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

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Sairef#3190 wrote:

I really hope that 'Coming soon' skills will synergize with chronomancer.

The Ascendancy feels underbaked compare to Stormweaver.At least for now

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monik390#5560 wrote:

Great job here, keep it up =)

The amount of mana she slurping like Jet Engine during the boss fights is still concerning. Very scary to run MoM tbh.

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default_mp3#9394 wrote:

The amount of mana she slurping like Jet Engine during the boss fights is still concerning. Very scary to run MoM tbh.

That's why we are using Temporal Rift to restore entire mana pool.

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monik390#5560 wrote:

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default_mp3#9394 wrote:

The amount of mana she slurping like Jet Engine during the boss fights is still concerning. Very scary to run MoM tbh.

That's why we are using Temporal Rift to restore entire mana pool.

Yeah I need to get used to that skill. I mostly forgetting about it. :(

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DonkeyDick0509#1489 wrote:

Is it just me or is the budget of 40 div just not realistic, i cant even buy a wand that has that high crit for under 100 div, how is the build suppose to cost that? Im referring to the https://mobalytics.gg/ build

I don't know how I missed the budget range for medium, lol. I've been following (generally) those passive trees but my whole build is under 10div, probably <5 (I resold the sceptre I bought for 1d, everything else has been cheaper). Feels fine for the most part, just have to work a little harder/be careful in some circumstances.

Crazy that the prices have gone up so much for wands. About two weeks ago I got a +3 all spells, +174 mana, 87% crit chance for spells wand for like 100-150ex. Now I can't find anything similar for <1div. I guess just keep checking back?

I was hoping to upgrade to Morior/Maligaro, but 5-socket Morior are way out of my price range (13+ div). Haven't had the patience to sit down and figure out what other replacements I'd need to make if I grabbed a 4-socket instead. Will need to figure out Dex as well since I had gone through and trimmed as much of that from my tree as possible, but need a fair amount for that combo.

Just put some soul cores on the market yesterday and sold them very quickly. Made about 500ex. Didn't realize those things were in such high demand or I would have done that sooner. Might try to farm my way up to better gear since Chaos is so easy.

edit: grabbed a 4-socket Morior. Balancing res was a pain as was redoing pieces of the passive tree. Lost about 1k ES and 700ish mana (using +5% ele res soul cores right now due to res issues, will swap for % mana when I can). However, damage boosted by about 30% and increased AoE as well, so actually feels better. Finally decided to try moving away from Eternal Youth because it seemed like a lot of passives to give up for something that isn't that useful anyway -- if I'm being pressed that hard, I'm either going to die or kill everything before I do. Not like health flasks help that much in those situations anyway. Will see how this goes -- just happy to have a >10k Frostbolt and 99k Comet for the first time.

Holy cow! I leave for 2 weeks on a 5 year anniversary trip with my wife and come back to 25 extra pages on the thread. I want to read it all but it will take me some time haha.

@monik390#5560 Saw that our ice wall got nerfed a bit since we can’t generate energy on the walls anymore, but I made a few tweaks to my build and noticed comets are dropping way more than usual when clearing trash mobs. Now, this could be one of three things: either it’s just in my head because I haven’t played in a while, the tweaks I made somehow boosted my energy gain like crazy, or GGG quietly buffed energy gain against white and blue mobs, which I didn’t see mentioned in the patch notes.

Could also be that I don't fundamentally understand how the energy is calculated. Is it based on how much damage our crits are doing? If so then that would explain the increase in energy gain since my changes took me from 107k Spark DPS to 213k spark DPS.

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default_mp3#9394 wrote:

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Sairef#3190 wrote:

I really hope that 'Coming soon' skills will synergize with chronomancer.

The Ascendancy feels underbaked compare to Stormweaver.At least for now

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monik390#5560 wrote:

Great job here, keep it up =)

The amount of mana she slurping like Jet Engine during the boss fights is still concerning. Very scary to run MoM tbh.

In my opinion having played both ascendancies. Chronomancer is much stronger than Stormweaver from a survivability perspective. We get so much utility from our class and can still reach epic numbers of damage because of archmage. My chronomancer can freeze a pinnacle boss for 24 seconds. Making every boss in the game complete cheese. I have an AOE slow that makes dealing with generic map mobs super easy. My sheet dps on spark is 213k and my comets are at 1.5 million per comet. I delete everything on my screen with one push of spark. Every boss in the game dies at max difficulty with one comet combo. Temporal Rift makes us almost immune to death and immune to running out of mana if used skillfully. My stormweaver just hits hard... chronomancer can hit hard and CC with ease.

Freeze to death xD Ultimatum bosses having no chance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWJ01ZsGeU8

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valqor#0701 wrote:

ge. My chronomancer can freeze a pinnacle boss for 24 seconds. Making every boss in the game complete cheese. I have an AOE slow that makes dealing with generic map mobs super easy. My sheet dps on spark is 213k and my comets are at 1.5 million per comet.

Damn what is the recipe for this? Or that is what Dream Fragments plus Ingenuity is capable of?

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valqor#0701 wrote:

Could also be that I don't fundamentally understand how the energy is calculated. Is it based on how much damage our crits are doing? If so then that would explain the increase in energy gain since my changes took me from 107k Spark DPS to 213k spark DPS.

I dropped a F.A.Q. few days ago (page 1, 2nd post) =)

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Q: How to get more Comets?

A: There were several nerfs to triggers/walls, so we are not getting as many Comets now in general. Previously we were using Frost Wall for guaranteed Comets even w/o enemies around, but now it's fixed.

But the answer is always the same - get more crit and damage.
From the Cast on Critical description:

Gains 1 Energy per Power of enemies you
Critically Hit with Skills, modified by the percentage of the enemy's Ailment Threshold the Critical Hit will deal.

This means the more damage you do - the more energy you get.

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This is the exact reason why I keep telling Frostbolt explosion getting more energy than Spark during early-midgame. It hits harder + AoE + Shotgun.

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I have enough Comets too, even if my spark is just ~135-155k in-game =)

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default_mp3#9394 wrote:

Freeze to death xD Ultimatum bosses having no chance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWJ01ZsGeU8

Damn what is the recipe for this? Or that is what Dream Fragments plus Ingenuity is capable of?

Maxroll build -> Endgame variant. It's a similar approach, probably a slightly different passive tree. Or not =)

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valqor#0701 wrote:

In my opinion having played both ascendancies. Chronomancer is much stronger than Stormweaver from a survivability perspective. We get so much utility from our class and can still reach epic numbers of damage because of archmage. My chronomancer can freeze a pinnacle boss for 24 seconds. Making every boss in the game complete cheese. I have an AOE slow that makes dealing with generic map mobs super easy. My sheet dps on spark is 213k and my comets are at 1.5 million per comet. I delete everything on my screen with one push of spark. Every boss in the game dies at max difficulty with one comet combo. Temporal Rift makes us almost immune to death and immune to running out of mana if used skillfully. My stormweaver just hits hard... chronomancer can hit hard and CC with ease.

I have a quite similar opinion on Chrono. It's good.
Not sure what is the reason for other people to complain about the class besides failing to build a decent toon.
I'm very comfortable with my current build, and this feeling hasn't changed since CoC+Temporal Rift came up. Each day past that point was better than yesterday (besides nerf days ofc).

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Anyway, I'm rolling Stormweaver atm too (just started lvling), wanna check things on a ~30d budget. And then I want to compare things per budget range by myself.

He doesn't feel so good right now.

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default_mp3#9394 wrote:

He doesn't feel so good right now.

Good job =)