COC Bloodmage how to improve

Hello everybody,

I tried to play COC Comet because it looks fun (and kind of op) and now am at a point where I don't know what is best to improve.

I use EW with Doedre's for dmage and COC comet and arctic armour, the rest is just stuff i tried.

I know an Atziris Splendur with more ES is better, but 1-2k divs is sadly out of my Budget right now.
I have a Budget of about 400 divs atm.

Would be great if you had ideas for the most usefull next steps, but any Feedback is welcome.

Poeninja:

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/SchlongoMcNugget-6614/character/BloodThisMage

Comments

ewGERMz4 months ago1

missing items with cast speed which would improve your dmg by a decent bit.

PoE_Acronym_Bot4 months ago1

I noticed some Path of Exile keywords in this post:

  • CoC - Cast on Critical Strike (trigger mechanic, commonly used with Comet and other spells) (Wiki)
  • ES - Energy Shield (Wiki)

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UKTDN4 months ago1

You can check my build out for some improvements, it’s not the fastest with full 6 man temple but I can do them pretty easy no head hunter. I personally just use a staff and I like swinging reap for when I encounter those stupid mana donut mobs.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Ninjee-4892/character/MuthaSucka

ultimatemcspicy4 months ago1

+4 vertex

+6 staff

+3 amulet

As for the armour, youre probably better off getting a normal es chest and go to blood magic

zavorak_eth4 months ago1

Well, you're missing some +lvls from staff, amulet, and vertex. Those extra levels give you quite a bit of damage. If you do get another chest piece, try to get one with 50% converted to life and then get a heart of well diamond with the remaining 2% to fill the gap, so you're off mana completely.

You could benefit from better rings as well. You should try to get one with cold damage, cast speed, life and whatever else you can afford. If you get one good one you can copy it with kalandras touch. Also good idea to put cast speed in your gloves socket. You want to stack cast speed where you can. More casts/sec increases your dps output.

Your jewels could use some love too. You can divine the good ones for better rolls, especially the one with cold dmg, dbl crit chance and max es. I woukd concentrate on spell dmg, double cc or bonus and max es on jewels. Not sure what your crit chance is, but i run my bm at 100%.

I know amulets are very expensive, so I would leave that for last? Try to get one with cast speed when you do upgrade. I would start with a +4 vertex and a good ring with cast speed. A new staff if you can afford an upgrade to +6. I'm not sure if you're running spark or deodres ew most of the time, but most people choose one or the other. If you want to stick with wand then you probably want to get rathpit and mana stack, if you're going with ew, then better staff for sure and stack life. Try to get your life over 2k asap too.

Iamjustanthony has some good bm builds where you can get good ideas.

Odd-Tourist-49324 months ago1

I've found that staves are generally significantly cheaper to run than wand/focus.

Here's my 250div build featuring a 15div staff I bought about a week ago. https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/EndieEm-2037/character/EndieEm I only use EW despite the other skills still slotted from other versions of the build.

Amazing_Aide_29894 months ago1

You may not get a great one but you can get an okay atziri for 400 div. It’ll help a lot

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