Quitting Until Blood Mage Is Updated

I will be completely done playing this game until Blood Mage is buffed/reworked, in a meaningful way.

I'm so tired of these interviewers NEVER asking about what the hell is going on with Blood Mage.

Blood Mage is the largest reason I came to play this game and it's been bad since launch and being nearly completely ignored. Bone spells are a joke late game and that seems to be what they expected the class to use. Bone has no spam able spell aside from a channel, which does very little damage for the time it takes to a cast.

Why aren't there any blood spells? I seems tons of NPCs using them, why were these types of spells only considered for NPCs?

I get missing the mark, but also completely ignoring it for nearly 6 months as well, wtf?

This will probably be ignored, just like the class.

Later...

If you think Blood Mage is bad, imagine playing Acolyte of Chayula when there's literally zero chaos skills for melee.

I totally agree that Acolyte is in the same position. That's another ascendancy I'm very interested in playing but it's just flat worse then the other option, even after the nerfs. Replacing spirit is such an awful, awful downside.

They gutted spells too hard this patch, attack builds are king. There is only one viable BM build I know of which is rake and it's pretty bonkers.

When I play pugs and i see pure spellcaster I just have to kick them cause they will drag the group down. They cover the screen with crap and dont do much to the HP bars.

I have seen that build. So sad how you would have to build on 2 stats that you normally wouldn't for a caster class, in order to make it viable.