Blasphemy

I am very disappointed... planned a couple of builds with blasphemy before the expansion.... boom 35%.... its just not worth it for something u can get for free if you can cast it yourself.

Even at 25% it would require some work to get it done but it could have been fun.
I really hope this gets changed back to 25%!!!

Thought I didn't give this spell a chance so tested out on a toon using a lot of area nodes and 2 curses. Area is way to small even with area nodes and if the mob leaves the area curse goes off of them in a second. 35% a curse is just crazy and a just to big of waste for the reward you get. 70% for two curses? I think great Ideal for a support gem but as it is, it is a fail.

I dont care about the 35% reservation, i DIDN'T care i would say. I love this support gem but I think it's pretty unfair you have to recast 35% mana reserv each time you have an additional aura. You already invested in your tree and in your mana pool but the additional cost per/aura for me is unfair and way too much.
Maybe a 10% ma reserved for each add aura ?! But not 35%

25 or 30% reservation is okay.

35% not worth using it

35 is too much. make it 30 and we have a deal.

It would be nice if the visual ring showed you the outline of area cursed.

I am also very disappointed about the skill atm. 35% mana reservation seems way to much and the radius isnt also great.

Change the mana reservation to 30% and increase the radius at all stages for about 20%. Than it would be more enjoyable as caster.

At its current state it is hard to justify to use it.

RUINED!!!

Man, it would be great if someone from the balance team explained the reaseon why you guys decided to do this change, at least we would understand.

OMG So much hate here, i have a bloody OP build based on blasphemy and i actually found it very balanced...

My thoughts: if it was 25% it would replace existing auras and buffs (arctic armour)
Being 35% make it useful only for specialised builds which was the original intent of this skill imo.

The only thing you can blame GGG for is that they changed the mana reservation in the last minute. On the other hand what they share is just a working status so you shouldn't expect gem to be released in the same state as in those posts.

I have to agree that 35% is too much. The main thing is, you could use a HoT for 25% and auto curse that way anyway. You're almost always better off just casting the curse and running another aura.

The radius is also way too small. I'm running a bladefall poison build and I've been trying to use blasphemy+vuln becuase vuln synergizes so well with bladefall and poison. The radius makes it very difficult. I have to run in, as a squishy caster, and stand right near a boss/pack to get the effect. Planning to switch it out for discipline and just manually curse for tougher enemies.

Noncrit spell builds don't get much out of heralds because they can't trigger the elemental effects as easily (especially with physical spells), so it would be really nice to have an alternative. Being able to use vuln or ele weakness as a 25% aura with a decent radius would be very nice.