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

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Masamune69#3634 wrote:

Interesting, I thought Dynamism wasn't doing much because I don't proc CoC anymore during mapping. Maybe Crashing Wave is better now since the update. What do you think?

I don't know how things are for you atm. If you feel like Comets are on holidays only, then yes, Crashing Wave would be better in your case.

Anyway, get the Archmage done asap. It's big.

Just got it. Archmage 21.

I am trying to buy a new amulet non-corrupted to do the annoint.

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monik390#5560 wrote:

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Masamune69#3634 wrote:

Anyway, get the Archmage done asap. It's big.

Wow, it is 12% increase in DPS from 20 to 21

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Telmorial#0280 wrote:

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.

I know some good answers have already been given, but I will update my maxroll page and link that here in an edit in a little bit. I'm a very casual player (don't even play every day, and usually only 1-2 hours at a time) and still not doing nearly the damage others are in this thread, but I can clear juiced T15 maps fairly easily at this point. Freeze/stun deaths still happen sometimes if I'm not careful because I only have a 1 charm belt.

I was struggling with mana and damage for quite a while, and have managed to get everything up to a reasonable level. I've been lucky enough to find 4-5 div throughout the game, and a couple of those I exchanged for ex so that I could buy more reasonably-priced things. Only piece of gear I spent 1 div on I ended up not needing anyway, lol.

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here is my current build https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/cf3cs05f
here is my previous build https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/8h3b0ocl

My most recent upgrades were grabbing Controlled Metamorphosis, some % spell and % crit jewels, and a different wand. You don't need to worry about getting CM or a similar wand right away, I just had the funds to go for it (I am 6% short on cold resist atm, but will fix that soon). Some big improvements on my old build came with finding a higher ES body armor, upgrading the quality of all my armor and putting Iron Runes in the slots, quality and level on skill/spirit gems, and trying to get +mana on as many pieces of gear as possible. Some rearranging of passives also helped; instead of grabbing the Insightfulness wheel I found Calibration which helps slightly with mana.

hey everyone, thanks for the posts, very informative stuff all around. Has anyone been consistently running this build for trial of sekhemas? I would like to try farming it, but worried it might be slow (esp. without blink, unless there's a way to swap in blink on a medium budget).

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ethantae#9840 wrote:

hey everyone, thanks for the posts, very informative stuff all around. Has anyone been consistently running this build for trial of sekhemas? I would like to try farming it, but worried it might be slow (esp. without blink, unless there's a way to swap in blink on a medium budget).

I have been Running sekhemas with this Build. Usually takes me 20-25 minutes to complete. I swap out Eye of Winter for blink with second wind and Ingenuity Support gems. I use Blink only on weapon set 2 with Crest of ardura. You will have to manually swap weapon Set in Order to activate blink.

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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.

You are already level 90 so leveling up very hard. If you were lower, I would say run Trial of Chaos a lot. It takes 20 minutes, give you about 200Ex each run in general.

You really need better gear. 20 runs of trial of chaos might give you 1 level and easily more than 10 divines in total currency. If you need Ultimatum, I can give you some.

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Telmorial#0280 wrote:

Thanks very much for your reply and help.
I've bought one of those body armor and my mana is now 3099, which is better and resists now capped. Hopefully that makes a difference.

So, how it is? How it feels now?
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Monik, just from QOL perspective. I suppose that your endgame gear provides completely OP overkill. Is it even possible just to add +1 charm with amulet instead of Wild Storm? Ingenuity with 1 charm sometimes feels uncomfortable.

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Sairef#3190 wrote:

Monik, just from QOL perspective. I suppose that your endgame gear provides completely OP overkill. Is it even possible just to add +1 charm with amulet instead of Wild Storm? Ingenuity with 1 charm sometimes feels uncomfortable.

I have dream frags, so 1 charm (stun) is the only one I need. Bc besides chill and freeze there ain't many bad things that can happen. I can't remember when I got hindered/bled last time. And corrupted blood is rare af outside of ultimatum beam turrets.

W/o it, sure, why not.

Without +3 Comet Gem




With +3 Comet




Am I missing something here, or is the 25-35divine +3 comet gem worthless as it reduces my damage?