Bloodmage - "The Needler" Arbiter of Ash DOWN & T16+ (Bonestorm + Detonate Dead) Lategame Guide!

pretty sure its a visual error, the support gem effects still work. I think it has something to do with it being an ascendancy passive rather than from a spirit gem.

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Dragozone23#2280 wrote:

pretty sure its a visual error, the support gem effects still work. I think it has something to do with it being an ascendancy passive rather than from a spirit gem.

What is this in reference to?

Edit: Oh you mean our ascendancy passive?

I think +2 level of spell skills on focus is a pretty high prio that should be added.

I changed to your build from heavy life recoup build focusing on max life. Right now seems pretty good and more tanky to be honest with almost double the ES i had previously.

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raistek#1920 wrote:

I think +2 level of spell skills on focus is a pretty high prio that should be added.

I changed to your build from heavy life recoup build focusing on max life. Right now seems pretty good and more tanky to be honest with almost double the ES i had previously.

Yes +2 to level of all spell skills should be included you're absolutely right. I just forgot to mention it in the guide.. whoops. I'll update it immediately. Also yeah that's great to hear! When you feel solid as a Caster it makes the gameplay so much better.

Quick question. Why do you run Arcane Tempo instead of scattershot? It makes the skill feel much better to use. Is the damage reduction too much of a sacrifice?

Thanks so much for this. I have been searching for a bone magic blood mage build forever

Hello!

Got a few questions. I am trying to figure out a full blood/bone build and I follow few guides, theorycraft myself and I was wondering about two things here:

Do you think it's possible to max out the energy shield build you're using, but mixing it with this one?



My thought was to drop the normal shield perks from the left, go for Flow Like Water on the far right, don't go further there and if it's possible, push for the talent for two curses, transform them to auras and run Temporal Chains and Enfeeble - Could you take a look and suggest with your experience, which perks should I drop and which take from your build that are super viable? That would be much appreciated, I never played for ES or Surge so not sure how to get that working.

Secondly...What are the best rolls on Flasks/Charms to such build?

Also I've noticed that soul offering could be used - Do you think it would be viable anyhow on high level maps? As far as I see, a simple wand with spell dmg is better than bonus the SO provides

Thanks!

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Semifact#6246 wrote:

Quick question. Why do you run Arcane Tempo instead of scattershot? It makes the skill feel much better to use. Is the damage reduction too much of a sacrifice?

I'm using a pretty similar build where I have Arcane Tempo and Mobility on my Bone Cage (w/ Cascade and a flex slot) and Scattershot on my Bonestorm. I'll use BC a bit until tempo pops and switch to Bonestorm if needed or just DD spam.

Every time I try to switch out of Scattershot it just feels bad, and I don't think the DPS is reflecting properly in tooltips cuz it seems to shred better too

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Semifact#6246 wrote:

Quick question. Why do you run Arcane Tempo instead of scattershot? It makes the skill feel much better to use. Is the damage reduction too much of a sacrifice?

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JollyGreenDragon#7744 wrote:

I'm using a pretty similar build where I have Arcane Tempo and Mobility on my Bone Cage (w/ Cascade and a flex slot) and Scattershot on my Bonestorm. I'll use BC a bit until tempo pops and switch to Bonestorm if needed or just DD spam.

Every time I try to switch out of Scattershot it just feels bad, and I don't think the DPS is reflecting properly in tooltips cuz it seems to shred better too

Let me start with saying kudos to you guys. This is exactly why I love writing guides, I end up learning so much more about the game from the comments I receive on the forums. It's like this is a communal guide as opposed to just my guide.

Okay this is very interesting. So with further testing of Scattershot it looks like the interaction between the support gem and the skill is VERY different from what I originally thought. It looks like per "tick" of the cast producing projectiles, it's generating an additional 2 projectiles causing it to get to max projectiles EXTREMELY fast. Essentially giving it insane cast speed. Now granted it doesn't seem that it's actually allowing it to go OVER 20 projectiles by the end of the cast, but it gets to the max ridiculously fast making it seemingly far more dps if you can hit a solid portion of the projectiles. I'm gonna do some further testing with it, but my knee jerk response is that this is a definitely something to consider if not just straight up better. Additionally in tandem this allows us to swap Arcane Tempo to our Corpse Explosion making it feel so much nicer to clear maps with.