[Build Help] PoE2 Bloodmage Spark / CoC – damage + proc issues

Atziris head piece with + to skill damage would probably help a lot. Not sure why your CoC isn’t going off. Your comet damage isn’t even showing up on poeninja which is weird.

Looked at your Poe.ninja. I would replace your helmet with Vertex +3 or 4 will work. Get a staff that has +6 all spell and +1 spell rune. You don’t have to worry about mana with blood mage so I would get rid of those staff prefixes of mana and try for a different % inc roll or gain as extra mod. Also very important if you’re going to drop helm to have 70% + crit chance for spells on your staff suffix.

You spec mana and go bloodmage?

Levels are King. Go for 21/20 gems, and more expensive supports if possible.

Vertex with +4 is needed.

Try to get 50 Spirit on Amulett —> coc + siphon elements + Arctic armor is rly nice offensive and defence whise.

Orb of Storms and thunderstorm is rly rly nice for bosses and untility on maps.

If you can get a staff with damage as extra Fire you can go with snap on your coc, ele equelibrium is also good in my opinion.

Remove pinpoint asap (around 85% cc)

Soul thether (cultivated) with fast meta annoint will make you 1000% more tanky.

Beside that is cast Speed king.

You will struggle with some mechanics as you get more +lvl, but that will take some time I guess.

You definitely need to improve the spark damage to see more comets. Also try to improve crit chance so you can drop the Pinpoint critical gem.

This is my build for reference: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Floher-7089/character/JohnaSevenfold

These are some improvements I can think of:

1. For me, the Vertex mask was a huge improvement with the +level to skills. The +4 levels was really expensive but you could get a +3 with decent crit chance.
2. I also use a unique ring with a lot of crit chance and some extra crit chance on all my jewels to get spark to 99% chance to crit. Also you can try to get a Staff with crit chance for spells.
3. To get more damage on spark I use Atalui's bloodletting and Rakiata's flow. Also you can try to get cold infusions for spark.
4. I use Spell cascade on my CoC to get more comets.
5. For bosses you can use a second staff to cast Sigil of power and replace the Spell cascade on Coc to Concentrated area (I use frost wall just as a storage for this gem).

The improvements can be a bit expensive but this build is expensive in general and I feel like it has no damage cap. I hope you can get it running :)

I suggest this to basically everyone, drop thr +4 all spells wand and get a +5 cold and play ele weakness doedres undoing instead.

I played that shit on like a 10d budget on 2nd wind private league and I cleared everything with ease and all I had was like 75% crit.

Get the sacred flame sceptre if you’re gonna use a sceptre with only 100 spirit on it anyway, might as well get one to buff your damage.

Alternatively, get rid of cast on ailment and get a cheap rathpith instead of the sceptre or a +7 cold staff with some decent stats, again, this would be while using ele weaknes + doedres as your main skill.

With CoC the biggest thing is getting your crit to 96.4% when in hideout because Evocational Practicioner will give you the 100% needed. As for the amount of CoC procs it amounts to the damage of your Spark. So scaling damage with +skills, crit damage, ele damage, spell damage, all that stuff is useful. I will share my poe.ninja to show how mine is setup. My weapon set 2 is for farming crystals so ignore that. I am using Cast on Crit, Siphon Elements, and Blink for my main damage setup.