All showcases here are missing about 30% more damage because I forgot to gem swap into concentrated effect. If you only have 3 ascendancies, try going full left side, into gore spikes and sunder of the flesh. If you feel like if you need more defences instead, take grasping wounds instead of sunder. But I didn’t need grasping wounds until I got my final ascendancy point.
i have one OP scepter with +5 minion + minion life 46% + 180 total spirit because of the corrupted. can i use this scepter ? but this scepter is RATTLING SCEPTER T_T T_T T_T can i still use it ? it's pretty expensive to get a new malice scepter
@@get_troll i checked his mobalytics and his recommend is to using omen scepter. still curious tho can i use my current rattling scepter or no, since omen scepter with good roll is painfully expensive.
I really like how you break down the build and gems, not rambling, feels like you're reading off a tight script, nice. I'd like to see you make a blood mage leveling guide too.
This is one of the best build guide I've seen so far. Concise, easy to follow, and deeper dives on really important points. I've not played PoE for a decade and coming back to this game confused me a lot about how to make an effective build. Most videos I've seen assume the viewers already have game knowledge to a certain degree and are quite hard for me to make sense. Props to you.
Exciting to see other people do what I was doing, but better. I had this idea in mind but didn't quite know how to execute it and assumed monster health scaling would outpace minion health scaling, thereby making it more worthwhile to use monsters unless desperate.
I was trying to make a similar concept with my blood mage, though without corpse preservation. My idea was to explode the skeletal warriors and kill them over and over, pairing this with "Cast on death" and all the revive speed nodes. I gave up in Act 3 because of how much of an investment this would require and I had no way of making this really work at such low levels. I am new to the genre, so maybe mine wasn't such a great idea XD. It would have been something like: - skeletal warriors (they are cheap) - the support that makes them explode - 50% max health support - infernal legion (maybe???) - Corpse explosion with minion pact - Flammability - Cast on Minion death (fire spells) The idea was that pairing this with the max revive speed from the nodes and a cleric would also regenerate 2% max life on minion res, helping with the sustain.
What i'm doing (i just got to know about this build) is leveling up with minions, arsonist, skeletal warrior from sceptre, raging spirits and firewall to summon them and pain offering + vulnerability to support
I'm currently playing this build but in a6(cruel A3), for leveling just use bonestorm to kill first mob and then DD,DD,DD 。 one thing is you must use scattershot as support gem for bonestorm, because when channelling, bonestorm gain 1 projectile each time; but with scattershot it gain 3 projectile . bonestorm is very strong against boss, ball lightning+ligthning wrap combo to have 20% shock effect, each fully channelled bonestorm can remove like 5% of boss HP .
Thanks for this scattershot tip. I didn’t think it was worth it since it’s like 7 projectiles but didn’t realize it adjusted the channeling portion. Nice.
@@YakultLitro yes, its same machenic as scattershot to ember fusillade, each time you press button with scattershot support, you got 3 "fire balls" around you instead of 1 :)
there are also nodes % of +1 projectiles in the passive tree. If you use all of them, you have 50% chance for +1 projectiles. This works with channeling(adding projectiles during channneling) , so you channel max bonestorm 50% faster. Now with boost to bonestorm, that skill should melt bosses like nothing
I'm trying to build a chaos witch, but its ridiculous how my detonate dead casts faster, costs less mana, scales automatically with the map, and clears just as fast as hex blast. Bloodmage really needs a 50%/50% hp/mana share instead of the insane 100%/100% straight up debuff. Its just torture on the early levels and I had to just despec that node until I had my 2nd ascendency. Hopefully GGG will rebalance bloodmage to enable more diverse builds on it.
I gave up playing my chaos blood witch, just garbage. I need to see if I can somehow respec into this detonate dead thing, but all my points are in chaos damage, annoying game.
@@ParaFoxxen Right, we'll ignore GGG's History and how nibble they've been since [EARLY ACCESS] release. And ignore the latter part as well, or that SRS doesn't overperform compared to shock builds, totem builds, monk builds, trigger builds, and so on... all that which require no express gearing to make work well. Going into that, we can also ignore PCG builds and warcry builds. And we'll finally ignore that we only have 1/3rd of the game available at this moment while everyone is still figuring out baseline balance.
small correction on grasping wounds it only works on life so its basically only oneshot reduction, still good just not put to full use (so not really 25% damage reduction). Just like it would be with progenesis
This is getting nerfed for sure. They philosophy of not wanting you to use low level skills at high level will kill the low cost at the very least. But I'm curious to see how fast they react to this. :D
@@codranine6054 Hey this is fine by me, you're trading clear speed for single target. But they just talked about how they don't want us using lower level spells in our endgame builds, so I'm thinking this falls under that. 🤷♂
Nice build! I just got to maps with a bonestorm/DD build and it’s decent but you are just a sitting duck when casting if your skellys die. Definitely gonna tune my tree and bit and try this out.
Kinda found out cleric useless personally - it has so few HP compared to Brutes, that they just keep revive cooldown always activated. So i pathed to 25% faster revive instead, and only having Brutes. There are other supporting minion nodes next to it, so you can have 55k life, and you can path here through ES nodes to replace these at the right side, so you dont actually lose anything.
@@Paolini_18in all honesty I got a bit bored with it and it wasn't very good for bossing. The sustain was also annoying at times and really had to get good mana regen items. I've got 2.2k health and 3.2k es with this build so I'm typically running around with 4.4k health and 6.4k es. This build does soooo much more damage especially to the bosses.I was having a bit of a hard time in tier 7 maps with the frost wall and fireball. now I'm upto tier 11 and breezing through it. My only complaint is sometimes the minions get stuck on doorways and thin bridges in the mire map. And they lag behind you a little sometimes but I've learnt if you just cast detonate and a brute will run over to where you casted it and explode. you can also weapon swap back and foward if they're stuck
I'd love to see a leveling of this build! I Have a bloodmage in act 2 that I didn't further level up. I'm playing with a lightning sorc but I would love to go back to my bloodmage
Thanks for sharing your build. Unfortunately I have a L76 Infernalist, so to do this build I’d have to start over. It looks really good so at some point I probably will. Liked and subbed!
Hey man this is awesome content. I'm running hexblast but I took your setup on my weapon swap passive tree! I only have 26k hp brutes and no corpse conservation but i just drop 3 free nukes on bosses with basically no passive tree investment every 7 seconds 🤣
I made a crit focused cold blood mage, no minions. Basically if you took a cold sorc and gave them bloodmage. Ice walls leave life remnants when you destroy them and they prevent projectile damage, also gives a moment to regen hp and mana. Comet with expanse and concentrated effect(basically 40% more dmg without much penalty on aoe) this is used to break down the walls that the enemies are stuck behind. And eye of winter, with 2 different crit enhancements. One that increases crit on immobilized enemies ie frozen. And the one that increases by 25% critical chance up to 100% after a few second, and the one that increases damage but decreases cast speed. Im half way through cruel and its carried me this far and i see no signs of slowing down. I clear mobs and bosses real quick. Cant wait to take it to endgame.
Awesome build, I randomly happen to have the wand already, so I am definitely gonna try this. I'll put my own spin on it since I am Chronomancer and I don't think it will be worth going for crit
Tbh I would just make it so Blood mage just allocates Blood magic with the added bonus of having the blood orbs and be done with it. Nobody would complain.
@@Grish0 You're not understanding what I'm saying. I would CHANGE the ascendancy node so it would Allocate Blood Magic in the passive tree. (Same thing you can do with an amulet) But keep the blood orb bonus --> 1x health cost but have pretty big bonus on top.
@@simhanssens7331 ah yes, this would be better, even the cost be 25% 75% would still be somehow managable. The sad thing is that spells get flat dmg from lvl and high lvl skill gems in poe 2 have their price rising exponential with lvl.
damn I was thinking "I can probably make DD work on infernalist, we have demon form" but demon form seems like it unequips your weapons or something, it deletes most of your spirit bonuses and the chance to consume corpses from the wand is gone
I'm curious about a similar idea except rather than detonate which does 20% of the minion life, using decompose which does 30-40% of the minion life as poison which can be scaled with chaos modifiers. Poison bypasses ES, and decompose can auto trigger with unique boots
I was looking at Minion Pact ages ago and knew it was gonna be OP. instant kill minion then explode or trigger on minion death etc. so many OP options. I prefer doing damage myself its more fun and challenging. It might be fast for leveling campaign though .
Sacrifice skill gem DOESN'T destroy the minion when you use them as a corpse?! holy shit that changes everything. I need to finish leveling my blood mage. I was rocking ed/cont, which has very sustainable cast rate / costs
I landed here and realized my build is almost identical to yours. My gear looks slightly better and I get about 9k when completely buffed with Grim Feast Energy Shield + life remnants. Yet...I still get one-shot or two-shot by some bosses. I wiped 2x on the Chaos trials 4th floor boss, almost like my shield and life do absolutely nothing. I'm really confused as to why
Did you do the earthquake planner on maxroll? If you did Im enjoying it! I'd love to see a video of the build and explain what skills use which weapon slots
Nice buuld. Just yesterday afternoon I was thinking at one point detonate dead was the most broken thing in poe, would it work in poe2. I guess it does. One thing tho, about map clear. I remember in poe 1 you could clear a whole.screen with one detonation, as it chain detonated everything. Maybe there is something similar in poe 2 you missed for mapping?
if you're on console you'd have to turn on manual targeting in the options menu. It makes to so you change targets with the right stick instead of the game auto choosing a target.
5:17 just to make sure again, Bloodmage DD features in its left crit chance/bonus ascendency, which 20% corpse life explode can be benefit, is that right? In POE1, I thought only flat dmg can crit, not the explode dmg.
Tried any of this with Decompose from the Unique Boots Corpsewade? I'm SSF and shelved the bloodmage. Contagion + ED + all Area effect range and Chaos damage nodes is the most fun map trash clearing I've done with any build. But, bosses take forever because Bloodmage limits your mana usage, so it's ED spam and slowly draining them. Was going to just redo the whole build to yours and try it, but then I remembered corpsewade. Base it's ~8% minion health instead of 20% of detonate. There are a LOT of chaos mods though.
blood mage: stack grim remnants to 40k life for 100% crit multiplier infernalist: turn life into spirit, run archmage for similar multiplier on all hits, recover es with shock siphon, no running around needed I don’t know if blood mage is the best ascendancy for dd man
Loveing the build so far! One question tho: Is there a good way to target your minons in a large pack of mobs? Having a hard time getting them as a target if there are other corpses nearby Thanks!
if you're on console you'd have to turn on manual targeting in the options, It makes it so you change targets with the right stick instead of the game auto choosing.
I still haven't got a testing answer on if physical spell damage effects the secondary damage of DD. Brutality works because its all phys, but im not sure if if "spell" is included in this when it comes to the secondary damage. in POE 1 this was not the case, and it makes sense why. If you posted a video proving that "spell damage" works or does not that would get a lot of traffic.
@@devonsmith4822 it does work. It’s also quite easy to test. Remove phys damage increases to spells modifiers skill points and you will see that the explosion damage drops. It’s a new game so we don’t have to be limited by how poe 1 works. If a skill has “spell” and “phys” tag, then increases to spell and phys will apply to it.
@ yeah I am skeptical, I am not noticing any increase with physical spell damage, only phys and critical bonus. Just because the tag says spell, it doesn’t specify if the maximum health damage scales in the gem like the fire damage. Also if you increase spell damage, obviously the fire damage increases so it would seem like your damage increases no matter if it effected the physical.
In the guide you show "Critical Hit Chance" as a desired mod on the helmet. Does this actually do anything? Or would it need to be critical hit chance for spells to be useful? Thanks for the great guide!
@@angussinclair9887 global critical hit chance applies to any skill, spells and attacks. It is a very nice place to get crit. A crit chance jewel only give max 15% and on helmet you can get over 20%.
@@notboringandsmallThanks, I appreciate the reply. I was happy to have a use for the blood mage I started on day one. I’m already blasting T15 on this build with average gear at lvl 80. Going to try MoM with this build as well.
Im consoler player. My DD doesn't detonate my minion correctly, it keeps automatically detonating corpses on the ground, sometimes far behind me. Any idea to solve it?
Here's my question how do i get my detonate dead to target my minion when there are mobs and bodies all over? It seems to prioritize Bodies on the ground even when they are not close to my cursor over where my mouse is hovering on my minion.
This is a really neat way of mitigating the painful downsides of Blood Mage. Unfortunately, an Infernalist can do this even better. Demon Form with LL/CI will let you scale the base damage even harder, meeting or even exceeding the damage Blood Mage does. The only thing BM gets are crits, but you can just scale base damage hard enough with Demon Form to out-damage them. Clever trick in mitigating the downside of Blood Mage. But unfortunately, the fact that you *have* to mitigate the downsides of the ascendancy in the first place speaks to how bad the option truly is.
demon form disables weapons, which ruins this build, since you cant get enough spirit for your auras + minions, also you lose the additional 25% chance to not destroy a corpse, the only source of extra spirit you can get as demon form is from amulets, since your body armor has to be ghostwrithe.
I seem to keep clicking on a corpse behind or next to a brute rather than the brute even when my mouse is on the brute. Are there any tips to fix this?
@@powrsh1 lol how extreme. You can play a solid build that’s not busted. This is going to get nerf to the ground when they see it…this can’t be attended this easy.
@@whos_agent2129 Well yeah, which is why I have a basic build which is not OP, does not abuse a certain mechanic, is not niche. I simply want to make extra build which are actually fun
Does the extra critical strike chance/damage for 40 maximum life apply to the life gained from life remnants also or just the native maximum life you have ?
I don't know if you've noticed, but the gear you've displayed is showing "increased critical hit chance" and not "increased critical hit chance for spells". Is this intentional?
Ive always like the explosion of minions or corpses, ive play a lot of maw if mishief build and Dd before.. i might have to respect my infernalist to this 😅😅
Hey man, thanks for the great video. I've been using a fireball/frostwall build but it just doesn't feel "witch" to me. I really like this build and will spec in to it. Can you please provide a level break-down of which passives to take? I am currently in A3 Cruel, half way though the campaign with 2x ascendancy points. Thank you.
I'm not sure that this build is better on a blood mage than on an infernalist. Demon form can get insane spell damage % buff (if you keep your HP low with Ghostwrithe and Ming's Heart, your hp regen will allow infinite demon form up to 150+ stacks); you do lose corpse conservation on a wand, which is annoying, but you can get some free spirit from reserving life on infernalist, too, and your hound might be even healthier than brutes are, though I'm not 100% on this. Am I missing something? Blood Mage only makes this build somewhat tankier and easier to gear up (no required uniques like in Demonform), but are there other benefits?
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All showcases here are missing about 30% more damage because I forgot to gem swap into concentrated effect.
If you only have 3 ascendancies, try going full left side, into gore spikes and sunder of the flesh.
If you feel like if you need more defences instead, take grasping wounds instead of sunder. But I didn’t need grasping wounds until I got my final ascendancy point.
why not using omen scepter to get even higher crit chance?
i have one OP scepter with +5 minion + minion life 46% + 180 total spirit because of the corrupted. can i use this scepter ?
but this scepter is RATTLING SCEPTER T_T T_T T_T
can i still use it ?
it's pretty expensive to get a new malice scepter
@@get_troll i checked his mobalytics and his recommend is to using omen scepter. still curious tho can i use my current rattling scepter or no, since omen scepter with good roll is painfully expensive.
@@anjaspratama3342 i dont think using rattling will brick the build just you will crit less than omen
@@get_troll what if i keep detonating the warrior ? it will reduce the damage i know that. is there a way to accurately aim my DD only for the brute ?
I really like how you break down the build and gems, not rambling, feels like you're reading off a tight script, nice. I'd like to see you make a blood mage leveling guide too.
This is one of the best build guide I've seen so far. Concise, easy to follow, and deeper dives on really important points.
I've not played PoE for a decade and coming back to this game confused me a lot about how to make an effective build. Most videos I've seen assume the viewers already have game knowledge to a certain degree and are quite hard for me to make sense. Props to you.
Exciting to see other people do what I was doing, but better. I had this idea in mind but didn't quite know how to execute it and assumed monster health scaling would outpace minion health scaling, thereby making it more worthwhile to use monsters unless desperate.
I was trying to make a similar concept with my blood mage, though without corpse preservation. My idea was to explode the skeletal warriors and kill them over and over, pairing this with "Cast on death" and all the revive speed nodes. I gave up in Act 3 because of how much of an investment this would require and I had no way of making this really work at such low levels. I am new to the genre, so maybe mine wasn't such a great idea XD.
It would have been something like:
- skeletal warriors (they are cheap)
- the support that makes them explode
- 50% max health support
- infernal legion (maybe???)
- Corpse explosion with minion pact
- Flammability
- Cast on Minion death (fire spells)
The idea was that pairing this with the max revive speed from the nodes and a cleric would also regenerate 2% max life on minion res, helping with the sustain.
This is what I was using until I leveled enough for the sacrifice skill to target my own minions
I’d love a leveling build for this!
Yesssss
What i'm doing (i just got to know about this build) is leveling up with minions, arsonist, skeletal warrior from sceptre, raging spirits and firewall to summon them and pain offering + vulnerability to support
Level arsonists from 6 till end of campaign most likely, they're incredibly powerful until endgame
@@daethe Yeah just be aware of the recent spirit cost "balance" now they cost more.
as someone playing a version of this build level with bonestorm+detonate dead bonestorm is great for act bosses and you can just detonate dead normies
I'm currently playing this build but in a6(cruel A3), for leveling just use bonestorm to kill first mob and then DD,DD,DD 。 one thing is you must use scattershot as support gem for bonestorm, because when channelling, bonestorm gain 1 projectile each time; but with scattershot it gain 3 projectile . bonestorm is very strong against boss, ball lightning+ligthning wrap combo to have 20% shock effect, each fully channelled bonestorm can remove like 5% of boss HP .
Thanks for this scattershot tip. I didn’t think it was worth it since it’s like 7 projectiles but didn’t realize it adjusted the channeling portion. Nice.
3 projectile per sec instead of 1?
@@YakultLitro yes, its same machenic as scattershot to ember fusillade, each time you press button with scattershot support, you got 3 "fire balls" around you instead of 1 :)
@@BrandonDennis1 haha same thought. i though it will add +2 to final count. no wonder i see some other video they ramp so fast.
there are also nodes % of +1 projectiles in the passive tree. If you use all of them, you have 50% chance for +1 projectiles. This works with channeling(adding projectiles during channneling) , so you channel max bonestorm 50% faster. Now with boost to bonestorm, that skill should melt bosses like nothing
I'm trying to build a chaos witch, but its ridiculous how my detonate dead casts faster, costs less mana, scales automatically with the map, and clears just as fast as hex blast.
Bloodmage really needs a 50%/50% hp/mana share instead of the insane 100%/100% straight up debuff. Its just torture on the early levels and I had to just despec that node until I had my 2nd ascendency. Hopefully GGG will rebalance bloodmage to enable more diverse builds on it.
I gave up playing my chaos blood witch, just garbage. I need to see if I can somehow respec into this detonate dead thing, but all my points are in chaos damage, annoying game.
They won’t do anything until the top guys are tired of SRS… GGG even worse than Blizzard on balancing. Quite hilarious if you think about it.
@@ParaFoxxen Right, we'll ignore GGG's History and how nibble they've been since [EARLY ACCESS] release. And ignore the latter part as well, or that SRS doesn't overperform compared to shock builds, totem builds, monk builds, trigger builds, and so on... all that which require no express gearing to make work well.
Going into that, we can also ignore PCG builds and warcry builds.
And we'll finally ignore that we only have 1/3rd of the game available at this moment while everyone is still figuring out baseline balance.
Skill issue
hexblast have way faster map clear if you use boots with decompose. But this build is superior in boss kill
Wow, this is going to completely salvage my Blood Mage. Thanks so much for your ingenuity.
small correction on grasping wounds it only works on life so its basically only oneshot reduction, still good just not put to full use (so not really 25% damage reduction). Just like it would be with progenesis
Correct and thanks for the clarification.
that's a great build man, I'll be following you so keep up the good work
This is getting nerfed for sure. They philosophy of not wanting you to use low level skills at high level will kill the low cost at the very least. But I'm curious to see how fast they react to this. :D
I have detonade dead on level 21 right now it's 380 mana 153 life. It'll be manageable I think if it's just the cost scaling up
It’s been like that for DD since its inception in wraeclast
@@codranine6054 Hey this is fine by me, you're trading clear speed for single target. But they just talked about how they don't want us using lower level spells in our endgame builds, so I'm thinking this falls under that. 🤷♂
Awesome video! Pleaase more blood mage content ❤
Nice build! I just got to maps with a bonestorm/DD build and it’s decent but you are just a sitting duck when casting if your skellys die. Definitely gonna tune my tree and bit and try this out.
I would try this, looks fun. Unfortunately the mobalytics skill tree is blank. It and gear, gems could be viewed yesterday.
Kinda found out cleric useless personally - it has so few HP compared to Brutes, that they just keep revive cooldown always activated. So i pathed to 25% faster revive instead, and only having Brutes. There are other supporting minion nodes next to it, so you can have 55k life, and you can path here through ES nodes to replace these at the right side, so you dont actually lose anything.
can you show me the skill tree?
Just respeced to this from archmage frost wall and fireball. it cost me a bit but Damm was it worth it!
why did you stop using fireball bloodmage ? i'm hesitating between that and this
@@Paolini_18 I made the switch after my hexblast contagion ED memes started to scale like shit. Well worth it.
@@SusejFTW im about to respec bc i cant do 4th ascendancy, its ridiculous how much mana hexblast costs
@@SusejFTW mana and life
@@Paolini_18in all honesty I got a bit bored with it and it wasn't very good for bossing. The sustain was also annoying at times and really had to get good mana regen items. I've got 2.2k health and 3.2k es with this build so I'm typically running around with 4.4k health and 6.4k es. This build does soooo much more damage especially to the bosses.I was having a bit of a hard time in tier 7 maps with the frost wall and fireball. now I'm upto tier 11 and breezing through it. My only complaint is sometimes the minions get stuck on doorways and thin bridges in the mire map. And they lag behind you a little sometimes but I've learnt if you just cast detonate and a brute will run over to where you casted it and explode. you can also weapon swap back and foward if they're stuck
I'd love to see a leveling of this build! I Have a bloodmage in act 2 that I didn't further level up. I'm playing with a lightning sorc but I would love to go back to my bloodmage
not a leveling build but you can switch to it at start of maps, i used a bone build to lvl up but that build required a divine ring
Thanks for sharing your build. Unfortunately I have a L76 Infernalist, so to do this build I’d have to start over. It looks really good so at some point I probably will. Liked and subbed!
amazing build cant wait to play this
You explain really well, I would love a leveling guide from you
Hey man this is awesome content. I'm running hexblast but I took your setup on my weapon swap passive tree! I only have 26k hp brutes and no corpse conservation but i just drop 3 free nukes on bosses with basically no passive tree investment every 7 seconds 🤣
@@pnzerfst I’m theory crafting lighting spark for mapping and weapon swap detonate dead for bossing setup. Lighting gear is so expensive.
@@notboringandsmall think its possible to make a fireball frostwall swap work?
Thanks man, this build rules !!! My blood mage saved
Amazing video, keep it up.
Yes, leveling guide would be appreciated
subbed this looks hella interesting
Bro is alive!
I made a crit focused cold blood mage, no minions.
Basically if you took a cold sorc and gave them bloodmage.
Ice walls leave life remnants when you destroy them and they prevent projectile damage, also gives a moment to regen hp and mana. Comet with expanse and concentrated effect(basically 40% more dmg without much penalty on aoe) this is used to break down the walls that the enemies are stuck behind.
And eye of winter, with 2 different crit enhancements. One that increases crit on immobilized enemies ie frozen.
And the one that increases by 25% critical chance up to 100% after a few second, and the one that increases damage but decreases cast speed.
Im half way through cruel and its carried me this far and i see no signs of slowing down. I clear mobs and bosses real quick. Cant wait to take it to endgame.
Yes, please make a bloodmage leveling guide
Will be following you mate. Can't wait to see how you'll improve this build.
thank you now i can play blood mage again
We have very similar builds but different ways of playing them very interesting
omega hype, would love a lvling guide
underrated chanel. Keep it up bro
Totally balanced :D Compelling boss encounters
What is the level of the skeletal brute gem that you have?
We were all expecting vampires, but we have to use crutches!
Awesome build, I randomly happen to have the wand already, so I am definitely gonna try this. I'll put my own spin on it since I am Chronomancer and I don't think it will be worth going for crit
works great! Thanks a lot! So much fun. Care to update the passive tree? im curious where you went further on :)
Tbh I would just make it so Blood mage just allocates Blood magic with the added bonus of having the blood orbs and be done with it. Nobody would complain.
the cost stack, this means blood magic with x2 the cost, same with lifetap, but lifetap also has a multiplier.
@@Grish0 You're not understanding what I'm saying. I would CHANGE the ascendancy node so it would Allocate Blood Magic in the passive tree. (Same thing you can do with an amulet)
But keep the blood orb bonus --> 1x health cost but have pretty big bonus on top.
@@simhanssens7331 ah yes, this would be better, even the cost be 25% 75% would still be somehow managable. The sad thing is that spells get flat dmg from lvl and high lvl skill gems in poe 2 have their price rising exponential with lvl.
damn I was thinking "I can probably make DD work on infernalist, we have demon form" but demon form seems like it unequips your weapons or something, it deletes most of your spirit bonuses and the chance to consume corpses from the wand is gone
I'm curious about a similar idea except rather than detonate which does 20% of the minion life, using decompose which does 30-40% of the minion life as poison which can be scaled with chaos modifiers. Poison bypasses ES, and decompose can auto trigger with unique boots
Thats what im doing
interesting
pathfinder poisonous concoction is wat u looking for.
In PoE2 chaos damage does not bypass es but does double damage afaik
If their a second set up for clear speed mapping, than this build will be perfect. Very excellent boss killer build.
hi! i'm loving your build~ its wrecking all content!! I have a question, what anointment do you use on your ammy?
Do u think adding anointment for +15% chance not consuming corpses would be a good option? So we could get almost 100%
Is there a way to prioritize minions for DD and not the body on the ground?
I haven't found one to be honest and it sure sucks :/
@@thealchemist3575Sacrifice which is a 58 skill when you're lucky with drops, I got it at 61.
Def gonna need a leveling build for this bossman
I was looking at Minion Pact ages ago and knew it was gonna be OP. instant kill minion then explode or trigger on minion death etc. so many OP options. I prefer doing damage myself its more fun and challenging. It might be fast for leveling campaign though .
Sacrifice skill gem DOESN'T destroy the minion when you use them as a corpse?! holy shit that changes everything. I need to finish leveling my blood mage. I was rocking ed/cont, which has very sustainable cast rate / costs
It does destroy the minion. The build uses an unique wand that gives 25% chance to not destroy the corpse. 75% chance to still kill the brute.
@@Shoreux With the corpse conservation support and a couple nodes on passive tree, you can get up to 80% chance to not consume
I landed here and realized my build is almost identical to yours. My gear looks slightly better and I get about 9k when completely buffed with Grim Feast Energy Shield + life remnants. Yet...I still get one-shot or two-shot by some bosses. I wiped 2x on the Chaos trials 4th floor boss, almost like my shield and life do absolutely nothing.
I'm really confused as to why
Did you do the earthquake planner on maxroll? If you did Im enjoying it! I'd love to see a video of the build and explain what skills use which weapon slots
My only beef with this build is the skeletons take a long time move around, and the clear feels kinda slow outside of stuff like breach/ritual.
you can make them faster. also go in your game menu and keybinds set a keybind to command minions. that way you can make them move
You can use Raging Spirits and a Flame Wall to make clearing maps easier, like on any minion build.
Nice buuld. Just yesterday afternoon I was thinking at one point detonate dead was the most broken thing in poe, would it work in poe2. I guess it does. One thing tho, about map clear. I remember in poe 1 you could clear a whole.screen with one detonation, as it chain detonated everything. Maybe there is something similar in poe 2 you missed for mapping?
Are you thinking of DD of Chain Reaction? That was a transfigured gem (not the base one)
When I use detonate dead, it keeps locking on to other corpse. How do you make it so it only targets your minions?
if you're on console you'd have to turn on manual targeting in the options menu. It makes to so you change targets with the right stick instead of the game auto choosing a target.
@@corrosion83I would even go a step further and say add focus fire to your skill bar and toggle it on
This is great but I'm still gonna continue my chaos build with dark effigy and contagion
No updates since the video? Are you waiting on the patch?
Oh this build looks like gonna be the meta
I'm using this build and it is amazing! Thank you. Any updates for it? Any more hints on more passives to get?
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just to make sure again, Bloodmage DD features in its left crit chance/bonus ascendency, which 20% corpse life explode can be benefit, is that right?
In POE1, I thought only flat dmg can crit, not the explode dmg.
Tried any of this with Decompose from the Unique Boots Corpsewade?
I'm SSF and shelved the bloodmage. Contagion + ED + all Area effect range and Chaos damage nodes is the most fun map trash clearing I've done with any build. But, bosses take forever because Bloodmage limits your mana usage, so it's ED spam and slowly draining them.
Was going to just redo the whole build to yours and try it, but then I remembered corpsewade. Base it's ~8% minion health instead of 20% of detonate. There are a LOT of chaos mods though.
Tks for share
blood mage: stack grim remnants to 40k life for 100% crit multiplier
infernalist: turn life into spirit, run archmage for similar multiplier on all hits, recover es with shock siphon, no running around needed
I don’t know if blood mage is the best ascendancy for dd man
So you're just disregarding the 15% base crit for Spells + Progenisis? lol
Can you say more about this please? Like talk to me like im 4 years old thank you
Loveing the build so far!
One question tho: Is there a good way to target your minons in a large pack of mobs? Having a hard time getting them as a target if there are other corpses nearby
Thanks!
if you're on console you'd have to turn on manual targeting in the options, It makes it so you change targets with the right stick instead of the game auto choosing.
I see some bleed nodes on the left, is it u think useful to make it bleed? prolly not needed? also would take away more points from defense i guess :P
This is great. Thank you. Can you tell us what attribute goal we should look for?
I'm really enjoying this build. Thank you for sharing so much. Can I ask what is the last support gem u recommend for 6-link Skeletal Brute ?
Amazing
Can you link your item filter?
Seems like the ones I saw on forums have too many colors in them which I find very confusing
do a complete disassembly of the build, we are waiting, with levelling and so on.
Would sub for a leveling guide!
I still haven't got a testing answer on if physical spell damage effects the secondary damage of DD. Brutality works because its all phys, but im not sure if if "spell" is included in this when it comes to the secondary damage. in POE 1 this was not the case, and it makes sense why. If you posted a video proving that "spell damage" works or does not that would get a lot of traffic.
@@devonsmith4822 it does work. It’s also quite easy to test. Remove phys damage increases to spells modifiers skill points and you will see that the explosion damage drops.
It’s a new game so we don’t have to be limited by how poe 1 works. If a skill has “spell” and “phys” tag, then increases to spell and phys will apply to it.
@ yeah I am skeptical, I am not noticing any increase with physical spell damage, only phys and critical bonus. Just because the tag says spell, it doesn’t specify if the maximum health damage scales in the gem like the fire damage. Also if you increase spell damage, obviously the fire damage increases so it would seem like your damage increases no matter if it effected the physical.
In the guide you show "Critical Hit Chance" as a desired mod on the helmet. Does this actually do anything? Or would it need to be critical hit chance for spells to be useful? Thanks for the great guide!
@@angussinclair9887 global critical hit chance applies to any skill, spells and attacks. It is a very nice place to get crit. A crit chance jewel only give max 15% and on helmet you can get over 20%.
@@notboringandsmallThanks, I appreciate the reply. I was happy to have a use for the blood mage I started on day one. I’m already blasting T15 on this build with average gear at lvl 80. Going to try MoM with this build as well.
Im consoler player. My DD doesn't detonate my minion correctly, it keeps automatically detonating corpses on the ground, sometimes far behind me. Any idea to solve it?
Are you 58 already? You need sacrifice
Here's my question how do i get my detonate dead to target my minion when there are mobs and bodies all over? It seems to prioritize Bodies on the ground even when they are not close to my cursor over where my mouse is hovering on my minion.
what about leveling build for blood mage you know hard to play with this build when you just get the first Ascendancy ...
This is a really neat way of mitigating the painful downsides of Blood Mage. Unfortunately, an Infernalist can do this even better. Demon Form with LL/CI will let you scale the base damage even harder, meeting or even exceeding the damage Blood Mage does. The only thing BM gets are crits, but you can just scale base damage hard enough with Demon Form to out-damage them.
Clever trick in mitigating the downside of Blood Mage. But unfortunately, the fact that you *have* to mitigate the downsides of the ascendancy in the first place speaks to how bad the option truly is.
demon form disables weapons, which ruins this build, since you cant get enough spirit for your auras + minions, also you lose the additional 25% chance to not destroy a corpse, the only source of extra spirit you can get as demon form is from amulets, since your body armor has to be ghostwrithe.
i love the build and DD, i was thinking of trying a DD bleed version since it has a lot of base damage, thoughts? thanks :)
Thanks for the build. On your planner, what are the top 4 support gems for Detonate Dead if you only have a 5 link?
Corpse Conservation - Minion Pact - Spell Echo - Magnified Effect/Brutality (swap between mapping and bossing)
they should include all builds on mobalitics and let people vote for them like on POEVAULT
Now imagine if gore spike actually worked. In it's current state it's bugged and not granting crit dmg bonus
Hi
May I ask abt will madness in the bones in passive tree gaining extra chaos dam conflict with brutality ?
The build no longer on mobalytics? 😢
I seem to keep clicking on a corpse behind or next to a brute rather than the brute even when my mouse is on the brute. Are there any tips to fix this?
Hmmm I bet you could get a nasty ignite if you changed around the skill tree and some links
Thank you, I totally rerolled after the cast on freeze nerf. I’m going to give this a try
This is going to get nerfed too once people learn lol…
You just want to play broken builds?
@@whos_agent2129 uhhhh... yes? Playing mediocre builds is cool and all but it gets boring
@@powrsh1 lol how extreme. You can play a solid build that’s not busted. This is going to get nerf to the ground when they see it…this can’t be attended this easy.
@@whos_agent2129 Well yeah, which is why I have a basic build which is not OP, does not abuse a certain mechanic, is not niche. I simply want to make extra build which are actually fun
Does the extra critical strike chance/damage for 40 maximum life apply to the life gained from life remnants also or just the native maximum life you have ?
Been playing this since release
just tell us what you use to lvlup
PLSSSS
I don't know if you've noticed, but the gear you've displayed is showing "increased critical hit chance" and not "increased critical hit chance for spells". Is this intentional?
both work for spells
Ive always like the explosion of minions or corpses, ive play a lot of maw if mishief build and Dd before.. i might have to respect my infernalist to this 😅😅
sorry can i ask you what keystone to Instil amulets?
Still looking for that leveling guide
Neat idea.
Any suggestions for Jewels? It seems that minion life only appears on Ruby
i have 4x 15% minion max health. Trying to get the unique gem with +3 lv to skeletal brutes
Why Brutality support instead of Heft support? care to explain please?
Hey man, thanks for the great video. I've been using a fireball/frostwall build but it just doesn't feel "witch" to me. I really like this build and will spec in to it. Can you please provide a level break-down of which passives to take? I am currently in A3 Cruel, half way though the campaign with 2x ascendancy points. Thank you.
I would suggest start with DD with 3x ascendancy point. Grab the #% chance to not consume corpse nodes first, then crit nodes
@@SmartHowell got it! thanks man!
Hi Sorry i have One question how do increased max Minion life i see Ur build but i dont find this
Does the revive from skeletal clerics scale with cast speed?
Probably minions cast speed
Cooldown reduction
Do we do anything with life remnants or volatile dead?
Could you show your current gear?
I'm not sure that this build is better on a blood mage than on an infernalist. Demon form can get insane spell damage % buff (if you keep your HP low with Ghostwrithe and Ming's Heart, your hp regen will allow infinite demon form up to 150+ stacks); you do lose corpse conservation on a wand, which is annoying, but you can get some free spirit from reserving life on infernalist, too, and your hound might be even healthier than brutes are, though I'm not 100% on this.
Am I missing something? Blood Mage only makes this build somewhat tankier and easier to gear up (no required uniques like in Demonform), but are there other benefits?
15% base spell crit from blood mage its a huge damage boost