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

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Reazura#7255 wrote:

Wanted to share my skill tree, was feeling pretty good about adding From-Nothing with Whispers of Doom, allowed it to tech into a lot of beneficial notable passives and combined with a timelost-sapphire, adds up to 42% critrate, 7% mana on kill and 77% curse aoe

Decent take. I wish I learned about timeless jewels a bit earlier.

Respect for using projectile speed wheel =) Really loved Frostbolt's experience with it.

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JuggerNuc#1979 wrote:

Ruz has a fantastic showcase of ice nova in simu but it turns out their gear is a bit out of my price range for messing around. I think the jewels alone are worth 400div. That being said, Ruz isn't running MoM or EB. Almost 10K ES with 3K mana, looks very tanky. Focus, no scepter, lot of differences beyond just running ice nova.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxk_36U4Fi0

Looks very tanky indeed.

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Masamune69#3634 wrote:

I have 50% crit on frostbolt and 60.75% on Comet without the Maligaro and with suboptimal Sapphire.

Is it useless to get more than 50% crit on frostbolt?

Yes, bc of Ambush support.

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Karma84#3765 wrote:

Can anyone help me improve my Comet damage? It's currently at 110,000 and I'm not sure which way to go for upgrades.

I'm Lv93 1.8k ES, 3.8k mana.

Is that damage under all buffs and with concentrated effect/elemental focus instead of impetus/energy retention? You should swap gems for bosses.
Also, all buffs almost double your damage: Soul Offering, Echoing chill/shock, Stormcharged.

Anyway:



Archmage 20/20% is big af.

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Karma84#3765 wrote:

Can anyone help me improve my Comet damage? It's currently at 110,000 and I'm not sure which way to go for upgrades.

I'm Lv93 1.8k ES, 3.8k mana.

Still much better than mine. Your gem is level 20? I am not sure how much one can get with this build. Hard to go past lvl 27 with comet (without crazy jewels). And with 3.8k mana, you are already high on the archmage

Hey, thank you. I've been struggling to figure out what to improve for a week-ish and didn't expect a reply if I posted on the forum, so thanks for that.

I input my exact items and passive tree into mobalytics here: https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/7200d0fd-5162-48b1-a98e-bcdf4728531b/builds/abe4ab77-92fd-4e4c-af7b-89a37ec5c0f8

ES was 1,337, Mana is 3,767. 75% RES. My jewels have Increased Spell Damage, Crit, mana on kill.

I had a couple of questions if you don't mind.

I have a Lv20 spirit gem ready to upgrade something, is the upgrade only for 0.05 mana reduction in spell cost? And which gems should I change while bossing?



I also have a controlled metamorphosis ready to go, just not enough skill points for it. All my gems are 20% level 19/20 where I can.

Any advice you could give me to step up my build/items would be very appreciated, I have around 30divine available.

My hideout Comet damage:

For anyone who hasn't invested in it, comet level 21 is a big damage boost for extremely low investment. They're like 300-350ex.

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JuggerNuc#1979 wrote:

For anyone who hasn't invested in it, comet level 21 is a big damage boost for extremely low investment. They're like 300-350ex.

I thought the +1 level from corruption was doing nothing

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I thought the +1 level from corruption was doing nothing

They fixed it

rrally struggling to find a good endgame belt. the ones with 3charms have only 2 solts for resistance. is it really worth it? i never understood charm but I die sometimes in breach when they are enemies everywhere and my walls are on cooldown

I just want to say thank you to everyone who contributed to the various build(s) here. Leveling this character & taking it to the endgame was the smoothest experience I ever had. I even managed to learn quite a bit as well. Finally understand how to allocate weapon seap skill points, and how beneficial it is. Absolutely shocked myself when I took out the final boss in suk him up aka sekhema solo for the first time. I screwed up my rotation at the beginning, but somehow managed it in the end. Had to stare at the screen in disbelief for a minute. Currently lvl 88 & working on gear upgrades, and trying to get my crit with frostbolt to 50% (currently 42.3%).

While I'm here I do have an esoteric question that I doubt anyone has an answer to. Do you guys know if flicker strike can teleport through ice wall? I ask out of curiosity since with the huge slow debuff, and time stop we make interesting support characters in groups & I have a buddy who has a monk. Anyway thank you again everyone. Let's hope that the build survives the alleged nerf hammer coming up.

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Masamune69#3634 wrote:

rrally struggling to find a good endgame belt. the ones with 3charms have only 2 solts for resistance. is it really worth it? i never understood charm but I die sometimes in breach when they are enemies everywhere and my walls are on cooldown

You are the chronomancer! Use time freeze as alarm button. Always move to rewind your position later if needed (and rollback mana and life if needed). Or you think you are the chronomancer only on bosses?
I use alternative spark build (with walls), so I have 2 time freezes with CD 100sec, 1 time snap with CD 30 sec to... reset time freeze CD. I just timestop every rare monster that looks dangerous (especially mana siphoning), breaches, some stupid situations with hordes of mobs or invisible teleporters so I just have 2 time freezes every 30 seconds (and lucky 33% not using the CD)

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ZerioctheTank#3728 wrote:

While I'm here I do have an esoteric question that I doubt anyone has an answer to. Do you guys know if flicker strike can teleport through ice wall? I ask out of curiosity since with the huge slow debuff, and time stop we make interesting support characters in groups & I have a buddy who has a monk. Anyway thank you again everyone. Let's hope that the build survives the alleged nerf hammer coming up.

You can test it in act 1-2 on mobs that will never kill you when you try.

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Karma84#3765 wrote:

And which gems should I change while bossing?

We are talking about Comet:

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monik390#5560 wrote:

concentrated effect/elemental focus instead of impetus/energy retention

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Karma84#3765 wrote:

I have a Lv20 spirit gem ready to upgrade something, is the upgrade only for 0.05 mana reduction in spell cost?

With Lightning Mastery support Archmage 20/20% reachs its lvl 21 breakpoint which adds another 1% of extra lightning per 100 mana. This is quite big, and you should upgrade it asap.

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Overall, great build. You did everything right. Good job.

If you don't feel like you need 3 charms belt, you can save money for big tickets.

Check Notes on maxroll for further upgrades (Endgame section/gear/passive tree). I'd say, go for Melting Maelstorm -> From Nothing with Mind over Matter to save 6 points and -> Prism of Belief with +3 Comet.

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JuggerNuc#1979 wrote:

For anyone who hasn't invested in it, comet level 21 is a big damage boost for extremely low investment. They're like 300-350ex.

Oh shit, I forgot about those. Still with lvl 20 lmao.

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Masamune69#3634 wrote:

3charms really worth it?

Yes. I forgot about being frozen after I got 3 charms. Was huge.

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ZerioctheTank#3728 wrote:

I just want to say thank you to everyone who contributed to the various build(s) here. Leveling this character & taking it to the endgame was the smoothest experience I ever had.

Spoiler

I even managed to learn quite a bit as well. Finally understand how to allocate weapon seap skill points, and how beneficial it is. Absolutely shocked myself when I took out the final boss in suk him up aka sekhema solo for the first time. I screwed up my rotation at the beginning, but somehow managed it in the end. Had to stare at the screen in disbelief for a minute. Currently lvl 88 & working on gear upgrades, and trying to get my crit with frostbolt to 50% (currently 42.3%).

While I'm here I do have an esoteric question that I doubt anyone has an answer to. Do you guys know if flicker strike can teleport through ice wall? I ask out of curiosity since with the huge slow debuff, and time stop we make interesting support characters in groups & I have a buddy who has a monk. Anyway thank you again everyone. Let's hope that the build survives the alleged nerf hammer coming up.

You are welcome here.

Idk about Flicker Strike, you should test it with your friend.