[0.3] Chronomancer Megathread. WIP.

Feedback on Cold Spells:
- Ice Nova with Spell Cascade and Magnified Effect with Quicksand Hourglass clear fairly good.
- Frost Darts actually shreds bosses with Flame Wall(Especially with Lightning Infusion).
- Frost Bomb seems fine for clearing here and there.
- Snap also fine on frozen mobs, using it on Frostbolt seems like trolling.

Mobs take 1-3 Ice Novas to either Freeze or Die.

Using Arctic Armor with Frost Nexus which spawn huge AoE chilled ground for 8 seconds, helps for Frost Darts that require chill or freeze for aoe shards.

Frost Darts seems like range molten strike from poe 1, im using conc effect and multishot 2 on it, not sure for now if conc effect reduce spread of shards.

Not using Frost Wall, no space for it, and not really needed with how big ice nova is.

Not using Comet yet, because Frost Darts carry on bosses.

Just got Eye of Winter, it definitely has potential to replace CoC Comet considering we can use Second wind on both Eye of Winter and Time Snap for atleast 6 uses at once.

yeah. frost bomb is obviously going to be a bit better with t2 supports for short fuse.
and t3 for CDR.
short fuse also makes bomb's exposure stack faster. 32% with and without.



I noted using skel warrs to provide a front line, to buy time for flamewall, etc.(frost wall could do this later obvoiusly)
but, I consider if ice skeletons would be a solid means to apply chill as well.
in general minions+snap might be something someone wants to try.


Did I bring up mana flare again? these "3% mana on remnant, and double remnant effect"etc nodes make me wonder if mana flare is on the table.

https://poe2db.tw/us/Mana_Remnants


ps, I realize I was creating my own mistake with flamewall. i put fortress in there, and that was why it was so weak and not igniting at a reasonable pace.
zenith+mag effec, huge difference.

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Casia#1093 wrote:

Flamewall+frostbomb+orb of storms(overabundance)+frost jarts(peirce/unleash)
obliterates bosses.

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PaintMaster#2396 wrote:

- Frost Darts actually shreds bosses with Flame Wall(Especially with Lightning Infusion).

Alright, we've got smth here. I'll try it a bit later too.

Good job.

its something.. but its shit against bosses that move around or reset constantly.. balbaba, kaballa..

and shit against any monster that refuses to go afk in front of thee flamewalls. its bad against anything that runs you down constantly.

paint says hes using nova. maybe.

Is it a bad idea to use the Over Abundance Support and Spell Cascade/Echo support with Frost Bomb? My goal is to place multiple bombs at once, expanding on the number of bombs deployed during a single cooldown period to generate Cold Infusion.

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Casia#1093 wrote:

paint says hes using nova. maybe.

Infused Nova is strong. Can relate.

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Sarracenia_sdy#4030 wrote:

Is it a bad idea to use the Over Abundance Support and Spell Cascade/Echo support with Frost Bomb? My goal is to place multiple bombs at once, expanding on the number of bombs deployed during a single cooldown period to generate Cold Infusion.

That's how i'm using it, w/ echo.

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Anyway, switched Arc to Spark. Arc w/o lightning infusion isn't that good. Spark with Infused Flame Wall is better overall. Better performace oer infusion stack.

Have some issues managing Cold infusion now. Need to pay more attention to it.

Overall, my current gameplay is damn complicated.

Also, just don't have enough slots for skills.

GGG made us want using a lot more skills but didn't provide with more slots.

okay..so after trying every spell available, even Physical (Reap was Ok-ish) this is how i roll now:

- Ball Lightning + Lightning Warp for most clear.
- Arc + Unleash also For Cleasring and Bosses
- Frost Wall for Bosses
- Frost Bomb for the -Res

Good Lightning Infusion generation and usage.

Scaling Lightning Dmg + Speed + Area dmg -> works very well with sands of time.
I also scale curse Magnitude.

Ascendancies: Apex of Moment + Sands of time.

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Void_xy#2904 wrote:

okay..so after trying every spell available, even Physical (Reap was Ok-ish) this is how i roll now:

- Ball Lightning + Lightning Warp for most clear.
- Arc + Unleash also For Cleasring and Bosses
- Frost Wall for Bosses
- Frost Bomb for the -Res

Good Lightning Infusion generation and usage.

Scaling Lightning Dmg + Speed + Area dmg -> works very well with sands of time.
I also scale curse Magnitude.

Ascendancies: Apex of Moment + Sands of time.

Alright, i have to say, it's the best thing i played so far.

I mean, Ball Lightning + Warp.

Biggest pro - it has both damage (Infused Frost Wall is good) and generates a crapload of ligtning remnants. Probably the best remnats generator.
Ah, also it's easy Shock too.

Can get Ele Equilibrium for other stuff, i'll check it later.

Utterly crushed Act 4 boss, was easier than anything else so far.

I've added just Living Bomb for my Comet on Invocation. Comet is good.

Probably, will remove Arc later. Idk, it pales in comparison to Warp in general use.

Another thing, mana usage is big. I can clearly see Temporal Rift here too.

And, actually, can spare some buttons.

Frost Darts were just too exausting to setup. Lightnin Infusion, Flame Wall, Cold Infusion, Mana Tempest, etc. Damage is good, but waste of time is not.

Ball + Warp is just faster and pretty strong.

Edit: Forgot to mention, i'm running dual curse on Blasphemy. Wand + Sceptre setup.

There is so many things to check here.

nice. I had heard someone suggest ball lighting/warp elsewhere as well.
Im not really sure what changed to make it more viable then before.


I did notice orb of stormsx2 was actually moderately effective BY ITSELF. enough to consider how it would go, if I leaned into it. x3 orbs, or focusing on lightning damage/shock, etc.

I even tried orbx2 and arc.. but was not impressed with arc much.

I also played with Living lightning. seems fun. they are FAST.
no spirit cost. I wonder if they are 5 per skill, or 5 global.

I do think a minion sorc might be viable.

Got Elemental Equilibrium. 3/3/3 infusion stacks easy. Might need +max them.

Switched Arc for Ice Nova to spend cold infusion.

Just added Firestorm too. Probably will recored some gameplay. It's quite good.

Sands of Time were so underrated before 0.3 release.

It fits perfectly in current build, where both AoE and cast speed required.