To anyone thinking Bleed Ritualist is bad

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Jazzonl#6939 wrote:

I play bleed ritualist and i think it sucks.

Especially since bleed is mostly meele focust and with rake/bloodhunt you charge to the enemy and will get punched, while lightning spear player do big aoe clear on distance.

As long they don't change rake into a flickerstrike skill or give bleed build some better defence.

I can't recommand playing bleed.

sorry to hear it doesn't work out for you. it is a unique playstyle yes, but it is super fun imho and can be made to work. it just is the most difficult thing #1. you actually went for the most difficult playstyle there is, so try give yourself some slack. you might be doing way better than you realize :-)

if you wanna give it another shot, try the following:

Attack Speed helps with survivability big time.
And then it's actually rather simple in theory: do something, move away, do the next thing, go away. do never stand around for more than half a second. be always on the move, get in the flow. I'm sure you can enjoy that once you get the hang of it. it is super fun and unique!

gl hf!

edit: oh and, do not turn around. walk a circle around your enemies, and stick to the direction. if you turn around, you will walk back into their projectiles/aoe on ground and all that bad stuff.

keep dancing a circle of death =)

i'd like to drop another tipp. i keep forgetting bout that myself, must get used to use it more often myself.

if you put a bleed on a trash mob, add a Blood Mark while walking away. that basically turns that trash mob into a time bomb. your bleed will trigger the Blood Mark eventually. so just have him go boom when you're already fighting somewhere else!

some T12
pls note, there would be a lot more power in this build. i need to use rake, blood hunt and blood mark more often. i can't get in my zone when this game isn't that well optimized (yet?) and the recording eats up my fps on top of that.
also note, i do have WAY too low maxhealth. tried some T14 and some regular white trashmob do reliably oneshot me. i.e. if they have a 2h weapon, or lightning spells.

i am overperforming for my gear, i shouldn't be playing T12 with this little maxhealth. i don't even have my 3rd and 4th ascendancy for reasons, which would be a 3rd ring and +25% bonus from amulet and all 3 rings <-- a lot of stats missing!

bleed ritualist does not need to be buffed, or drastic changes to it. it's playstyle simply doesn't fit many ppl, and that is fine. everything else would just narrow build/playstyle diversity and thus, narrow down the targeted audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoXf2KOAK8k

some loot hauling cut out because nobody wants to see that :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKyGWJeBAco

bleed ritualist is freaking AWESOME. pls GGG do not make changes to it just so casuals stop complain.
thx in the name of every tryhard out there.
you guys are freaking AWESOME for even giving such a playstyle a chance, no other game that i can think of does have that. it's unique to PoE2! it's freaking great and super fun!


edit: i do only have 2 waystones with loads of modifiers, i do not waste those on a video. i need those for towers/nexus. i only have 13 exalteds rn, i also am not going to waste those for a video. thx


Keep dancing a circle of death. gl hf! <3

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Naztrey#9177 wrote:

i like it. hence i'm arguing to not have melee-dot (i.e. bleed ritualist) balanced around casuals. that (melee dot) entire playstyle is, from the very ground up, tryhard, and i love it. the entire idea of a melee character, that must survive via mobility because you are not able to kill stuff quickly, is tryhard. some folks even find that a dumb idea. i have been told so many times over the past few decades.


different ppl have different preferences, hence i try to advocate for flexibility, adjustability and diversity.

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HwtChirino#2462 wrote:

Bro, you're talking about T3-T5s like it's something challenging..

What?????


I'm playing SSF in T11s atm. What's your excuse? wtf

/played is 1 day & 10 hrs. You? We're playing different games.

what char you doing t11 ssf??. is it same toon of him?.