Blood Magic + Spell Totem + Aura = Death

I disagree. I think it's intentional. Don't try stupid things.

GGG only recently changed Blood Magic to keep the cries down, I'm pretty sure they were getting swamped with requests to resurrect characters or something after some idiot did purity+blood magic as a test.

hate to ressurect this thread, but i just ran into the same issue.

Im kinda torn here on the issue. On the one hand, you shouldnt be able to do everything at the same time. That makes building your character kind of pointless, since you're no different than if you had built another way.

On the other hand, i really like the idea of auras and blood magic pretty much makes that unviable (at least as a melee duelist). I wanted to get a bunch of regen, but vitality is obviously made with mana in mind, since the amount of regen per second is pretty abysmal in comparison to the life it reserves. So, i thought i'd attach it to a totem, completely ignorant to the fact that it takes 100% of my life to place it. So, it kinda sucks that i can't really mess with auras (except for flat reserves). It would be cool if we could place the totems with a flat cost that isnt 100% of our life. Still expensive, probably, but not so much that it isnt unviable or impossible

So in conclusion, it sucks that blood magic is almost completely cut off from % based auras, and totem spells would be a good way to allow us to use those. though i could be wrong, i dont have a whole lot of health, but 40% is 40%