Blood Magic still weak

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FunkyFritter wrote:

Make it reduce energy shield to zero

If you got 5-6L Shavs/Solaris BM node and the Mortal Conviction is already too strong. I do agree that it needs some attention but reducing ES to 0 would be too harsh. At worst it needs something like Acrobatics, meaning 50% less Energy Shield.

Currently it's really not possible to make a viable build with BM+MC without going low-life.

Let's say you managed to get 6K life somehow and you want to run 3 usual auras: 1 Purity, 1 Herald and Vitality. Let's assume you got Prism Guardian and 26% RM from the tree, in this case you will still lose around 1.7K life reducing your effective HP to 4.3K.

Well... You could have ran 4 auras and still have 4K life if you didn't go Blood Magic. Why would I waste a lot of passive nodes getting that much life and RM nodes from the tree, sacrificing a lot of Damage nodes while doing that and still be worse than a normal character?

I just don't see the point.

Currently BM+MC needs a slight nerf for ES based characters and a slight buff for Life based characters.