I'm not sure how Blood Rage is supposed to work here.

Hey all,

I've been following Path of Exile Builds (from Youtube) Explosive Arrow Elementalist Build. I'm not seeing how Blood Rage works. It doesn't appear to trigger and I never see it casted on the example gameplay video. There's no room for it on the front eight key binds.

Am I expected to manually cast Blood Rage or does is somehow trigger in a way that I'm not seeing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N359Es-ZWfY&list=PLJPmnRlxoX1owzFFgUeekH0lMyin9XA81

The Youtube video.

https://www.poebuilds.net/builds/witch/explosive-arrow

Link to the Build.

Thanks for any feedback. If I'm supposed to cast it manually I'll have to figure out a way to easily cast it.

Note that the channel is associated with RMT and thus not considered to be reliable in their guides. I recommend looking for a different guide. Since Explosive Arrow is a popular build, you should have no difficulty in finding one.

Due to a longstanding bug, enemies dying from ailments and a couple of other DoT mechanics count as your kills instead, so casting Blood Rage once should keep refreshing it as you clear the map, even if your totems are the ones that cause the ignite that kills enemies.

So you will probably only have to cast it once.

From what I can tell, the majority of Explosive Arrow players do not seem to use Blood Rage at all however.