Blood mage isn't overpowered its just overpowered items and spells

It's not blood mage is just the skill itself. In my opinion in a 2-4 week grind the build should be at 90% peak what its capable of. A capable build usually does somewhere around 20-30mil dps this seems high to some but this is just how it is. This league both CoC and Poisonburst but probably many other builds capable of this ballpark dps. Looking at perspective of previous league. LA Deadeye did somewhere around this ballpark and any capable build. It's actually take a lot investment on the CoC part to reach around 10m comet. And if I would go for a nerf i would nerf the ceiling and not globally. It shouldnt cost like 20 mirrors to reach "nice damage" so we don't want to move up the goal post for late endgame. Just a ceiling nerf. Also this league added a few ridiclious mechanics that also enabled super overpowered build not to the fault of blood mage. Paired with a new vaal cultivated orb corruption on: Atrziri Splendours, Rathpit Globe AND Vertex for +4 skills this is just a recipe for game breaking damage buff. We've been here previous league too where Commander constrictor gave you like 150% increased damage insane AS etc.

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uramis5 months ago1

I'm not exactly sure. Due to how Crit scaling works. The 15% crit node ascendancy is Insane. The spell leech is so stupidly strong as well.

MixPlan5 months ago1

I think it's combination of many things, Mana being an issue for everyone and crit being the scaling every build need. I've tried to build storm/disciple just CoC comet with just mana and the problem is mana regen was just never enough even with arcane surge, mana leech and everything. I'm now running Disciple with Covenant and it is enough to sustain CoC + CoA with double comet. These things are what blood mage get from ascendancy with even more damage from 15% base crit.

SgtDoakes1235 months ago1

Problem is leech, it allows bloodmage to completely bypass the intended need to solve regen. Mana is 10x worse than life as a resource since 1. You have to solve regen 2. You cannot get enough Regen, ever, to not go OOM vs a boss using COC.

Leech makes it so that even if they 10x mob health, it doesn't matter for a bloodmage or someone using life as a resource, they'll just spam comets for longer. The crit node is insane, yes, but what enables the entire build is leech.