til the dash doesn't get improved with movespeed. What a relief though, + 1 suffix for resistances btw i've been playing hexblast with pyro pact, i think you shouldn't dismiss it so readily. It's not that bad honestly. If you have grim feast, the stacks basically outsustain the pact damage very easily by itself, and if you have some jewels (ruby) that have both + 1 max fire res and +%regen, get up to 82 or even 85% fire res, pyro pact's damage becomes an afterthough. it's not just the infinite mana too, although that part is already insane, it's the node that comes after, the one that makes all your damage count towards ignite. That thing is so strong, it enables cast on ignite like it's the pre nerfed version especially when you're on the 50 to 250 demon flame range where your damage is scaled up to the heavens I can juust eek out enough spirit with an amulet to run cast on ignite, grim feast and blasphemy temp chain or despair, no heightened curse but the freed up mana nodes went to the curse effect nodes near asceticism, which do the same thing with added curse area on top, and some went towards just normal + area of effect which further helps with hexblast's map clear. Anyway sorry for the big text that's my pyro pact sales pitch. Because that life reservation node is looking very mid and you could be having infinite mana instead, you know :v
imho pyro pact will be the normal way to go as soon as grim feast gets nuked (and its gonna get nuked lets not kid ourselfs). So im already playing all my builds without it to not get used to it lmao
Another thing to note about this build. I remade my Witch because my first Witch had taken the +20HP from the Candlemass boss in Act 1 and again in Act 1 Cruel, which gives 8% +HP. It doesn't sound like a lot... but... with the exact same build on two different witches I went from about 270~ HP to 177HP just from not killing the Candlemass. When we're trying to get under 200HP, that's HUGE. It's made me go from about 160 stacks when I lose Demonform to about 250 stacks when I lose Demonform. Again. Huge.
Now that's some dedication. Keep in mind, you get diminishing returns if you go under 200 HP, since the Degen rounds up to 1 regardless if you're 200HP or 100HP
@@Dante00151 Yeah for sure, but it definitely helps getting to that break point much easier! Especially when you need the extra few spirit, meaning you can take the ascendancy nodes which increase your HP without it pushing you over 200.
A minor thought which helps me in emergencies, I like to take the "Eternal Youth" node on the passive tree so my life flask can heal my energy shield. It's save my skin quite a few times if I'm honest. And it's only two points, since you're going that way anyway. It's on the top right of the tree.
I'm having a problem with Blasphemy not activating in Demon Form, I have the right amount of int but it only activates when not in demon form. Any reasons why?
Keep in mind that the passive stones change the cost of spirit needed ! especially when putting in like +4% life on kill or 1% life each second or 30% mana reg inside your demon form (!) this let you assume you have enough spirit but in demon form its reserved and blasphemy does not have enough spirit left.
@@Dante00151 I don't know if you both missed this, but in PoE 2, chaos damage no longer bypasses ES - it simply deals double damage to ES instead. You are taking no direct hits to your life.
If you’re on controller, you have to allocate your spirit on your second weapon slot to get everything running in demon form. It’s some kind of weird bug I had to navigate yesterday. Hopefully GGG is aware and can get that taken care of.
Reserved life does not matter indeed, I just found out as well. The degen is based on your total life pool, including reserved life. And the diminishing returns start at 200 life, if you go under 200, there' s no more benefits
For the flask, you want the hp to be over as long of a period as you can. Right now you are getting a heal over 1.9 seconds. If you swap that to a 5 second flask, you now have 3 more seconds per flask of demon form.
@@Dante00151 with the reserved life in mind, would it be fair to say ghostwrithe isn't 100% needed? trying to plan and budget out how much this build will run gear-wise and if i can use those exalts for a body with better res, i figure that could be worth it but i'm very new to these kinds of games so idk if i'm missing something
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til the dash doesn't get improved with movespeed. What a relief though, + 1 suffix for resistances
btw i've been playing hexblast with pyro pact, i think you shouldn't dismiss it so readily. It's not that bad honestly. If you have grim feast, the stacks basically outsustain the pact damage very easily by itself, and if you have some jewels (ruby) that have both + 1 max fire res and +%regen, get up to 82 or even 85% fire res, pyro pact's damage becomes an afterthough.
it's not just the infinite mana too, although that part is already insane, it's the node that comes after, the one that makes all your damage count towards ignite. That thing is so strong, it enables cast on ignite like it's the pre nerfed version especially when you're on the 50 to 250 demon flame range where your damage is scaled up to the heavens
I can juust eek out enough spirit with an amulet to run cast on ignite, grim feast and blasphemy temp chain or despair, no heightened curse but the freed up mana nodes went to the curse effect nodes near asceticism, which do the same thing with added curse area on top, and some went towards just normal + area of effect which further helps with hexblast's map clear.
Anyway sorry for the big text that's my pyro pact sales pitch. Because that life reservation node is looking very mid and you could be having infinite mana instead, you know :v
I'm actively trying to do that, I just need more max fire res jewels, I wanna get to at least 88% before committing
imho pyro pact will be the normal way to go as soon as grim feast gets nuked (and its gonna get nuked lets not kid ourselfs). So im already playing all my builds without it to not get used to it lmao
Another thing to note about this build. I remade my Witch because my first Witch had taken the +20HP from the Candlemass boss in Act 1 and again in Act 1 Cruel, which gives 8% +HP. It doesn't sound like a lot... but... with the exact same build on two different witches I went from about 270~ HP to 177HP just from not killing the Candlemass. When we're trying to get under 200HP, that's HUGE.
It's made me go from about 160 stacks when I lose Demonform to about 250 stacks when I lose Demonform. Again. Huge.
Now that's some dedication. Keep in mind, you get diminishing returns if you go under 200 HP, since the Degen rounds up to 1 regardless if you're 200HP or 100HP
@@Dante00151 Yeah for sure, but it definitely helps getting to that break point much easier! Especially when you need the extra few spirit, meaning you can take the ascendancy nodes which increase your HP without it pushing you over 200.
A minor thought which helps me in emergencies, I like to take the "Eternal Youth" node on the passive tree so my life flask can heal my energy shield. It's save my skin quite a few times if I'm honest. And it's only two points, since you're going that way anyway. It's on the top right of the tree.
He will die from Chaos with that low life pool if he take that node, unless he have lifesteal for it.
@@shortandcut Chaos damage does not bypass energy shield in POE2
I'm having a problem with Blasphemy not activating in Demon Form, I have the right amount of int but it only activates when not in demon form. Any reasons why?
Keep in mind that the passive stones change the cost of spirit needed ! especially when putting in like +4% life on kill or 1% life each second or 30% mana reg inside your demon form (!) this let you assume you have enough spirit but in demon form its reserved and blasphemy does not have enough spirit left.
any chance you could make a maxroller planner for this? cool build
There's a planner in the pinned comment, for mobalytics
Do you know what passive skill we can use in the amulet? maybe more life regen
13:29 is where i talk about the amulet
@@Dante00151 thank you!
can u explain boss rotation my boss wont freeze and explain the gems u use to freeze boss
@@moisessmith2906 it’s already explained 18:40
so if ur life and life regen is 1:1 does that mean u can stay in demonform forever? i wanna try demon form but man is it a hassle early on
@@dookcurruff9047 you can’t stay forever, the degen ramps harder and harder the more stacks you got. My cap is around 200
@Dante00151 so why use demonform when u can just use soul offering for the spell buff, for the mobility? cant u just throw on blink and call it a day
@@dookcurruff9047 Can soul offering give you 3400% increased spell damage? doubt it
How were you playing your witch while leveling? this build seems far away from leveling lol
@@arman9175 when in doubt, minions , level as minions
@@Dante00151 I am afraid of the respec cost, but I guess you went through the same thing
@@arman9175 i respec from minions and it cost me around 200k gold, wasn't that bad
Why do u catalyst before corrupting
Because on the rings they can go from 24% to 26% reduced maximum life, or could go more gain % of damage as extra chaos
Why resilient soul over hale heart?
20% life regen is better than 15%
this build made me lose verginity again, would raccomend
how do you even stay alive vs chaos dmg with 200 life ?
Capped res, and a lot of regen, very few things can 1 hit you
@@Dante00151 I don't know if you both missed this, but in PoE 2, chaos damage no longer bypasses ES - it simply deals double damage to ES instead.
You are taking no direct hits to your life.
@@AddressTheElephant Big ups brother, thanks for that!
Why can’t I use blasphemie in demon form?
you should be able to use. you got enough spirit? Press G, and right click blasphemy so it activtes and has the swirly thing around it
make sure you put the actual skill gem for despair in to blasphemy, then it will turn on
If you’re on controller, you have to allocate your spirit on your second weapon slot to get everything running in demon form. It’s some kind of weird bug I had to navigate yesterday. Hopefully GGG is aware and can get that taken care of.
nvm just saw your comment
i don't think reserved life matters that much
Reserved life does not matter indeed, I just found out as well. The degen is based on your total life pool, including reserved life. And the diminishing returns start at 200 life, if you go under 200, there' s no more benefits
For the flask, you want the hp to be over as long of a period as you can. Right now you are getting a heal over 1.9 seconds. If you swap that to a 5 second flask, you now have 3 more seconds per flask of demon form.
@@jerradm interesting, gonna test it out
@@Dante00151 with the reserved life in mind, would it be fair to say ghostwrithe isn't 100% needed? trying to plan and budget out how much this build will run gear-wise and if i can use those exalts for a body with better res, i figure that could be worth it but i'm very new to these kinds of games so idk if i'm missing something
oh wait it says converted on the body not reserved, i'm guessing those two work differently which enables the low health needed for the build.
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