Blood Mage. Is anyone having a good time with it and going to stick with it?

Let's hear the answers.

I think this ascendancy is probably the worst one in the game initially, and probably pretty undertuned even later after you build it up.

Now that cast on crit is nerfed, I've been looking around for alternative builds and what little I can find doesn't seem very fun. I think its time to play a new class.

Leech still feels very weak after the bugfix, it only now compensates for the health lost from Sanguimancy. So basically only a solution to a problem created by the other ascendancy node.

I am reading the crit damage bonus based on health amount is currently doing nothing on the bug reports forums, but I don't have that yet so cannot test it myself.

That all said, my cold build feels terrible for clear speed now (bossing is still okay), but since a respec costs more gold than I have, I cannot try other elements or physical.

Very buggy class, and the cast on critical/ailment nerfs just solidified bloodmage as the worst in the game as far as I'm concerned.

Physical bone build might be possible (even with such few skills to choose from), but with no respec given after bricking our builds, I'll never find out. I don't want to reroll and spend 4 days grinding to get back to where I was (level 70), so I'm just playing other games for now.

PoE2 launched into early access about 6-12 months to soon, bugs of this caliber really ruin the experience. I say this owning 30~ early access titles on steam so I know what I was getting into, but hoo boy this class is an actual descendancy if anything.