Automatic Spell Machine Gun: CoC Curse BM

Hello Exiles,

Here is my Infinite Loop CoC Curse Blood Mage build.

For those who don’t know: a curse triggered by Cast on Crit using Doedre’s Undoing still generates CoC energy, even though it is triggered. I pushed both the energy gain and damage high enough for it to sustain the loop and another spell in the loop without needing Cast on Ailment (CoA) to trigger a secondary spell.

This also lets us freely choose:

  • the curse we use
  • the spell that triggers it
  • and the spell we put into the loop

I tested this on different wands with +cold, +chaos, and +all spell skills, and with almost every spell in the game. All of them work perfectly fine.
You can even run only the curse in the loop, and it will keep triggering itself until everything on the screen is dead.

How to make it work

1. Faster curse activation

You need faster curse activation speed (less curse activation delay).
I am currently at 99% (100% bricks the curse), and I highly recommend aiming for the same value because the faster it can trigger the faster the reaction gets

You can achieve this with:

  • the Impending Doom node on the tree
  • and/or Sapphire jewels, like I use.

I tested Windscream Feathered Sandals, but I couldn’t notice any difference between 99% and no delay.

2. Curse Area of Effect

The second requirement is curse AoE, because we want at least 4.7m radius so the Doedre’s zones overlap in the center.

You can achieve this with:

  • Zone of Control on the tree
  • and Sapphire jewels
  • any source of increased area of effect (for spell skills)

Gameplay videos

Comet Showcase (Citadel Boss):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAPGc6wjPu8

Full Temple Clear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM1Fh746bmg

Other Spells:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHRL4NulSZU

Pure Curse (on +cold gear, not +chaos lol):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM5Xz0isc0Q

There are so many spell and curse combinations you can run that I still haven’t tested them all.
Frost Darts is one of my favorites so far for mapping. It has much lower boss damage than Comet, but feels significantly faster and smoother for clear.

I can highly recommend trying this build if you’re a fellow Blood Mage connoisseur like me.

I would really appreciate any ideas for further improvements or spell/curse combinations you think I should try next. If there are any questions about the build feel free to ask!

Pob:

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/efirestorm10t-5527/character/eefiree

Comet Version Pob:

https://pobb.in/AtT0fbO0b4Ev

Comments

sps41•5 months ago•2

I have managed this with a really janky but very fun chaos-only setup. Same requirements as you state, and make it more annoying by adding that curse duration has to be <0.15s (achievable with the reduced skill duration and reduced curse duration on skill tree). Slot hexblast as the second skill and watch the void suck your enemies out of existence...

StayAdmiral•5 months ago•2

Lovely stuff.

quyle•5 months ago•2

Nice build, I just finished the infinite loop build on my Orwcle, damage wide might not as high as BM but after ran some maps, everything is working great.

Fine_Fishing7506•5 months ago•2

How much total Curse AoE % do you need just from jewels to hit the 4.7M target?

I am calculating the setup with a 141% magic jewel effect Adorned, and it looks like I need exactly 3 jewels with a 14 (not max 15) roll to hit 99% Faster Curse Activation. Wanted to check if I need AoE prefix on all 3 of them or if I can swap one for Spell Damage. A max roll of 12% on 3 jewels would total 84% +Curse AoE. In that example, would it be 84% x the tooltip amount in a level 21/ quality 23 gem or does the AoE size also scale with additional levels on gear?

SwarlesXavier•5 months ago•2

Good stuff! I'm actively trying to get back to doedres while keeping my comet tooltip as high as possible, may need to take a peek at those sapphires

hunglejungle333•5 months ago•1

Do you think a Pathfinder can run this?

Skaitavia•5 months ago•1

Since you do so much damage, you wouldn’t need boundless energy in coc, nor Evocational Practitioner cluster.

You could instead place Snap in in place of boundless energy, and that would cover all of the infusions you need for comet.

That would open up 30 spirit as you wouldn’t need siphon elements anymore, and you could opt to go for charge regulation instead.

The points you can get back from the Evocational Practitioner cluster plus a lot of crit chance nodes, you would make your way to Infusion of Power cluster. This makes it so you are always full on power charges with how often you use infusions for fire-infused comet.

Because of this, charge regulation’s crit chance more-multiplier will keep your crit chance easily capped. I’m at around 75% and get capped to 100% when I am in combat/with power charges.

This would allow you to unspec any crit chance nodes on your tree and instead allocate them for more crit damage bonus or more utility, thus overall improving your dps. Could also even opt to go for another jewel socket if you get enough nodes.

silversurfer022•5 months ago•1

Drop siphon elements, get 5 more spirit on amulet, swap diallas desire in CoC, numlock elemental invocation, and double your machine gun.

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raas1337•5 months ago•1

I'm running something similar, but I'm using it with temporal chain curse and arc in CoEA with Rakiata's Flow so I can sustain cost of coc via arc leeching 15k-50k life per second. https://youtu.be/n0Y2fOW6BPY?si=79EMBE95BihsJVtf I have done some upgrades and few changes to build and it's doing even more dps now, I will probably make new video during weekend as this is a bit outdated now. Here is my poe ninja, for arbiter or citadel bosses I'm swapping some supports in coc for concerted area as I can't reach overlap with my current setup but I will work on it over the weekend. https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/raasbepro-4999/character/raaslightspeecptnspock

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