The change Blood Magic needs for technical and Flavour reasons

That isn't act 5... That's all of Part 2 as a whole (acts 5-10).

Character Size currently doesn't have any mechanical gameplay effect.

Do you mean Character Size and Area of Effect? (and/or a modifier that says Area of Effect is Increased by Character Size - so Gruthkul's Pelt gets endgame use :O)

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adghar wrote:

Character Size currently doesn't have any mechanical gameplay effect.

Do you mean Character Size and Area of Effect? (and/or a modifier that says Area of Effect is Increased by Character Size - so Gruthkul's Pelt gets endgame use :O)

Well at first it was mainly an Aesthetic thing, only character model

But i dont see how it wouldnt be a good thing to apply this increase to weapon range as well

Your melee attacks cause bleeding
Increased damage against bleeding enemies +50%



And ofc more life in the nodes, like +30% more life.

Blood magic honestly needs something to boost it. Themeatically from other games, movies, and pop culture, blood magic has incredible power because of the sacrifice.

In PoE this wouldnt be a terrible mantra to follow. Since no auras can be used more powerful offensive skills or AoE shouldnt really be that outrageous of an addition. Perhaps inherent AoE size on the keystone itself and a node behind allowing for more damage multiplier(s) but at the expensive of greatly increased skill "mana" costs (i.e. The more you hurt yourself the more damage you do)

This actually reminds me of a silly idea I had for a Vaal Ancestral Chieftain gem!

Basically, was size increased by 300%, the dude has legs and can walk around and instead of using your weapon(s), he picks up his totem and runs around bludgeoning people to death with it...

On Topic:

Yeah... Blood Magic is in a bit of a sad state... Especially given that everything that BM does, can be achieved with the support gem and still leaves you with a mana pool to use to boot (Also, enables Low Life builds)

As far as BM goes though... If I were to add stuff, I'd love to put some regen there. I mean, you're using your health to attack with, so whack a chunk of regen there to sustain it. Like 5% or something silly.

Also, maybe change Mortal Conviction from 15% increased to 15% more. (CI gets a 15% more and gets basically only advantages from being taken. BM trashes an entire resource, doesn't make you immune to a damage type and only gets a measly 15% increased on the already known to be lower health pool?)

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TheAshmaker wrote:

Blood magic honestly needs something to boost it. Themeatically from other games, movies, and pop culture, blood magic has incredible power because of the sacrifice.

In PoE this wouldnt be a terrible mantra to follow. Since no auras can be used more powerful offensive skills or AoE shouldnt really be that outrageous of an addition. Perhaps inherent AoE size on the keystone itself and a node behind allowing for more damage multiplier(s) but at the expensive of greatly increased skill "mana" costs (i.e. The more you hurt yourself the more damage you do)

would not mind something like:

1% increased damage every 20-30 life missing / reserved

considering reserving life is suicide may aswell make them hit like a truck.


alternative replace mortal conviction -less reservation with a large increased effect of buffs on you, that way BL would be more about stacking few auras/buffs with essence worm but significantly more powerfull.

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caboom wrote:

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TheAshmaker wrote:

Blood magic honestly needs something to boost it. Themeatically from other games, movies, and pop culture, blood magic has incredible power because of the sacrifice.

In PoE this wouldnt be a terrible mantra to follow. Since no auras can be used more powerful offensive skills or AoE shouldnt really be that outrageous of an addition. Perhaps inherent AoE size on the keystone itself and a node behind allowing for more damage multiplier(s) but at the expensive of greatly increased skill "mana" costs (i.e. The more you hurt yourself the more damage you do)

would not mind something like:

1% increased damage every 20-30 life missing / reserved

considering reserving life is suicide may aswell make them hit like a truck.


alternative replace mortal conviction -less reservation with a large increased effect of buffs on you, that way BL would be more about stacking few auras/buffs with essence worm but significantly more powerfull.

There are very strong BM low-life builds that run like 12 auras. I'm all for some sort of Berserk mode where you deal more damage the more life you're missing, but it has to be missing, not reserved. There are actually many other ARPGs where you purposely lose life and maintain it that way to increase damage output and it's a great added mechanic (although not great in PoE's environment of 1 shots).

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Namcap wrote:

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caboom wrote:

would not mind something like:

1% increased damage every 20-30 life missing / reserved

considering reserving life is suicide may aswell make them hit like a truck.


alternative replace mortal conviction -less reservation with a large increased effect of buffs on you, that way BL would be more about stacking few auras/buffs with essence worm but significantly more powerfull.

There are very strong BM low-life builds that run like 12 auras. I'm all for some sort of Berserk mode where you deal more damage the more life you're missing, but it has to be missing, not reserved. There are actually many other ARPGs where you purposely lose life and maintain it that way to increase damage output and it's a great added mechanic (although not great in PoE's environment of 1 shots).

what kind of builds are we talking here? pure life builds or some low life ES that took BM? to be honest i dont see many guides so may be i miss it, but i find it hard to belive someone is running 12 auras on a pure life build, specialy considering they will be playing with 1500-2000 hp at most.