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

With 0 changes did Xesht 4 on my low budget setup, looks same.
Clearing is more or less same, just place wall on rares.
Mana sustain might be easier because not so many Comets trigger during clear.

Hey with the new patch it is not possible to crate crit on walls
any Idea how the buld works with the new patch ?

Thanks

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PaintMaster#2396 wrote:

With 0 changes did Xesht 4 on my low budget setup, looks same.
Clearing is more or less same, just place wall on rares.
Mana sustain might be easier because not so many Comets trigger during clear.

See this is something I also noticed, and if you have enough damage on frostbolt/wall you don't really need the comets to clear trash.

with my high budget (I guess) "all bells and whistles build" I logged in today without reading patch notes...

my noob review:

started running super juiced t17-18 maps with like 80% elem resist on monsters, huge life increase etc. definitely felt smth was off ...

not enough comets to my liking, just kind of a slower experience and found myself not seeing comets destroy everything at a moment's notice all the time ... one time even had to time freeze mid map cause comets were just not coming out lol

bosses are still easy, two days ago I was killing lvl 4 Xesht and Arbiter in like 1-2 seconds, now it's maybe 3-5 sec depending on how I mess up button presses while high :)

I switched to spark after valqor's and monik's insights (thanks again!) and spark still clears most of the small stuff no problem, Gonna test a little more tonight...



Maybe it's time to try some new build and take a break from this one :)

Hope everyone has no problem adapting and still having fun!

I'm looking for advice, as I'm stuck on my Chrono, can't progress at level 90.
I've tried this build and it looks great but I'm still getting 1 shotted, which mean with the awful XP loss (that needs go!), after around 5 days getting to 90, I'm back to 0% into level 90.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious but in order to upgrade my gear to get lots more mana (to survive 1 shots), I'll need 10 to 20 divs (I have zero).
So I keep trying to run T15, T16, do OK then die to some stupid laser fire beam or something off the screen, back to 0%.

Wit this XP loss, I'm just going around in circles.

Here's my stats at 90 (MOB, EB).
HP 1,530
Shield 1,530 (from Everlast Gaze amulet)
Mana 2,724

Is that about right for my level or should I have way more mana by now?

Any ideas what I can do please?

EDIT: I know about that Omen which reduces XP loss but it's crazy expensive (180ex the last the time checked), way outside a casual player budget.

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Telmorial#0280 wrote:

I'm looking for advice, as I'm stuck on my Chrono, can't progress at level 90.
I've tried this build and it looks great but I'm still getting 1 shotted, which mean with the awful XP loss (that needs go!), after around 5 days getting to 90, I'm back to 0% into level 90.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious but in order to upgrade my gear to get lots more mana (to survive 1 shots), I'll need 10 to 20 divs (I have zero).
So I keep trying to run T15, T16, do OK then die to some stupid laser fire beam or something off the screen, back to 0%.

Wit this XP loss, I'm just going around in circles.

Here's my stats at 90 (MOB, EB).
HP 1,530
Shield 1,530 (from Everlast Gaze amulet)
Mana 2,724

Is that about right for my level or should I have way more mana by now?

Any ideas what I can do please?

EDIT: I know about that Omen which reduces XP loss but it's crazy expensive (180ex the last the time checked), way outside a casual player budget.

Morior Invictus (even with 4 slots) with mana and resists (80-90-100 ex price) per soulcore AND Runes for resists (usual ones or +5% soulcores) will enable much cheaper gearing for tight budget. So you will be able to find cheaper rings, boots, belt, helmet with not so many resists, but with more mana on them. To insert + mana soulcores you need something to boost first. Later on when you will have some budget, replace resists in Morior with +2% mana, keep the same mana level on other gear and move resists there. At least this is what I would do with under 5 div budget while farming Chaos Trial for a couple of days to get 5 divs or soulcores :)

Unpopular opinion: take spark, boost your crit chance, adjust the passives a bit and from 45k spark dps you will just annihilate maps without mods like +resists for mobs, and +hp for mobs. Because spark travels for the whole screen, enabling the covardly-styled gameplay when you kill enemies before they see you. And walls for a bit control and urgent comets when placed right on the monsters pack while the floor is flooded with spark.

Extra: Omen Of Resurgence costs 10ex from currency exchange. 'Recover your life and mana when you are on low life'. Try it :)

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monik390#5560 wrote:

For me, it was worse by far than 80k Frostbolt explosion dps I had.

When I got ~75k Spark it felt OK in comparison:

Do you get 80k on explosion with the build you have in your guide as mid-budget?

Because I have the same-ish and I don't get 30k on explosion.

Maybe I do something wrong

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Masamune69#3634 wrote:

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monik390#5560 wrote:

For me, it was worse by far than 80k Frostbolt explosion dps I had.

When I got ~75k Spark it felt OK in comparison:

Do you get 80k on explosion with the build you have in your guide as mid-budget?

Because I have the same-ish and I don't get 30k on explosion.

Maybe I do something wrong

As I understood from previous comments, Monik is under the offering for the whole time constantly.

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Telmorial#0280 wrote:

Any ideas what I can do please?

a casual player budget.

Stats you mentioned can't really tell much besides the fact you didn't go for CI for some reason. I'd recommend doing it so it would free you from stacking chaos resistance on your gear.

- Take a look at the build: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/6x7q0cm3

Choose everywhere "early-game", and check the passive tree too. There are lvl 85-95 trees there that would help.

- 31. Low-budget video compilation from maps to Pinnacles: https://youtu.be/ISKDUsl7_m8

Don't get distracted by the total cost, I messed up quite a bit there. Should cost less by now.

- Low-budget build (<2d) vs lvl 81 map with breach and boss: https://youtu.be/AGm0SU1A-rs

This is my recent low-budget demo, you should have smth like this early.

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Sairef#3190 wrote:

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Masamune69#3634 wrote:

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monik390#5560 wrote:

For me, it was worse by far than 80k Frostbolt explosion dps I had.

When I got ~75k Spark it felt OK in comparison:

Do you get 80k on explosion with the build you have in your guide as mid-budget?

Because I have the same-ish and I don't get 30k on explosion.

Maybe I do something wrong

As I understood from previous comments, Monik is under the offering for the whole time constantly.

Not just offering (it's true that I run under the offering most of the time), I go kill some stuff too to trigger conditional buffs from passive tree and take a screenshot of damage under everything up.

Here is the latest post of cold damage shots before I got some decent stuff and switched to Spark, under all buffs:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3592843/page/79#p25876946

Frostbolt explosion is 86k dps, 38k damage per use.

The gear/tree/gems are exactly like in maxroll medium-budget/late-game..