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PoE 2 Build

[0.4] All Content 100% Crit Blood Mage

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End Game

Starter

Witch

Blood Mage

0.4 TLotD

By ImJustAnthony

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Updated on Dec 21, 2025

Dec 21, 2025

Build Overview

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Blood Mage Build Guide

**UPDATE IN PROGRESS FOR 0.4** UPDATES MADE CONSISTANTLY**

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Hello all of you simple life enjoyers!

This All in One Blood Mage Build Guide uses progressing variants during a league to go from Starter to Multiple fun Endgame Builds.

*****New Variants added consistently.*****

Venom Crypt Reward - Mana Regen or Stun Threshold

Tattoo Buffs - 5% for each Resistances

Pillar Offering - 5% All Resistances

Strengths and Weaknesses

Easy Playstyle
Flexible Variants
HIGH Damage Potential
GREAT at ALL Content

Weakness....? Never heard of it.

Build Variants

(League Start)

(Second Ascendancy)

(Waystones 1 > 14)

$ - (Cheap Mana Tank)

$$ - (Spark Soul Mage)

OUTDATED

This is the current league start variant for 0.4 Last of The Druids.

Video - https://youtu.be/vhNfgkaohg4

Your first ascendancy should be Vitality Siphon and be completed before going to the final area to face off against Jamanra.

Use this variant until you finish your second Trial and unlock Sunder the Flesh to start converting to critical strike stacking.

I generally complete the second trial right before fighting Doryani in Act 3.

Equipment

(League Start)

(Second Ascendancy)

(Waystones 1 > 14)

$ - (Cheap Mana Tank)

$$ - (Spark Soul Mage)

OUTDATED

Set 1

Set 2

Equipment Priority

**(You are not in control of the items that drop during your campaign and sometimes bad luck can happen with no upgrades for a few zones.)

**(The above items are just some examples of good item modifiers. Keep upgrading the tiers of these mods as much as possible during your play and you should have good survivability.)

-One of the best tricks to make sure you keep getting upgrades is by visiting merchants in town EVERY TIME you level. Merchant items change each time your character levels during the campaign and they typically offer some good items each time.
-We are using STR and INT equipment because we need both for HP and Spell Skill Gems.
-Armour provides GREAT defense during the campaign!

Skill Gems

(League Start)

(Second Ascendancy)

(Waystones 1 > 14)

$ - (Cheap Mana Tank)

$$ - (Spark Soul Mage)

OUTDATED

**Replace Pierce I with Considered Casting on Spark once you get Branching Bolts on the skill tree.**

**You can use Magnified Area I and Rapid Casting I on Frost Bomb until you are able to get Spell Echo. Do not use Overabundance I until you have echo.**

Spark is our primary ability and you get it from the first quest completion. Spark should have priority for support gems followed by Frost Bomb.

Frost Bomb applies exposure and provides Cold Infusions to infuse Spark with additional damage at the cost of increased cast time. Elemental Weakness reduces resistances which should be used on bosses and some rare enemies primarily.

Use Frost Bomb on cooldown to get more infusions while spamming spark.
Frost Bomb can also be used a couple times before a boss fight to pre-stack infusions for a high burst start to any fight.

*** Disclaimer - You can add additional spells such as Flame Wall or Orb of Storms to the build but these barely provide any benefit early on and generally are a waste of cast time when you could simply keep spark uptime going between bombs. New players will also do better with simplified casting to focus on learning boss abilities. Keep button bloat down! ***

Passive Tree

(League Start)

(Second Ascendancy)

(Waystones 1 > 14)

$ - (Cheap Mana Tank)

$$ - (Spark Soul Mage)

OUTDATED

main:

123

set 1:

set 2:

This skill tree should have enough damage and utility to help you through the campaign while also giving us a path to convert to critical strike stacking with our second ascendancy in Act 3.