Suggestion: Give Blood Boil an accompanying skill that lets you detonate the boils manually

Hello y'all,

I just had a small piece of feedback for y'all that I hope finds you well. I'm a big fan of my off-meta hipster nonsense builds so I decided to spec my Huntress as a Ritualist to see how that would go. Blood Boil was my first ascendancy skill choice and it's felt like a very solid pick. The spread radius with Magnified Effect feels quite potent in particular. However, in gameplay there are currently many instances wherein you aren't killing anything and the node feels like a dead point. Indeed, if I were bossing I'd likely be speccing out of it and into something else for anything without dependable nearby enemy deaths.

It feels like Blood Boil would benefit a lot from an accompanying manual "boil detonator" type of skill for those kinds of gameplay instances. This skill, perhaps using a knife a la Ritual Sacrifice, could be used to "activate" the boils on a target enemy to inflict Corrupting Blood without requiring a nearby monster death. If there is a desire to still keep it a clear/mapping oriented skill, this activator could perhaps inflict half stacks of Corrupting Blood, or apply Corrupting Blood at half duration, etc. A cooldown is likely a good inclusion with this skill and could help incentivize cooldown reduction investment.

Alternately, this functionality could perhaps be baked into Blood Hunt as that seems to fit the vibe.

Just a thought. Anyways, loving the game. Thank you all very much!
Last bumped on Apr 15, 2025, 12:36:55 AM

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