Cold Chronomancer Megathread. Fully updated.

did you ever try call of the brotherhood? I forget.


yeah, coc has several advantages. you can crit frostwalls, and you can chain crit. while you can't freeze, already frozen targets.

which again yeah, cold snap is best manually cast. its a super fast .5s cast in the first place, and you only want to consume freeze, on purpose.


random, I just realized "herbalism" support is 30% increased life recovery from flasks. not 30% increased charge gain. 15 spirit.

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chobi0ne#5028 wrote:

I can see why crit build with CoC is better than CoF though, because it works on bosses more often.

Try to count the number of comets here:

https://youtu.be/6YvUYyeBEDE

Silly stuff.

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Casia#1093 wrote:

did you ever try call of the brotherhood? I forget.

yeah, coc has several advantages. you can crit frostwalls, and you can chain crit. while you can't freeze, already frozen targets.

CotB works before the Archmage. Not that good.

CoC is very strong for these reasons for sure. But it's very niche, unlike CoF, which is for almost everyone.

Acolyte has instant mana leech, Chrono has mana pool reset - for everyone else there is Melting Maelstrom for 40d. Works like a charm with CI. Can live in Mana Tempest.

So, currently fit Mana Flare + Ambush in my Frost Bolt... well. A bit risky but very strong, since it's and explosion. Basically, an explosion on crit with 20% of mana cost. Deals fire damage tho.

This is where I'm at. might be useful for any SSF readers trying to figure out plans.

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/fy17tw01

raw dps is low. can take a hit for the level of content well though.


jewels are all elem/spell damage. nothing build enabling.

tried hindered cap. also removed exploit the elements a while back.
these, "deal increased damage to x enemies". anything frozen is good as dead. need more raw up front damage.

dropped arcane surge on crit, got the raw mana/regen nodes.
arcane identity at 3% more 100, is 36%inc spell power at 1200mana.

172.7 mana/s atm.
26%damage taken from mana.
30% life recoup.
1831 life/637es(1274) goes pretty far in taking hits. then blink as well.

dropped tempchains for enfeeble. was not finding the slows all that useful. bosses would instant turn. didnt stop offscreen projectiles, etc. enfeeble still should be useful for ZoC. manual casting of hypothermia.

I have no 5l yet. I do have a perfect...

Frost bomb, cdr/reduced skill effect. 1.72s duration. (2.87s exposure duration). 2.3s cd. took the exposure off it for the time being.
echoed for raw damage. pops walls 100%.

frost wall. not much interesting or change. cascade, controlled dest, cold mastery atm.

hypo- heightened and ground for instant effect and -47%.


frostbolt-acc, wildshards, glaciation. back to frostbolt. scattershot reduced damage and speed. can't do that. so wildshards first.

cold snap. not much to say.

grim feast- clarity and vitality. 1 life regen, and 30% mana regen.

blink-herbalism+cannabalism. 4% of life recovered on kill, and 30% increased flask life recovery. (great with instant effect flasks.) blink is very good for survival. like temp rift, but with more control.

CoF+frostwall.

Failed every snakepit chance so far.


This just dropped... CoC your bringing me back in!!

I have two legitimate noob questions.

MOM+EB+CI - how do I solve mana regen issues?
% mana on kill jewels definitely help with clearing, but bossing is a problem.
Even with clearing I feel uncomfortable running out of mana just by spamming frostbolts.
And since my mana pool is basically my EHP it's even more uncomfortable, because if I get hit while at 50% of my mana then it's not good.

Another question is for you, CoC friends. Where do you get your crit chance from? How much is "enough" (softcap)? Do you stack crit damage?

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chobi0ne#5028 wrote:

I have two legitimate noob questions.

MOM+EB+CI - how do I solve mana regen issues?
% mana on kill jewels definitely help with clearing, but bossing is a problem.
Even with clearing I feel uncomfortable running out of mana just by spamming frostbolts.
And since my mana pool is basically my EHP it's even more uncomfortable, because if I get hit while at 50% of my mana then it's not good.

Another question is for you, CoC friends. Where do you get your crit chance from? How much is "enough" (softcap)? Do you stack crit damage?

Updated my maxroll: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/goe840v6

Check CI equipment/tree. There is some difference.

Anyway, get more mana/es on gear, more regen, mental toughness, everlasting gaze, and temporal rift.

Sweet spot I dunno. More = better.

If you are going crit, you don't need freeze build-up on tree/gear at all.

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I'm level 88 but im missing 9 points from the tree. Did I miss something that gives more points or something?

wow... how hahah i tried doing this on an eow FB snakepit frostwall coc build... but can't make the comets rain down hard like this

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_Mrcl#3937 wrote:

I'm level 88 but im missing 9 points from the tree. Did I miss something that gives more points or something?

If you fully cleared the campaign including all side things you should have them all.

How many passives do your weapon sets have? Are you using them?

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iamMaru#7757 wrote:

wow... how hahah i tried doing this on an eow FB snakepit frostwall coc build... but can't make the comets rain down hard like this

That's on bosses. During the clearing, there is not that much rain.

Frostbolt - Mana Flare - Ambush (+ wildshards, scattershot, and acceleration) does all clearing for me.

CoC procs ofc, but mostly on rares and frost walls if I use it.