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PoE 2 Build

One Shot Bosses on a Budget - Arc Blood Mage

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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

  • or depending on what stats you need.
  • 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

Using 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

Tanky One Shot (Mid-High Budget) Variant

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Equipment

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Important Stats

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

- can be anoint on amulet

or needed on 1 of the modifiers.

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

From Nothing

radius, so we can spec into and . 2 passive points for 70% evasion rating is amazing.

Tanky One Shot (Mid-High Budget) Variant

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Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 25

Dex 30

Int 65

Greater Lightning Bolt

Greater Lightning Bolt
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Spark

Spark
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Cast on Critical

Cast on Critical
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Grim Feast

Grim Feast

Blasphemy

Blasphemy
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Ghost Dance

Ghost Dance
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Blink

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Elemental Conflux

Elemental Conflux
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Life Remnants

Life Remnants
  • 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
  • needs 20% quality to get 10% reduced reservation (90 spirit)
  • should be used when you're not crit cap on single target damage
  • level 1 for crit trigger only and save mana cost
  • and should be 20% quality
  • should be low level (level 6) to lower the dex requirements
  • 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 to the setup if you're turning it on.
Tanky One Shot (Mid-High Budget) Variant

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Passive Tree

main:
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set 1:
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set 2:
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Flexible and make sure you swap points around if you get any notables from Megalomaniac.

How it Plays

Playstyle (Pre-Choir)

Mapping Setup

  • to clears and to kill rares/bosses

Playstyle

Mapping Setup

  • One-button 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 or any spells
  • For pinnacle bosses, make sure you wait until you have buffing lightning damage, then go in. (if lacking damage, use - not needed usually)

Changelog

Feb 14th - Update with tanky version

Feb 8th - Adjust the Skill Trees, Adjust the Early-Game Variant with a better setup CoC Detonate Dead instead to make early mapping smoother

Feb 6th - Swap the Curse to Flammability

Feb 5th - Patch 0.1.1c Update

Feb 3rd - Initial Draft

Path of Building Code

Video Guide

Table of Contents

  1. Build Overview
  2. Build Variants
  3. Equipment
  4. Skill Gems
  5. Passive Tree
  6. How it Plays
  7. Changelog

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