Archmage Detonate Dead Blood Mage Destroying Pinnacles in Under 3 Seconds [Poe2 Early Access]

[@KingGnu2024]

final form of DD ! ty for sharing amazing build

[@harkunan1]

@Kelsera how did u get 195% increased magnitude of shock?? (shown in bosskill clip) while gear and tree is only 30+12+14 ?????

[@SpaceMonda]

Hello, nice build. What points do you have for the ascendency ?

[@Kelsera]

Both crit nodes, last point is whatever you want. I'm taking the bleed node

[@mishka3304]

Do you think this build will have enough damage if you completely ignore crit and go more mana/minion life? planning for hc build

[@Kelsera]

sure, right now its doing 14+million crits, so without crit itll be ~3-4 million. But you also get to invest in other things on the tree so youll probably be a bit tankier and get the numbers up to 5~mill. I'd probably recommend infernalist if going for a HC version though, since you can go CI. Theres a version on the pathofexilebuilds subreddit from a few days ago someone was running

[@babl0_e-sc0bar52]

Hi, do you think it is possible to create the same build on infernalist ?

[@Kelsera]

Yep, except id go for CI. check the reddit post on the pathofexilebuilds subreddit from a few days ago, someone has an infernalist version on there

[@drag1383]

Please tell me why you have more spirit than subjects, about 100 and whether there is a difference what the second wand will be or it should be the same as your main one, just in the guide on maxroll there is no second panel.

[@Kelsera]

Sorry i'm not really understanding what you mean, I have a very similar scepter and focus on my second weapon set, but minion levels and life dont matter as much on the AOE scepter. I get ~75 extra spirit from 3 grand spectrum emeralds

[@drag1383]

@ It's just that you have only one panel on maxroll, two here, so I'm asking if it matters?

[@Kelsera]

@@drag1383 What do you mean by panel? Weapon swap? You should have two I just didnt put the second in maxroll, I can update it

[@drag1383]

@ It was great to understand, thank you!

[@drag1383]

@@Kelsera hi, sorry, before the boss you remove two corner assistance camps and minus armor, what are they for anyway?? at what point do you use them?

[@zoddel1897]

"This build would work well on other ascendancies as well, probably even better on one that could take CI." Which ones exactly did you have in mind? Would you still go for crit? Wouldn't that make it much harder to cap?

[@Kelsera]

Id go for infernalist for a CI version, yes it'll be harder to crit cap but eye of winter makes the difference not as large (25% base crit on blood mage vs 18% otherwise). Blood Mage is probably the best in terms of raw DPS but infernalist is probably tankier

[@zoddel1897]

@@Kelsera I see. Altered Flesh and Loyal Hellhound should give some additional def-layers. But what about the others? Since CI Blocks Beidat and Demon Form, only Grinning Immolation and Pyro Pact left? Have to look into them, no idea what exactly they benefit for us

[@Kelsera]

​​@@zoddel1897yeah just immolation last, there's only 3 nodes that really work with ci. But bloodmage also really only has the crit nodes, the bleed node is whatever. I don't think you can do pyro pact, infernalist builds I've seen usually just take 2 small nodes last

[@zoddel1897]

@@Kelsera Interesting, didnt think about NOT taken 4 big nodes. Thx for the Input. SInce im trying many different builds atm in poe2 to get a feeling, thinking about testing this here maybe next. Just not sure if bm or infernalist version yet.

[@TheSaraphic]

Is there any play to try this on chromancer?

[@williamwhite8383]

Is the build able to league start?

[@Kelsera]

It requires a large amount of spirit, especially the archmage version. I wouldn't swap to this build until you have ~250 spirit, and just do a non-archmage non-crit version at first

[@antail1974]

Hi, is this build can be viable for simulacrum complete?

[@Kelsera]

If you invest more into energy shield and less into damage yes, also need to get some of the ES as stun threshold passives It's a little rough since the mobs dont spawn corpses, so you have to have really good uptime on your minions. Best to use warriors here probably, and have a lot of clerics. will need a lot of spirit. I cleared the 3 difficulties pretty easily, havent tried harder ones

[@CHIPICHIPICHAPACHAAPA]

my hexblast started to hit a wall at t18 bosses. guess im respeccing into this

[@CHIPICHIPICHAPACHAAPA]

i dont really get the weapon swap with the tree, like how does that work, im confused

[@Kelsera]

@@CHIPICHIPICHAPACHAAPA you set one detonate dead to be used with set 1 and the other with set 2, so it automatically swaps your tree to the AOE vs Bossing one depending on which DD you use. if you click to the right of the skill in the gem menu theres a little window that pops up and you can hit a little tick box that will specify which weapon set it is used with

[@CHIPICHIPICHAPACHAAPA]

@@Kelsera thank you i've not played with weapon swap as i never needed to, is the passive tree planner same as ur current character? the one listed is a wee bit different

[@Kelsera]

@@CHIPICHIPICHAPACHAAPA the one listed is just different cause its higher level, but you can play around with it

[@CHIPICHIPICHAPACHAAPA]

@@Kelsera thanks for swift replies, ive just been messing with it and the targetting of brutes is really clunky, lotta times my mouse is hovering brutes, but it detonates a cleric? xD hopefully they improve the targetting on DD

[@lordvaldus839]

What level are you?

[@Kelsera]

93, almost 94 in this video

[@lordvaldus839]

@ ok bet I was thinking about going to eld battery and spell damage per 100 mana as a boss swap. So 7 points should be enough

[@Kelsera]

@@lordvaldus839 Pretty sure weapon sets cant allocate keystones, but EB does work if you use the atziris disdain helm since that ES doesnt get converted, so you can stay kind of tanky

[@lordvaldus839]

@@Kelserayea I was going to just manually swap it

[@miorioff]

thank god at least mapping is trash, because I almost wanted to uninstall the game since my handmade builds are all dogshit

[@dioxy1]

Archmage isn't doing much for you. You only have 1800 mana, nor do you have the nodes on tree that really help make archmage shine. You are essentially wasting 100 spirit lol.

[@Kelsera]

Archmage with 1800 mana gives 160% damage as extra lightning, over doubling the dps of the build plus letting it shock without requiring much investment. Since I'm using threaded light to scale generic spell damage it doesn't matter what damage type I'm dealing so the lightning is just as good as phys Scaling mana further would help, but it's not as effective to scale one multiplier super high instead of getting a bunch of multipliers. Since I'm also able to scale damage on the tree with crit and minion life its better to go for those nodes on the tree and just get mana from items For example, I could take EB to get another 900 mana, but that would only be another 40%ish damage at the cost of 5000 energy shield (10k with grim) which with the amount of damage I already have isn't worth it But yes I could get a lot more mana on some beach rings etc too with more investment

[@dioxy1]

@@Kelsera Guess I am wrong. But do you not feel like not having the 75% chance to not-consume, makes damage a bit inconsistent?

[@CHIPICHIPICHAPACHAAPA]

@@dioxy1 bro hes deleting every boss in the game on highest difficulty, wdym inconsistent

[@Kelsera]

@@dioxy1 its fine as long as I have some clerics, and if you dont have a lot of damage its not that bad to wait for a respawn if you dont quite manage to one shot it imo. Plus the focus makes you do so much more damage that you need less detonations anyway

[@ezet]

Archamge is very OP at the moment and every single spell casting build should run it. It will get nerfed heavily though at some point.