So I'm running a CoC blood mage (what a surprise?!) and just found myself with some newfound divs (nearly 1k). I know it's not much in the grand scheme of things but more than I've ever seen adn want to upgrade my gear. What's the most effective upgrade for me at this time? Thanks!
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+6 staff, +4 vertex. The usual.
You have very good gear. There is not much in the way of gear you can reasonably upgrade. Your gems, specifically armageddon Curio and Apoc. Lens could use some upgrading. A high-tier Megalomaniac would likely improve performance.
The real problem is likely your build. Doedre's is all the rage, but there builds that are literally 2x or 3x stronger than Deodre's out there.
The most obvious upgrade point is Rakiata's Flow on CoC (or Bloodletting).
I would think you’d want to take eldritch battery for more survivability and then switch to a wand with rathpith globe that has the mana based damage scaling from Vaal mods. The main damage scalars for blood mage are crit damage bonus and +skill level, life/mana stacking with Vaal modded rathpith and EB. I don’t get why you are still running ES. Other casters usually rely on spirit skills to scale damage but blood mage doesn’t have to.
Your gear is fine, i see 2 options that will make significant improvement for you: 1- save up to 2k div and buy an atziri regalia with 800 ES (will be a massive improvement, trust me) 2- change the staff to wand + focus. +5cold spells wands are pretty affordable and +2 spells focus with good ES too.
Second option is doable with 1k div. For the first you need 2k.
