[0.2] Cold Chronomancer Megathread. Let's see how we can survive this.

Meanwhile, Act 3 boss fight: https://youtu.be/WGGbaqsLPE8

Passive tree (lvl 44):



No changes or upgrades, besides CoF: Comet - Concentrated Effect, and skill gem lvls.

Hey Monik, I'm currently following along with your tree. Its been a great help so far, so thank you! but I'm curious about the 2 random notes above
"Path of winter", unless you are traveling towards Exploit the Elements are they not just wasted 2 points?

Hey guys! I'm currently also running a sorceress/chronomancer and I've just got out of act 2 and wanted to switch to something that hits heavier than spark x flame wall. Its struggling now and I was wondering if there was an currently updated maxroll guide on the build with a Path of Building to follow?

I mainly need this to get to the end of the campaign before I start speccing into chronomancer block support build. I've read all messages up until now and I'm rather intrigued on doing it now that I've heard its doing nicely from act 3 upwards. Also grats on the theory craft so far. i really didn't wanna follow everyone else with huntress so doing this character is massively needed since I loved doing shattering and using cold skills with the monk last league.

so, for geonor I ended up making a few changes.


pulled back the travel points, to get the extra spell/cold damage, and more importantly cold buildup from path of winter.

I rune socketed cold resist runes.
I then also used the cold resist charm. (swapped back to stone after, as seen in ss)

skills.. ok I ended up basically not using cold snap. ha.
frost bomb+mag effect+zenith.
flamewall, and frostbolt into flamewall spam.
persistance on flame wall, arcane tempo and surge on frostbolt.

frost bomb/wall during poetry stage, and circle around.

convalescence did help alot.
I did struggle a bit with hp flask. only had a medium? which got a grand immediately after. so I think I missed greater? not sure if you can get grand flask before him. but, the medium really was not cutting it.


Don't sleep on Zenith support at the start of the game. especially with our bursty focus.
"supported skills deal 30% more damage while you are above 90% of your max mana."
at this stage of the game, you will be above 90% pretty much all the time. and in fact even late game, you will be STARTING every fight with above 90% and just drain it fast.

would SRS have made him easier? maybe.
same with solar orb, or incinerate.


edit: lol yeah. got a second spirit gem, and took srs.
and beat kabala just by spamming srs/flamewall. cold spells were basically useless versus her.
and yes. picked up solar orb. its actually pretty solid for cold sorc leveling.
a level 6 flame wall ignites as though, 54 fire damage. no direct damage. adds fire damage to proj.
a level 7 solar orb ignites as though, 125 fire damage. and also pulses 20-30 fire damage, every 1.4s.
this is a much higher secondary element. and burns/pulses away on frozen targets.
its aoe scales with our aoe better as well. as flamewall is a line, orb is a circle.

so I would absolutely recommend solar orb/frostorb, while leveling.

So I jumped on my standard chronomancer. I wanted to test something.

Frostbolt+32% chance for +2 projectiles.
And unleash.

first off, I didn't quite understand how unleash worked. the CD is on unleash, not the skill its buffing.

SO I can be there spamming frostbolt, hit unleash, instantly spam 3 frostbolts, and then keep spamming frost bolt without interruption.
its Unleash that goes on CD, not Frostbolt.

also the database tooltip was backwards.
a level 19 unleash is 720% of repeated skills cast time is added, not 9s. it does get better with level, not worse.

my .48s frost bolt gives it a 2.5s CD. with my 22%cdr. which can be skipped with now and again,etc.


Unleash is insanely good. This would be bonkers with snakepit.
Crazy good with eye of winter.
fireball, arc as noted.

again, also adding 15% more damage, and cull to those casts.


And, its not like Unleash is locked to one skill. its an independent skill. you activate it, the can cast whatever spell you want. so you can be unleashing frost bolt in maps, and then unleashing comets against bosses.

got to look into the "gain x on cull" supports now. theres frenzy charges, right?

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Sarzu#3821 wrote:

Hey Monik, I'm currently following along with your tree. Its been a great help so far, so thank you! but I'm curious about the 2 random notes above
"Path of winter", unless you are traveling towards Exploit the Elements are they not just wasted 2 points?

Ah, I forgot to refund those. Stll a bit short on it.

Anyway, for act 1 Cruel I refunded those and got Zone of Control wheel with

Blasphemy: Hypothermia - Ritualistic Curse

instead of CoF-Comet.

Hinder is just a bit of more CC, feels good with increased monster density in Cruel.

Tried self-cast comet under mana storm - feels a bit weak atm w/o Thin Ice.

About 1/3rd of this act, quite smooth.

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TestaTTV#9694 wrote:

Hey guys! I'm currently also running a sorceress/chronomancer and I've just got out of act 2 and wanted to switch to something that hits heavier than spark x flame wall. Its struggling now and I was wondering if there was an currently updated maxroll guide on the build with a Path of Building to follow?

I mainly need this to get to the end of the campaign before I start speccing into chronomancer block support build. I've read all messages up until now and I'm rather intrigued on doing it now that I've heard its doing nicely from act 3 upwards. Also grats on the theory craft so far. i really didn't wanna follow everyone else with huntress so doing this character is massively needed since I loved doing shattering and using cold skills with the monk last league.

I'm using an outdated maxroll leveling guide (pls don't press "Upgrade" button): https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/an1bc0nm

It was made for leveling with the twink gear, but works fine for now.

It's good for reference, but I won't switch to Reverberation wheel at lvl 52 and will stick with the sorc/monk area for some time.

Gz with +3 cold wand btw, big =)

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Casia#1093 wrote:

Unleash is insanely good.

If I didn't go with Crest of Ardura bomb/wall approach, i'd run with it for sure.

It is good for sure. But not as good as I was expecting it to be. I thought it would have a better synergy with unleash support and add seals on top (make 2+2=4 seals), but it doesn't work this way, so I got a bit disappointed.

Guys? how to block a stun?

at the moment I constantly catch a situation when either melee mobs in the amount of three or more are beating non-stop, not allowing any casting or somersaulting out of the attack. As a result, my dead body

Or three archers from afar are pouring arrows with the same result.
There is a special ambush with archers - they are beating from the edge of the screen and you just can't see these devils, and when the arrows reach it is too late to jerk.

Endgame T15 maps

Before patch 0.2.0 there was no such problem

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progman_th#3384 wrote:

Guys? how to block a stun?

Charm should work, no? Idk, I'm lvling now. not sure about high-end mapping.

Meanwhile, Cruel Act 1 boss: https://youtu.be/IRdoKmS1dS8

Killed each other, but I got the quest done.

Passive tree (lvl 50):



No upgrades, besides Blashphemy: Hypothermia - Ritualistic Curse
instead of CoF-Comet.

which gems?

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monik390#5560 wrote:

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progman_th#3384 wrote:

Guys? how to block a stun?

Charm should work, no? Idk, I'm lvling now. not sure about high-end mapping.

Meanwhile, Cruel Act 1 boss: https://youtu.be/IRdoKmS1dS8

Killed each other, but I got the quest done.

Passive tree (lvl 50):



No upgrades, besides Blashphemy: Hypothermia - Ritualistic Curse
instead of CoF-Comet.

gems?