfeeble
The curse you use doesn't matter since you want it to expire instantly anyway. Use any level 3 curse, not enfeeble specifically
@@aitchpe so level 3 curses dont cost mana?
low level curse
Don't work. Spend 250k on this build and it's bullshit. Don't do it guys
I provided video evidence of it working but for you it doesn't. Skill issue and probably curse limit issue
Hey, do you have a discord? or can I add you in game?
Couple people pmed me in game, feel free to do so too
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