[0.2] Cold Chronomancer Megathread. Nerfed to the ground.

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default_mp3#9394 wrote:

I think I'll stop playing the game for day or two after I'll reach the endgame. It's been 20 hours total and I am still in the campaign questioning my life decisions. It honestly sucking all my juices. Even tho compare to 0.1 I know what to do in the most part but still this is horrible experience. I genuinely wanna try that braindead Lightning Spear build but I simply despise the current state of the campaign. I don't wanna touch that thing until they made the overall experience better

Not sure about myself. I ran a few maps, and I don't have any drive to continue playing anymore.

Have an urge to archive the thread before a better times.

Sorceress in general doesn't look good at all.

Well, I think I just call it a day, and go take a long rest from a PoE2. Like, until the next league =)

I'm a bit doomer on our options this league;

The build definitely doesn't feel like it's going to be very viable for end game stuff if you're looking for a smooth experience, bossing seems OK but map clear generally feels awkward and lacking, especially with the giga nerfs to archmage/mana stacking killing our damage. In 0.1 frostbolt could clear relatively well because damage was so high, now I'm pretty sure it's dead... haven't tested with snakepit yet but I still don't think it'll be viable.

So our only option for clear is using wall+bomb and CoC/CoF comet it seems, which IMO is quite a tedious experience compared to 0.1 where spamming wildshard FB was viable to clear trash, and wall/bomb on harder targets.

I might reroll to a braindead OP lightning spear char or maybe just skip this league at this point. I wish you all best of luck in figuring something out, but I'm not very hopeful :(

GGG killed our girl bros...

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monik390#5560 wrote:

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default_mp3#9394 wrote:

I think I'll stop playing the game for day or two after I'll reach the endgame. It's been 20 hours total and I am still in the campaign questioning my life decisions. It honestly sucking all my juices. Even tho compare to 0.1 I know what to do in the most part but still this is horrible experience. I genuinely wanna try that braindead Lightning Spear build but I simply despise the current state of the campaign. I don't wanna touch that thing until they made the overall experience better

Not sure about myself. I ran a few maps, and I don't have any drive to continue playing anymore.

Have an urge to archive the thread before a better times.

Sorceress in general doesn't look good at all.

Well, I think I just call it a day, and go take a long rest from a PoE2. Like, until the next league =)

it looks awful.... they still stand firm with the current shitty league, I feel that they are not changing it quickly and if they do, nothing much will change for us

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monik390#5560 wrote:

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default_mp3#9394 wrote:

I think I'll stop playing the game for day or two after I'll reach the endgame. It's been 20 hours total and I am still in the campaign questioning my life decisions. It honestly sucking all my juices. Even tho compare to 0.1 I know what to do in the most part but still this is horrible experience. I genuinely wanna try that braindead Lightning Spear build but I simply despise the current state of the campaign. I don't wanna touch that thing until they made the overall experience better

Not sure about myself. I ran a few maps, and I don't have any drive to continue playing anymore.

Have an urge to archive the thread before a better times.

Sorceress in general doesn't look good at all.

Well, I think I just call it a day, and go take a long rest from a PoE2. Like, until the next league =)

As someone who has followed this thread religiously from the start, but not posted, I urge you not to archive this thread. I know this has been a "Cold" Chrono thread in general, but it's really the only source of good up-to-date information on Chronomancer in general with great concepts about the strength of an ascendency that isn't that popular (and in a way, the other elements can be cold too!). I'm not at end game yet abut have ideas to try and was hoping this thread would be around for me to throw out some workable ideas. Would be sad if it wasn't.

I'm on cruel act 2, and I've been breezing past the content exclusively using frost wall and comet as my main damage. I've stacked cast speed and gotten it down to almost 1sec on comet. My goal is to get that down even further.

I'm also stacking freeze in the passive tree and frost wall almost always freezes or blocks the monsters allowing me time to cast comet.

We'll see how this goes into endgame.

^- what Davitas said.

Really appreciate(d?) monik390's insights especially. In 0.1 I was a stormweaver and in 0.2 I decided to try chrono. Love it a lot more, even though it's difficult.

Lvl 76 now running T10's comfortably, with as a basis all the helpful info from people in this thread. Thanks!

Oh - and a question. The korean character monik linked had unleash (and wildshards) support in CoF w/frostbolt. I was surprised that would work.. I tried it briefly, but it doesn't seem to. A bit strange, as the game does allow putting it in there.

Anyhow, It does seem to help a little (together with CoC w/comet) to trigger more crits, but tbh I don't see that much difference in clear speed vs putting in comet in CoF instead.

We've found the name of the helmet used to maybe recreate a on par or better archmage mana stacking build. Not got it yet myself but I think it could be a potential boss drop maybe idk

https://poe2db.tw/us/Indigon

Now it states that we can only get recovery from mana regen only so I've also found some gloves with crazy mana regen affix as well. let me see if I can find anything else that might be worth testing.

https://poe2db.tw/us/Nightscale

Nah. Let this thread be. Eventually we gonna figure it out if there is some secret tech that need to be discovered. Yeah, huff that copium.
I honestly dont know the logic behind those nerfs. Yeah they prevented endgame blasting but they also hurt the campaign progression a lot. Especially the Minions moment which made me believe they didnt even test those changes properly.
Devs messed up big time. Community is pissed off currently. Something needs to be done or the playerbase will extinct. Lets just see.
For now just f*ck it. F*ck this game. See ya in 0.3 or whatever. I will be still around to check the news but right now I refuse to torture myself further

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TestaTTV#9694 wrote:

We've found the name of the helmet used to maybe recreate a on par or better archmage mana stacking build. Not got it yet myself but I think it could be a potential boss drop maybe idk

https://poe2db.tw/us/Indigon

Now it states that we can only get recovery from mana regen only so I've also found some gloves with crazy mana regen affix as well. let me see if I can find anything else that might be worth testing.

https://poe2db.tw/us/Nightscale

you'd brick yourself with those two if you cast curses, etc and oops, out of mana.


These are interesting.
https://poe2db.tw/us/Leopolds_Applause


going to be pricy. but this will probably be nice. cdr/aoe(vol cata),crd/skill effct(multitasking), reduced mana cost(cons casting/mental toughness)
https://poe2db.tw/us/Strugglescream


self damage for purpose of mana recoup probably should be considered again as well.
https://poe2db.tw/us/Fireflower

https://poe2db.tw/us/Midnight_Braid
https://poe2db.tw/us/Forsaken_Bangle


Unleash+Sire is probably a build.
https://poe2db.tw/us/Sire_of_Shards

first thanks to all the people here for builds ref. This is my 2nd league and first time play chrono/mage in general. Here my current build so far https://poe2.ninja/account/character/106333/ChronoWaru, near end of act 3 cruel.
Second i want to ask that currently im having hard time to 1 shot ice wall with ice nova and frost bomb take pretty long to explode. how can i improve this ? maybe replace magnified on frost bomb with fast forward ?