Cold Chronomancer Megathread. All content cleared. Leveling guide added.
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How are you getting energy for the CoC? I have 60% crit chance on Ice wall and its barely building energy.
Underwhelming coming from CoMD which was hundreds of comets but lags the game due to the raging skulls |
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Damn, I just realized Monik you arnt running Frost Bomb. You are running EoW to to apply more Crit Weakness + blow up walls?
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" The energy comes from the Frost Orb explosions as well I think. |
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" Ah, no, Frostbolt does this job. Here's the demo: https://youtu.be/9n4zwP2OYb8 It's not as good as Frost Bomb, but still good. EoW setup: Unleash - Cold Exposure - Lightning Exposure - Conduction - Strip Away. It applies Cold and Lightning exposure plus Critical Weakness. Works like a charm. You can check it in my old Xesht 8/8 video: https://youtu.be/oWo9uiT6Gu4?feature=shared&t=21 22nd second (lol): EoW applied Shock, Cold Exposure, Lightning Exposure, max stacks of CW in a single cast. " The more damage your crits do - the more energy you generate. Scale crit/increased damage. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Meanwhile, moved to Maligaro's Virtuosity. The total switch cost was ~20d. And that's "low budget" for me. Literally had to go low-cost bc I had no more currency. And I have a lot of work with this setup now. https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/6x7q0cm3 - What a pain to fit. My biggest issue was res, had to get this Morior Invictus (maxroll shows the wrong one):  - Had to downgrade Snakepit with lower Cast Speed but dexterity corruption. Bought one for 35 ex. - Had to get a breach ring with dex and some mana/regen to compensate for loss from gloves/body armor. 2d here. - Extremely tight on stats. Got a cheap offset sceptre with +4 to minion skills and 25% reduced attribute requirement. So I could refund 5str for 5int. - I lost 800 ES and 200 mana. For some reason, Gaze with Morior adds less ES than 900 ES chest. Idk why, even if mana is the same. - Made changes to passive tree. All critical damage passives and their wheels (like deadly force) are gone. - Allocated some %increased damage instead. Echoing, All Natural, Potent Incantation. - Anointed Heartstopping for int and the remaining critical chance for ~60% comet. - Cast speed is super important. I tried 1 map with 0.68s bolt/wall and that shit felt terribly bad. Currently have 0.53s bc of Erraticism and ele smalls, and that's a massive qol. Previously I had 0.61s. I'm sure I have to get a new wand and jewels with cast speed too. - Damage boost is...huge. Comet went up to almost 500k avg damage per use under all buffs up. Frostbolts' dps almost doubled. - Supercritical support doesn't work anymore. I put Bludgeon (knockback) in Frost Wall for now, bc I opted out from Repulsion too. Will think about better options later. Anyway, too much work here. Cast speed wands are expensive (I get why tho). Decent jewels 3-10d each. Better helmet/boots with more ES/mana are pricey too. I'm not sure if this change was worth it. Lost defense, got damage. Need to run a couple of Simulacrums to be sure. Later. |
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" I'm glad that you decided to do this. This means that I'll be able to refer to another build that uses these gloves to improve mine. I'll share my POB a few hours from now. I had actually forgotten that I wanted to do that a few days ago. |
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" Goddamn 500k. My self-cast comet is just around 130k.. Although I'm not using the minion offering on the off-hand. I prefer to use a Gelid staff to kill stragglers with insta-freeze from Freezing shards and Cold snap. Does the tool-tip show the final damage (in your case 500k) even if you don't have the minion buff yet as long as its in your gem slots? |
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Yes I was running virtuosity and invictus earlier. Had 400k comets and still only getting comet to go off every 3-4 seconds. Lots of ice wall. Comet crit chance was at 75-80 at the highest point.
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Ok. Just read the patch notes. HUGE nerf again to Cast on builds:
"Skills socketed in a Meta Gem's sockets can no longer gain energy." Comets from the meta gems contribute around twice (or more) to energy gain. Especially for my build where I self-cast one Comet, which causes 2-3 more Cast on Crit comets because they get energy as well. Time to move on from Cast on builds boys. |
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Yeah, it was fun guys. F =)
And I removed nerf warning from OP yesterday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anyway. Jokes aside. I think it's Frost Bomb/Self Cast Comet now for detonating walls on pinnacle bosses. Probably Unset Ring switch trick instead of Snakepit (need to test it actually on bosses). We won't be able to chain Comets with CoC, but we still can summon plenty of them with walls. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ " Not sure. Just opened a random breach. Basically, this is it for clearing. Comet rain depends on the density and rarity of monsters, besides walls. https://youtu.be/nOjZLT-GJ70 And that video earlier with frostbolt on a wall. 1-2 comet casts per walls cast. CoC is used mostly for bossing/rares, not clearing. Ofc in comparison to CoMD there should be less comets with CoC. Edit: Well, there are 3 map mods that can lower CoC-comets: Ailment threshold, Reduced Crit damage taken, Monster Ele Res. " I can relate if you are using Gelid with self-comet. But, take a look at the difference between my skills' damage under buffs (inc soul offering and all on-crit stuff, not sure if Echoing works on monster death) and w/o them:
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1-Comet-Impetus-No-buffs  2-Comet-Impetus-Buffs  3-Comet-Conc-Buffs  4-Frostbolt-Proj-No-buffs  5-Frostbolt-Proj-Buffs  6-Frostbolt-Explosion-No-Buffs  7-Frostbolt-Explosion-Buffs  Soul Offering is very hard to ignore. Last edited by monik390#5560 on Jan 16, 2025, 2:51:18 AM
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What level is the Comet on your Meta Gem? I think mine has ~130k DMG, no buffs, and Impetus + Spell Echo + Considered Casting. I have 88% Crit Chance for the Socketed Comet. ~3600 Mana. Level 19 Comet (but I have a +5 wand). Must be the added elemental damage and overall increased spell damage nodes? I don't have those. I have more Energy Shield and Stun Recovery nodes instead. Oh and, I spent some points to get to the Meta Energy and Triggered Spell damage cluster at 3 o'clock.
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