Bloodmage - Hexblast & Bonestorm - Weapon set passives are awesome

I have been playin Bloodmage since Day 1. In the beginning I was playing Cast on Freeze + Icewall and after that got nerfed to the ground I was looking for an alternative, so I played ED + Contagion until Hexblast got unlocked and then switched to blasphemy + Hexblast. Clearing was amazing but single target DPS was atrocious.
With POE2s Skill set passives and settings which skills uses which weapon sets, you can easily configure all your skills to use the right weaponset and seamlessly switch between the two.

Here's a clip of a T15/corrupted/irradiated map including bosses:
https://youtu.be/WCrBtdpHZ2E

Passives, Gear and gems:
https://youtu.be/uhqlXoh5o5w

Weapon swap is seamless. Some things just work out of the box, i.e. I have three curses on blasphemy: Dispair, Enfeeble and Vulnerabilty. I can only apply two curses at once and even have spirit for only two curses but POE2 simply applies the right ones (Dispair + Enfeeble for the chaos skillset and enfeeble + vulnerability for bone storm).
Maxing out both skillsets is not exactly cheap but totally worth it. You can melt through juiced T15s and still have great single target DPS using bonestorm.) I played this with only 3 ascendencies but it really benefits from the 4th one.

I took the time to put it into a build planer:

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/e1a28758-76ec-497f-bc56-78e2b5e16138/builds/f8b376ef-3019-4a7a-8a3a-c605753671c3

I did not include the jewels, you got a lot of freedom there, here is what I consider mandatory:

2% Mana per Kill
Some crit chance for spell
Some increased cast speed

Great additions:

Effect of Withered
Increased damage if you've consumed a corpse
Crit damage

is it possible to level as this?

Leveling with hexblast works great. I leveled using only hexblast to around 80 or so, doing moatly irradiated and/or corrupted maps without bosses. Single target damage on hexblast sucks so you wanna avoid buffed bosses, like increased Life on your waystones until you get to bonestorm using your second weaponset.
Playing the campaign works but some bosses are painful using only Hexblast, Essence Drain and Contagion.

How in the world, you got it too not count spiritcost for the third curse is beyond me. you are right that it switches between the curses depending on swap.
But no matter what I do, I can't have alle the spirit cost gems active with the third curse in Blasphemy. It will turn off grim feast or one of the other.

And I have more spirit than you I think? How much do you have?

How did you get the third aura to not cost 60 spirit depending of swap?

I got 198 Spirit, I'm running two supports on life remnants, Grim feast and then withering presence for weapon set 1 and lingering illusion for weapon set 2.

I didn't do anything regaring the curses on swap. at some point I noticed that when I swap to weapon set 2 I have leftover spirit because It automatically deactivates dispair, so I socketed in vulnerability. Maybe its because I have all chaos spell configured exclusively for weapon set 1.

Edit: just noticed you can configure which curse is active here:


I didn't have to do it but maybe it works for you.

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Hablahab#2511 wrote:

I got 198 Spirit, I'm running two supports on life remnants, Grim feast and then withering presence for weapon set 1 and lingering illusion for weapon set 2.

I didn't do anything regaring the curses on swap. at some point I noticed that when I swap to weapon set 2 I have leftover spirit because It automatically deactivates dispair, so I socketed in vulnerability. Maybe its because I have all chaos spell configured exclusively for weapon set 1.

Edit: just noticed you can configure which curse is active here:


I didn't have to do it but maybe it works for you.

Yea I have allrdy tried all this, none of it worked for me, and i have 209 spirit xD Even if I set It to disable despair on weapon set 2, it still cost spirit when I have weapon set 2 equipped, and the same with vulnerability. I feel like I have tried just about everything, even tried different gem orders to see if that did anything. I have checked everything probably 10 times, everything is set correct.

Feel like I'm bugged, or perhaps you are ;)

Anyway, Thanks for the guide and answers. :D Might just be me.

Which skill does you weaponset 2 wand provide?

Also 209 spirit wouldn't be enough without quality on blasphemy. Without any you need 210 with 20 quality you need 198

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Hablahab#2511 wrote:

Which skill does you weaponset 2 wand provide?

Also 209 spirit wouldn't be enough without quality on blasphemy. Without any you need 210 with 20 quality you need 198

It provided Bone Blast lvl 18.

I do have 20 quality on blasphemy, one of the first things I checked.

The problem to me, seems to be that even when set to the right weapon set, and swapping to the right weapon sets, it does not disable the spirit cost of the 3rd curse in blasphemy. I don't know if it's even suppose to or not. But It works for you, not for me. As long as it's slottet into blasphemy, it will cost spirit regardless of weapon set etc. for me. And as I said I have checked so many times that the curses, buffs etc. is set to the correct weapon sets.

I dunno m8, I might be missing something. But I have givin up trying to figure it out ^^ Swapping to another build for now :D

Thanks tho, I will say even without vulnerability in, the build worked great for mapping especially :D Very satisfying with the decompose. ;)

Sorry to hear. I tried unslotting all the gems on blasphemy multiple times and it always does the same. Might just be bugged for me. I can't even get dispair to turn on for weapon set 2 even if I want to.
The build does work fine without vulnerability, theres a few bosses for which you really want it I guess.