One quick thing I forgot to mention in the video. The Decaying Hex support gem does not currently work with the Blasphemy support :(. I initially built the character with that premise in mind but had to pivot once I found out it doesn't work. Don't get baited like me.
Hi, thanks for your video, ive just started poe 2 and made a blood mage chaos witch and trying to use hexblast and blasphemy, i thought the passive point whispers of doom would be good, but it does nothing. It's still possible to run 2 curses at the same time without the passive. Whats the point in this passive point?
@DS-cp3fg 2 curses won't be active on the monster without Whispers of Doom. One will take priority. However, Hexblast does not currently detonate more than 1 curse at a time, so the only benefit you are getting is the effect of the curse itself.
Thanks for sharing knowledge, sir. Gonna check your guide when it comes out. This build not only looks fun to play but also satisfying to watch it all explode
The video tooltip on the skillgem itself states it will pop multiple curses, I think what happened was it shipped only popping one curse on launch, the devs noticed so they changed the text tooltip to only say "a curse" but the video tooltip is unchanged. Hope they change it back because it's kind of unfortunate
@@JoeManLukeI'm more upset Gore spike in bloodmage ascension isn't even working, u can test by refunding and checking cdmg in the window tooltip then respecing into it .... The value doesn't change and I don't feel like It spiked my dmg
How about the 45% reduction on curses? That is what blasphemy puts on the curses right? I can see that when selecting the Curses tab on the Blasphemy skill. Does this have any impact on Hexblast? If it does, would it be better to manually cast the curses?
@@RoelWijker the reduction probably doesn't outweigh the dps you get from being able to spam hexblast. But you might be able to run a self cast build with hexblast and the Impending Doom support.
awesome video. I just started playing a bloodmage and im using hexblast. Feels pretty good. Do you know if the "Gore Spike" ascendancy point scales crit with hexblast? I am trying to tell if I can notice a difference.
@RlNEgZqM Thanks! unfortunately Gore Spike is bugged and does nothing at the moment. I just released my build guide where I talk about what you can do instead.
Have you seen the Tooltip in-game for hexblast, the video specifically shows that if an enemy has multiple curses on it, then hexblast will blow them all, hehe. I wanter if this is bugged or nerfed.
I've seen comments on Reddit about Unleash and Cold Snap, where the unleashed spells all benefit from consuming the freeze. Have you tried Unleash Hexblast?
Okay I did some testing. Its pretty hard to tell if its working correctly. It kind of looks like both Spell Echo and Unleash are bugged and actually don't do anything. Visually I only see a single cast go off. Its possible that they are overlaid perfectly, but I'm not sure.
its a shame at the moment we can't make more use of curses and these occultist abilities i find them to be the most cool looking in the game at the moment, im currently playing my second char as monk AoC pure spellcasting but id like to try to see how i can make hand of chayula and mantra of destruction work with quaterstaff, some people saying hand of chayula is bugged at the moment.
Nice vid. Good job! Do you combine Hexblast with Essence Drain for example? I went a similar route as you, with blasphemy + HB. But I still figuring out the right cast order between contagion, ED and HB.
When I was built crit I didn't use anything other than HB, but after swapping to non-crit I think its not a bad idea. However, I did level with ED, contagion, and the curse dot support. I think its easiest to hit a monster with ED first, then contagion. Trying to hit a specific monster with ED can be tricky sometimes, whereas contagion you can just click on the monster you want.
@@sundayfunday2011 Make sure the enemy has a curse on them before casting hexblast. If you are using blasphemy, the skill needs to have a curse socketed into it, you need to have the aura active, and the enemy must be within the range of the aura
at what lvl can you make the switch to hexblast? I was gonna lvl this since i really liked the impending doom playstyle in poe1, but curently kinda stuck in the campaign with terrible gear and its a pain to lvl with ED.
@didnthurt4077 Looks like level 41 is the earliest you can get it. You should be able to just straight up swap without too much trouble. In the meantime, contagion, ED, decaying hex support, and darker effigy usually do enough damage all together to get you to 41.
I felt that the damage is extremely low, I just wonder if you have the same issue. With 1 divine investment, most builds can clear T14-15. I wonder what your gear looks like here in T4. The boss takes a while.
Boss damage will always be a bit tough since the skill itself will be balanced around multi target shotgunning. Crit feels like the way to go, however, the Blood Mage ascendency is currently bugged (and also just kinda poop). The crit damage from life node does not work at all, which would have been a huge source of damage. I have beaten up to T11 maps without really any issue, and completed the 3rd ascendency trial so far. My best advice is to explore the infernalist tree (i haven't looked at it much yet, but i cant respec feelsbadman), and to get as many sources of plus chaos skill gem level. A wand will get you +4 and some wicked stats for a single div. Scale some curse effect, chaos damage, spell damage, and utilize withered in some form. I haven't tried it yet, but you may be able to have chaos bolt from a withered wand do some pretty good single target and just use that for bosses. AOE feels fine though to me. It may not be a super blaster skill, but at this moment I am confident it can clear all map levels and normal bosses with a moderate budget. Im determined to take it as far as it will go and I will make a build guide when i feel like i hit the peak of what I can do.
Use crit with hexblast it will help with damage. For bosses adding eye of winter with wither support and that on support that makes it shoot more) this will help stack max wither and give extra crit buff. Adding orb of storm for shock. (Im ignite based as well so a cast on ignite comet adds alot of damage) and bosses just die
Your crit bloodmage build looks pretty sweet! How is it on bosses? I'm using this (hexblast & blasphemy + despair) with infernalist demon form and with enough life regen you can keep it up for the whole map + boss. From what I've seen, with a lot of demonflame stacks, your damage gets pretty insane.
Unfortunately I switched off of crit as blood mage is currently bugged. the crit damage from life node does not work at all. If they fix it somewhat soon I'll switch back. Bossing doesn't feel too bad. It's on the slow side being a primarily AOE skill, but I've cleared up to T11 and the 3rd trial so far without any issues.
You can keep up Demonform pretty much indefinitely by wearing a Ghostwrithe and 2 Ming's Heart rings to reduce your life as much as possible, ideally to 200 (even less is useless). Then stack ES and/or Mana as your HP pool. The degen from the form is based on your lifepool, so it becomes minuscule to the point that stacking flat regen on gear is enough to counteract it. And no, you don't take the node after Demonform, instead you use this tech to stack the Demonflame buff as high as you can go. :D
One quick thing I forgot to mention in the video. The Decaying Hex support gem does not currently work with the Blasphemy support :(. I initially built the character with that premise in mind but had to pivot once I found out it doesn't work. Don't get baited like me.
Hi, thanks for your video, ive just started poe 2 and made a blood mage chaos witch and trying to use hexblast and blasphemy, i thought the passive point whispers of doom would be good, but it does nothing. It's still possible to run 2 curses at the same time without the passive. Whats the point in this passive point?
@DS-cp3fg 2 curses won't be active on the monster without Whispers of Doom. One will take priority. However, Hexblast does not currently detonate more than 1 curse at a time, so the only benefit you are getting is the effect of the curse itself.
Thanks for sharing knowledge, sir. Gonna check your guide when it comes out. This build not only looks fun to play but also satisfying to watch it all explode
thanks, i was late to PoE1 and still don't know how a lot of skills work in PoE2. this really helped
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Heya my guy, I enjoyed the laid back conversational style you're rockin!, Cheers!
Thanks man! Hoping to have 1 video a week, so keep ur eyeballs peeled.
The video tooltip on the skillgem itself states it will pop multiple curses, I think what happened was it shipped only popping one curse on launch, the devs noticed so they changed the text tooltip to only say "a curse" but the video tooltip is unchanged. Hope they change it back because it's kind of unfortunate
Well not even change it back more so make it work as intended 😢
Good catch. That's interesting.
if there are multiple curses on a target it will "consume" the curses but only does damage one time. So its wasn't really wrong it was just misleading
Dang when I watch the skill clip I thought it said for additional damage I'll rewatch it again today when I get on ❤
@@JoeManLukeI'm more upset Gore spike in bloodmage ascension isn't even working, u can test by refunding and checking cdmg in the window tooltip then respecing into it .... The value doesn't change and I don't feel like It spiked my dmg
Dang, you would think all the curses would pop for big damage, but I guess it's already strong enough. Would be cool for single target/bossing.
Agreed
Thank you! So cool!❤
How about the 45% reduction on curses? That is what blasphemy puts on the curses right? I can see that when selecting the Curses tab on the Blasphemy skill. Does this have any impact on Hexblast? If it does, would it be better to manually cast the curses?
@@RoelWijker the reduction probably doesn't outweigh the dps you get from being able to spam hexblast. But you might be able to run a self cast build with hexblast and the Impending Doom support.
good video. thanks for your tips and tricks 👍
awesome video. I just started playing a bloodmage and im using hexblast. Feels pretty good. Do you know if the "Gore Spike" ascendancy point scales crit with hexblast? I am trying to tell if I can notice a difference.
@RlNEgZqM Thanks! unfortunately Gore Spike is bugged and does nothing at the moment. I just released my build guide where I talk about what you can do instead.
@@JoeManLuke thanks man. keep up the great work - your video is really informative and not some clickbait trash. subscribed !
Have you seen the Tooltip in-game for hexblast, the video specifically shows that if an enemy has multiple curses on it, then hexblast will blow them all, hehe. I wanter if this is bugged or nerfed.
@@muzzrx Yeah, my guess is that it was nerfed. But we will see.
I've seen comments on Reddit about Unleash and Cold Snap, where the unleashed spells all benefit from consuming the freeze. Have you tried Unleash Hexblast?
I assume if you are using blasphemy it probably just works anyway. But ill try tonight and check both hard cast and blasphemy.
Okay I did some testing. Its pretty hard to tell if its working correctly. It kind of looks like both Spell Echo and Unleash are bugged and actually don't do anything. Visually I only see a single cast go off. Its possible that they are overlaid perfectly, but I'm not sure.
its a shame at the moment we can't make more use of curses and these occultist abilities i find them to be the most cool looking in the game at the moment, im currently playing my second char as monk AoC pure spellcasting but id like to try to see how i can make hand of chayula and mantra of destruction work with quaterstaff, some people saying hand of chayula is bugged at the moment.
@@KRANative yeah unfortunately a lot of stuff is bugged ATM. But I'm thinking those will be high on the list of fixes in January.
Nice vid. Good job! Do you combine Hexblast with Essence Drain for example? I went a similar route as you, with blasphemy + HB. But I still figuring out the right cast order between contagion, ED and HB.
When I was built crit I didn't use anything other than HB, but after swapping to non-crit I think its not a bad idea. However, I did level with ED, contagion, and the curse dot support. I think its easiest to hit a monster with ED first, then contagion. Trying to hit a specific monster with ED can be tricky sometimes, whereas contagion you can just click on the monster you want.
@@JoeManLuke yeah, good call. Looking forward to your update/guide. Merry Christmas till then :)
@@Fillos Merry Christmas!
Im confused my hexblast doesn't do anything
@@sundayfunday2011 Make sure the enemy has a curse on them before casting hexblast. If you are using blasphemy, the skill needs to have a curse socketed into it, you need to have the aura active, and the enemy must be within the range of the aura
@JoeManLuke i figured it out thank you. I'm just short on spirit to activate blasphemy with despair on it
at what lvl can you make the switch to hexblast? I was gonna lvl this since i really liked the impending doom playstyle in poe1, but curently kinda stuck in the campaign with terrible gear and its a pain to lvl with ED.
@didnthurt4077 Looks like level 41 is the earliest you can get it. You should be able to just straight up swap without too much trouble. In the meantime, contagion, ED, decaying hex support, and darker effigy usually do enough damage all together to get you to 41.
I felt that the damage is extremely low, I just wonder if you have the same issue. With 1 divine investment, most builds can clear T14-15. I wonder what your gear looks like here in T4. The boss takes a while.
Boss damage will always be a bit tough since the skill itself will be balanced around multi target shotgunning. Crit feels like the way to go, however, the Blood Mage ascendency is currently bugged (and also just kinda poop). The crit damage from life node does not work at all, which would have been a huge source of damage. I have beaten up to T11 maps without really any issue, and completed the 3rd ascendency trial so far. My best advice is to explore the infernalist tree (i haven't looked at it much yet, but i cant respec feelsbadman), and to get as many sources of plus chaos skill gem level. A wand will get you +4 and some wicked stats for a single div. Scale some curse effect, chaos damage, spell damage, and utilize withered in some form. I haven't tried it yet, but you may be able to have chaos bolt from a withered wand do some pretty good single target and just use that for bosses. AOE feels fine though to me. It may not be a super blaster skill, but at this moment I am confident it can clear all map levels and normal bosses with a moderate budget. Im determined to take it as far as it will go and I will make a build guide when i feel like i hit the peak of what I can do.
Use crit with hexblast it will help with damage. For bosses adding eye of winter with wither support and that on support that makes it shoot more) this will help stack max wither and give extra crit buff. Adding orb of storm for shock. (Im ignite based as well so a cast on ignite comet adds alot of damage) and bosses just die
What about contagion?
What about it?
Your crit bloodmage build looks pretty sweet! How is it on bosses?
I'm using this (hexblast & blasphemy + despair) with infernalist demon form and with enough life regen you can keep it up for the whole map + boss. From what I've seen, with a lot of demonflame stacks, your damage gets pretty insane.
Unfortunately I switched off of crit as blood mage is currently bugged. the crit damage from life node does not work at all. If they fix it somewhat soon I'll switch back. Bossing doesn't feel too bad. It's on the slow side being a primarily AOE skill, but I've cleared up to T11 and the 3rd trial so far without any issues.
You can keep up Demonform pretty much indefinitely by wearing a Ghostwrithe and 2 Ming's Heart rings to reduce your life as much as possible, ideally to 200 (even less is useless). Then stack ES and/or Mana as your HP pool. The degen from the form is based on your lifepool, so it becomes minuscule to the point that stacking flat regen on gear is enough to counteract it. And no, you don't take the node after Demonform, instead you use this tech to stack the Demonflame buff as high as you can go. :D