Bloodmage Ascendancy Overview

The Bloodmage Ascendancy is a master of life and energy manipulation. By stacking life and leveraging defenses, Bloodmages can significantly increase their offensive capabilities, creating powerful and durable builds. The synergy between life stacking and critical strike damage makes this Ascendancy a strong contender for potentially powerful endgame builds.

Bloodmage Nodes

Sanguimancy

The Bloodmage Ascendancy requires players to spend both life and mana to cast spells. However, this high cost is offset by the ability to recover life from slain enemies, who drop life remnants upon death.

Crimson Power

The Crimson Power notable allows players to use Energy Shield body armor to gain significant bonus life. However, this comes at the cost of losing access to Evasion or Armor from that specific piece of armor, forcing players to rely more on Energy Shield and Life for mitigation. Hybrid body armors that combine Energy Shield with Evasion or Armor can help mitigate this limitation at the cost of Hitpoints.

Vitality Siphon

Vitality Siphon grants 10% of spell damage as life leech, providing a reliable source of life recovery for Bloodmage spellcasters.

Gore Spike

The Gorespike notable offers a significant boost to critical strike damage for characters with high life pools. By leveraging this mechanic, players can create powerful builds that scale damage through increased life.

The Bloodmage Ascendancy is a powerful class that leverages life and energy manipulation to deal significant damage and sustain itself. By stacking life and leveraging defenses, Bloodmages can create powerful and durable builds.

Credits

Written by: Crouching_Tuna
Reviewed by: Tenkiei