[Guide] Woolie’s Bleed Amazon is NUTS – Full Breakdown, Mechanics, and Gear Tips

🩸 Bleed Amazon Build Guide (Woolie-style)

For those who love agile playstyles, damage over time, and dancing around enemies like a whirlwind of blades and blood.

🧠 Core Concept: Bleed, Bounce, and Burst

This build is all about inflicting Bleed, a physical damage-over-time effect, and then stacking on hit damage when the time is right. You’ll dash in, dash out, and punish enemies while they’re hemorrhaging. The vibe? Think “elegant predator.”

🎯 Single-Target Dance: Rake + Disengage

• Rake is your main event: a dash-attack that always inflicts bleed. It deals more damage the farther you travel, so distance = damage.
• Disengage is your setup move. Dash backwards to create distance, setting up another long-range Rake for even more bleed burst.
• The loop? Rake → Disengage → Rake → Disengage. You’re basically a yo-yo of death.

Once you’ve stacked enough Bleed (watch for that red overlay on the health bar), it’s time for your big finisher:

• Blood Hunt – It executes the enemy, dealing not just big hit damage, but a % of the total bleed they’ve already taken. It’s brutal, and super satisfying to land.

🌪️ Group Clear: Double Spearfield Setup

You have two flavors of Spearfield, both awesome for different reasons:

1. Clearing Spearfield – Focuses on AoE bleed application and explosive death chains.
   • Linked with: Lacerate, Splinter, Tear, Rearm
   • Works with Herald of Blood to cause bleeding enemies to explode on death, triggering wild chain reactions. It’s bloody chaos in the best way.
2. Rage Spearfield – Buffs your bleed damage, improves crits, and debuffs enemies.
   • Linked with: Rage, Blood in the Eyes, Perfectly Placed Knife
   • Applies hobble (lowers evasion), blind, and even doubles your bleed on crits. Great for both packs and tougher enemies.

🌟 Amazon Ascendency – Critical to Success

You’re going deep into the Amazon’s Critical Strikes and Penetrate nodes:

• Critical Strikes – Converts overcapped accuracy into crit chance, so stack that accuracy hard.
• Penetrate – The MVP node. Grants flat global physical damage based on your weapon’s accuracy. Woolie found that unallocating this cost him 43% of his DPS. That’s not a typo.

💡 Pro Tip: Your weapon’s base damage doesn’t matter much – its accuracy rating is what matters. That’s your real DPS stat.

🔗 Skill Gem Links – The Engine of the Build

Rake

• Deep Cuts (bleed magnitude)
• Heavy Swing (more hit dmg)
• Momentum (bonus from movement)
• Close Combat (extra melee dmg)

Disengage

• Impale (stores dmg for next hit – this is nuts)
• Ingenuity (cooldown reduction)
• Shocking Leap (applies shock on crit)

Blood Hunt

• Execute (big finish)
• Blood Lust (consumes bleed for bonus dmg)
• Conchk Effect (enhanced hit dmg)

Blood Hounds Mark

• Single Out (armor shred – necessary because your hits are small without it)

Rage Spearfield

• Rage, Blood in the Eyes, Perfectly Placed Knife

Clearing Spearfield + Herald of Blood Combo

• Lacerate, Splinter, Tear, Rearm
• Herald of Blood, Hemo Crystal Support, Brutality, Deadly Herald

🛡️ Gear Goals – Survivability Meets Slaughter

Defensively: Focus on Evasion and Life.

Weapon: Go for one with high flat accuracy, even if its base DPS sucks. You’re scaling off accuracy, not weapon damage.

Key Unique:

• Venopuncture Ring – Adds:
  • Bleed on hit
  • Bleed magnitude
  • Flat phys damage
  • Slows bleeding enemies (and you, unless you’re immune!)
• Use a staunching charm to avoid getting slowed yourself.

Other Gear Tips:

• Look for + levels to melee skills on amulets and chest armor
• Aim for at least +30 Spirit to cover all your aura and active skill costs
• Shield: Pick one with Armor + Evasion base for higher block chance
• Consider Glancing Blows on tree for block cap (you take half damage when blocking)

🔥 Dual Wielding Tech – (Bonus from Carnarius)

This part isn’t Amazon-specific, but it’s must-know tech for anyone looking to scale damage in PoE2.

⚔️ Dual Wielding Is Busted

• In PoE2, both weapons deal damage at once. You lose 30% per weapon, but hitting with two at once = ~40% more total damage overall.
• It’s like having two free support gems per skill.

💣 The OP Combo: Dual 2-Handers

• Use two-handed weapons with:
  • + Level to all melee skills (up to +7!)
  • Increased elemental damage with attacks (up to 139%)
• The mods stack across both weapons. It’s potentially triple the damage of a sword-and-board setup.

🧢 Gear Tips from Carnarius

• Gloves: Look for +2 to melee skills (+3 with corruption)
• Rings: Add flat fire damage (great early, or for fire builds)
• Amulet: Z’s Blood – budget-friendly, permanent Fire Exposure (–20% enemy resist!), and gives fire res. Big win for fire builds.
• Run Avatar of Fire once you get Z’s Blood. Then stack fire pen and burn everything.
• Runes: Dual 2H = 4 rune slots total. Load up on increased skill speed, attack speed, or bleed scaling.

🛡️ Shield vs. Dual Wielding?

Shields = tanky, but the damage drop is steep. Carnarius says: If you’re not dying, always go dual 2-handers. The difference is night and day.

🎯 Final Thoughts

This build isn’t just strong – it’s satisfying as hell. You’re constantly moving, bleeding, and striking with precision, which makes it one of the most visceral playstyles in PoE2 right now. Whether you’re clearing mobs or facing bosses, you’re in control of the tempo.

And with Carnarius’ tech, there’s room to evolve it even further with dual wielding strats or hybrid fire-bleed setups.

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