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PoE 2 0.4 Witch Build - Cast on Critical Blood Mage
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This is a Cast on Critical Blood Mage endgame build for Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2)'s The Last of the Druids Update. Check out the Cast on Critical Blood Mage endgame build, including its gear, socketables, skills, and playstyle!
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Cast on Critical Blood Mage Build Summary
FastAF's Cast on Critical Blood Mage Build
This Cast on Critical Blood Mage build was created by FastAF by Eravin over at FastAF (Youtube). The video showcases the full potential of the build, clearing maps with ease. Check out FastAF's YouTube channel for more Path of Exile 2 content and ask questions about the build!
Cast on Critical Blood Mage Build
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 Cast on Critical Blood Mage |
 Life Remnants 25% chance to spawn a Remnant on killing an enemy;Spawn a Remnant on Critically Hitting a target, no more than once every 2 seconds;Each Remnant grants X Life
 Frost Bomb Creates a pulsing Orb of Frost. Each pulse inflicts Cold Exposure on nearby Enemies. When the Orb's duration ends, it explodes, dealing Cold damage to surrounding Enemies.
 Spark Launches a spray of sparking projectiles that travel erratically along the ground until they hit an enemy or expire.
 Frost Wall Creates a Wall of Ice Crystals which holds back enemies. The Crystals explode if sufficiently damaged, orif pushed hard enough, damaging nearby enemies..
 Skeletal Cleric Summons Reviving Skeletal Clerics that heal other minions and revive fallen Skeletons.
 Soul Offering Impales a Skeleton on a bone spike, granting you a powerful Spell Damage Buff as long as the spike remains. Does not affect your minions. The bone spike itself is a Minion. If it dies, the effect ends immediately.
 Siphon Elements While active, has a chance to create an Infusion Remnant when you Freeze, Shock, or Ignite a target.
 Elemental Weakness Curse all targets in an area after a short delay, lowering their Elemental Resistances.
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 Extremely High DPS Performs Well Against Both Mobs and Bosses Very Easy to Play  Maxed-Out Setup Is Extremely Expensive |
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This build focuses on dealing critical damage to increase DPS for all skills and trigger the Cast on Critical gem, which activates Comet casts. Thanks to Elemental Infusions, the build can deal even more damage because the most damaging spells can be infused with elements.
| Date | Changes |
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| 01-08-2026 | Created Cast on Critical Blood Mage build for endgame. |
Cast on Critical Blood Mage Equipment
| Gear | Modifiers |
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 Gelid Staff Gelid Staff Stats:
Requirements: None (Weapon) |
・+ Level of All Spell Skills
・Incireased Critical Hit Chance for Spells ・Increased Spell Damage ・Increased Cast Speed ・Gain % of Damage as Extra Elemental Damage |
 Chiming Staff Chiming Staff Stats:
Requirements: Level - 25 Intelligence - 41 (Weapon Set II) |
・+ Level of All Spell Skills |
 Ancestral Tiara Ancestral Tiara Stats:
Energy Shield - 109 Requirements: Level - 80 Intelligence - 115 (Helm) |
・Elemental Resistance
・ Maximum Energy Shield ・ Maximum Life ・Increased Energy Shield |
 Sacrificial Regalia Sacrificial Regalia Stats:
Armor - 269 Evasion - 245 Energy Shield - 93 Requirements: Level - 65 Implicit : +1 to Level of All Corrupted Skill Gems (Body Armor) |
・% Elemental Resistance
・+ Level to All Corrupted Skill Gems ・Maximum Life ・% Increased Armor, Life and Energy Shield ・Spirit |
 Atziri's Acuity Moulded Mitts Atziri's Acuity Moulded Mitts Stats:
Armor - 68 Requirements: Level - 33 Strength - 42 Fixed Modifiers: ・ 80-100% increased Armour ・ 30-50% increased Critical Hit Chance ・ +20-30 to Intelligence ・ Leech from Critical Hits is instant (Gloves) |
>・80-100% increased Armour
・% increased Critical Hit Chance ・+ To Intelligence ・Leech from Critical Hits is instant |
 Shamanistic Leggings Shamanistic Leggings Stats:
Armor - 92 Energy Shield - 32 Requirements: Level - 59 Strength - 44 Intelligence - 44 (Boots) |
・Movement Speed
・Maximum Life ・% Increased Armor and Energy Shield |
 Lunar Amulet Lunar Amulet Requirements:
Level - 14 Implicit:+20-30 to maximum Energy Shield (Amulet) |
・+ Level of All Spell Skills
・Increased Spell Damage ・Intelligence ・Elemental Resistance ・%Increased Spell Damage While Full on Energy Shield |
 Seed of Cataclysm Lazuli Ring Seed of Cataclysm Lazuli Ring Requirements:
None Implicit:20-30 to maximum Mana Fixed Modifiers: ・ 30-50% increased Critical Hit Chance for Spells ・ 30-50% increased Critical Spell Damage Bonus ・ +13-17% to Chaos Resistance ・ 10% increased Mana Cost of Skills (Ring 1) |
・% increased Critical Hit Chance for Spells
・% increased Critical Spell Damage Bonus ・+% to Chaos Resistance ・10% increased Mana Cost of Skills |
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Seed of Cataclysm Lazuli Ring Seed of Cataclysm Lazuli Ring Requirements:
None Implicit:20-30 to maximum Mana Fixed Modifiers: ・ 30-50% increased Critical Hit Chance for Spells ・ 30-50% increased Critical Spell Damage Bonus ・ +13-17% to Chaos Resistance ・ 10% increased Mana Cost of Skills (Ring 2) |
・% increased Critical Hit Chance for Spells
・% increased Critical Spell Damage Bonus ・+% to Chaos Resistance ・10% increased Mana Cost of Skills |
 Olroth's Resolve Ultimate Life Flask Olroth's Resolve Ultimate Life Flask Stats:
Flask Type - Life Recovered Life - 920 Charge Per Use - 10 Total Charges - 75 Duration - 3 sec. (Life Flask) |
・Instant Recovery
・% increased Charges per use ・Excess Life Recovery added as Guard for 10 seconds |
Since we will be using the Blood Magic Keystone passive, we won't need a Mana Flask for this build.
Weapons
Prioritize getting a staff that provides levels to all of your spells, followed by increased critical chance. Criticals are essential to make this build function, so use the staff with the highest roll as your budget allows.
For your second weapon set, a Chiming Staff will be used solely to be used for the Sigil of Power buff before swapping back to your main weapon.
Armor and Accessories
The build utilizes Atziri's Acuity Gloves for instant life recovery from leech, as Life would also serve as our resource for casting spells. As such, it is imperative that we have multiple ways to instantly regain Life in order to have enough to be able to continuously cast spells without losing too much.
Two Seed of Cataclysm rings will be utilized for the massively increased critical chance for spells, which simultaneously boost our damage and survivability.
| List of Armors | List of Accessories |
Runes and Soul Cores
| Equipment | Sockets |
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| Armor |
Saqwal's Rune of the Sky will be utilized to increase all of the Elemental Damage dealt. For the other socket, a Greater Glacial Rune will be used, as Comet procs will be the most damaging skill in this kit.
For our armor sockets, we will be using any of the Elemental Runes to cap out our resistances. Since we will be focusing on other modifiers on our armor pieces, we can use elemental runes to reach the resistance cap.
| List of Runes | List of Soul Cores |
Belts and Charms
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 Headhunter Heavy Belt Headhunter Heavy Belt Requirements:
Level - 50 Implicit:1-2 Charm slots;20-30% increased Stun Threshold Fixed Modifiers: ・ +40-60 to maximum Life ・ +20-40 to Strength ・ +20-40 to Dexterity ・ When you Kill a Rare monster, you gain its Modifiers for 60 seconds |
・Charm Slots
・% Increased Stun Threshold ・Maximum Life ・+ To Strength ・+To Dexterity ・When you Kill a Rare monster, you gain its Modifiers for 20 seconds |
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| Charm Options | |||||
 The Fall of the Axe Silver Charm
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 Nascent Hope Thawing Charm
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 Rite of Passage Golden Charm
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We will be utilizing the Headhunter Heavy Belt for more life and stun threshold, as well as gaining rare monster modifiers when they are slain.
For our charms, we will be using The Fall of the Axe Silver Charm, Nascent Hope Thawing Charm, as well as the Rite of Passage Golden Charm. The first two of these charms will be used to prevent our mobility from being hindered, while the last charm will be utilized for increased loot rarity and for the offensive buff.
| List of Belts | List of Charms |
Cast on Critical Blood Mage Skills
All Active and Persistent Skills
| Skill | Support Gems |
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Sigil of Power Sigil of Power |
 Second Wind III Second Wind III Supports skills with cooldowns, giving them extra uses of that cooldown and causing them to restore Life on use. Cannot support instant or triggered skills, or modify the skills of minions.
 Prolonged Duration II Prolonged Duration II Supports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.
 Efficiency II Efficiency II Supports any skill, making it cost less to use. Cannot support skills which reserve Spirit.
 Magnified Area II Magnified Area II Supports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger at the cost of damage.
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Life Remnants Life Remnants 25% chance to spawn a Remnant on killing an enemy;Spawn a Remnant on Critically Hitting a target, no more than once every 2 seconds;Each Remnant grants X Life
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 Remnant Potency I Remnant Potency I Supports Skills that generate Remnants, making those Remnants to be more powerful.
 Harmonic Remnants II Harmonic Remnants II Supports Skills which create Remnants, allowing those Remnants to be collected from further away, with a chance to create an additional Remnant.
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 Cast on Critical Cast on Critical While active, gains energy when you Critically Hit enemies and triggers socketed spells on reaching maximum energy.
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 Ixchel's Torment Ixchel's Torment Supports Skills which Trigger other Skills. Skills Triggered by Supported Skills have their Damage, Area of Effect, and Projectile Speed randomly raised or lowered when Triggered, as well as recovering a random amount of their cost when Triggered.
 Comet Comet Calls down a mass of ice from the sky, dealing high damage at the targeted location. Targeting close to you will cause you to jump back as you cast.
 Boundless Energy II Boundless Energy II Supports Meta Skills. Supported Skills generate Energy significantly faster.
 Blindside Blindside Support Skills whoch can cause Damaging Hits. Supported Skills are more likely to Critically Hit Blinded Enemies, and deal more Damage with Critical Hits against Blinded Enemies, but cannot themselves inflict Blind.
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Frost Bomb Frost Bomb Creates a pulsing Orb of Frost. Each pulse inflicts Cold Exposure on nearby Enemies. When the Orb's duration ends, it explodes, dealing Cold damage to surrounding Enemies.
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Harmonic Remnants II Harmonic Remnants II Supports Skills which create Remnants, allowing those Remnants to be collected from further away, with a chance to create an additional Remnant.
 Short Fuse II Short Fuse II Supports Skills which Detonate after some amount of time has elapsed, massively shortening the time before Detonation at the cost of Damage.
Prolonged Duration II Prolonged Duration II Supports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.
 Cooldown Recovery II Cooldown Recovery II Supports skills with Cooldowns, increasing the rate at which those Cooldowns Recover. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
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Soul Offering Soul Offering Impales a Skeleton on a bone spike, granting you a powerful Spell Damage Buff as long as the spike remains. Does not affect your minions. The bone spike itself is a Minion. If it dies, the effect ends immediately.
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 Danse Macabre Danse Macabre Supports Offering Skills. Supported skills have increased Buff effect and deal more damage, but will target an additional Skeletal Minion when cast. If there is no additional Skeletal Minion to target, no damage or Buff effect will be granted.
Prolonged Duration II Prolonged Duration II Supports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.
 Minion Mastery Minion Mastery Supports Minion skills, granting them an additional level.
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Elemental Weakness Elemental Weakness Curse all targets in an area after a short delay, lowering their Elemental Resistances.
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 Cursed Ground Cursed Ground Supports Curse skills. supported skills no longer have an activation delay, instead creating areas which Curse enemies so long as they are within them.
Efficiency II Efficiency II Supports any skill, making it cost less to use. Cannot support skills which reserve Spirit.
Prolonged Duration II Prolonged Duration II Supports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.
Magnified Area II Magnified Area II Supports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger at the cost of damage.
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Spark Spark Launches a spray of sparking projectiles that travel erratically along the ground until they hit an enemy or expire.
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 Atalui's Bloodletting Atalui's Bloodletting Supports any Skill, turning a portion of its Mana cost into a Life cost. Does not support Skills which reserve Spirit. Supported Skills Gain a portion of their Life cost as extra Physical Damage.
 Esh's Radiance Esh's Radiance Supports Skills that can cause Damaging Hits, granting extra Chaos damage and causing Chaos damage to Contribute to Shock.
 Projectile Acceleration III Projectile Acceleration III Supports Projectile skills, making those projectiles travel faster, and causing increases and reductions to Projectile speed to also apply to Damage.
 Pierce III Pierce III Supports Projectile skills, making their Projectiles Pierce an unlimited number of enemies, losing damage as they do so.
 Rakiata's Flow Rakiata's Flow Supports Skills that can cause Damaging Hits, causing those Hits to treat Enemy Elemental Resistances as inverted.
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Skeletal Cleric Skeletal Cleric Summons Reviving Skeletal Clerics that heal other minions and revive fallen Skeletons.
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 Meat Shield II Meat Shield II Supports skills which create Minions, granting them less damage taken but making them deal less damage.
Minion Mastery Minion Mastery Supports Minion skills, granting them an additional level.
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Siphon Elements Siphon Elements While active, has a chance to create an Infusion Remnant when you Freeze, Shock, or Ignite a target.
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Harmonic Remnants II Harmonic Remnants II Supports Skills which create Remnants, allowing those Remnants to be collected from further away, with a chance to create an additional Remnant.
Remnant Potency III Remnant Potency III Supports Skills which create Remnants, making those Remnants more powerful, but delaying their effect.
 Fire Mastery Fire Mastery Supports Fire skills, granting them an additional level.
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We will be using Spark to generate Infusions as well as Critical Damage Triggers, so we are getting Pierce and Projectile Acceleration to hit as many targets as possible in the shortest amount of time.
As most skills will rely on multiple infusions, we will be getting Harmonic Remnants to pick them up from further away, making runs more seamless as we do not have to get too close to slain enemies to pick up remnants.
Cast on Critical Blood Mage Passive Tree
Passive Tree Progression
| Ascendency Passive Nodes | |||
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| Screenshots and Footage taken from Path of Building | |||
※ Legend: Red = Weapon Set I Green = Weapon Set 2
The build revolves around elemental spells to deal damage in conjunction with criticals, so we will be taking nodes such as Glaciation, Evocational Practitioner, and Exposed to the Storm.
A key thing to note is that we will be getting Blood Magic, which uses Life as a resource in place of mana in order to cast spells. This makes the build reliant on Life as a resource, so we will be taking the Ascendancy passives, such as Vitality Siphon, Grasping Wounds, and Crimson Power, in order to increase life and sustain.
Passive Skill Tree Guide and List of Passives
Jewels
Note: The modifiers listed are arranged according to priority.
 Sapphire |
・Incrased Magnitude of Damaging Ailments You Inflict With Critical Hits
・Increased Magnitude of Ailments You Inflict ・Triggered Spells deal increased % Damage ・Cast Speed ・Spell Damage ・Critical Damage Bonus |
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While we do not utilize any expensive, unique gems, we will be getting a total of seven Sapphires with modifiers that directly benefit our build. While it may be expensive to get all seven sapphires with the exact rolls that we want, it's well worth the cost as it increases our damage a lot.
Cast on Critical Blood Mage Playstyle and Skill Rotation
Mobbing Rotation
Our mobbing rotation is fairly simple, as it only requires us to cast Spark to clear maps. The Spark projectiles travel fast and deal good DPS, while occasionally triggering comets, which is more than enough for normal mobs. The rotation is as follows:
- Cast Spark to trigger Comet casts.
- Rinse and Repeat.
Bossing Rotation
For bosses, we will be utilizing the entirety of our kit and use buffs and debuffs to quickly burst bosses or tanky elites down. The rotation is as follows:
- Cast Sigil of Power for the buff.
- Cast Frost Bomb to lower target elemental resistance.
- Cast Elemental Weakness to further lower elemental resistance.
- Cast Frost Wall to where the target is preparation for your next spell.
- Cast Spark to deal damage to your target, triggering Comet casts on critical and causing your Frost Walls to explode.
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