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Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2)

PoE 2 Witch Build - Spark Blood Mage

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This is a Spark Blood Mage build for the Witch in Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2)'s Dawn of the Hunt Update. Check out the Spark Blood Mage Witch build, including its gear, socketables, skills, and playstyle!

Spark Blood Mage Build Summary

Barricade's Spark Blood Mage Build

This endgame build is brewed and made possibly by Barricade. Check out all of their detailed guides on Path of Exile 2 and all things ARPG over at Barricade (Youtube)! Also, follow his Twitch and X accounts, as well as his Discord server for up-to-date information.

The video breaks down the build step-by-step, covering everything from skills, gear, and passives to fully enable the Blood Mage's proficiency with Critical Hits!

Spark Blood Mage Build

Build Setup
Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2) - Blood Mage Portrait Spark Blood Mage
Life Remnants Icon Spark Icon Orb of Storms Icon Blink Icon Cast on Critical Icon Convalescence Icon Lightning Bolt Icon
Path of Exile 2 Build Pro One-Button Playstyle

Path of Exile 2 Build Pro High Survivability and Mobility

Path of Exile 2 Build Con Item Reliant

This Spark Blood Mage build is designed to clear maps with great speed by covering the screen with critically-enhanced Spark and Lightning Bolts, all the while leeching Life from enemy hordes as a resource.

Date Changes Made
05/02/25 ・ Published the Spark Blood Mage build.

Build FAQs

Build FAQs

Why Not Take Blood Magic?

The Blood Magic Keystone passive is significantly far away from the Witch's starting point in the tree and would require a solid investment to get to. To make up for this, The build slots in the Mask of the Sanguimancer Face Mask, preserving more passive points in the process!

Spark Blood Mage Equipment

Equipment
Siphoning Wand Icon Weapon Mask of the Sanguimancer Face Mask Icon Helmet Hallowed Focus Icon Focus
Flowing Raiment Icon Body Armour
Atziri Gloves Heavy Belt Icon Belt Sandsworn Sandals Icon Boots
Ultimate Life Flask Icon Health Flask Sapphire Ring Icon Ring 1 Choir of the Storm Jade Amulet Icon Amulet Topaz Ring Icon Ring 2 Ultimate Mana Flask Icon Mana Flask

Weapons

Wand

It is recommended to equip the Siphoning Wand due to its innate Cold damage muliplier, a flat out boost to damage that provides elemental diversity. Prioritize getting modifiers that fully hone in on buffing your Lightning spells, such as additional levels and and increased Spell Damage.

Additionally, Intelligence is added as an auxiliary mod as it can increase your Lightning damage output with the Pure Power passive node. Lastly, get some Cast Speed for an increase to quality-of-life and a slight DPS boost.

List of All Wands

Focus

For the off-hand, get any Focus that has a higher base level and provides decent Energy Shield to receive better modifiers. Prioritize getting modifiers that further increase survivability such as Energy Shield and Elemental Resistances whilst getting Critical Hit Chance for and Damage for your Spells.

List of All Focus

Armor

Energy Shield Focused

Energy Shields will be the main focal point of this build's survivability, so aim to use Body Armour and Boots that solely provide a high base Energy Shield to work with and cap out on Elemental Resistances. Alongside that, stack as much Maximum Life as possible to increase the Blood Mage's offense and defense.

Energy Shield Explained

Mask of the Sanguimancer Face Mask

Seeing as the build did not take Blood Magic from the Passive Tree, the Mask of the Sanguimancer Face Mask makes up for it by granting the passive upon being equipped. Blood Magic essentially removes your mana, but all of your spells will instead use your Life for its mana cost.

Furthermore, it is also an essential piece to the build due to the high innate Spell critical hit chance, which pairs well with the Unique Gloves the build will equip.

Atziri's Aquity Moulded Mitts

Overall, most of the damage of this build comes from Spark hits multiple Criticals, meaning that the Atziri's Aquity Moulded Mitts ability to leech from Critical Hits will remain active at all times. This item combo will be a sustainable engine for your spell costs!

This build is centered around Critical Hits, so pairing these gloves with the Blood Mage's ascendancy passive, Vitality Siphon, will allow the consistent and high burst damage to tap your Exile's health out.

Accessories

Rings to Stack Damage Modifiers and Elemental Resistances

The Rings included in the build serve as an additional means to get more Maximum Life, percentage damage increases, as well as safety with Elemental Resistances.

Preferably, the build would want to equip high-quality Breach Rings to fully max out on the stats, but a budget version that provides enough Elemental Resistance is okay!

List of Rings

Choir of the Storm Jade Amulet

Easily enough, the Choir of the Storm Jade Amulet is a no-brainer inclusion, as the build centers around Critical Hits and Lightning Damage.

Alongside ignoring enemies' Lightning Resistances with Critical Hits, this amulet also triggers the Lightning Bolt skill on a Critical Hit for additional damage!

List of Amulets

Runes and Soul Cores

Equipment Sockets
Weapon
Armor

For the Wand, prioritize slotting in Greater Storm Runes as the damage multiplier to Lightning damage will increase the DPS of all spells at your disposal by a significant amount.

For the majority of the armor, slot in Greater Body Runes to have a flat +40 increase to your Maximum Life and slot in at least two Soul Core of Jiquanis for a massive percentage boost on your Maximum Life as this will be the build's primary resource to both fuel survivability and casting spells.

All Runes and Soul Cores
List of Runes List of Soul Cores

Jewels

Note: The modifiers listed are arranged according to priority.

Sapphire JewelSapphire ・% Increased Spell Damage
・% Increased Critical Hit Chance
・% Increased Cast Speed

For your jewels, focus on getting Sapphires to fully lean on spell damage modifiers. The best modifier you can get here would be the increased Spell Damage and Critical Hit Chance since most of your damage will be from Critical Hits dealt by Spells.

List of Jewels

Charms

POE 2 Thawing Charm Thawing Charm ・Increased Duration
・Increased Charges
・Gain Charges Per Second
POE 2 Staunching Charm Staunching Charm ・Increased Duration
・Increased Charges
・Gain Charges Per Second
POE 2 - Grounding Charm Grounding Charm ・Increased Duration
・Gains Charges per Second
・Increased Charges

Equip a Thawing Charm for general survivability against Freezes and while facing Count Geonor during Citadel runs. Secondly, you can get a Staunching Charm to negate any bleeds you may suffer while mapping.

Replace Thawing Charm with a Grounding as it helps negate both Jamanra, the Abomination and Doryani's Shock from their attacks.

List of All Charms

Spark Blood Mage Skills

※ The Support Gems' priority are arranged in a descending order. The first one being the most important and the last being the least crucial.

Skill Support Gems
Spark IconSpark
Lightning Bolt IconLightning Bolt
Life Remnants IconLife Remnants
Orb of Storms IconOrb of Storms
Cast on Critical IconCast on Critical
Arc IconArc
Blink IconBlink

The Spark Blood Mage build's foundation skill, as its namesake suggest is the Spark. It is then paired with Lightning Bolt, Orb of Storms, and Cast on Critical skills to massively increase its damage by doubling down on Lightning damage.

As for the supplementary skills, Life Remnants is another engine for survivability while Blink is the build's main mobility skill! The reasons for including the support gems here are indicated below:

  • Spark - While not increasing the base damage, the support gems makes the skill faster to deploy and cover more ground.
  • Lightning Bolt - Adds an additional burst damage to the build and increases damage dealt by increasing levels.
  • Life Remnants - Allows you to reliably gather the Life Orbs that drop.
  • Orb of Storms - Allows you to make use of your Mana Flask and increases its effective range.
  • Cast on Critical (Arc) - Allows you to actively cast Arc with each proc.
  • Blink - Adds an additional blink to use.

List of Skills

Spark Blood Mage Passive Tree

Passive Tree Progression

Ascendancy Tree
Blood Mage Ascendancy Group Nodes
Passive Nodes
1. Pure Energy and Critical Overload 2. Sudden Escalation and Breaking Point
3. Pure Power and Patient Barrier 4. Controlling Magic and Energise
5. Careful Assassin 6. Dynamism and Wild Storm
7. For the Jugular and Deadly Force 8. Throatseeker
9. Heartbreaking and Heartstopping 10. Breaking Point

Once Ascendancy has been achieved, focus on unlocking the Sanguimancy and Vitality Siphon to set the build's foundational engine. After that, path towards Gore Spike and Sunder the Flesh to massively boost your Blood Mage's Critical Hit capabilities.

The main offensive focus we want to get for our passive tree are nodes that will focus on Lightning Damage, Critical Hit Chance and Damage, Cast Speed, Energy, and Trigger Usage. When focusing on survivability, the build will stack as much Energy Shield as possible.

Passive Skill Tree Guide and List of Passives

Spark Blood Mage Playstyle

General Skill Rotation and Playstyle

Type Skill Rotation
General Rotation
Orb of Storms Icon Spark Icon

The build is designed around one-button playstyle for both mobbing and bossing, meaning its rotation and mindset will not deviate from its original purpose: to wreak havoc with Spark and Lightning Bolt. Generally, you will follow this playstyle:

  • Set Orb of Storms when there is a Rare Monster or you are facing a Boss.
  • Spam Spark until you inevitably hit Critical Hits.
  • Lightning Bolt and Cast on Critical will proc, both having the ability to critically hit as well.
  • Use Blink to dodge or reposition yourself.
  • Rinse and repeat

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1 Yetison23 days

Hey, love this build. I’m confused by your inclusion of ‘Arc’ as a support gem on the ‘Cast on Critical’ gem. Am I missing something here?

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