My Bonestorm/Reap Blood Mage starter for PoE 2 - A DAY TO DAY JOURNEY TO MAKE BLOOD MAGE GREAT

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duvld#1864 wrote:

Hey love this build concept! I'm struggling to figure out what to level with on witch until I get the ascendency. Did you use minions or ele spells? Thanks!

thats the fun part, ascendancy will be net negative gain XD you better not even put any points in it until you have 6 ascendancy pts.

guys.. its awesome running bonestorm.. skelly warriors and detonate dead.. bleed/phys based

reap staff doesn't exit yet?

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Remessis#6453 wrote:

reap staff doesn't exit yet?

its not on trade yet, and none saw it, so probably yes(

I'm also playing a variation of this skill and I found out that if you use bonestorm with a power charge and then do the evade cast cancel it doesn't consume the charge and just shoots a normal bonestorm that is blue.
I'm not sure if we like this interaction so I will report it as a bug and see if its intended.

Are you planning to get power charges somehow to improve bonestorm?

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real2310#7621 wrote:

guys.. its awesome running bonestorm.. skelly warriors and detonate dead.. bleed/phys based

I'd didn't think about a mixed version with minions, that could be cool too.

It's kinda dumb to say it, but everyone's free to try everything they wanted, this is not a guide, i just made the post to explore the idea.

I really like to see all of you coming with ideas, we're gonna make the boner stormer gang great.


GLHF Exile.

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Zangebator#7834 wrote:

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Remessis#6453 wrote:

reap staff doesn't exit yet?

its not on trade yet, and none saw it, so probably yes(

Sadly been in trade site yesterday abou 3-4 hours constantly refreshing and nothing came up, so yeah that staff might be something really really rare or it's just a disabled drop.

Until that, let's explore new things and share ideas with everyone here, I feel this build needs just a little bit more of polishing because it's already "kinda good".

GLHF Exile.

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xSugarPunch#6852 wrote:

I'm also playing a variation of this skill and I found out that if you use bonestorm with a power charge and then do the evade cast cancel it doesn't consume the charge and just shoots a normal bonestorm that is blue.
I'm not sure if we like this interaction so I will report it as a bug and see if its intended.

Would you mind giving more information about this? It sounds really good, I'd like to hear more and try that myself.

GLHF Exile.

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duvld#1864 wrote:

Thanks for the encouragement :) I'm really invested in a bonestorm crit + blood mage concept haha. Have you tried using power siphon? Power charges turn bonestorm into an explosion which might help with aoe clearing.

There's a few things I noticed that might hinder this though, it's hard to get mobs low enough to use power siphon consistently (or at least I don't know a way to do this well, maybe bone cage/minions/chaos damage can be used for this?), and maybe replacing one of the support skills on bonestorm with pierce would achieve this anyway.

Also I'm having a hard time doing the dodge roll cancel you described. It feels really clunky as the cast time for bonestorm is still really long. Are you using WASD or mouse movement?

Hello fellow Exile!

Yes, I'm using WASD since I feel it's better to micromanage small and precise movements in a more combat-focused gameplay since the boner stormer is a channeling skill and requires "some" time to cast.

I'd really love to hear more about the power charge technology with the build, I didn't considered it because, at least in PoE 1, charges shenanigans required more dedicated gear, but if there's a way to make it work only using the tree that would be fkin awesome.

I have mixed feelings about Pierce, the thing is, you clear "better" or at least you don't have to use the roll to cover more screen while shooting the projectiles at least, but the damage feeling was lost while i was trying Pierce, maybe because i'm using a 3 link setup and maybe I'm weak support-wise, but I'll gladly try everything you guys been posting, thanks to all of you for the feedback!

GLHF Exile.