Cold Chronomancer Megathread. All content cleared. Leveling guide added. Low-budget build added.

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JuggerNuc#1979 wrote:

Spikes and buff aren't the same. Look at your buff timer. Can easily get this to 15/20s depending on your setup. Have fun!

This is what was confusing me as well, didn't notice that before. Thanks.

I have some questions regarding gameplay. If this is a noob question, please forgive me, but I saw in the videos that you use frostbolt/spark on the left click and frostwall on the right click.
How are you casting the skills? Do you hold shit or cast it with the left click or is there another way to cast without holding it? And how and when do you cast eow or frostbomb?
Basically my question is regarding gameplay, what to do and how to click.

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thedoldivic#1741 wrote:

I have some questions regarding gameplay. If this is a noob question, please forgive me, but I saw in the videos that you use frostbolt/spark on the left click and frostwall on the right click.
How are you casting the skills? Do you hold shit or cast it with the left click or is there another way to cast without holding it? And how and when do you cast eow or frostbomb?
Basically my question is regarding gameplay, what to do and how to click.

Also semi-noob, but my usual approach is to cast one frost wall (right-click) then hold down the left button to spam frostbolt. You can still right-click while holding down the left, so I usually move around spamming frostbolt and dropping frost walls where maximum damage (or protection) is needed.

Frost bomb I usually drop either on large packs of enemies that are farther away or elites/bosses that don't die immediately from frost wall/bolt/comet (latter being triggered by CoC, not manual). It's not something I need to use all the time but is convenient when I do.

I don't use EoW at the moment so can't speak on that one.

Just got a Prism of Belief with +2 to Comet skills, highly recommended! It increased my overall Comet damage by 20%, especially if you already have +5 to cold spells and level 20 Comet. Very strong against Uber bosses and high Delirium.

If you guys need more jewel slots, you can take out points from Potent Incantation and the Elemental Damage tree with Echoing Frost and Echoing Thunder and go for Wild Storm. It will give you more stats, making it easier to gear and +1 jewel slot. PoB shows it’s better damage for my setup.

Monik, could you test this on your setup, please?

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valqor#0701 wrote:

Holy shit guy, that's amazing! How much gold did it take?

5kk gold =) I was about to quit, went to Alva and she told me to stay for a while =)

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thedoldivic#1741 wrote:

I have some questions regarding gameplay. If this is a noob question, please forgive me, but I saw in the videos that you use frostbolt/spark on the left click and frostwall on the right click.
How are you casting the skills? Do you hold shit or cast it with the left click or is there another way to cast without holding it? And how and when do you cast eow or frostbomb?
Basically my question is regarding gameplay, what to do and how to click.

EoW on bosses/very tough rares only. It's a supportive spell to increase our damage when needed.
Why holding shift? Just cast it as it is with the left click while moving with WASD.
Moving with the left click like in PoE1 is outdated and mechanically worse. You will die more often doing this here.

Frost Bomb/bolt are used to detonate walls. This means Frost Wall is the main skill to use. I rarely spam Frostbolts alone to clear things. Frost Wall does all the job.
Cast some Bolts, follow them in their direction, place Walls on mobs, bolt will explode the wall and it'd clear everything.
If you check lvling/low-budget videos, I place walls there and detonate them with bombs.

Spark is a bit different, can blast easy maps alone when scaled enough.
On delirious maps/Simulacrum, it's still a tool to detonate walls.

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maccabeus_#5355 wrote:

Monik, could you test this on your setup, please?

I moved to Wild Storm yesterday bc of Spark. Passive tree is on maxroll. Refunded Potent Incantation, Repulsion (got it back on 96), and Inescapable Cold.

It's weaker than Echoing wheel, but about the same as Potent Incantation/Repulsion in terms of efficiency (similar power per passive).
The problem is, it costs 6 points making it slightly inefficient, so I consider just anointing Wild Storm and making better use of passives.

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angelatanasow97#2641 wrote:

Thank you for the updates first of all.
Playing this build for like 1 week /end game/
All content is one shotted basically.
Im just worried about - basically im capped at 1.5k ES and 3.5k mana ( can get maybe around + - 100 mana from Breach ring)
Playing Snakepit and Breach ring currently with all other items 160+ mana each.
Is that right thingy or i gotta do something about?
Also running Comet - 200k (Conc eff) / 313k (infusion) is this good numbers?(Thats the numbers on the spell)

Frostbolt -Crit chance is 56%
Frostbolt -cast time 0.43 (0.28 from Quicksand)

Thanks for the answers, the build is super enjoyable.
Edit : still 93lvl going for -> (Repulsion)
edit2 : or maybe i gotta go for the last Jewel socket + 2 int nodes.

I was able to get 4k mana with Snakepit, so there is some room for you here. But yeah, that's it.

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- Comet lvl 20/20%.
- Archmage lvl 20/20%. It's big.
- 500 more mana.
- Efficient crit chance cap is about 60% comet with 20% quality on it. Frostbolt should be around 48-49%, no need for more. Get some damage instead of crit chance.

To-do list for you. Be sure to get them all.

I’m running out of mana in bossfights since the only mana reg in this build is on kill. How do u guys do bosses?

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kylistur#6890 wrote:

I’m running out of mana in bossfights since the only mana reg in this build is on kill. How do u guys do bosses?

At what stage of the game are you?
During the campaign mana flask is fine.
After MoM switch it's Temporal Rift time.
Here is a good old demo: https://youtu.be/qvdYMuXZopo?feature=shared
Literally, my 1st time using it on bosses.

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monik390#5560 wrote:

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valqor#0701 wrote:

Holy shit guy, that's amazing! How much gold did it take?

5kk gold =) I was about to quit, went to Alva and she told me to stay for a while =)

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- Comet lvl 20/20%.
- Archmage lvl 20/20%. It's big.
- 500 more mana.
- Efficient crit chance cap is about 60% comet with 20% quality on it. Frostbolt should be around 48-49%, no need for more. Get some damage instead of crit chance.

To-do list for you. Be sure to get them all.

God, archmage lv 20 just boosted my comet dmg from 460 to 532k on full buff this is crazy. Thank you for the input!

I just need to do a lil min-maxing with resistance (i have overabundance of res after switching to dream fragment) and get that mana bottle.

I'm using nova so I can put a good breach ring instead of the snakepit, so far this is my most comfortable build.

Thank you all for your wisdoms!

How do you target 2 minions with soul offering?
Most of the time it's only target 1 minion or none at all.
And does cast speed really important?

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aiseht#4782 wrote:

Thank you all for your wisdoms!

You are welcome.

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End1essWa1tz#7190 wrote:

How do you target 2 minions with soul offering?
Most of the time it's only target 1 minion or none at all.
And does cast speed really important?

It doesn't matter if there is one spike or two, you get only 1 buff anyway.

Yes, cast speed is important, but you don't have to get too much of it. ~0.45-0.5s Frostbolt is enough. For Spark it's about 0.4s.