Blood and Sand

Spell, Stance

Level: (1–6)

Reservation: 10% Mana

Cooldown Time: 2.00 sec

Cast Time: Instant

Requires Level (4–70), (10–98) Str, (7–68) Dex

Casts a buff that grants different bonuses to melee skills depending on your stance. Using the skill again alternates between Blood Stance and Sand Stance.

Melee Skills deal (10–15)% more Area Damage while in Blood Stance

Melee Skills have 5% less Area of Effect while in Blood Stance

Melee Skills have (10–15)% more Area of Effect while in Sand Stance

Melee Skills deal 5% less Area Damage while in Sand Stance

(0–50)% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate

Additional Effects From Quality:

(0–10)% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Quest /2

Act	Quest	NPC	Character
1	Breaking Some Eggs	Quest Reward	Duelist
1	Breaking Some Eggs	Nessa	Duelist · Marauder · Ranger · Scion

Genus

Blood and Sand

Level Effect /26

Implicit
Reservation: 10%

Level	Requires Level	Str	Dex	#% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate	Melee Skills deal 10% more Area Damage while in Blood Stance	Melee Skills have 10% more Area of Effect while in Sand Stance	Experience
1	4	10	7		10	10	16,154
2	12	21	14	10	11	11	631,116
3	28	42	29	20	12	12	5,714,441
4	44	63	44	30	13	13	33,587,544
5	58	82	57	40	14	14	489,216,748
6	70	98	68	50	15	15
7	72	100	70	60	16	16
8	74	103	72	70	17	17
9	76	106	73	80	18	18
10	78	108	75	90	19	19
11	80	111	77	100	20	20
12	82	113	79	110	21	21
13	84	116	81	120	22	22
14	86	119	83	130	23	23
15	88	121	85	140	24	24
16	90	124	86	150	25	25
17	91	125	87	160	25	25
18	92	127	88	170	26	26
19	93	128	89	180	26	26
20	94	129	90	190	27	27
21	95			200	27	27
22	96			210	28	28
23	97			220	28	28
24	98			230	29	29
25	99			240	29	29
26	100			250	30	30

Attribute /9

Key	Value
Cost	iLvl 1: Normal: 1xScroll of Wisdom
Acronym	Cooldown, Melee, Stance, Recovery
DropLevel	4
BaseType	Blood and Sand
Class	Skill Gems
TargetTypes	Any
Type	Spell, Buff, Instant, HasReservation, Instant, InstantNoRepeatWhenHeld, InstantShiftAttackForLeftMouse, Cooldown, Stance
ItemType	Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemBloodAndSand
Reference	poe.ninja, Community Wiki

Blood and Sand

Spell, Stance

Level: (1–6)

Reservation: 10% Mana

Cooldown Time: 2.00 sec

Cast Time: Instant

Requires Level (4–70), (10–98) Str, (7–68) Dex

Casts a buff that grants different bonuses to melee skills depending on your stance. Using the skill again alternates between Blood Stance and Sand Stance.

Melee Skills deal (10–15)% more Area Damage while in Blood Stance

Melee Skills have 5% less Area of Effect while in Blood Stance

Melee Skills have (10–15)% more Area of Effect while in Sand Stance

Melee Skills deal 5% less Area Damage while in Sand Stance

(0–50)% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate

base deal no damage [1]

console skill dont chase [1]

Additional Effects From Quality:

(0–10)% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Microtransactions /3

Celestial Blood and Sand Stance Effect

Your Blood and Sand or Flesh and Stone becomes a Celestial Effect.

Polaris Blood and Sand Effect

Your Blood and Sand and Flesh and Stone becomes a Black and White Effect.

Sunrise Blood and Sand Effect

Your Blood and Sand and Flesh and Stone becomes a Sunrise Effect.

Supported By /2

Active Type: Spell, Buff, Instant, HasReservation, Instant, InstantNoRepeatWhenHeld, InstantShiftAttackForLeftMouse, Cooldown, Stance

Arrogance Support

Supports any non-blessing skill with a reservation.

Second Wind Support

Supports skills with cooldowns. Cannot support triggered skills.

Community Wiki

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Blood and Sand

Blood and Sand reserves mana to activate Blood Stance and Sand Stance. In Sand Stance, you have more area of effect, but less area damage. In Blood Stance, you have more area damage, but less area of effect. Activating the skill while it's toggled on will alternate between stances. Certain skills also behave differently based on the stance you are currently on.

Skill functions and interactions

Stance setting is shared with Flesh and Stone and toggling one will toggle both.

The gem max level is 6. Thus, not able to use the Gemcutter's Prism vendor recipe on this gem to obtain level 1 20% quality Blood and Sand.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.11.0	Gained the Stance gem tag
3.7.4	Added Labyrinth Enchantments
3.7.0	Blood and Sand has been added to the game.

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