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

Thank you for explaining this so thoroughly.

admittedly, I'm a new player to POE, and am probably underestimating the importance of layered defenses.

funny for someone who plays a blood mage I guess.

I suppose that with certain knowledge of the bosses, a 50-55% slow down can be extremely powerful, and for map clears obviously this IS a strong build.
I should have kept the two scenarios separate, obviously.

one thing I can't stop thinking about is incorporating poison into this build. the synergy could be crazy good, did you maybe consider anything like that?

I do hope you keep updating this build, and will be following.
regardless of its strengths and weaknesses, this is easily one of the most interesting builds I've seen to date, and I've seen a lot.

also, your youtube channel should get some more exposure, it deserves it.

Yes poison would be amazing. The best thing I can think of is applying envenom onto chaos bolt. I do believe there is a combination of removing the time manipulation from amulet and covering up for the missed % with gem levels of temporal chains. Doing that allows you to anoint any passive notable on the skill tree including any big poison node. You would also want damaging ailments deal damage faster (These are on jewels). Because temp chains increases the duration on all ailments. The duration is so much longer than normal meaning its going to do every more damage due to that modifier.

I will continue to work on the build of course! If you have any questions concerns or want to theory craft ideas feel free to let me know!