(0.1.1) POE 2 ✔ Blood Mage - Aspects Crimson Stasis - Enemies have no movement + Crit Chaos Bolt

The goal of the build is to stop everything around us from moving so we can basically juke everything or be able to freely walk through things as our enemies are frozen in a stasis. ALlowing us to freely stack contagion and essence drain on enemies who are also affected by our very powerful despair curse and max wither stacks. With chaos bolt melting bosses with crits and cast speed. Makes this build able to handle a lot of content with ease cause the monsters cant really fight back.

This will cost a pretty penny as stacking our temp chains will require stuff like corruption implicit's. But right now the market is kind of eh so if you have maybe 10-30 divines you can probably make the build work for later game content.


(For a stronger temp chains ~1-3% get +4 to all spell)











The value is up to how much damage you want to do and the current market on increased aura effect jewels. Good ones may cost multiple divines each.

Expedition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wkiq3BgdqU

Showcase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiBV5jd1_hE

Ultimatum Trialmaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-pBkJXSzg

Pros
- Infinite pack clear with Contagion + ED + Hexbloom
- Very forgiving when dashing around monsters due to temporal chains
- Overflow HP (x2 Maximum HP)
- Overflow Energy Shield (x2 Maximum Energy shield)
- 25% damage taken overtime
- 70%+ Despair making bosses a walking meat sack
- 100%+ Temporal Chains For normal enemies (~55% on uniques) making enemies easy to manipulate

Cons
- Can get stun locked rather easily
- Projectiles nail you
- Reduced curse effect on maps is a no go
- Slow resistant creatures can walk up to you
- Low DPS compared to other end game builds

Build Planner
https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/32be7fca-9331-4fbc-be2d-1d783f705c7b/builds/55ea4b89-3f74-4e34-ab1c-a972d6b51f48

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what about having another temp chains as a self cast? will it be multiplicative/additive to what blasphemy is doing?

Unfortunately, manual casting temp chains will no longer benefit from all of the increased aura effect which would be roughly 90% depending on how much investment you have.

Losing that massive increase means we will be losing roughly 90% effect of the curse

So currently lets say we have a 103% slow if we take the example of 90% effect which im assuming is multipled seperately from slow magnitude. Then we can say 103% is 190% of about 54%

Now we would also have to take in to affect that blasphemy also reduces the effect of curses as well as not being able to gain slow magnitude gem or heightened curses gem because you cant use the same gem in multiple slots unless gemling. If we take that in to a fact im pretty sure it would be less potent then the blasphemy. The reason this works so well is because its another multiple on top of out curses. In POE1 all the tree nodes say "Reduced effect of non curse auras" which Im taking advantage of in POE 2.

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Whats the math on this?

No math really I dont really go into the numbers of stuff like that its not needed. I build my builds from trial and error. If something feels wrong I search for ways to make it stronger. I'm an experienced POE 1 player with 5k hours of only custom builds. I myself have never looked at another build guide. So I tent to take my builds to the end game. So if something new comes along that makes the build broken I will be sure to notify.

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Are you using spell crit someplace? Why bloodmage?

Bloodmage has ascendancy spell crit that we can take advantage of. We use chaos bolt from our wand. As hexblast as of right now removes despair without gaining the bonus from its res shred. So we would of course want a withered wand to be able to cast chaos blast. Which will do mega crit damage and also freeze uniques and rares!

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If you did want to try this, wouldn't chronomancer for that free 20% aoe slow, and 6% increased slow work better?

Nope, and also thats not free. It costs points.... Which id rather have in the -25% damage and mega crit when my temp chains is already 100%. Adding this to chronomancer is just kinda redundant. Imagine if you were immune to a damage type and you still bought resistance for it. We dont need nor want the chonomancer slow.

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Unleash and conc effect on contagion. what would that do?

Unleash lets you apply contagion to multiple targets at once as poe 2's auto targeting system can make it target an enemy in the back making you pay a blood and mana cost for something you cant take advantage of. Unleash applies it to another enemy making it much more likely to allow the start of your essence drain to spread while everything is frozen around you. Also! Temporal chains increases the duration of all debuff on the enemy. So poison/chaos dot/bleed builds are much more stronger because the effects last much longer. You can even combo that with your ailments deal damage faster for mega profit. But thats not my playstyle someone else can loot into that.

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Why not hexblast?

Hexblast removes a curse to do its thing. We stack curses the last thing we want is for hexblast to remove our despair that costs us 500 life and 500 mana with inspiration on. Hex blast will also remove our temp chains. Would highly recommend going crit chaos bolt as you also dont need the aoe from hexblast and it also requires more investment to get feeling right... There are a lot of down sides to hexblast.

For single taarget in the build build crit damage on jewels and get inevitable critical with some cast speed and chaos bolt will be able to kill t16 lvl 81+ bosses. The unique moves as less than half speed so we can basically get double the damage and cast animations out. So we stand there and chaos bolt the bosses down freezing them in the process to make everything go even smoother.