Need help on my bleed spear ES/EV amazon

Hey everyone, this is the first time I actually go ahead and try to make a build.

Could anyone who has knowledge in spear archetypes take a look into it and tell me what they think? Does my build make sense? Is it doable? The goal is not to be meta but to be solid while satisfying personal gameplay criteria.

Here’s the plan:
- spear bleed build
- ES/EV defense (I find life leech too shaky and I generally dislike it)
- bloodmark/spearfield/rake/disengage/bloodhunt for bosses and tough rares because I love that dynamic loop
- mainly spear throw/herald of blood (+spearfield/disengage if needed) for mapping, because I love mapping from a ranged distance. I don’t want spearfield to be my main mapping skill because it is too static
- Amazon ascendency to scale damage through accuracy and crit
- Focus on crit to scale the bleed, because amazon ascendency gives crit chance, and because a lot of bleed magnitude clusters are too far from ES/EV hybrid clusters.
- Despite the str/dex archetype, adding pure ES bases to benefit from subterfuge mask is demanding in int, so there is attribute pressure, which I manage through gear

Here’s the PoB : https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/o92zuv0o

Some lightning and chaos res are missing but only the helmet is socketed, so there is ample room to cap resists and/or boost ES, depending on gear acquisition.

Ideally I would even use a bow to map instead of spear throw, but that might be too complicated, not sure. Also high evasion + deflection might be more suited than ES/EV, I have no idea, deflection is very new to me.

Thanks for your attention!

Sorry to rain on your parade, you can look at my post history for detailed whines on my opinion at least of how bad bleed is currently.

Essentially I think it was a big mistake for bleed to be tied to hit damage, as it just leads you down the road of doing crit hit build as it's easier to scale bleed through increased hit damage and crit chance/crit damage than it is to do it through using bleed passives and bleed supports. The more you go down this road eventually you're just blowing up everything before it can even bleed anyway.

I tried a bleed ritualist and bleed spear blood mage this season. They both took comparatively longer to get through the campaign than any other builds I tried, and hit walls around level 85 in end game.

Don't see anything in your build that makes it stand out as much different than what I did, but if you make it work let me know please! Love bleed builds in other games, just think they're more or less really bad in the current POE2 game state.

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Skutz123#5377 wrote:

Sorry to rain on your parade, you can look at my post history for detailed whines on my opinion at least of how bad bleed is currently.

Essentially I think it was a big mistake for bleed to be tied to hit damage, as it just leads you down the road of doing crit hit build as it's easier to scale bleed through increased hit damage and crit chance/crit damage than it is to do it through using bleed passives and bleed supports. The more you go down this road eventually you're just blowing up everything before it can even bleed anyway.

I tried a bleed ritualist and bleed spear blood mage this season. They both took comparatively longer to get through the campaign than any other builds I tried, and hit walls around level 85 in end game.

Don't see anything in your build that makes it stand out as much different than what I did, but if you make it work let me know please! Love bleed builds in other games, just think they're more or less really bad in the current POE2 game state.

I think I stumbled upon your post and agree with the general sentiment.
However I played a bleed ritualist to lv86 this season and it absolutely slaps. it’s just that it relies on lifesteal and maps in melee, both things I don’t personally feel confortable. The bossing however, holy molly is that a lot of damage, and you can actually see the bleed do its thing. here’s the build if you are curious : https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/68a66c8d-8b33-4430-8cef-da19376f41b8/builds/c9fbacdd-bff7-429d-8657-78ce32a3be66

The main problem I have with my own attempt is that spear throw absolutely sucks. You can socket whatever you want in there and the damage remains ass compared to actual spear skills.