[POE2 0.3] Bleeding Ritualist Beginner Friendly Build

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🩸 Build Overview

Playstyle: High mobility, bleed-focused melee with devastating combos.
Strengths: Great boss damage, fun skill progression, satisfying AoE clears.
Weaknesses: Mana hungry, requires life/mana leech gear, and can feel squishy if leech isn’t set up.

⚔️ Leveling Skills

Early Skills: Disengage (mobility + frenzy charges), Twister (blind + DoT hits), Whirling Slash (combo generator).
Bleed Core: Rake (Act 1-2), with aggravated bleeding when enemies move.
Power Boosts: Barrage (Act 2, frenzy scaling), Bloodhunt (Act 3, AoE finisher).

💎 Spirit Gems

Wind Dancer – Evasion + AoE knockback (aggravates bleed).
Herald of Blood – Explosions on bleed deaths for easy mob clear.
Combat Frenzy – Generates frenzy charges via pinning enemies.

🛠️ Support Gems

Core: Brutality, Momentum, Rapid Attacks, Prolonged Duration.
Key upgrades: Salvo (for Twister), Ancestral Call, Deep Cuts, Heavy Swing.

🌳 Passive Tree Pathing

Early: Damage nodes → Bleed/Incision clusters → Attack speed & one-handed damage.
Transition: From incision clusters to Pure Bleeding nodes.
Jewel tips:
Emerald → attack/spear damage, ailment duration
Sapphire → increased ailment magnitude

🔥 Ascendancy (Ritualist)

Blood Boil – Free bleed nova after kills.
Wildwood Persistence – Life recovery & survivability.
Utility nodes → Mystic Attunement (later until able to maintain mana).

🪓 Gear Priorities

Weapon: One-handed spear with flat + % physical damage.
Armour: Evasion/ES bases with a buckler shield.
Accessories: Rings/amulet with phys damage, leech.
Gloves: Wolf talisman socket → +10% bleed magnitude (corrupt for 2 sockets!)

🎯 Playstyle & Combos

Barrage → build twisters.
Whirling Slash ×3 → multiply tornadoes.
Drop Rake → stack bleeds.
Disengage → reposition + frenzy.
Bloodhunt → finish off elites & bosses.

💡 Boss tip: Keep moving, rotate Rake + Barrage for heavy bleeds, and finish in style with Bloodhunt.