Blood Mage Ball Lightning + Lightning Warp (all content viable)

Decided to sell my bleed build and try this thing out, turned out surprisingly well. Total price was ~60 divines. Tons of small upgrades left.

POB: Level 92 Hybrid Crit Ball Lightning Blood Mage [PoE 2]

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Video: Blood Mage Ball Lightning + Lightning Warp (all content viable)

Few things to clarify, I'm by no means good build maker and this is first season where I'm trying some stuff on my own. Also, I just bundled up clips and uploaded them, so quality is not the greatest.

Why not sparkle/arc? It's more fun and zoomy, plus chances of dying are way higher which just adds to "flicker at home" experience. It has no issues with any content, I'm sorry for not running harder maps but I didn't have well rolled delirious maps and couldn't bother searching them on market (figured 60% monster life lvl 80 w full abyss and boss is enough). I included invitation and t3 xesht as well. (I've never done invitation so I'm sorry for taking so much time figuring out what I'm supposed to do lmfao).

I've seen similar build from Anime Princess on Stormweaver but single target looked miserable, and piano compared to this. My rotations are not good or anything, yet everything just dies (but truthfully you can put any spell and probably get same or better performance on Blood Mage with Bloodletting lol).

Why mana and no blood magic? -> Bloodletting already fully converts mana costs to life and you can just use lifetap on everything else. Not only do you save some points, BUT you gain access to Zenith 2 and Archmage. You can skip Archmage if you want more ES on chest and just run CoC or whatever else you want. Can probably get some cool companions as well, I haven't looked too much into different setups. Make sure that Archmage is lowest possible level since you lose tiny bit of damage the higher it is.

Pros: Visual Clarity is nonexistent, it's very zoomy, can go through some terrain, extremely high damage, great survival.

Cons: 2 buttons build at minimum, VERY BAD in tight corners since balls just disappear and you can't warp to them (u can see it few times in video), needing to keep up your regen between packs can get annoying (although this is not just issue with this build, it's with every BM build that utilizes Tecrod + Bloodletting. You can see me dying early in the video because I had bazillion dots on me and forgot to keep up my regen).

There is plenty of "better" skills that are safer and higher damage, BUT out of everything I've ever played in POE2 this is by far most fun build (I just love flicker).

For bossing it's better to have projectiles as slow as possible but I really can't bother with gem swapping and stuff. (yes im aware I don't have critical exploit checked, I had to take it off for elemental equilibrium)