In Path of Exile 2, Witch is one of the easiest and simplest classes, and it is also the first choice for many players to pass the game. Witch has also produced many builds. Fireball Blood Mage Build relies on Blood Mage class, which uses blood as a resource and cooperates with elemental spells to defeat monsters. This class can make monsters fall into many debuffs, which is impressive.
This build is a high-risk and high-reward build. Since it uses its own health as a resource, Fireball Blood Mage requires Witch to make high damage quickly while recycling her own health. This build has high requirements for the timing of skill release and its own position. Players must always prevent their health from reaching a dangerous level. Of course, players who don’t like this build can also look for other Witch builds to suit your play style.
Equipment
The most powerful thing about Fireball Blood Mage is that she can cause a lot of damage. Since fire and freezing are used in the build, the first thing to focus on is those items that can increase the damage of these two spells. Secondly, you need to build equipment with attributes that increase critical hit rate, spell damage and elemental damage. It is not difficult to obtain these equipment. As long as you use POE 2 Chaos Orbs to change the affixes several times, you should be able to build them. These items will directly increase the power of your comet spell and fireball.
Recommended equipment:
- Wand: high-level wand with +Spell Skill Gems. Because in the early stage of the game, it is more important to have more spells.
- Body Armor: High ES Chest.
- Shield: High Block Chance Shield. You must ensure your survival.
- Gloves: Blueflame Bracers (Unique). It is the key to trigger the freeze.
- Boots: Rare Boots. High movement speed allows you to get to the position you want.
- Belt: Rare Belt. You should prioritize resists, life and mana.
- Amulet: High Spirits Amulet. Spirit allows you to retain mana.
- Rings: Snakepit (left ring, Unique), Rare Ring (right). Snakepit allows you to clear monsters faster.
- Jewels: Rare Jewels. Increase damage or defense as needed.
Skill Gems
Skill Gems cannot be randomly matched. Pay attention to the gems that match your build. You can choose skill gems such as Unleash and Scattershot to increase the number of fireballs and accumulate damage over time. Wildshards allow you to increase the number of fireballs at close range, causing a lot of damage.
Recommended skill gems:
- Fireball: Wildshards allow Witch to deal huge damage at close range.
- Cast on Freeze: Can clear the map. Comet can deal good damage.
- Cast on Shock: Requires Archmage, suitable for single-target boss damage.
- Frost Wall: Can interact with fireballs and deal additional damage.
- Eye of Winter: Mainly used in boss battles, it can apply debuffs to bosses, and increases your damage.
- Blasphemy (with Hypothermia): Slows enemies and deals cold damage.
- Clarity or Vitality: Allows you to restore health and mana.
- Grim Feast: Synergizes with Blood Mage life recovery, allowing you to restore health after killing an enemy.
Choosing a support gem for Fireball depends on your damage setup and source. When using Fireball and Frost Wall, be aware that some support gems, such as Spell Cascade, can increase the explosion radius of Frost Wall. This can increase damage early on, but becomes a bit weak later on. If you feel that the damage is not enough, you can buy POE 2 Currency to increase the support gem slot in the skill gem.
Passive Skills
When choosing Passive Skills for Fireball Blood Mage, pay attention to improving survivability, so limit your search for passive skills that increase health and shields, especially those that benefit from energy shields.
Recommended Passive Skills:
- Bleed on Critical Chance: When you make a critical hit, you have a 15% chance to cause bleeding. Compared to Fireball, this passive skill is relatively weak, and it can only deal with some sustained damage.
- Curse Effect: Increases the effect of your curse by 6%. This passive is very useful when your fireball can be combined with a curse.
- Life: Increases maximum health by 3%. It can slightly increase the survivability of Fireball Blood Mage.
- Life Leech: Increases health leech by 12%. This is very important for Fireball Blood Mage, and this passive skill is the key passive for Fireball Blood Mage’s combat and endurance.
- Spell Critical Chance: Increases spell critical chance by 12%. Suitable for Fireball, it can significantly increase the damage of Fireball through critical hits.
Cryo and Fire damage are both very important, so don’t miss out on skills that can increase both damage. In the current game, you can use Blueflame Bracers to convert fire damage into frost damage.
Spirit Gem
For the choice of Spirit Gem, the first choice is still to need a gem that can increase the mana pool, so that you can use Archmage to increase your damage.
Recommended Spirit Gems:
- Archmage: Requires level 58, make lightning damage that scales with mana.
- Grim Feast: Requires level 10, restores shields after killing an enemy.
- Mana Remnants: Requires level 10, restores mana after killing an enemy.
- Combat Frenzy: Requires level 36, can frenzy charges when an enemy is frozen, increases attack speed and other stats.
- Elemental Conflux: Requires level 58, increases damage by randomly selecting an element every eight seconds.
Look for Spirit Gems that increase your maximum mana. Having more mana increases the damage you deal and also reduces the damage you take by reducing the mana cost of skills. The balance of offense and defense is currently the key to this game.
Ascendancies
Blood Mage is undoubtedly the most suitable ascendancy class for Fireball Blood Mage.
Blood Mage’s ability to restore health and mana is excellent, which allows players to be more reckless when unleashing skills. Elementalist ascendancy does not have the same regeneration capabilities as Blood Mage, which means that this ascendancy must allocate additional points to health and defense.
In short, Fireball Blood Mage is a powerful build, so powerful that it is even a bit boring. If you want to experience the thrill of crushing enemies in POE 2, then you can try this build.
