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

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monik390#5560 wrote:

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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.

Don't we need 2 minions for Danse Macabre to take effect?

how valuable is cast speed? my wand got +5 cold spells but got no cast speed... should i go for +4 cold and add cast speed instead? cant afford +5 with cast speed

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End1essWa1tz#7190 wrote:

Don't we need 2 minions for Danse Macabre to take effect?

True, 2 spikes offer ~10% more damage than 1, I was wrong.

Anyway, place cursor between minions. They must be close to each other.

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herrgenzu#3806 wrote:

how valuable is cast speed? my wand got +5 cold spells but got no cast speed... should i go for +4 cold and add cast speed instead? cant afford +5 with cast speed

I'd choose +4 with 30% cast speed over +5 w/o it.

Faster you cast - faster your movement is, actually. Assuming you don't hold spam skill but clicking.

There is very big difference between 0.7s Frostbolt and 0.5s.

Silly question - if you use gemcutter's on Frostbolt it increases damage dealt after it pierces an enemy, right? I'm assuming it doesn't work with Snakepit when it forks?

Was just curious since I haven't invested any gemcutter's into frostbolt.

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animusdx#4044 wrote:

Silly question - if you use gemcutter's on Frostbolt it increases damage dealt after it pierces an enemy, right? I'm assuming it doesn't work with Snakepit when it forks?

Was just curious since I haven't invested any gemcutter's into frostbolt.

Yes, you are right. With Snakepit, Frostbolt doesn't pierce, no need for quality here.

Silly question tho - should we take Dreamfragment for bosses + breach ring with Ingenuity?

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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?

depends you are at.
that unique mana flask is busted good for this.
temporal rift is the in ascendancy option. kind of rough.. but works.


theres no other great mana regen option.
arcane surge on crit and inc effect can help.
just having more mana/regen in general.

archmage becomes MORE mana efficient as it levels up, and gets quality.
it starts at like 6.5% of max mana added to spells, then reduces down to 5%.
While its damage increase goes up with level.

+levels to spells, however, is the opposite. spells cost MORE mana per level, then they increase with damage.
so, while +levels to spells is powerful, it also can cripple you mana wise.

+spell damage, damage gained as x, crit, are more mana efficient.

CoC is also very mana hungry. now, no special increase in mana cost, but it is costing you mana for every cast. and spamming 6 comets in 1second will evaporate your mana pool.

anyone try out trampletoe yet? does it work with frostwall as well?
was looking at this shieldwall/hammer chrono build and wondering if we could learn anything.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1icp5er/hi_its_me_again_showcasing_my_chronotank_build/



There has also got to be a way to self hit damage aside from infernalist. anyone figure one out yet?
theres self ignite via fireflower (not a hit), self curse via shackles..
wait, impending doom. "sacrifice" via a bunch of passives/items. not hit.

can we impending doom ourselves, to proc recoup?
(does say enemies...)

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Casia#1093 wrote:

There has also got to be a way to self hit damage aside from infernalist. anyone figure one out yet?
theres self ignite via fireflower (not a hit), self curse via shackles..
wait, impending doom. "sacrifice" via a bunch of passives/items. not hit.

can we impending doom ourselves, to proc recoup?
(does say enemies...)

Heartbound loop... take 300 phy dmg as 'hit' when minion death
this proc all recoup

minion death from firewall + rs...

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twarunchai#0382 wrote:

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Casia#1093 wrote:

There has also got to be a way to self hit damage aside from infernalist. anyone figure one out yet?
theres self ignite via fireflower (not a hit), self curse via shackles..
wait, impending doom. "sacrifice" via a bunch of passives/items. not hit.

can we impending doom ourselves, to proc recoup?
(does say enemies...)

Heartbound loop... take 300 phy dmg as 'hit' when minion death
this proc all recoup

minion death from firewall + rs...

oh.. hrmm. I wonder.

I did also see this chrono-minion build.
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/o5f9a0zq

fireflower (ammy applies to minion passive) and cast on minion death.

theres also offerings.
can we soul offering srs?
minion pact won't actually kill the minions.


Edit: decided to test out shackles and impending doom.
Shackle curse reflect doesn't seem to work at all. neither direct casting, or blasphemy was self cursing.