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Bloodmage Spark - Pure Lightning 100% Crit - Rank 1 XP

0.4 TLotD
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End Game
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Updated on Dec 28, 2025
Dec 28, 2025

Build Overview

This is a guide for the Bloodmage Spark build that I used to be the first Bloodmage to hit level 100 at the beginning of the 0.4 league. You can find a snapshot of my character here: POE NINJA LINK

This build has good clear speed, good survivability and just enough damage to kill every boss comfortably.

This version of Spark scales purely Lightning Damage, which lets us benefit from Choir of the Storm ability to ignore enemy elemental resistances whenever we crit. We scale our crit chance and combine multiple lightning damage abilities to maximize this benefit.

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Good clear speed / coverage
  • Good QOL / comfortable playstyle
  • Very versatile
  • Good recovery / survivability
  • Great for leveling / pushing XP
  • Slow campaign leveling
  • Expensive upgrades in the late game

Build Variants

Equipment

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Equipment Priority
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Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 5

Dex 10

Int 35

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Spark

Spark
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Orb of Storms

Orb of Storms
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Frost Bomb

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Flame Wall

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Mana Remnants

Mana Remnants
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Passive Tree

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set 2:
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How it Works

Leveling

In the campaign, your Spark damage is going to be relatively low. That's why you want to clear mostly by casting unleashed Orb of Storms and folowing it up with unleashed Spark. This will do more damage early and will clear better until you get to the endgame.

Your first Ascendancy Trial is not useful. You can choose to level with another ascendancy or simply ignore the first 2 points, and only allocate them after you do your second trial around level 40.

Once you complete your second ascendancy trial, you can start scaling crit and using Mask of the Sanguimancer.

Campaign Bonuses

Ailment Threshold and Stun Threshold are both good. Just don't take the mana regen.

Tattoos = Resistances

The Belt

As soon as you can afford it, you want to use a corrupted version of the Soul Tether belt, which has the modifier which makes you lose energy shield removed from it. Removing this negative modifier, turns this belt into a massive upgrade to our survivability, because with enough leech, we can now easily recover Energy Shield and use it as an extension of our Life pool.

Comet Setup

This version of the build does not use Comet. It will be worse if you replace Arc with it and don't modify the build correctly. If you want to play a boss killer version of Spark + Cast on Critical, you need to at the very least use a different weapon, different amulet and different jewels. You want a weapon and amulet with + to Level of All Spell Skills. You will also need to deal with enemy resistances, which means going back to using Frost Bomb and Elemental Weakness or using Penetration on the tree and jewels for Lightning as well as Cold, or using Rakiata's Flow. You can use Solus Ipse to socket multiple Rakiata's Flow in your skills.

Aspirational Upgrades

1. Flesh Crucible - if you get this jewel with Blood Magic and a negligible downside, you can drop the Mask of the Sanguimancer and instead use The Vertex (skill gems) with +4 to Level of All Skills.

2. Temporalis - combined with cooldown reduction runes at the bottom of the tree, can be used to greatly reduce the cooldown of Blink, which can then become your main way of moving around the map faster.

3. High ES Atziri's Splendour. Depending on your needs you can go with different variants. I like the Shield variant for double dipping Soul Core of Ticaba which gives 40% reduced Critical Damage Bonus to enemies per core, instead of the normal 20%.

You can check out my actual setup from the level 100 push, to see this character setup in practice: POE NINJA LINK

Path of Building Code

Video Guide

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