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One Shot Bosses on a Budget - Arc Blood Mage

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Witch

Blood Mage

By Lazy Exile

Updated on Mar 20, 2025

Mar 20, 2025

Build Overview

Hey guys, I'm Lazy Exile.

This is my One-Shotted Blood Mage guide.

It's always time for some off-meta fun stuff, but this time is an OP Build as a tribute for GGG since the nerfed of my Siege Cascade Build.

Campaign Vials Draught

Act 3 Normal - Stun Threshold or Ailment Threshold
Act 3 Cruel - 10% chaos resistance or +5 attributes

Anointment

Barbaric Strength or Vulgar Methods depending on what stats you need.
Subterfuge Mask if you're using the endgame tanky setup

Pros

Comfy mapper
Relatively tanky
It is reasonably cheap and performs well on a budget
1 Button Clear the entire-game (+1 more button for pinnacle boss)

Cons

Too broken so it might be boring
Left you wondering why other fun builds are nerfed

If you have any questions, check out the FAQs by the end of this guide or watch my video.

Budget Version video: https://youtu.be/49yKGuo9KAs

DISCLAIMER: POE 2 is a new game, and things might not be optimal as there is much to learn. I'll keep this build updated, so come back often and check if there are any changes. The changelog is at the bottom of this page.

If you want to see the build in action, look for Lazy Exile on YouTube.

Build Variants

Tanky One Shot (Mid-High Budget)

Arc One-Shot (Level 78+)

Pre-Choir (Level 65-78)

Using Subterfuge Mask to switch to an Evasion/ES hybrid

I have a alt-leveling guide for you to use for the campaign here:

Pillar of the Cage God Witch Leveling Guide

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Equipment

Set 1

Set 2

Important Stats

Any Wand should have 2x (20+#%) of damage as extra (Fire/Cold/Lightning), high Critical Chance
Frost Wall corrupted to level 8 will give you more damage
Trampletoe corruption for > 30% will give you more damage

ES Base helmet and Body Armour

Aim to cap all elemental and chaos resistances
High ES is better

Utility Belt

Provide good quality of life with any of the instant recovery flasks

Jewels

Most important stats until capped crit are jewels with #% Increased Critical Hit Chance and #% Increased Critical Hit Chance for Spell
After that, get Increased Maximum ES for more tankiness
Corruption/Enchant with Attributes or Elemental Resistances is good

Megalomaniac

Subterfuge Mask - can be anoint on amulet

Illuminated Crown or High Alert needed on 1 of the modifiers.

The other modifiers can be anything that gives Energy Shield, Evasion, or Critical Hit Chance

From Nothing

Oasis radius, so we can spec into Careful Consideration and Escape Strategy. 2 passive points for 70% evasion rating is amazing.

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Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 25

Dex 30

Int 65

Greater Lightning Bolt

Spark

Cast on Critical

Grim Feast

Blasphemy

Ghost Dance

Blink

Elemental Conflux

Life Remnants

Frost Wall need to be at the lowest gem level you can get (level 9 or can be corrupted for level 8), for to deals big overkill damage
Cast on Critical needs 20% quality to get 10% reduced reservation (90 spirit)
Eye of Winter should be used when you're not crit cap on single target damage
Spark level 1 for crit trigger only and save mana cost
Blasphemy and Temporal Chains should be 20% quality
Ghost Dance should be low level (level 6) to lower the dex requirements
Elemental Conflux at around 4 seconds left mark will show which is the next element, together with persistence, it's enough to kill any pinnacle boss with the buff up. Make sure you go trigger the boss when lightning is the next element. Swap Persistence to the setup if you're turning it on.

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Passive Tree

main:

123

set 1:

set 2:

Flexible and make sure you swap points around if you get any notables from Megalomaniac.

How it Plays

Playstyle (Pre-Choir)

Mapping Setup

Bone Cage to clears and Bonestorm to kill rares/bosses

Playstyle

Mapping Setup

One-button Arc or any spell will clears everything in the game including pinnacle bosses (idk, this seems a bit OP?)

Bossing Setup

Any boss should dies in 1 hit of Arc or any spells
For pinnacle bosses, make sure you wait until you have Elemental Conflux buffing lightning damage, then go in. (if lacking damage, use Flammability - not needed usually)