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

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Telmorial#0280 wrote:

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dinozzo93#0590 wrote:

Hi, I followed this guide, despite I'm getting good damage with CoC, my DPS with frostbolt is low.

I assume it's 100% necessary clear waves with frost wall + frostbolt, sure? I'm on 9K DPS with frostbolt.

I'm following the late game variant, endgame is too expensive for me.

I'm no expert but I don't think you need to do damage with the Frostbolt itself. Its main purpose is to just burst the wall (and I guess to add a bit of extra damage and chill/freeze buildup).

EDIT: I assume you're using the Snakepit ring? Without that, you'll probably have a hard time bursting the wall.

Yes, I'm running snakepit.

As I said I got very nice damage with frostwall and bursting the walls, but just asking if I was supposed to have better DPS just with frostbolt.

TY!

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Telmorial#0280 wrote:

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Reazura#7255 wrote:

For those wanting to stick to cold skills like i do (or not really a fan of dipping into spark), here's a frostnova+icewall variant clearing juiced content at relatively decent speed. Just wanted to showcase cold spells as still viable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xez0q1WCV1o

Can you please let me know what supports you're running with Nova?

I'm currently using Astral projection (of course), Ambush, Arcane Tempo, Cold Penetration (this might be a waste). I don't have a Perfect orb yet for the Nova.

I recently switched from frostbolt to nova and I am running Arcane Tempo, Ambush, Astral Projection, Mobility and Cold Mastery

My first level 20 uncut gem dropped last night (finally!)
I guess I should use it on Comet, does that sound about right?

Also, I bought the level 20 Archmage (with the +1 support), wow, it's made a huge difference. My mana now stays almost 100% all the time (apart from when comet procs).

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OneArmedMonkey#1976 wrote:

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Telmorial#0280 wrote:

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Reazura#7255 wrote:

For those wanting to stick to cold skills like i do (or not really a fan of dipping into spark), here's a frostnova+icewall variant clearing juiced content at relatively decent speed. Just wanted to showcase cold spells as still viable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xez0q1WCV1o

Can you please let me know what supports you're running with Nova?

I'm currently using Astral projection (of course), Ambush, Arcane Tempo, Cold Penetration (this might be a waste). I don't have a Perfect orb yet for the Nova.

I recently switched from frostbolt to nova and I am running Arcane Tempo, Ambush, Astral Projection, Mobility and Cold Mastery

Thanks. Cold Mastery's a much better option and nice idea re Mobility.

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dinozzo93#0590 wrote:

As I said I got very nice damage with frostwall and bursting the walls, but just asking if I was supposed to have better DPS just with frostbolt.

Yes, you should have more dps with it, bc it can relate to overall damage of the build.

Cold Chronomancer lvl 90 (55d budget): https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/5e8680dj

4k mana, Frostbolt dps:

- 19k dps projectile unbuffed, 43k buffed in combat.
- 29k dps explosion unbuffed, 73k buffed in combat.
- 48% crit chance.

Comet has over 500k damage with ConC/Ele Focus and under all buffs in combat.

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By mentioning your dps I can't tell what fix.
Prepare some PoB/maxroll.

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Masamune69#3634 wrote:

I am reworking my tree. I have only 60k DPS with Spark and 35% crit. 300Mana/s regen. I want to push to 140K Spark. I set up path of building 2 today. It takes a while but it works well now. I can test gears without buying them.

I will update once it looks good

300 mana regen is a huge damn problem, mate. You must fix it asap.

I have 102% on ring, 35% on amulet, and 40% on dream frags. It's good enough.

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I made a few changes - allocated Branching Bolts instead of Repulsion wheel and Erraticism - clear is actually better now than on my SW. By far. Comets are raining...
By dropping Erraticism I lost like 10k spark dps now, but it doesn't matter. 130k dps/38% crit chance now, 0.39 cast speed is good enough.

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monik390#5560 wrote:

- I have 140k (50k avg hit, 0.36s cast speed) spark dps on Chrono, and 110k (45k avg hit, 0.41s cast speed) on SW ingame during the combat. I have way more uptime of the offering on Chrono (bc 22s duration, it's almost a habit to use), while on SW I rarely use it (can't recall the duration, about 12-16 seconds).

Thanks for the feedback. I input the gears and tree you posted in your latest maxroll into path of building but I was getting only 66k DPS. So not far from mine.

I think you count conductivity and soul offering in your DPS. I then obtain 143k DPS with your build (+/_ boots/helmet/ring) compare to mine.

Are you counting those in your DPS and are you Soul offering constantly?

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Masamune69#3634 wrote:

Thanks for the feedback. I input the gears and tree you posted in your latest maxroll into path of building but I was getting only 66k DPS. So not far from mine.

I think you count conductivity and soul offering in your DPS. I then obtain 143k DPS with your build (+/_ boots/helmet/ring) compare to mine.

Are you counting those in your DPS and are you Soul offering constantly?

I never mentioned anything about PoB2 here... Just ingame dps during the combat:



Yes, it is under Soul Offering. I'm using it most of the time. 22s duration is good.

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Edit: No buffs. Just staying still in h/o:

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monik390#5560 wrote:

I made a few changes - allocated Branching Bolts instead of Repulsion wheel and Erraticism - clear is actually better now than on my SW. By far. Comets are raining...
By dropping Erraticism I lost like 10k spark dps now, but it doesn't matter. 130k dps/38% crit chance now, 0.39 cast speed is good enough.

Do spark with pierce(support gem) work with branching bolts?
In passive tree description said "Projectiles cannot Chain from enemies they Pierce or Fork from"

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End1essWa1tz#7190 wrote:

Do spark with pierce(support gem) work with branching bolts?
In passive tree description said "Projectiles cannot Chain from enemies they Pierce or Fork from"

No, it doesn't work with Pierce support ofc. Screenshot was taken during the proper tests in Pierce vs Bolts.

I'm testing what support gem to put here instead of pierce.

UPD: ended up with Considered Casting/Erraticism (instead of frost Echoing). 75k avg hit is a lot better than 50k.

I put Leverage support instead of CC in Frost Wall.

Anyway, this is it for me for Spark endgame version. Only thing I consider adding now - Chiming Stuff with Clerics instead of sceptre/duration shield. I loose blink, 3 seconds of Time Freeze, and 6 seconds of offering duration, but would get Sigil of Power. Not sure if I need it, but will test, why not.

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UPD2: Showcase of Sigil of Power with Electrolute support in Spark -
Simulacrum 82 waves 14-15: https://youtu.be/kIeVj_1D6H0

The tests went well. I focused more on the Spark this time, adding more passives in its QoL/damage. Sigil of Power is great in Simulacrum for sure.
Lost 5 seconds of Offering Duration, and Time Freeze is about 8-9 seconds (not enough spirit for Blasphemy with staff). I didn't run any boss with it, but it's 64% more spell damage at stage 4 of Sigil for me (I got +6 all spells chiming staff), so yeah. Strong af.

Outside of Simulacrum I just run with Rising Tempest instead of Electrolute.

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Anyway, Spark gameplay is boring af. I enjoyed Frost Ball/Wall way more, but Spark superiority is just forcing me to use it. I really wish for Frostbolt rework/alt quality for explosions instead of pierce.

This is it for now.

I am getting somewhere with my new build. Still struggling to get mana regen. I don’t understand how to get it to 1k but I will find.

Question: can you run 2 against the darkness jewel? Or is it limited to 1.

I am short on spirit to have both conductivity temporal chains and enhanced curse and I don’t want to change my amulet nor my chest. And finding a good helmet with spirit is very very expensive