Cast on Minion Comet Fireball Blood Mage Build Guide - Path of Exile 2

[@pathofky]

FAQ / Additional Info: FOLLOW UP PART 2 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/o16TdHR_j9NmeZI DISCLAIMER: A work in progress. We are currently very squishy, and our life bar is a yo-yo when we cast. Boss damage not great! Working on it :). Please feel free to ask any questions I will get back to you as soon as I can. One big upside is there is surely no world in which blood mage does not get buffed, COPIUM. ASCENDENCY: I recommend playing this on a monk.. probably. Stormweaver seems good too, Infernalist with big max fire res, maybe gemling. I'm a blood mage because I already made it and refused to go next campaign run without making at least 1 fleshed out build. Magnified effect support does not affect infernal legion, Sadge. Update log: Leaning more into straight comet damage, comet with quality = 15% base crit so I'm dropping the left side of the ascendency for right side and possibly swapping into Eldrich Battery just for a bigger mana pool. 2.) Experimenting with Stormweaver. Ascendency is now not a downside. Mana still a problem. 3.) Mana problem might be solved now. Follow-up will likely be as a stormweaver. 4.) New tech. Boss Damage solved, now deleting bosses.

[@mangoboi2184]

Wonder if internalist with infernal flame and 90 max fire res can solve the squishiness and mana. With coward’s legacy, phoenix rise, pain attainment setup.

[@kn0xx955]

Nerf incomming 😂

[@kakilakkl1251]

why you recommend monk to play this build

[@Keztraz]

U could also use the Painter Glows so that 33% of your frostwall and comet dmg is turned into fire dmg and can also spawn heads...

[@Breaker2366]

@@Keztraz They made trigger spells unable to spawn heads

[@darkbunnygod]

This is one of the most cleanly explained and no BS build concept videos I've seen in awhile. Thank you for getting right to the point and taking us to the good stuff without tons of needless blabbering. Other content creators could learn from you!

[@vaccero]

Agree, this vid is so good!

[@tommygantois3233]

yes!!! i'm bored of those "poe 2 pro makes the best, most OP, broken, blablabla" videos. game isn't even out fully yet and some people are calling themselves pro's ffs

[@SpadeApeiron]

10000% agree

[@The_Random_Bastard]

I didnt even know you could have 2x the same trigger spirit gem... like 2x cast on minion death wtf? :D cast on shock could be nice bcs then ONE of the cast on shock would trigger the other one xD

[@hungryguitarstudent]

10000%

[@Jeff-gc2sb]

I like how you explained things by socketing and showing the effect it has on your fireball.

[@simonlaabs4849]

by far the funniest shiet ive seen so far

[@pathofky]

Giant memes

[@pedrocas290791]

Welcome to PoE.

[@madbone91]

Can't wait for this to be deleted

[@LiquidSnake794]

Stumbled upon this exact build when I was just testing different stuff a few days ago, sure it's fun and looks cool but the game simply can't handle it 😅 thousands of minions every second is crazy

[@LesterRobinBPe]

i wish I could play this but I'm already playing at very low graphics and just spark storweaver already shreads my GPU lol

[@OMGItsJousis]

I'm probably going to end up with something similar to this. Currently playing an Invoker monk with the idea being to have 3 separate Elemental Invocations, activate all our buffs, and mash the spells to delete bosses. The issue I'm running into is that there aren't enough good spells or support gems in the game yet to fill out all the slots. Given how hard Elemental Invocation was nerfed, and Cast on Minion Death was untouched, I'm probably going to pivot. I experimented with using the support gem that sacrifices your life from your minions to deal more damage, but the amulet/aegis tech is far superior. My other idea was to do something with Heartbound Loop and Barrier Invocation, but the ES recovery is too unreliable.

[@pathofky]

Yup, a ton of the supports I looked at have the " you cast yourself " line bricking them for a giant trigger setup like that. I also looked at the sacrifice support you are talking about but what turned me off to it originally is the "only takes effect if you have a minion with enough life to drain the full amount". Not a giant deal but having to balance out the minions hp with my own was a little bit pain, in combination with it also having the "you cast yourself" line since I originally was hoping to use it in the trigger setup. Haven't looked at barrier invocation yet. It is sad there is no true cast when damage taken here because the options for abuse there would be truly endless with infernalist. Looking forward to whatever you cook up brother.

[@balazsfenyes3880]

Cant wait to get some juicy insane build of yours to break out from the boring meta.

[@bowtieism3]

Cast on dodge seems to be untouched and good as well, seen some crazy builds with that.

[@Kc-uq9ef]

Go lifebased infernalist with over 100% damage recoup to sustain. Infinite damage scaling (about 15000 health recovery/s) for demon form sustain, fireball with Srs makes you take stupid damage to continue triggering barrier invocation setups. Can reserve some life for easy spirit. Pyromantic pact solves mana issues and helps with self damage. You die to one hits, but that's it. Lots of fun to play, but a bit rough to start. I eventually switched off to a normal demon form build

[@monolithic7739]

*The Man himself!*

[@roychenfoo2766]

One of the realest guides out there. No nonsense and straight to the damn point. Currently doing Cast on Blink with Comet and Temporalis but boy this looks more fun. Thank you for this G!

[@pathofky]

If you do want to do a setup like this please keep in mind I reccomend NOT blood mage. Infernalist sounding like it might be the best option purely to solve insane mana costs. Stormweaver, monk, gemling also viable options IMHO. Good luck :L

[@roychenfoo2766]

@@pathofky Facts. Prob best with Arcane Surge build and some decent mana regen.

[@Kanatsuu]

@@pathofky I wanna build this with infernalist but i dunno which Ascend points are the best u have any idea?

[@birutafpv8768]

​@Kanatsuu I would go with the demon form for extra spell damage across the board. You can get over 3k% spell damage in demon form.

[@Kanatsuu]

@@birutafpv8768 So Demonic Possesion-Mastered Darkness-Altered Flesh-Biedat gaze?

[@albertwang6066]

11:04 "Get out of my way" from witch is funny af

[@doruconstantin1208]

Booooom!

[@Jubanen12]

I love her crazy cackling when she detonates dead

[@sal1764]

>Proceed to launch the entire region of Antarctica

[@amanapart1811]

I'm not the only one I see. It's the crazy holding a nuke, GET OUTTA MY WAY!

[@milkybunny3070]

The explosion sounds after is gold

[@slow2by2z]

This build is so freaking big brain and trolling GGG hard. I'm here for it! Awesome job explaining the build. Wish more build guides gave this much detail.

[@pathofky]

Thank you!

[@johanwirf6501]

@@pathofky the amount of spirits spawned in the end is probably what pushes the build close ot crash horizon xD

[@rpgambit]

You had me as soon as you paid homage to Jousis. That man is PoE royalty. Well done on the build too.

[@oro8854]

So fun fact Ky that goratha found out on his vanilla version of the build. If you take any of the "% chance to gain an additional projectile" small nodes nodes (based on your tree you're 3 points away from one above the faster/slower proj wheel by CI) you will automatically guarentee it procs each time you'd get a wildshard proc. So it becomes 20% to gain an additional 2 projectiles+wildshards essentially, this is probably a bug but currently how it is working.

[@pathofky]

Holy moly. That is completely gross, ty for the info I appreciate it. I wish I knew about that before this video. I am currently reworking this into a much more real build that does not dc you from the game. Unfortunately the current version I'm working on is forced to drop wildshards as that is what is causing a majority of the lag lol.

[@omuro2797]

@@pathofky the principle of your build is not much far from his original CoF build, probably worth going through his videos to get some info on the fireball and frostwall interaction

[@victorhugocamposbelo7557]

@@pathofky I'm testing it on my wizard and this support is really giving me this strange lag...

[@blackbacon2204]

I've been playing a similar build as an invoker monk. Few notes. 1. I'd use as low of a level fireball as you can to save mana, that thing isn't killing anyone. Your comets are. The fire mastery support is worse than useless. As you're casting fireball so often, mobility might be a good replacement. 2. For whatever reason, increasing the casting time of your triggered abilities doesn't increase your maximum energy on the meta gem. You should replace elemental focus or another gem with considered casting for a 40% more damage bonus. 3. Wildshards is bad. On paper it increases the number of raging spirits by 20%, but in reality it's both unreliable and mostly fires in directions enemies are not and is certainly not worth the 20% increased mana cost. 4. I found ricochet to be a lot better than fork. Fireball produces a LOT of explosions all over the screen and the vast majority of them are wasted. Ricochet (as well as jewels and nodes on the tree) cause your stray firebolts to home in on enemies after colliding with a wall or tree giving you a lot more useful minions. It's actually a bit of a problem in large packs as I run out of mana nearly instantly from the dozens of comets raining down per second. 5. Running comet on both of your cast on minion deaths will double the number of comets and give you more consistency. I have one setup with spell cascade & magnified effect for clearing mobs and one setup with spell echo & concentrated effect for bossing. I think I'm getting somewhere between 2-3x the number of comets you are on packs and I have about 3 divs total invested in my build.

[@cyrilshinsei1532]

How are you solving mana issues out of curiosity? What's your mana at and what nodes/gear do you take to alleviate it?

[@craysmoustache]

Are you running Crit?

[@rail7646]

high value post, how are you playing the invoker that way exactly? If you mind expanding on that topic

[@pathofky]

1. Correct I have since dropped fire mastery support for the mobility. However the mana cost is so negligible on fireball that is not why I am considering de-leveling it. I am considering de-leveling it so that the fireballs do not break ice wall, which I will go over in follow up tomorrow. 2. Considered casting does not work with trigger skills, it is for " skills you cast yourself ". ( not triggered ). Edit: this is apparently working, went and tried several other skills with this line but none of them work except this one, likely a bug that it does work but I'll talk about it. 3. Correct wildshards is bad if your main damage focus is going to be comet, but I was weighing just how much damage fireball would do on single target. As stated I was legit mad at how brutal bloodmage's downside was so I was trying to make some big memes and big lag lol. But again mana cost on fireball is negligible, 99% of the mana cost is coming from the comet spams. 4. Correct again ricochet I've found to be much better than fork aswell. Although again fork was really there just cuz me want big projectile number and memes, also I was at the time of this video weighing just how much damage fireball was doing inside frostwalls. Because atm just eyeballing it 1 fireball is about 1/10th of a comet. Which will it doesn't sound like much I was wondering if every single part of fireball can shotgun then hitting even half of them against a frostwall on single target may be a lot of damage. In the end though did drop it and went with ricochet. 5. Can't run 2 comet setups would just oom even faster unfortunately. If you are not going oom I'd love to hear the current levels of your comets and how you are managing the mana costs.

[@cyrilshinsei1532]

@@pathofky The tooltip does update dps values when plugging in Considered Casting for the socketed Comet spell in the CoMD setup. Don't know if that means it truly works but seems likely if that number is changing.

[@randomperson2281]

ok hands down that has to be the craziest build i've seen so far, props to you

[@rimantasandriukaitis2730]

Salutations Exile !!! All you miss now is some musical to go along with gameplay in the end of the video.

[@Carnationdoll]

this is the kind of shenanigans i was missing from poe1 in poe2

[@hanarielgodlike9283]

this is the kind of shenanigans that made me quit poe1

[@Carnationdoll]

@@hanarielgodlike9283 to each their own 💅

[@user-gg9ho4um2l]

this is the kind of shenanigans they said wouldnt exist on poe2 because they wanted to make a slower game. They failed... again.

[@mgGames-t7f]

Another thing to consider, which im experimenting with right now is chronomancer ascendency. Basically, i dont really care about mana regen, im using one comet spam which kills whole screen (and whole mana), then temporal rift = full mana again. Repeat every 3sec

[@innerg_92]

LOVE the nod to Jousis. Love this build idea. Thank you hahah

[@snipatomic]

Now this is some top quality build shenanigans.

[@starkindustries7429]

This is the craziest PoE2 build video I’ve seen by far. Well done man.

[@LumenPsycho]

Q: How much shit do you want on your screen? A: YES.

[@SuperlativeNinja]

The first true game breaking build. This is why I fell in love with POE2. Subbed!

[@dmitrijsmironovs7513]

Have you been asleep last 2 week? Its the latest not the first

[@StooksMjooks]

11:10 GET OUT OF MY WAY, AS CHAOS ENSUES. what a beautyfull thing I am inspired by this build

[@Nooneisgaming]

The way you explained was great. Congratulations, best video so far.

[@pnzerfst]

This is insane and genius! I never thought the misc effects on amulets are applied by necromantic talisman! Do you think a build with choir of the storm + inevitable critical will(instead of self destructing to cast minion death) will allow each of your raging spirits to cast a lightning bolt?? or give stacking buffs with fixation of Yix?? Better yet, how about some crazy interaction with 3 instilled passives with strugglescream. ALSO you can run a sceptre instead of a shield in the offhand to solve the spirit issue!

[@nischana4194]

Nope choir of the storm dos not work with minions tried it didnt work.

[@pnzerfst]

@ ah that’s no fun at all…

[@avopeac6300]

Yix doesn't work either

[@diehard7835]

Great video! And good explanation! The mana recover from Invocated Efficiency does not work with triggers, you only recover this mana from Invoke, like Elemental Invocation, that requires you to press the button to cast the spells. I also made a build using this mechanic, but, if you go for mana stacking, probably will resolve a lot of the problems you have here, much more tanky, much more mana sustain. And probably Blood Mage is not the best Ascendancy you can go for this build, I made with Invoker, but probably Stormweaver is the best in general, because of Arcane Surge, but in boss enconters Invoker still will be more efficient in conjuring Comets.

[@ЛеонардБолотов]

Important thing about this build! I've been running this is chronomancer and also found other chrono build like this on youtube, build is quite bugged Every enemy that spawns after the map is created (so from ritual, breach, expedition, sekhema hourglass, delirium) can't be chain ignited, you can see at the end that rare from breach isn't getting chain ignited, and dies to srs ticking out from infernal army. Build still overall works, amazing mapping, but a lot of content is a pain to do, i would not recommend actually playing with fireflower on hard content or without decent damage

[@pathofky]

This makes so much sense. I was wondering why it felt so off on certain rares, I assumed it was because of a mod or something. Thank you very much for sharing this info I appreciate it.

[@ЛеонардБолотов]

@@pathofky So far the only fix i found to make rares "vulnerable" to chain igniting is... exiting and entering the map again. That lets me do expedition easily, but i still struggle with breach and ritual I was suggested ignite spread support gem for srs, but i can't say if it really helps. Good luck with the build! I hope they fix ignite interaction, and even if they nerf it to 5 srs per fireball main proj, build will live

[@7uskyHusky]

Good Notice! I have been running a similar build on an Infernalist for the past 2 weeks and found countless of Bugged mobs who you cannot chain Ignite as well who can be very tough... for example the second Form of Geonor in the Iron Citadel. A good way of testing it for me was running a Level 7 Raging Spirits with Minion Instability so the RS actually die from the Low Life Proc and make an explosion(more FPS loss), so every time they run to a mob and i dont see the explosion the enemies cannot chain the ignite to procc the amulet... hope it will get fixed soon

[@hemlighethemlighet8348]

Played this build, the solo-dps is utter garbage unfortunately, but mapping wise is great. Bummer, i wonder what one can do to improve solo-dps

[@michaelkarim6074]

Doesn't wall of fire guarantee ignite? Or are they unable to be ignited by that either?

[@Prudeffs]

Dude your build is so fun ! Refreshing to see someone actually try new things and experiment with such fun ideas ! Good job !

[@JudeCarpathian]

any tips for reducing the lag spikes?? this build is so fun but borderline unplayable with the constant lag spikes. hope they fix that

[@pathofky]

Take off wildshards and snakepit, that alone will reduce the lag a lot. Version I am cooking up right now for the follow up drops both.

[@JudeCarpathian]

@@pathofky youre the goat!! looking forward to the updated version!!

[@sak6860]

EFFIN AWESOME! and mad respect for the shoutout to the JOOSE for some inspiration.

[@ImZertify]

Love to see a fellow blood mage trying to make this class work, it is a struggle but good job on this one, the PC Destroyer xD

[@djzl05l]

It finally worked. Me and 3 friends were doing Atlas maps. Our latency would shoot up from 15-40ms to 2000+ms when all procs happen, but we were expecting that. What surprised us was during a new waystone, soon as I entered and cast we all got disconnected at the same time😅🤣

[@snackoven]

I’m more interested in how you put a tiny Chris Wilson in the corner of my screen when I watch on my phone. 11/10

[@GrayBeardFPS]

Well cant deside if ur serious or not but you can add any watermark to ur video so someone dont steal it 😂

[@darthdominion369]

just watched the comet one LOL you earned a sub good work

[@WholeBitThe]

this is genuinely so impressive

[@NolifeWarbalt]

With infernalist you can completely ignore mana issues using infernal flame, that's how I ran this build for a little while.. the only drawback was the hit from overcapping infernal flame causing an ignite sometimes which prevented my ES from recharging, but you can gain a lot more spirit/es/mana reserving the life and push for the 90% fire res to mitigate the hit, if you can find a way to deal with the ignite other than reduced duration on chest/a charm i highly recommend trying that version

[@pathofky]

I've seen a few suggestions for it, are you not damaging yourself constantly though with the damage from infernal flame? Does that damage no interrupt your es recharge regardless of ignite?

[@NolifeWarbalt]

@pathofky I invested a lot in start up and the damage was so small it would pretty much instantly recover

[@pathofky]

Infernalist probably the best way to go then. Currently playing on stormweaver and still struggling with mana costs lol.

[@killstar100]

@@NolifeWarbalt when you say start up, ES start time?

[@NolifeWarbalt]

@@killstar100 yeah

[@Buster-tr4lp]

keep in mind if this build is the same as the one im currently using it is bugged as of right now and doesnt proc ignite on small enemies from breach, ritual, expeditions and a few other types of small enemies meaning it struggles a ton in this content due to minions not suiciding and creating comets on death

[@jul734]

I mean he is doing a breach and is just slapping them around

[@Buster-tr4lp]

@ there’s significantly less comets than outside the breach hes mostly killing everything with fireball and not comet, comets still proc just only on bigger enemies during a breach

[@user-gg9ho4um2l]

@@Buster-tr4lp if things are dying, whats the matter?

[@fionaformosa807]

Hello love this build. Do you have a gem and tree guide to this build, please?

[@sammarkie]

What about Blueflame Bracers for the gloves? That way you can hone in on cold?

[@pathofky]

Although I did consider them, and still maybe am. My tree itself has taken actually 0 specific damage-type nodes. Its all generic aoe/trigger spells/spell damage/crit ect. So I see a world where you don't even have to worry about converting and instead can double curse/ double exposure. That's just my current thought though maybe change later.

[@jdRamza]

A fun use of Necronantic Talisman keystone node! I am expecting that to big node once we get some Animated Guardian style gem to pump up.

[@elijob9871]

Best build i've ever seen, you are the absolute goat

[@markosubasic4281]

so I had an infernalist and I was testing builds anyways trying to get the demon form to go off and with this similar setup I can say there is no mana issue. I've only tested on a T2 map so far, and wildshards proc does to much lag so taking it off to make it more focused. putting fortress on fire wall as well. other then that everything is similar I don't have enough to get blink since i went grim feast for more survival

[@breezmyguy]

YOUR THE MAN

[@demonicsquid7217]

*You're

[@DemonRavage1]

Nice build. Make me really regret going so hard on physical damage bonestorm on my bloodmage. It also kills me that cast on minion death only really works with infernal legion minion instability. I have like 6 skeletons, unearth, and zombies, but without the IL MI setup the casts would only trigger maybe 3 or 4 times the entire map. Put IL MI on the unearth minions and now it casts pretty much every group of mobs. Also stupid just how much faster clearing is with the IL MI vs just having a horde of unearth minions up as long as possible.

[@nocturnal9686]

That's how people that do benchmark shoulda make it on testing FPS on games

[@cadmusman7126]

this is a really fun build idea. If you're down to switch the ascendancy, what you could potentially do for the mana problem is grab a heartbound loop or infernalist with grinning immolation and stack mana and health recoup effects. You'd have to lower the amount of spirits spawned obviously, but if you grab the blue flame bracers you can convert the fire damage from fireball to cold and cause freeze which may help with mapping. I don't believe that would cause infernal legion to not ignite.

[@pathofky]

I did try the hearthbound loop off your suggestion. Unfortunately you delete your hp bar in 0.1 seconds lol. Would not be worth doing since you'd have to not only cut your triggers into like 1/10th of what we have here ( or more ) but you'd also have to significantly invest into tons of recoup. Interesting idea though and I appreciate the info!

[@cadmusman7126]

@@pathofky That's why I suggested Infernalist. With cloak of flame and altered flesh, you can take the 300 damage from heartbound and split it to 120 phyiscal, 120 fire, and 60 chaos damage. With base capped fire res, that's lowered to 30 fire damage, and just 35 chaos res lowers the chaos damage 39 chaos. Making that 120 physical, 30 fire, 39 from each spirit. That's 1512 per fireball cast which is much more survivable. You'd still need to get over 100 health recoup, but unlike a barrier invocation infernalist build, you would only need enough HP/ES to survive the initial fireball cast and you wouldn't need to avoid stacking mana. There's tons of recoup stuff close to the mage tree, so in theory, you could stack recoup from jewels and jewlery and still have some room for damage clusters on the passive tree. Also im not certain if the ignite from grinning immolation triggers recoup mechanics but if it does thats another possibility

[@mareda528]

Was thinking of something similar but as infernalist + Demon Form.

[@pathofky]

Haven't played infernalist quite yet, but with the current state of blood mage I can't imagine infernalist being a worse option :).

[@mareda528]

@@pathofky yea, only problem is the spirit, as you're forced to play with ghostwrithe and with the amulet slot being locked in too...

[@fyrefox45]

​@@mareda528ingenuity frees up the chest slot, but it's a bit pricey. I'm hitting 200 hp with a 60% one.

[@mareda528]

@@fyrefox45 hmm I see, more to think about ty. :P

[@DeathstarsEG]

@@pathofky whats wrong with bloodmage?

[@dmitrijsmironovs7513]

Bit of an update from me. Been cooking trying to fix this on bloodmage because i have no willpower to level a new character even if it will be stronger by default :) Been running t15 maps all morning, only died 1 time to a t16 corrupted map, because i had 2 juiced rares with 30% castspeed/atkspeed mod AND IMMUNE TO COLD DMG :) Sorry this might be a bit long winded but i think every little bit fits in to actually work finally on bloodmage. Rare chest - 50 spirit + energyshield flat+ and % (600es) (1div) Oakswarn sigil crest - great shield gives us everything we need ES/spirit/chaos res/ upto 45% block chance on corrupted one (10-20ex) - this allows us to use Grim feast with cannibalism. I think this single handedly saves the build. The shield+grim fiest is amazing. Atziri disdain is still the BIS helmet, i spent 1div on max mana/es helmet with capped res but it was still worse. The better 2 bottom rolls the better it is, + 60 mana, can also find some nice corrupted ones if you wana push it even more) Dropped snake pit like you suggested, and added a breach ring with 260+ mana, 90% mana regen, chaos res and mana per enemy killed. This im not 100% sure about, im not sure i need that much extra mana. Capping chaos resistance is very nice tho. Double comet set up both qualities and 19lvl - one is set up for max dmg. Gems are (lifetap, ele focus, concen effect, biting frost) - 2nd gem is set up to cascase and echo, this just gives more comets overall with more area which freezes all enemies with frostwall that i now use manually. Gems are (spell echo, spell cascade, inspiration, concidered casting) I have swapped about the gems alot, and this is the most dps you can get between both gems. you can boost 1 gem to over 75k dps but the other set up is then around 12 but has no freezing and less coverage per fireball cast, this way its about 85k dps between the two, and alot more freezing potential, which first gems also consume for more dmg) Frostwall im not using manually, its still a great ability for blocking enemies from coming to you, aswell as spells and ranged hits. The health globes are a bonus too. The main gems for that is glacier and deep freeze so that when it explodes it can freeze enemies, glacier is up for debate but it stops your whole frostwall from being destroyed, only where the front projectile hit. -this means that it spawns a health globe, keeps some area along its side, which helps the rest of the fireaball projectiles bounce in close proximity. - this also stops majority of your SRSs from just exploding off screen and having to fly back to enemies, they mostly now just explode within proximity of the frostwall, and then die and cast the comets all within close proximity of the wall. -THIS also means that everything is happening in a more concentrated area, more specifically where you put your frostwall, thats where the comets are going to cascade. -and finally lol, this means that all the HEALTH GLOBES AND GRIM FEASTS are all bunched up really close to each other, you walk over them and you gain max hp/es instantly. This does not remove the hp yoyo by any means, but currently with this set up i pretty much ignore my health unless its at 5% or whatever and i cant cast a spell, since hp potion will fill it quickly, you will still have 4/8k shield and 2k mana. so youre not oneshot even with 1 health. Good potions are very good too, with charge per sec and more restoring. Talent tree changes : Mind over matter x2 jewels 2% mana restores on kill. thats the minimum you need and it feels good, you can fill rest of stats for what you want, like ele dmg/freeze/hp on kill, currently i have mostly crit chance from old build which seems to work fine since mt base crit for comets is 60ish Grazed flesh+eldrich will for 3% max life es mana AND recoup 3% of those on dmg+bit of stun thresh hold. heavy frost + thin ice is insane dmg increase with just 3 nodes that we are close to. removed eternal youth patient barrier+arcane intensity+int nodes at top aswell as ether flow. i tried elrich battery, but i dont think its as good as just having upto 8k ES Im still lvl 88 so there is room for more nodes, aswell as possibly changing alot of the crit nodes into something else, but at the moment its viable forgot to mention, you gotta play like psychopath. You need to put down walls on mobs, shoot your fireballs and run into the mobs as fast as you can, you usually just oneshot all packs, if not just run in circles and put down more frostwalls for more freeze. its important to keep running into all the healthglobes and grim feasts to manage your hp and mana. For bosses you dont need to do that, you can play back, and occasionally dodge into the boss to collect a bunch of globes

[@Liftinglinguist]

This one character must be destroying the entire atmosphere, I've never seen this much shit on the screen! I love it!

[@johnstallone4807]

This looks absolutely hilarious, it's definitely on the chopping block isn't it? I feel like I was too late to the show on a lot of these builds

[@pathofky]

NGL Everything is on the chopping block. Who knows really. They have ALOT of things ahead of this ATM though. Stat stacking, archmage, lightning rod, DD. At the very least if you do want to play something like this for the memes blood mage is surely getting buffed *COPIUM* I highly doubt it will be left in this state.

[@johnstallone4807]

@@pathofky I think I might risk it and make this, lol, you do have a point, in the time they've left us be for the holidays, so many broken interactions have been discovered

[@kylekelley2778]

Good , here's an idea. Make your own and just play the game instead of using a road map

[@ETbutforreal]

​@@kylekelley2778Even better idea, stop being a whiny gatekeeper on how you think people should play lol.

[@johnstallone4807]

@@kylekelley2778 Happy new year! Hope you grow up to be a full adult!

[@Eric-rb6mo]

I could never come up with something like this, but man this is why i love POE

[@jc_wesson]

thanks for the showcase. many folks leave those out

[@emiyamuljomdaoo]

I don't know English very well, so I can't understand the build well through KZbin. Do you plan to upload it on Maxroll?

[@WiER0]

love the build, inspired me to make a new witch (but infernalist for demon form) and trying to simulate what you do there, but not all the way. going for eldritch battery and mind over matter and ES galore maybe trying to fit Archmage in

[@pathofky]

This to me ( at least being an infernalist ) seems like probably the best way to go.

[@avirei98]

I wasn't sure if the spirits were dying or despawning but I had a bad idea when I saw that cast on minion death existed and you just showed me that it will work 😮

[@pathofky]

To be fair some of them are despawning. But if they are within range of a mob with their infernal legion then they do infact die.

[@sevex9]

Some ideas you may have already changed. Work in Cold Exposure with Eye of Winter, maybe Overabundance with RS. If you can find the spirit maybe CoC with EoW? Hit fireball for lingering CoMD Comets then sustain dps with CoC EoW giving enemies exposure and critical weakness?

[@kunou4527]

I wanted to recreate the combo engine of Volatile Zombies in Last Epoch, but GGG made it so you can't socket Raise Zombies into Cast on Minion Death, so even if you have a power charge generator it just won't work due to that restriction. The idea was to create a recursion engine that would summon empowered Zombies with Infernal Legion, Minion Instability, and Meat Shield. GGG also decided they would make Sacrifice not work on Raise Zombie either, so you can't use Profane Ritual. It's like they made this potentially cool skill and then explicitly prevented you from doing anything cool with it.

[@alexanderzh4931]

Great work! I run similar build on my chrono which solves mana problem via rift. And you inspired me to switch from firestorm to balls for spirits generation. I wonder why don’t you use fork support gem instead of the ring? Is it damage reduction thing?

[@pathofky]

Damage reduction yes. But I've since dropped snakepit and any forking all together because lag and how it interacts with a single target.

[@grendelhagalaz]

That's the most beautiful build i've ever seen

[@snowywhistle2114]

I think this might be better with deadeye projectile support. The extra damage at point blank might also help with bosses.

[@bartzhang391]

incredible build with clear/intuitive demonstration, I just think its odd to play this on bloodmage, literally the only synergy u get is the 15% base crit chance and nothing else, stormweaver/infernalist for sure wouldve skyrocketed this build much further, then again that can be said about any build, even detonate dead would be stronger on nonbloodmage...

[@pathofky]

Very true! As stated I just really wanted to play bloodmage cuz I thought surely it can't be as bad as people say right. Well I was wrong :). Follow up will be on sorceress.

[@Shlafoutre]

Very fun to watch! Any reason why you're doing this with the Witch other than what you say in the intro? I am looking for a fun build for my chronomancer :)

[@pathofky]

I have not touched or even looked at chronomancer yet for any build but any ascendency is likely better than this one so go for it Id say!

[@tarrok7912]

Have been doing it on my chronomancer for the past few days but without that many projectiles, with flamewall instead because my pc can barely handle it Great for clearing, but you need A LOT of manareg, it drains you empty so quickly and single target damage sucks, unless I am doing something severly wrong

[@satibel]

the build I was playing was pretty fun (I'm currently playing other games, talented is great.), what I call the "no" build, use a +4 cold wand with damage as extra lightning and cold, the focus that gives 12% spell damage per spirit, a good spirit chest and ammy, spirit corrupt on helm, that gives you like 300% or more inc spell damage, which takes care of that, then you run archmage (no need to go all in, like 800-1k mana is fine) and the electrocute gloves. spell setup is frost wall with reduced hp, frostbomb and ice nova. basically you time freeze, then everything freezes from the cold damage, once it's not frozen it's electrocuted, after that it's stunned and you can time freeze again and if it's still not dead it's probably ready for another round of freeze and electrocute. also I'd take slow as the 4th (1 being 33% cd, 2 and 3 for time freeze) then run temp chains with the full slow package so if anything is in range it has like 10% move speed. it's basically a tota build, you don't really need defenses when everything is either cc for 30s or dead.

[@S34Mii]

Big brain build here. I like it. Good stuff!

[@nds9000]

Sweet build! Will see if I can make it work with Infernalist somehow

[@Buster-tr4lp]

denpa has the same excact build on his channel been running it for a few weeks but with chronomancer

[@MarcOlleDF]

Maybe use a crossbow with +levels to projectiles? This would buff both fire and cold spells. But you would need to run shield on 2nd weapon set hand

[@ForTheViolence]

Yeah, this build is insanely awesome and so is this game. Please make more builds, it helps me understand the skills better.

[@raynoduvenhage9484]

Great video helped a lot, do you have any builds I can try at level 40 i am struggling to get through Act 3

[@pathofky]

Are you a blood mage? If so I'm not sure honestly brother, I was struggling through campaign trying to do cold spells lol. I would say hexblast with essence drain + contagion would be a good route.

[@raynoduvenhage9484]

@@pathofky Lol, don't worry me to now I am using fire, shock, and ice does ok but I am being overpowered on act 3 I use fire bolt, ice wall, fire orb, fire wall, lightning wave so I dont know if that is part of my problem

[@yungc0bain]

Dude your build videos are my new favorite

[@ClownWorldGaming-sr6mz]

breach mobs hate getting ignited by SRS - there is a few chronomancer versions of this build that has been trying to fix the issue. (ignite icon appears on breach enemies but cast on death doesn't give energy like a normal map would) Nice variant keep it going, I pretty much had to stop playing it due to that massive lag, slowing down.

[@Taoscape]

It looks like this would be a good build for Infernalist. It would solve the Blink issue, and the mana issue if you can fit the max fire resist nodes in.

[@silvertain1978]

Been playing around with this , i found it works MUCH better fireball without wildshards and without snakepit and it casts tons of comets but you use MUCH less mana and it never lags which is the msin thing becausethat has killed me numerous times. Im running 3 comet cast on death and 1 ice wall mana remnants and grim feast .

[@yiuwinghk]

Thanks for the interesting build, I am now level 62, manage to have ~250 spirit. I found that Comet can be stronger by adding another Cast on Minion Death with very low level frost bomb (cold exposure can reduce enemy resistance).

[@ShellyBBird]

Haha this is awesome. I’ve always loved Poe videos where they just try to break the game. Crazy stuff

[@NPelham]

Such a good "Happy New Years" build.

[@Olaf2745]

I didn’t realise you could use multiple of the same gem. Probably saw the restrictions on support and just assumed. How do you get 11 RSs?

[@pathofky]

10->11 max with quality on SRS.

[@Dao-k6l]

you gonna break a lot of computers my guy. really curious on what you PC setup is like, what CPU, GPU, ram etc

[@pathofky]

RTX 3080, i7-12700k, 32GB of DDR5 ram. So not TOP of the line but not too far behind either.

[@Cracks094]

For a true chain reaction as long as there are enemies alive, wouldn't it be better to have another fireball be triggered instead of a frostwall? it's not gonna shoot as many projectiles as the selfcast one but might cause an infinite loop on big enemies

[@jtheist32]

Incredibly clever use of mechanics.

[@RaizzenStyle]

you could slot a sceptre instead of your shield on the offhand to fix the spirit problem on the chest.. but this could also kill you because of more cast on minion death and more mana costs idk

[@pathofky]

Currently experimenting with the sacred flame scepter in offhand. Also on stormweaver instead of blood mage.

[@ichrastegleichauslol]

i miss the voice u hinted at 0:21 :(

[@thecanrig]

This is utter insanity and im so glad you decided to birth it into the world

[@NotKevinBrand]

Might have to try this build and host group maps just to see how many disconnects I can provide.

[@leepaoyang710]

I'll definetly try this build. I just need to farm the gear I need for this build on my infernalist or the on my gemgling legionair.

[@birutafpv8768]

Took me about 10 minutes to set this up from my comet span sorc build. Now i spam even more comets. Thank you! My mana pool hates you btw.

[@pathofky]

:). Will be joining you on the sorc for it soon.

[@Wh0zManz]

@@pathofky Can't wait to see the follow up for Stormweaver!

[@CarrollLiddell]

You are a genius sir, this is hilarious!!!

[@JM-kl9bl]

do you have a build planner link for this?

[@stanyeo6650]

Im thinking Gemling may be a great alternative. The cost reduction with mana recover on triggered skill, stacking int and mana, may just be a great lightning skill spammer

[@pathofky]

Sounds good to me brother, anything but blood mage.

[@raizenoldman5814]

You can add Catalyst fire modifier on the amulet to make your SRS die faster, i'm doing this build with Blood Magic passive and the spell leech is enough to sustain it

[@pathofky]

Ty for the catalyst suggestion I'm not 100% sure if it will make them go down faster honestly, to me looks like they die instantly but I will do it regardless because it is just free. As for the blood magic that SHOCKS me honestly, I have tried it and my hp bar just zaps to 0 instantly. What are you doing to reduce the life cost?

[@mayflower72]

i was lol'ing when you were doing the maths. amazing

[@pathofky]

:)

[@titanicjack6744]

Nice. I’m going to see how this goes on my witch.

[@patriocz1218]

I wonder if that many projectiles doing any good, as u resummon the RSs they hit max number of spawned RSs, which should not trigger CoMD(or are they dying fast enough?)

[@Candycanecanecane]

any bossing footage? very satisfying

[@pathofky]

Boss damage very bad in this meme setup. Off-video right now working on a follow-up with a much more fully fleshed out build. Bossing damage is now coming along nicely. Will try to get it up by tomorrow.

[@dmitrijsmironovs7513]

If you invest more dmg into comet and use frostwalls for freeze, it makes decent boss fight. You just fireball and wait for srs to die and proc comet that consume the freeze for big dmg. concentrated effect is good. Also changing fire curse to ice is better. I killed 2 t15 bosses yesterday under 30sec

[@nicholaswilliams4598]

This is incredible and is to me, the true essence of PoE build crafting

[@eliorgitelman6058]

trying this on my invoker and its definitely tankier than your setup due to ascendancy kinds rough to get all nodes on tree, also crit chance is very low (getting to around 20% only) so ill probably farm some gold and switch from crit setup mana is indeed a big problem, together with single target dmg I tried playing with manual frostwall casting and it does save a lot of mana is there a discord you use or some sort where we can discuss this tech further?

[@flutta_]

very sick! how did you solve boss damage?

[@pathofky]

Not being bloodmage xd. Follow up today working on it right now.

[@Wh0zManz]

@@pathofky Can't wait! Hopefully you're in my timezone so that today doesn't mean tomorrow 😂

[@pathofky]

Uploaded now :)

[@dmitrijsmironovs7513]

this looks so good, apart from the hp bar being a constant yoyo, and not just a little, youre going down to legit 1 hp sometimes XD Do you think you could invest somewhere into more sustain/defense and sacrifice some damage/projectiles? Im going to build this right now regardless because i cant find anything else to play on bloodmage and im not going to level a new char till some patch notes. Every other bloodmage build is super expensive, all items are multiple divines each, this one 1 div at most for top tier rolls which is kinda doable just about... but im scared of yoyo hp, dying in maps and loosing xp hurts my soul

[@pathofky]

Obviously my current setup in this video is for the dcing memes, but I am currently reworking it for a follow-up video which will be on stormweaver. As I've said I do NOT recommend going bloodmage but if you want to stick with it there's a couple avenues you could take: 1.) Aim for less casts and higher single high damage. Drop the snakepit and any energy gain supports. or 2.) Find a way to reduce your life costs further ( I couldn't see it ). The hp yoyo problem occurs in 2 scenarios. Either you proc too good and launch like 40 comets zapping your hp bar instantly. Or you trigger your comets and they hit a small number of mobs / after the mobs have already died, so you do not leech enough. The latter here honestly looks like leech may be bugged to me, sometimes, not 100% sure though.

[@dmitrijsmironovs7513]

​@@pathofky wildshards is just crazy XD it goes to 0 fps then boom dead. Unfortunately i just had 0 interest in leveling new char, and i know bloodmage is the worst option in all scenarios which im hoping gg will adress in some useful way. But i might concider releveling a stormweaver depending on how its doing. Memes aside its still better than my hexblast build, the hp yoyo can be sorted a bit with mind over matter and eldrich battery, with 2x 2% mana on kill its not so bad. I also dropped the shield to use one with 50 spirit which allows me to use grim feast and another gem for 4% life on kill. Its definately more sustainable, the bugged ES from helmet not going into eldrich battery is kind of nice but oneshots do still occasionally happen and its hard to tell what it is. Will keep a look out for the new video:)

[@pathofky]

All that sounds good to me, glad you found a way to fix it up :). Just FYI though the atziri's distain energy shield not turning into mana is intended. "As extra" occurs after conversions of any type in POE2 as far as I have seen.

[@dmitrijsmironovs7513]

@@pathofky eh it's deffo not solved even with 2.7k mana and 5k life with globes on occasion I get stunned frozen or just body blocked and die. However I got good wand, my comets are doing 61k dps. I might have been just tired but I think the shield you use to blink with cooldown affects the cast on stuff. I saw like 50 comets just raining down all over the screen but obviously all my mana and hp drained ahah. Found someone using a node on tree that let's leech regen ES if hp is full, apparently that helps with maps so I'll try that today. I was also thinking of possibly using mana remnants but that I don't think will work with bloodmage. Boss damage is great tho, can kill t15map bosses in about 5 fireball casts.

[@miseteo]

I would love to understand how to weapon swap to make blink possible and faster.

[@pathofky]

Have to press x for now. Since blink replaces your dodge roll and is not a bindable skill that is the only way for now.

[@StooksMjooks]

after seeing this video i wanna be your friend

[@DJRockstarRen]

I love this build! I'm actually using it on low graphics though! super thanks, I really don't like lightning.... :D

[@avopeac6300]

does SRS cap throttle your comets? would something like slow projectile on fireball help with that?

[@pathofky]

Hmmm I haven't tried slow proj. I'll try that. The SRS limit is being reached many many times yes. But as long as the srs's spawn near mobs it seems like they fall over immediately to the amulet ignite damage. Again I will try this though, thank you for the suggestion!

[@azeriati5659]

this build is very similar to goratha double cof setup just without minions, it has very similar problems too. He swap one Cof for archmage which is very strong right now with high es chest with EB and it solves survavibility problem and add a ton of dmg, i think this solution might work here to.

[@pathofky]

I think it is aswell. I am now on stormweaver and archmage setup in place. Cooking.