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Elemental Weakness Life Remnants Archmage Blood Mage (51% Crit Chance)

Blood Mage·WitchPatch 0.5.1·byPublic Ladder
Version 1·Updated Jun 10, 2026
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Run Gear Check

Passive Tree

118
Nodes
23
Notables
2
Keystones

Key Passives

Arcane IntensityNotable
3% increased Spell Damage per 100 maximum Mana
Mana
Grasping WoundsNotable
25% of Life Loss from Hits is prevented, then that much Life is lost over 4 seconds instead
Life
Careful AssassinNotable
-20% reduced Critical Damage Bonus
50% increased Critical Hit Chance
Critical
Impending DoomNotable
-40% faster Curse Activation
Your Curses have 20% increased Magnitudes if 50% of Curse Duration expired
Curse
SanguimancyNotable
life remnants gain per globe: 1
Skills gain a Base Life Cost equal to Base Mana Cost
Life
Practiced SignsNotable
6% increased Cast Speed
Speed
Zone of ControlNotable
20% increased Area of Effect of Curses
10% increased Curse Magnitudes
Enemies you Curse are Hindered, with 15% reduced Movement Speed
AreaCurseMovement Speed
Thin IceNotable
50% increased Damage with Hits against Frozen Enemies
20% increased Freeze Buildup
DamageColdAilment

Effect Profile

EffectStats
Attribute
PassiveCountTotal
  • to any Attribute43+215
  • to Intelligence2+20
  • to Strength1+10
Critical
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased Critical Hit Chance for Spells8108%
  • increased Critical Damage Bonus8175%
  • increased Critical Hit Chance7135%
  • increased Critical Spell Damage Bonus460%
Life
PassiveCountTotal
  • on Hitting an Enemy while a Life Flask is at full Charges, # % of its Charges are consumed Gain {#}% of damage as Physical damage for {#} seconds per Charge consumed this way35041%
  • increased maximum Life26%
  • gain # Life Flask Charge per # % Life spent11%
  • gain additional maximum Life equal to # % of the Item Energy Shield on Equipped Body Armour1100%
Spell Damage
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased Spell Damage9116%
  • reduced Spell Area Damage1-10%
Curse
PassiveCountTotal
  • faster Curse Activation4-70%
  • increased Curse Magnitudes419%
  • your Curses have # % increased Magnitudes if # % of Curse Duration expired120%
Mana
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased Mana Regeneration Rate330%
  • increased Mana Cost of Skills1-10%
  • increased maximum Mana18%
  • increased Spell Damage per # maximum Mana13%
Jewel
PassiveCountTotal
  • [Jewel] Socket60
Area
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased Area of Effect of Curses450%

Gear

Weapon 1

Pain Branch

Dueling Wand

Item Level 81
Rare
Properties
Quality20
SocketsS
Requirements
Level78
Rune
  • +1 to Level of all Spell Skills
Bonded
  • Bonded: Archon recovery period expires 30% faster
Desecrated
  • 51% increased Critical Hit Chance for Spells
Explicit
  • +5 to Level of all Lightning Spell Skills
  • Gain 28% of Damage as Extra Fire Damage
  • 111% increased Spell Damage
Crafted
  • +175 to maximum Mana
  • +1 to Level of all Spell Skills
  • 44% increased Cast Speed
  • Gain 13% of Elemental Damage as Extra Cold Damage
Weapon 2 / Offhand

Rathpith Globe

Sacred Focus

Item Level 80
Unique
Properties
Energy Shield190
Quality20
SocketsS S
Requirements
Level75
Rune
  • +40 to maximum Mana
  • 40% increased Area of Effect of Curses
Bonded
  • Bonded: +20 to maximum Life
  • Bonded: +20 to maximum Mana
  • Bonded: 15% faster Curse Activation
Explicit
  • 95% increased Energy Shield
  • +60 to maximum Life
  • Non-Channelling Spells have 3% increased Critical Hit Chance per 100 maximum Life
  • Non-Channelling Spells have 3% increased Magnitude of Ailments per 100 maximum Life
  • Non-Channelling Spells deal 6% increased Damage per 100 maximum Mana
  • Corrupted
Weapon 1 Swap

Dragon Knell

Stoic Sceptre

Item Level 80
Rare
Properties
Quality0
Spirit122
Requirements
Level78
Explicit
  • 22% increased Spirit
  • +70 to maximum Mana
  • Allies in your Presence have 25% increased Critical Damage Bonus
  • Allies in your Presence have +11% to all Elemental Resistances
  • +2 to Level of all Minion Skills
Weapon 2 Swap / Offhand

Nocturne

Wooden Buckler

Item Level 79
Unique
Properties
Evasion18
Block20
Quality0
SocketsS S
Requirements
Level30
Enchant
  • 12 Mana gained when you Block
Rune
  • +80 to maximum Mana
Bonded
  • Bonded: +40 to maximum Life
  • Bonded: +40 to maximum Mana
Explicit
  • +70 to maximum Mana
  • +14% to all Elemental Resistances
  • 20% increased Accuracy Rating
  • Parried enemies take more Spell Damage instead of more Attack Damage
  • 100% increased Parried Debuff Duration
  • Corrupted
Helmet

The Vertex

Tribal Mask

Item Level 80
Unique
Properties
Energy Shield36
Evasion104
Quality20
SocketsS
Requirements
Level50
Enchant
  • +67 to Accuracy Rating
Rune
  • 15% increased Cost Efficiency
Bonded
  • Bonded: Meta Skills have 15% increased Reservation Efficiency
Explicit
  • Has no Attribute Requirements
  • 23% increased Critical Hit Chance
  • +16% to Chaos Resistance
  • Equipment has no Attribute Requirements
  • +5 to Level of all Curse Skills
  • Corrupted
Body Armour

Atziri's Splendour

Sacrificial Regalia

Item Level 76
Unique
Properties
Armour328
Energy Shield731
Evasion298
Movement Speed-3%
Quality20
SocketsS S S S S S
Requirements
Level65
Enchant
  • 44% increased Thorns damage
Rune
  • 18% increased maximum Mana
Implicit
  • +1 to Level of all Corrupted Skill Gems
Explicit
  • Only Soul Cores can be Socketed in this item
  • This item gains bonuses from Socketed Soul Cores as though it was also a Helmet
  • 283% increased Energy Shield
  • +10% to all Elemental Resistances
  • Skills from Corrupted Gems have 50% of Mana Costs Converted to Life Costs
  • +83 to maximum Energy Shield
  • Corrupted
Gloves

Golem Paw

Vaal Gloves

Item Level 81
Rare
Properties
Energy Shield238
Quality20
SocketsS S
Requirements
Level75
Rune
  • 40% increased Life Cost Efficiency
  • 80% increased Glory generation
Bonded
  • Bonded: Banner Skills have 32% increased Aura Magnitudes
Desecrated
  • +54 to maximum Energy Shield
Explicit
  • +39% to Fire Resistance
  • 89% increased Energy Shield
  • +106 to maximum Mana
  • +37% to Cold Resistance
Crafted
  • 60% increased effect of Socketed Augment Items
Boots

Skull Trail

Sekhema Sandals

Item Level 82
Rare
Properties
Energy Shield301
Quality20
SocketsS
Requirements
Level80
Rune
  • 20% increased Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield
Bonded
  • Bonded: +20 to maximum Life
  • Bonded: +20 to maximum Mana
Desecrated
  • 35% increased Movement Speed
  • +41 to maximum Energy Shield
  • 82% increased Energy Shield
  • +31 to Intelligence
  • +29% to Fire Resistance
  • +44% to Lightning Resistance
Explicit
  • Corrupted
Belt

Mageblood

Utility Belt

Item Level 80
Unique
Properties
Charm Slots2
Requirements
Level55
Implicit
  • Has 2 Charm Slots
  • 20% of Flask Recovery applied Instantly
Explicit
  • Legacy of Silver
  • Legacy of Amethyst
  • Legacy of Topaz
  • Legacy of Sapphire
  • All Mage's Legacies have 39% increased effect per duplicate Mage's Legacy you have
Amulet

Fate Scarab

Solar Amulet

Item Level 81
Rare
Requirements
Level30
Enchant
  • Allocates Invigorating Grandeur
Desecrated
  • 22% increased Critical Damage Bonus
Implicit
  • +11 to Spirit
Explicit
  • +50 to Spirit
  • +80 to maximum Life
  • +4 to Level of all Spell Skills
  • +35% to Fire Resistance
Crafted
  • 28% increased Global Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield
Ring 1

Brimstone Eye

Topaz Ring

Item Level 80
Rare
Requirements
Level16
Implicit
  • +22% to Lightning Resistance
Explicit
  • +73 to maximum Life
  • +212 to maximum Mana
  • 23% increased Cast Speed
  • +18 to Intelligence
  • +12% to all Elemental Resistances
Crafted
  • 7% increased maximum Mana
Ring 2

Loath Knuckle

Amethyst Ring

Item Level 79
Rare
Requirements
Level20
Desecrated
  • +17% to Cold and Chaos Resistances
Implicit
  • +12% to Chaos Resistance
Explicit
  • 23% increased Cold Damage
  • +213 to maximum Mana
  • 22% increased Cast Speed
  • +13% to Cold Resistance
Crafted
  • 6% increased maximum Mana
Charm 1

The Fall of the Axe

Silver Charm

Item Level 79
Unique
Properties
Charges Max40
Charges Per Use20
Duration30
Quality7
Requirements
Level10
Implicit
  • Used when you are affected by a Slow
Explicit
  • Grants Onslaught during effect
  • Corrupted
Charm 2

Raindancer's Thawing Charm of the Endless

Item Level 80
Magic
Properties
Quality8
Requirements
Level12
Implicit
  • Used when you become Frozen
Explicit
  • Recover 297 Mana when Used
  • 46% increased Charges gained
  • Corrupted
Charm 3

Rite of Passage

Golden Charm

Item Level 72
Unique
Properties
Charges Max80
Charges Per Use80
Duration10
Quality0
Requirements
Level50
Implicit
  • Used when you kill a Rare or Unique enemy
Explicit
  • Possessed by Spirit Of The Stag for 19 seconds on use
Life Flask

Effervescent Ultimate Life Flask of the Doctor

Item Level 80
Magic
Properties
Quality20
Requirements
Level60
Implicit
  • 24% of Recovery applied Instantly
  • 27% Chance to gain a Charge when you kill an enemy
Mana Flask

Catalysed Ultimate Mana Flask of the Perpetual

Item Level 81
Magic
Properties
Quality20
Requirements
Level60
Implicit
  • 67% increased Recovery rate
  • 61% increased Charges gained

Skills & Gems

Elemental Weakness(Lv19)5 gems

Curse all targets in an area after a short delay, lowering their Elemental Resistances.

Curse radius is 1.5 metres
Curse inflicts -40% to Elemental Resistances
Curse duration is 6 seconds
Curse does not apply to enemies above level 20
Doedres UndoingSupports Curse Skills. Supported Skills create an area which Curses Enemies within it, and spawns Witchtoads in that area. Witchtoads leap at eneimes that get close, and seek out Cursed enemies with higher aggression. Dark Consequences will be Triggered when they hit enemies with their leap, violently exploding the Witchtoad.Lv1
Atalui BloodlettingSupports 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.Lv1
Tuls StillnessSupports Skills that can cause Damaging Hits, granting extra Chaos damage and causing Chaos damage to Contribute to Freeze Buildup.Lv1
Impending DoomSupports Curse skills you cast yourself, causing them to trigger Doom Blast on Cursed enemies when the Curse expires.Lv1
Spell CascadeSupports Cascadable Spells, causing them to Cascade to either side of the target area, along a randomly chosen axis.Lv1
Soul Offering(Lv20)4 gems

Skewer 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 is itself a Minion. If it dies, the effect ends immediately.

Buff grants you 20% increased Spell damage
Kulemaks DominionSupports Offering Skills, causing your Cascadable Spells to Cascade to the locations of Supported Offerings.Lv1
LifetapSupports any Skill, turning its Mana cost into a Life cost. Does not support Skills which reserve Spirit.Lv1
Danse MacabreSupports Offering Skills. Supported Skills have increased Buff effect and deal more damage, but will target an additional skeletal Minion when cast. If there is not an additional skeletal Minion to target, no damage or Buff effect will be granted.Lv1
PersistenceSupports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.Lv1
Life Remnants(Lv20)3 gems

Drink the blood of your enemies to restore your Life. While active, enemies you kill have a chance to spawn a Life Remnant, and Hitting a target spawns a Life Remnant every few seconds. Picking up a Life Remnant grants you Life which can Overflow maximum Life.

Each Remnant grants 11 Life
DissipateSupports Skills which create Remnants, allowing those Remnants to be collected from further away.Lv1
InterludeSupports Skills which create Remnants, making those Remnants more powerful.Lv1
Khatals RejuvenationSupports Skills that generate Remnants. Picking up Remnants from Supported Skills grants Khatal's Rejuvenation.Lv1
Parry(Lv1)2 gems

Ready your Buckler to parry the next Hit you would take, Blocking the Hit and retaliating with a quick sweep that leaves enemies off balance, causing them to take massively increased Attack damage for a short duration. Parrying causes you to accumulate Heavy Stun buildup. You cannot Evade a Hit you could parry, but Evasion instead grants an equal chance to avoid this Heavy Stun buildup.

Zerphis LegacySupports Attacks and Warcries you use yourself. Supported Skills gain a Glory requirement, and build Glory when you spend Life on Skills. Supported Skills deal more damage and have significantly increased area of effect.Lv1
Martial TempoSupports Attacks, causing them to Attack faster.Lv1
Mana Remnants(Lv19)2 gems

Conjure surging arcane energy to restore your Mana. While active, enemies you kill affected by Elemental Ailments have a chance to spawn a Mana Remnant, and Critically Hitting a target with Elemental Ailments spawns a Mana Remnant every few seconds. Picking up a Mana Remnant grants you Mana which can Overflow maximum Mana.

Each Remnant grants 28 Mana
InterludeSupports Skills which create Remnants, making those Remnants more powerful.Lv1
DissipateSupports Skills which create Remnants, allowing those Remnants to be collected from further away.Lv1
Archmage(Lv19)2 gems

While active, causes your Non-Channelling Spells to cost additional mana and deal extra Lightning damage, both based on your maximum Mana.

Non-Channelling Spells cost an additional 8% of your maximum Mana
Lightning MasterySupports Lightning skills, granting them an additional level. Does not support skills which do not have levels.Lv1
Uhtreds OmenSupports Skills which can gain levels, granting them additional levels provided exactly one other support is used with the supported Skill. Does not support skills which do not have levels.Lv1
Spellslinger(Lv18)1 gem

While active, gains Energy when you cast Spells. Using the Invocation once sufficient Energy is gathered will consume the Energy to trigger socketed Spells, and can trigger them multiple times if it has enough Energy.

VitalitySupports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain Life Regeneration while the Skill is active.Lv1
Skeletal Cleric(Lv19)1 gem

Activate to summon Reviving Skeletal Clerics that heal other minions and revive fallen Skeletons.

Tecrods RevengeSupports Skills that create Persistent Minions, causing those Minions to fight on when they are fatally wounded, dying after a duration. Minions from Supported Skills gain Soul Eater and a burst of speed on entering this state.Lv1
Discipline(Lv18)No supports

Emit an Aura that grants you and Allies in your Presence additional Total Energy Shield.

Aura grants +18 to Total Maximum Energy Shield

No support gems detected for this skill.

Life Remnants(Lv1)No supports

Drink the blood of your enemies to restore your Life. While active, enemies you kill have a chance to spawn a Life Remnant, and Hitting a target spawns a Life Remnant every few seconds. Picking up a Life Remnant grants you Life which can Overflow maximum Life.

Each Remnant grants 11 Life

No support gems detected for this skill.

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