[0.5.5] MasterT's Blood, Ash and Thunder Atziri's Contempt Blood Mage

Heeelllo Internet, this is the Atziri's Contempt Blood Mage, my take on an already existing build from some time ago. While this spear was Nerfed pretty hard for Bleed builds, it's still pretty fun and very visually satisfying. It revolves around using the Atziri's Contempt spear, with Herald of Blood, Herald of Thunder, Herald of Ash and the THAUMATURGE Herald of Thunder MTX, for some extremely satisfying aoe visuals for maximum dopamine, while focusing alot on mapping speed with Blink and high attack speed.

A full explanation of how the build works and is played is in the video guide. Please watch it so you know if this is something you want to try out.

IMPORTANT:

If you are familiar with my builds, you will know I make very detailed progression, budget tiers, and high power builds and very in-depth written guides.
This build is not like that, for the 0.5.5 event there isn't much to really do so I just wanted to make a few builds with some unique playstyles, fun visuals, and most importantly I wanted to see how Bleed feels right now, so that I can be more ready for it when swords are released in 1.0 since 50% of sword skills have a big focus around bleed.

Videos:

Full video guide here:
https://youtu.be/wLKhuL9AcYo

Crafting:

Any very specific rare items used in the build have their crafting notes at the bottom of this guide in the "How It Works" section.

PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS:

This build does not have any critical issues that can make it feel terrible if you do it/set it up wrong.

I HAVE QUESTIONS WHAT DO I DO?

There is an F.A.Q Section at the bottom of this page. Any questions that I repeatedly get I will put the answers in there, so please Ctrl + F and find your question there, if you dont find it then tag me @masterT in my discord help channel for poe 1, and i'll respond there, Or ask me in my youtube comments.

If its a very specific problem, please include an in game clip and your pob so I can see the issue and fix it.

Where to Reach Me?

You can reach me directly on my discord, I am active almost all the time there in the chats. I have too many jobs irl to stream so this is all i got.
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/rNVCYuRVkt

If you like what i do and appreciate the detail and work I put into things, then consider checking out the patreon, but you really do not have to just your views and comments on youtube and in my discord are enough to warm the fires.

Patreon for Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/c/_MasterT

Skill Rotation:

Spearfield ---> Shattering Spite ---> Blink to cancel the animation of Shattering Spite, continue. The same rotation is used for both mapping and bossing, though you do not need to Blink to animation cancel in a boss fight.

For bosses or ultra juiced expedition rares, you want to stack 30 Bloodstone Lances with Spearfield before detonating with Shattering Spite.
You will see in the video how I only use 1 bleed and just watch the boss bleed out, there is no reason to do that except style points. Sometimes your damage can Low Roll, which can make the bleed low roll and do less damage, so its better to keep repeating your skill rotation.

You will use the keybind you have for your Mapping/Weapon set 2 shattering spite in almost all situations, and will only use the Single target main shattering spite for very tanky isolated rares and bosses.

F.A.Q:

Why So Many Red Support Gems?

The Extra Red Gems Are to Have a Red Gem Majority for Crystallised Immunities to give you ignite immunity.

Do I Need 2 Atziri Spears?

Yes, if you lock the same spear in both weapon sets it does give you the option to have 2 different Shattering Spite skills to put different support gems into.

Glove Craft:

Gloves in path of exile 2 are genuinely a nightmare to craft. The best way to do it is through pure RNG.

For this build, you can use the KATLA's GLOOM rune in the glove to make it be able to roll DECAY modifiers, these decay modifiers have very strong mods for Bleed and Damage over time builds. So follow the following steps:

1: Get a 2 socket Evasion glove base, it can be normal, magic, or rare (NOT DESECRATED), 2 socket bases are really cheap and you do not need the highest tier evasion base, any base will do but the higher the base evasion the better.
2: Put the Katla's Gloom Rune into the glove
3: Make the glove 20% quality with armour scraps
4: Use an Omen of Putrifaction and a Preserved Rib to putrify the item. Now you're going to roll the rng machine and see if you win.
5: Unveil the first modifier WITHOUT A reroll omen.
- If you get a good modifier in the first unveil, you then want to start using Reroll omens for the remaining prefixes. The prefixes are the strongest part for the gloves, but you also want to use reroll omens for the suffixes too IF you got really good prefixes. If you got lucky, you're done right here.
5.5: You will not be lucky. It took me around 30 bases before I got the glove im using in the high budget setup, it can take you more bases or less bases, you can also Settle for a half decent result instead of it being 6 really good mods.
6: Once you do get your good mods, you're done congrats.

Good Modifier List in Order:
Prefixes:
Magnitude of Bleeding
Magnitude of Ailments
Ailments Deal Damage Faster
Flat Damage (non katla mod)
Life
Evasion

Suffixes:
Resistances (If not capped)
Attributes (if you're lacking them)
Attack speed