Blood abilities for blood mage??

Was just thinking that the blood mage would feel more like a blood mage if it had some actual blood based abilities offered by the ascendancy.

There is already a blood elemental as an enemy in game. Let me summon that. Even something different, like a blood gollem, or even a blood mimic of myself that does something to either help regen health or run in and blow up on impact for example. Something like blood tether where it would do something while strands of blood or attached to you and do something if broken. Something similar to the herald of ash, call it herald of blood where it would increase blood damage. Something similar to infernal cry but have blood damage build up inside to do damage. There is already blood pools is game that im sure some of us have died to. Let me cast that, or the blood globuals. Maybe even a rain of blood ability, where you could summon a rain storm on building enough charges.

Not sure if others feel the same way. Just putting out ideas. Just hurts right out of the gate being forced to take a health penalty when other things could be in its place.

Making the Ascendacies interesting was clearly not part of the GGG vision.

"Exsanguinate" waiting room...

And now that we have a herald of blood we can't even use it with the BLOOD mage, so disheartening to start putting together a bleed based blood mage build, only to have it not be usable with spells.

I understand that herald of blood probably shouldn't be usable with all kinds of spells, but not being able to make use of physical spells with herald of blood is confusing and frustrating

"Exsanguinate" waiting room... +1

"Exsanguinate" waiting room... +2


I think it's the best skill in poe1