Witch Ascendancy

Blood Mage

Blood Mage spends Life for skills and turns Life recovery, Spell Critical Hits, Bleeding, Curses, and Body Armour Energy Shield into offensive scaling.

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Character class: Witch
Path type: Regular
Introduced: 0.1.0
Maximum points: 8

Ascendancy treeOfficial export 0.5.2

Wiki reviewGame 0.5.4d

Tree identities, effects, connections, and icons come from the official 0.5.2 export. The class corpus was checked 2026-07-30 for game version 0.5.4d.

Gameplay identity

Current official tree

Core mechanics

Sanguimancy adds a Life cost to skills and grants Life Remnants, while Vitality Siphon leeches Spell damage as Life.
Blood Barbs lets Elemental damage contribute to Bleeding magnitude and aggravates Bleeding on Cursed targets.

Important tradeoff

Its strongest branches ask the character to support added Life costs or change normal recovery, including Sanguine Tides preventing Flasks from directly recovering Life.

How to unlock or change

Regular path

Complete an eligible Ascension Trial and use its Ascension device to choose this Ascendancy. To change to another regular Ascendancy for the same character class, complete the required trial tier and refund every allocated Ascendancy passive before using the device again.

Trial of the Sekhemas guide Trial of Chaos guide How to change Ascendancy

Ascendancy passive tree

Official export 0.5.2 | Plan this Ascendancy

9notables

8minor passives

0choice options

1granted skills

Notables and choices

Build-defining passives, choice parents, and their selectable options.

Passive	Exact effect	Requires	Unlocks
NotableBlood Barbs	Elemental Damage also Contributes to Bleeding Magnitude Bleeding you inflict on Cursed targets is Aggravated	Bleed on Critical Chance	End of branch
NotableCrimson Power	Gain additional maximum Life equal to 100% of the Item Energy Shield on Equipped Body Armour	Life	End of branch
NotableGore Spike	1% increased Critical Damage Bonus per 50 current Life	Spell Critical Chance	End of branch
NotableGrasping Wounds	25% of Life Loss from Hits is prevented, then that much Life is lost over 4 seconds instead	Life	Life
NotableSanguimancy	Skills gain a Base Life Cost equal to Base Mana Cost Grants Skill: Life Remnants	Spell Critical Chance	Bleed on Critical Chance, Life, Curse Effect, Life Leech, Life Flasks
NotableSanguine Tides	Flasks do not recover Life Gain 1 Life Flask Charge per 2% Life spent On Hitting an Enemy while a Life Flask is at full Charges, 40% of its Charges are consumed Gain 1% of damage as Physical damage for 5 seconds per Charge consumed this way	Life Flasks	End of branch
NotableSunder the Flesh	Base Critical Hit Chance for Spells is 15%	Spell Critical Chance	Spell Critical Chance
NotableVitality Siphon	20% of Spell Damage Leeched as Life	Life Leech	End of branch
NotableWhispers of the Flesh	Targets Cursed by you have 100% reduced Life Regeneration Rate Targets Cursed by you have at least 15% of Life Reserved	Curse Effect	End of branch

Minor passives

Every connecting passive in the current official tree export.

Passive	Exact effect	Requires	Unlocks
MinorBleed on Critical Chance	15% chance to inflict Bleeding on Critical Hit	Sanguimancy	Blood Barbs
MinorCurse Effect	6% increased Curse Magnitudes	Sanguimancy	Whispers of the Flesh
MinorLife	3% increased maximum Life	Sanguimancy	Grasping Wounds
MinorLife	3% increased maximum Life	Grasping Wounds	Crimson Power
MinorLife Flasks	15% increased Life Flask Charges gained	Sanguimancy	Sanguine Tides
MinorLife Leech	12% increased amount of Life Leeched	Sanguimancy	Vitality Siphon
MinorSpell Critical Chance	12% increased Critical Hit Chance for Spells	Ascendancy start	Sunder the Flesh, Sanguimancy
MinorSpell Critical Chance	12% increased Critical Hit Chance for Spells	Sunder the Flesh	Gore Spike

Granted skills

Granted by Sanguimancy

Life Remnants

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.

Buff, Persistent, Remnant: Applies
Level: 1

Remnants last for 8 seconds
25% chance to spawn a Remnant on killing an enemy
Spawn a Remnant on Hitting a target, no more than once every 3 seconds
Each Remnant grants 11 Life

Other Witch Ascendancies

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Guides using this page

AscendancyHow to choose a class and Ascendancy

Compare all eight classes by starting attributes, passive-tree position, associated combat style, and all 23 current Ascendancy choices.

Guides using this page

AscendancyHow to choose a class and Ascendancy

Compare all eight classes by starting attributes, passive-tree position, associated combat style, and all 23 current Ascendancy choices.

AscendancyTrial of the Sekhemas guide

Enter with a Barya, protect Honour, choose a route through each floor, use Relics and Sacred Water, defeat the scheduled boss, and claim the eligible Ascendancy reward.

AscendancyTrial of Chaos guide

Enter with an Inscribed Ultimatum, complete rooms while accumulating trial modifiers, defeat the scheduled bosses, and claim rewards or Ascendancy points from the completed tier.

AscendancyHow to change Ascendancy

Complete a suitable Ascension Trial, refund every allocated Ascendancy point beside the Ascension device, and choose another regular Ascendancy for the same character class.

BasicsHow to Get More Support Gem Sockets

Increase a Skill Gem from two to five Support sockets, understand item-granted and passive-granted skill breakpoints, and decide whether to risk corruption for a sixth socket.