Cold Chronomancer Megathread. Under revision.

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fantafff#1729 wrote:

im out guys. fck this shit. at lvl 72 with +6 to lvl gems from gear my comet dealt like 9k dmg i think.

i just saw monk with 32k instant spamable skill.

gl with chrono and frost spells lol. god job ggg.

same thing was with PoE1. some chars were just better than other. chrono is dead for solo play. i think it will be just a support character

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m3dragos#3624 wrote:

Oh cool, that makes a lot of sense, thanks!
So I understand you personally are satisfied and sticking with the damage taken from mana and recoup nodes?

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Satousp#6865 wrote:

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fantafff#1729 wrote:

im out guys. fck this shit. at lvl 72 with +6 to lvl gems from gear my comet dealt like 9k dmg i think.

i just saw monk with 32k instant spamable skill.

gl with chrono and frost spells lol. god job ggg.

same thing was with PoE1. some chars were just better than other. chrono is dead for solo play. i think it will be just a support character

Chrono had 2 viable builds, CoF Comet and HoTG. Now CoF is dead and they said HoTG is gonna be nerfed soon, so RIP Chrono.

Btw these are the top 1000 players currently:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1hbq7hy/current_top1000_ladder_class_distribution/

Only 5 Chronomancers and is the one who gets destroyed to the ground.

We should be able to have a free respec on passives and switch Ascendancies. Just hit endgame after 50 hours and I'm not gonna start over again to pick Stormweaver.

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Prinnrose#2294 wrote:

Ascendancy- I'm definitely a big fan of Temporal Rift. I've been starting to use it more defensively and it's honestly saved me several times now. Using it with primarily energy shield gear, even without an investment in energy shield nodes, is like just having extra HP. Testing out how it feels to have Second Wind on it right now. I've been getting by just fine using Now and Again, I don't think I'll be taking the CD reset Ascendancy. It seems pretty undertuned, just looking at the numbers. Then again I haven't tried it out during a boss fight, it might be nice there. But I'm more concerned about clearing..

Clearing- I have been testing out the different methods for clearing packs posted here but by far my favorite is still using Ice Nova on Frost Bolt (for the extra Freeze Buildup) and using Cold Snap to clear packs. It keeps me far away from enemies, and feels more reliable than using Frost Bolt for freeze. Might test out using Comet instead of Cold Snap but I have a feeling Cold Snap is just going to be faster. Ice Walls are good in tight spaces, can pull a lot, keep them away using an ice wall, and blow it up with a comet or bomb.

I was using Unleash Ice Nova on a Deceleration Frost Bolt, but I might switch to Spell Echo Ice Nova and put Unleash on Cold Snap to see if that makes clearing easier. Probably going to look into spell speed nodes on the Passive Tree too..

I'm planning on picking up Blink too so I'll probably try out what Casia suggested, relying on Temporal Rift as a defensive.

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whanky#7014 wrote:

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Prinnrose#2294 wrote:

Ascendancy- I'm definitely a big fan of Temporal Rift. I've been starting to use it more defensively and it's honestly saved me several times now. Using it with primarily energy shield gear, even without an investment in energy shield nodes, is like just having extra HP. Testing out how it feels to have Second Wind on it right now. I've been getting by just fine using Now and Again, I don't think I'll be taking the CD reset Ascendancy. It seems pretty undertuned, just looking at the numbers. Then again I haven't tried it out during a boss fight, it might be nice there. But I'm more concerned about clearing..

Clearing- I have been testing out the different methods for clearing packs posted here but by far my favorite is still using Ice Nova on Frost Bolt (for the extra Freeze Buildup) and using Cold Snap to clear packs. It keeps me far away from enemies, and feels more reliable than using Frost Bolt for freeze. Might test out using Comet instead of Cold Snap but I have a feeling Cold Snap is just going to be faster. Ice Walls are good in tight spaces, can pull a lot, keep them away using an ice wall, and blow it up with a comet or bomb.

I was using Unleash Ice Nova on a Deceleration Frost Bolt, but I might switch to Spell Echo Ice Nova and put Unleash on Cold Snap to see if that makes clearing easier. Probably going to look into spell speed nodes on the Passive Tree too..

I'm planning on picking up Blink too so I'll probably try out what Casia suggested, relying on Temporal Rift as a defensive.

I'm doing something similar. It's very fine the clear with frostbolt + ice nova and hk with coldsnap, its slower than before and more manual but keeps fine and fun.

About the Temporal Rift, im a BIG FAN of this skill. With the support Ingenuity u can reset u all damage taken like all the time because the cd reduce very close to the 4 seconds back

For the bosses, keeps the same. Spamming Frost Wall, Hypotermia + Comet + Frost Bombs when the boss are frozen.

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TheSadPope#5444 wrote:

Agreed on it being still viable with Frostbolt + Coldsnap. More involved and a bit slower, but deals with clearing well enough.

I swapped out of CoF entirely and replaced it with Blink. Dropped the mana nodes and everything Energy related, which gave me enough points to grab some +ES nodes and +Crit, which buffed up my defenses a lot. I don't even use Ice Nova as Frost Bolt does the job well enough for the small stuff and Frost Wall/Self-cast Comet spam deals with the big ones.

With Temporal Chain + Chronomancer slow and the right passives, everything is slowed down so much you end up very tanky, which is nice in PoE2 where one death = lose the map.

Gem Setup I'm using
Frostbolt -> Scattershot | Glaciation | Arcane Surge (mobility is nice too)
Comet -> Spell Echo | Arcane Tempo | Concentrated Effect | Cold Penetration
Frost Bomb -> Strip Away | Second Wind | Whatever you like
Cold Snap -> Unleash | Whatever you like for damage
Frost Wall -> Icicle | Spell Cascade | Whatever you like (not sure Icicle is needed either)

Temporal Rift -> Ingenuity
Lightning Warp -> Life Drain | Soul Drain

Blink -> Clarity
Hyporthermia -> Cursed Ground | Heightened Curse | Ritualistic Curse
Blasphemy -> Temporal Chain | Magnified Effect | Encumbrance