Blood Mage and Open Sores
Blood Mage has a node called Open Sores that makes curses have infinite duration. As far as I can tell, right now there is literally ZERO value in having an infinite duration of a curse.
So I am wondering what could possibly be the plan in the devs minds in this regard. I mean I'd love to use the Shackles of the Wretched to curse myself in order to use the Warding Fetish passive node to have increased damage per curse on me but this method only allows 1-3 curses with gear investment. 4 if I were a lich. But the whole point is to use a Blood Mage to have infinite curse duration and hopefully have a permanent damage boost from Warding Fetish. For the investment and using the Shackle gloves it isn't even remotely worth it. But then they released the Soul Mantle chestpiece... Which claims, when a totem of yours dies you are inflicted with a random curse, ignoring curse limit. Which I originally thought, YES this is exactly what I needed. HOWEVER, the Blood Mages Open Sores passive does not affect these curses at all. Probably because I am not physically casting the curse, but what is worse is that if the random curse is one that you already have on you from Shackles, which is an infinite duration curse, it gets replaced with the curse from Soul Mantle. Soul Mantle curses only last for 6 seconds. Which is a problem. It's bad enough that the curses aren't affected by Open Sores, but the fact that you the player are already cursed with the demerits of the curses themselves in the first place, and the fact that you have to invest in certain pieces of gear to get to this point, AND on how Blood Mages already are forced to have double the resource cost with both mana and life... With all these demerits, I think Open Sores really should apply to the Soul Mantle curses. Now I can understand IF the damage bonus from Warding Fetish were a "MORE" modifier but it is not. So I see zero reason for why Open Sores doesn't work with Soul Mantles curses. Anyway if a dev would care to comment that would be great but if anyone else has any ideas on making a curse build, I'd definitely be interested. Specifically a build that makes use of Open Sores. Because as of right now I don't see any possible way to use Open Sores. The only time it would be worth it is on bosses but at this point you might as well just cast the curse manually... Dernier bump le 16 juin 2025 à 14:16:11
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