This is a Bonestorm Blood Mage Witch build for Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2). Check out the Bonestorm Blood Mage build for the Witch Class, including its gear, skills, socketables, and playstyle!

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Bonestorm Blood Mage Build Summary

Nexevis's Bonestorm Blood Mage Witch

This Bonestorm Blood Mage Witch Build is based on nexevis's Blood Mage guide. The video includes a gameplay showcase plus more details about skills, passives, and gear. Check out and subscribe to more of nexevis's content on their Youtube and Twitch!

Bonestorm Blood Mage Witch Build

Build Setup
Crit Bonestorm Blood Mage Build
High Single Target Damage Good Against Bosses Lacks Quick AOE Clear For Mobs Channeling Bonestorm Makes You Vulnerable

This Crit Bonestorm Build delivers high single-target and burst damage, excelling against bosses, using the Bonestorm spell. This build focuses everything (passives and skill gems) into making Bonestorm deal as much damage as possible.

Once Ascendancy is achieved, the build leverages Blood Mage's critical damage and hit bonuses, with passives enabling armor break on crits.

Bonestorm Blood Mage Witch Setup

Equipment and Modifiers

Focus on gear with Increased Spell Damage, Critical Hit Chance, Critical Damage, Increased Physical Damage and + to Spell Levels to maximize Bonestorm's effectiveness. Grab Spirit with the amulet, and prioritize Intelligence and Energy Shield, with Life and Resistances for survivability.

Since Bonestorm deals Physical Damage, Physical Damage modifiers will boost its effectiveness. For charms and runes, equip whatever the challenge demands!

Bonestorm Blood Mage Witch Skills and Passive Tree

Active Skills

Skill	Support Gems
Bonestorm	Inevitable Critical Brutality Arcane Tempo
Power Siphon	Profusion Unleash
Blasphemy	Vulnerability
Bone Cage	LifeTap Lockdown
Life Remnants	Clarity Vitality

This build is all about maximizing Bonestorm damage, while other spells primarily serve to enhance it. Power Siphon generates power charges that when spent boost your damage, while Vulnerability and Blasphemy weaken the enemies nearby. Bone Cage can pin down swarming foes, giving you enough time to channel your Bonestorm for massive damage.

Passive Skill Tree

Ascendancy Tree
Ascendancy Group Node
Passive Nodes
1.	Raw Destruction	2.	Critical Overload
3.	Sudden Escalation	4.	Cut to the Bone
5.	Shredding Force	6.	Critical Exploit
7.	Crashing Wave	8.	Moment of Truth
9.	Stylebender True	10.	Overflowing Power
11.	Touch of the Arcane	12.	Power Within
13.	Immortal Infamy	14.	-

The passive tree for this Bonestorm build focuses on increasing Critical Hit Chance, Critical Damage, and Spell Damage. It also enhances Power Charge generation and usage. The selected passives ensure consistent critical hits and maximize burst damage, making each strike with your Bonestorm immensely powerful.

Begin on the left side of the tree by taking Raw Destruction, followed by Jagged Shards, Critical Overload, Sudden Escalation, Cut to the Bone, Blood Tearing, and finally Shredding Force to round out this section.

Next, move to the right side and progress through Critical Exploit, then Crashing Wave, Moment of Truth, Stylebender, For the Jugular, Deadly Force, and finish with True Strike in this area.

Return to the left side to pick up Mind over Matter, followed by Touch of the Arcane to complete the necessary nodes in this region.

Finally, go back to the right side and conclude with The Power Within, and Immortal Infamy to finalize the build.

Once you achieve the Blood Mage Ascendancy, take Sanguimancy first, then Gore Spike, followed by Vitality Siphon, and finish with Blood Barbs.

Bonestorm Blood Mage Witch Playstyle and Skill Rotation

Skill Rotation

The rotation of this build is centered around maximizing Bonestorm uptime for continuous damage. Keep your focus on casting Bonestorm as much as possible, while managing your other skills to support it.

1. Spam Bonestorm constantly.
2. Use Power Siphon on any additional enemies that spawn.
3. Activate Bone Cage if you're overwhelmed by mobs.
4. Life Remnants passively spawns on critical hits; pick up the remnants when they appear to recover some Life.
5. Stay within aura range near the boss to apply Vulnerability from Blasphemy.
6. Just keep spamming Bonestorm.

Path of Exile 2 Related Guides

List of All Builds

List of All Builds By Class

Mercenary	Monk	Witch
Sorceress	Warrior	Ranger

Witch Builds

Build	Focus
Minion Infernalist	Minions, Crowd Control, DoT
Bonestorm Blood Mage	High Single Target Damage
Demon Form Infernalist	Fast Clear, AoE

Witch Class and Ascendancy Guides

Base Class
Witch
Ascendancies
Infernalist	Blood Mage