Pathfinder Bleeding Concoction Feedback

Just some notes on a few things that I've hit while going through the campaign with Bleeding Concoction. I'm currently just about to hit act 3 cruel:


Once you get access to bleeding concoction, and I'm sure this is the same for the other concoction skills, it is quite difficult to sustain mana flask charges. I had to buy 2 Glowswarm rings and get the 2 mana flask charges per second nodes in the ranger tree before it became usable, and it starts to feel better if you can get at least 0.2 charges per second on the flask. With a couple increased charges gained nodes, clearing areas feels OK with keeping the charges topped off. Bosses can be a bit trickier because you need to pace yourself to maximize bleed damage uptime vs hit damage otherwise you will run out of charges too fast. Once I get access to the alchemist boon/dread banner aura and the flask charge gain belt bases I think this will start to feel a bit more manageable, but it's a huge downside to be missing out on effectively 2 ring slots. Perhaps with the extra belt and auras I will be able to drop the rings. Maybe alchemists boon should be available earlier to help with this?

Another huge downside came with the changes to not allow weapons to be equipped when using concoction skills and I'm not sure this was intentional or not, but the skill pool is extremely limited since a lot of skills, like heralds, require a martial weapon to be equipped. Pretty much just running bleeding concoction, bloodhounds mark and killing palm for culling. It would be really nice to have access to heralds while using the concoction skills.

Overall the damage so far through the campaign is pretty good, but I will be curious to see how if it falls off into the endgame. I'll post more feedback as I progress further.

Just a quick update:

Made it to maps last night. Campaign wasn't terrible overall, but in maps it is a bit of a slog, pretty sure the damage is starting to fall off.

What about concoct support? Does it work if you dont consume charges using passive tree nodes or Husk of dreams unique armour?

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It should contain the linked support gems to the skills, the passive skill, the gear and the ascendancy points.

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