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Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2)

PoE 2 0.3 Witch Build - Reaper Blood Mage

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This is a Reaper Blood Mage Witch endgame build that utilizes Reap, a new weapon skill introduced in Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2)'s The Third Edict Update. Check out the Reap build, including its gear, socketables, skills, and playstyle!

Reaper Blood Mage Build Summary

Mist's Reaper Blood Mage Build

This build showcase is brought to by Mist, crafted for the 0.3 Patch. Check out all of their detailed guides on Path of Exile 2 over at Mist's Youtube and Discord. You can also catch Mist and his community live on Twitch!

The video provides a comprehensive overview of the build, including an explanation of the skills, gear, and new additions made available in patch 0.3 that made this build possible.

Reaper Blood Mage Witch Build

Build Setup
Path of Exile 2 PoE 2 Reaper Blood Mage
Reaper Blood Mage
Life Remnants Icon Reap Icon Frost Bomb Icon Orb of Storms Icon Bonestorm Icon Vulnerability Icon Bone Cage Icon Cast on Critical Icon
Diablo 4 Build - Pro Very Easy to Execute

Diablo 4 Build - Pro Strong Burst Damage

Diablo 4 Build - Con Squishy Until You Get Plenty of Life

This Reap Blood Mage build is centered around the use of Reaping Staff, which is a new weapon introduced in Patch 0.3. This provides strong mapping capabilities, with the critical weakness debuff being a great bonus that can be utilized against tanky elites and bosses.

Date Changes
09-16-2025 Created Reaper Blood Mage build.

Reaper Blood Mage Equipment

Gear Modifiers
Reaping Staff IconReaping Staff
(Weapon Set 1)
・% Increased Spell Physical Damage
・+ Level of All Physical Skills
・% Increased Cast Speed
・% Increased Spell Damage per 100 Maximum LIfe
・% Increased Spell Damage
Gelid Staff IconGelid Staff
(Weapon Set 2)
・% + Level of All Spell Skills
・Gain % of Damage as Extra Cold Damage
・Gain % of Damage as Extra Lightning Damage
・% Increased Spell Damage
・% Increased Cast Damage
Pariah Mask IconPariah Mask
(Helm)
・Any Elemental Resistance
・% Increased Evasion and Energy Shield
・+ Maximum Life
Morior Invictus Grand Regalia IconMorior Invictus Grand Regalia
(Body Armor)
・% Increased Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield
・% Increase to 3 random stat per Socketed Rune or Soul Core
・+ Maximum Life per Socket Filled
・Hits Against You Have % Reduced Critical Damage Bonus per Socket Filled
・+ To All Elemental Resistances per Socket Filled
AtziriAtziri's Acuity Moulded Mitts
(Gloves)
・% Increased Armour
・% Increased Critical Hit Chance
・+ to Intelligence
・Leech from Critical Hits is Instant
Trampletoe Trimmed Greaves IconTrampletoe Trimmed Greaves
(Boots)
・+Maximum Life
・Any Elemental Resistance
・15% increased Movement Speed
・% increased Armour
・% increased Attribute Requirements
・Deal % of Overkill damage to enemies within 2 metres of the enemy killed
Gold Amulet IconGold Amulet
(Amulet)
・% Increased Spell Damage
・+ Level of All Spell Skills
・% Increased Critical Damage Bonus
・% Increased Global Defences
・Remnants Have % Increased Effect
Annointment: Cooked
・60% Increased Critical Damage Bonus
・25% Reduced Global Defences
Pearl Ring IconPearl Ring
(Ring 1)
・% Increased Cast Speed
・Remnants Have % Increased Effect
・+ Maximum Life
・Any Elemental Resistance
・Leech % of Physical Damage as Mana
Pearl Ring IconPearl Ring
(Ring 2)
・% Increased Cast Speed
・Evasion Rating
・Maximum Life
・Any Elemental Resistance
・Remnants Have % Increased Effect
Ultimate Life Flask IconUltimate Life Flask
(Life Flask)
・% Increased Amount Recovered
・% Chance To Gain a Charge When You Kill an Enemy
Transcendent Mana Flask IconTranscendent Mana Flask
(Mana Flask)
・Gain Charges per Second
・% Increase Amount Recovered

Weapons

Your main weapon will be the Two-Handed Reaping Staff, which grants the Reap skill. Prioritize leveling up all physical skills by seven levels, as this will determine whether you can one-shot mobs during mapping. Although the Reaping Staff is a physical-based weapon, Reap is still tagged as a spell, so try to increase your cast speed as well.

Lastly, the Reaping Staff boasts an excellent modifier that increases spell damage by a percentage for spells that cost life. This synergizes well with the Blood Mage mechanic of using life as a resource. However, keep in mind that acquiring one with this modifier can be expensive.

Our second staff will mainly be used for bossing and casting our two elemental spells: Frost Bomb and Orb of Storms. Make sure these skills are set to Weapon Set II so they can take full advantage of the staff.

List of Weapons

Armor and Accessories

For your armor and accessories, aim for a good balance of elemental resistances and maximum life for offense and defense.

The Morior Invictus Grand Regalia is unique body armor that grants more bonuses the more runes you socket into it. You can also use a Vaal Orb to corrupt the armor and add an additional socket. Try to get Break % Increased armor on your gloves as well, via corruption.

Lastly, try equipping accessories with the Remnants have % increased effect modifier, as this build relies on the Life Remnants Ascendancy skill to increase your maximum life.

List of Armors List of Accessories

Runes and Soul Cores

Equipment Sockets
Weapon
Armor

With Reap being purely physical, socket two Greater Iron Runes to your Reaping Staff for more damage.

Socket Fenumus' Rune of Spinning on your gloves for faster cast speed, and socket your body armor with Soul Core of Citaqualotl to boost all three elemental resistances. Fill any additional sockets on the rest of your gear with Greater Body Runes to increase your maximum life.

As an alternative option, you may use any of the three elemental runes on your helmet or boots if you encounter issues reaching the elemental resistance cap.

List of Runes List of Soul Cores

Belts and Charms

Belt Modifiers
Ingenuity Utility Belt IconIngenuity Utility Belt ・2 Charm slots
・20% of Flask Recovery applied Instantly
・% Increased Charm Charges Gained
・% increased bonuses gained from Equipped Left Ring
・% increased bonuses gained from Equipped Right Ring
Charm Options
Thawing CharmThawing Charm Silver CharmSilver Charm POE 2 Antidote CharmAntidote Charm

The Ingenuity utility belt is used to enhance the effects of your rings and increase your charm slots. It is important to ensure that the correct modifiers are on your rings to maximize the benefits of this belt.

Your charms will primarily be used to avoid being stunned or frozen, allowing you to maintain mobility during combat.

List of Belts List of Charms

Reaper Blood Mage Skills

All Active and Persistent Skills

Skill Support Gems
Reap IconReap
Bonestorm IconBonestorm
Bone Cage IconBone Cage
Cast on Critical IconCast on Critical
Orb of Storms IconOrb of Storms
Frost Bomb IconFrost Bomb
Vulnerability IconVulnerability
Life Remnants IconLife Remnants

In most mapping situations, Reap is our main damaging skill, capable of clearing hordes of enemies with a single cast. With Trampletoes equipped and Detonate Dead active, we can take out enemies outside of Reap's range.

The rest of our skills are primarily used for bossing and dealing with ranged enemies that are too risky to approach. Bone Cage is great for dealing with ranged targets, as it can deal decent damage from a distance, while Bonestorm can be used to quickly take down key targets provided that there is an opening to channel it to full.

List of Skills

Reaper Blood Mage Passive Tree

Passive Tree Progression

Ascendency Passive Nodes
Sanguimancy and Gore Spike
Passive Nodes
1. Raw Destruction and Jagged Shards 2. Potent Incantation and Sudden Escalation
3. Critical Exploit 4. Flow like Water and Moment of Truth mode:scaleFlow like Water and Moment of Truth
5. Deadly Force and Stylebender mode:scaleDeadly Force and Stylebender 6. Throatseeker and Heartstopping
7. Careful Assasin and Controlling Magic mode:scaleCareful Assasin and Controlling Magic 4. -
Screenshots taken from Path of Building

Our passive tree focuses purely on offense, stacking critical stats, which is something Blood Mages excel in. Abilities such as Critical Exploit and Throatseeker contribute to our critical chance and damage, setting the basis for explosive critical damage.

We will spend the rest of our points on passive abilities that increase spell damage and cast speed. These include Raw Destruction, Potent Incantation, and Flow Like Water.

Passive Skill Tree Guide and List of Passives

Jewels

Note: The modifiers listed are arranged according to priority.

Against the Darkness Time-Lost Diamond size:35x35Against the Darkness ・Small Passives in the Radius Also Grants X to Maximum Life
・ Notable Passives in the Radius Also Grants % of Damage as Extra Chaos Damage
From Nothing Diamond size:35x35 From Nothing ・Pasives in Radius of Chaos Inoculation can be Allocated
Pain Attunement
Heart of the Well size:35x35Heart of the Well ・% Increased Critical Spell Damage Bonus
・% of Damage Taken Recouped as Life
・Gain % of Damage as Extra Chaos Damage
・% Increased Cooldown Recovery Rate

Our build requires three unique diamond jewels: Against the Darkness, From Nothing, and Heart of the Well. These jewels increase our damage output via spell damage, life, increased criticals, as well as some extra chaos damage.

The most notable item is the From Nothing Diamond Jewel, which grants the passive ability Pain Attunement. Keeping our health pool low increases our critical damage by 30% with Pain Attunement, further increasing our DPS.

List of Jewels

Reaper Blood Mage Playstyle and Skill Rotation

Mobbing Rotation

Thanks to Trampletoes and Detonate Dead triggers when we use Reap, the setup makes mobbing an absolute breeze. The rotation is as follows:

  1. Cast Reap on the enemy mobs.
  2. Pick up the Llfe Remnants that spawn from the slain opponents.
  3. Proceed to the next pack and cast Reap as needed.

Bossing Rotation

Our full range of skills must be utilized when engaging in boss battles to ensure the most optimal damage output. The rotation is as follows:

  1. Cast Vulnerability to lower target's armor.
  2. Cast Orb of Storms for some damage.
  3. Cast Frost Bomb for damage, and to apply elemental exposure.
  4. Cast Bone Cage until you see an opening.
  5. Channel Bonestorm and cast when at maxmium charge.

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