Summary
- Baldur’s Gate 3 modder Borkupin3 has created a Jujutsu Kaisen-inspired blood mage subclass for monks.
- It adds a few new spells like Blood Meteor and Red Aegis, allowing you to manipulate the very ichor running through your own veins.
- However, to balance out these new spells, there are some downsides, like water preventing you from casting external spells.
You can do a lot of evil things in Baldur’s Gate 3: in the opening alone, you can slaughter a camp of tieflings and coax Kagha into murdering a child. There’s even an Origin character called the Dark Urge. But there’s a startling lack of blood magic to complement a villainous playthrough.
Thankfully, modders are working to change that, and one of the more interesting attempts comes from Borkupin3. Inspired by the anime and manga Jujutsu Kaisen, they created a unique homebrew monk subclass called the “Way of Blood“.
How The Way Of Blood Monk Subclass Works
The mod adds a handful of new spells and passives designed around the idea of using blood as a conduit. For instance, you can manipulate blood into a meteorite, spray foes to blind them, or transform your own into a hardened shell.
If you want to play around with another modded subclass, check out Oath of the Hells.
At higher levels, you’ll be able to create a blood net to ensnare targets, or — with Supernova — hurl a cluster of explosive blood orbs at your opponent. There are some really inventive ideas here to toy around with, but it’s the passives that make the subclass.
Take Cursed Technique, which turns bloodied surfaces to your advantage. Stepping onto a pool of blood, funnily enough, cures bleeding and removes all diseases and curses. It even stops you from burning. Or there’s Poisonous Blood. Unlocked at Level 9, this passive makes it so that all blood spells are given the chance to poison living enemies.
However, there is one major downside to being a blood mage with this mod — water. Being wet stops you from using external blood spells, keeping with Larian’s brilliant intermixing of environment and combat.
Blood-depleting debuffs likewise prevent the use of blood-based spells.
A big problem with a lot of the blood-bending mods out there is how laughably overpowered they make you. But these passives seem to counteract that problem, and Borkupin3 even put it to the test by using it on Honour Mode. So, hopefully, it’s a bit more balanced than others of its ilk.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is the long-awaited next chapter in the Dungeons & Dragons-based series of RPGs. Developed by Divinity creator Larian Studios, it puts you in the middle of a mind flayer invasion of Faerûn, over a century after the events of its predecessor.