My Bonestorm/Reap Blood Mage starter for PoE 2 - A DAY TO DAY JOURNEY TO MAKE BLOOD MAGE GREAT
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As blood mage enthusiast bonestorm is a solid bossing skill but kinda eh for clear. I am really hoping for exsanguinate or reap
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If it hasn't been mentioned yet, supporting Bonestorm with Scattershot makes it charge almost 3 times as fast. This is because the 2 additional projectiles make it so that it prepares 3 projectiles per charge stage. It feels a lot smoother to use at that speed, even with the damage reduction the support gives.
I'm curious to see if the %chance for additional projectiles on the tree affect the skill the same way, where while channeling each stage has a % chance to prepare additional projectiles leading to faster play. Also for clearing with bonestorm, getting power charges feels vital. If you put Profane ritual with unleash you can easily sustain 3 power charges as you go, with the occasional detonate dead. Just my thoughts playing with it so far! |
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hey dude, great thread, been following it. I got question for you, i am also running this build, bonestorm and detonate dead. Since i got some spirit left, so im running some minions, for now skeletal reaver, 5 of them. Are there any other minions who benefit more from this build?
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" Greetings dear Exile. I'll be trying that technology you mentioned there, and if it goes as you say I'll update the post giving you full credit. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. For the Power Charge generation, I've updated the post with something I've tried in stream thanks to a chat user called itachiron, so check that out if you want. GLHF, Exile! |
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" Hello fellow Exile. First of all, thanks for the kind words! I really appreciate them. I'm glad you find yourself fun using this build. Since I'm not a minion enjoyer myself I dont know what's good in your case, minions from PoE 1 to PoE 2 changed significantly enough to be sure that I'll sadly not be helpful with any tip from that regard. I'm sorry I can't help you, maybe someone here has something useful to you, GLHF Exile! EDITS: Typos Last edited by DrugaddictMenemist#6176 on Dec 9, 2024, 10:52:43 PM
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also after taking the blood mage, I started experimenting and came up with a similar build, but I thought about using cast on crit + ritual for auto cast and corpse collection in the future, but alas it wouldn't work on the boss, and here's such a great idea from your subscriber.
however, I took the chance to get shells, here's 30% now sometimes it seems that the cast happens much faster, but I'm not sure if it's because of the passive. I'm also using the "cut to the bone" node for now, it breaks armor well without using a gem |
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I have a question that I'm unsure about!
Do the 'critical hit chance' nodes in the passive tree actually effect the bonestorm skill? Or is it only the 'spell critical hit chance' nodes that work on spells? |
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Guys.. is there any reliable way to generate corpses?
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" Try corpse explosion for clear. You generally only need to kill 1st mob running towards you with storm, then just start smashing that explosion hotkey :D |
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Hey man! I really like the idea behind your build! It's name? Mmm, poetic! I love it!
I will definitely go for a BM this weekend, and I think I will go with your build until I can afford to experiment with my ideas mentioned here. I'd love to hear your thoughts! Additionally, would you please explain how does the HP doubling work and how do you not die casting (some dude complained a lot about that on YT)? And also how will the Blood Magic passive fit in your build (I'm drooling over that passive, ngl). Last but not least, where can I watch your stream? Thanks and kudos for the awesome build! |
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