Cold sorc, im having an awful time scaling my dps, need help

Hi! Im a long veteran from the first beta of poe1, was a long time since the last time i played path of exile, with the launch of poe2 i was very exited, i tried to do a cold sorceress in a blind playthrough, not following any guides, im currently level 90 doing t16, and the character seems really underwelming, all my friends are playing deadeye lighting arrow, bloodmage detonate dead, a couple of them playing the infernalist with the raging spirits, no matter the changes i tried, i feel so left behind, they are facerolling content like its nothing, and im feeling like im struggling.

I tried to search on youtube any build of cold sorceress but there isnt anything really out there, as far as i know, is just ice really slow and sluggish? There is any build interesting with cold spells for endgame content? (Pinacle bosses and stuff)

There are some Frostbolt + frostbomb as starter

I'm playing Eye of Winter Stormweaver and have no problem clearing content.


The most important thing is to get your plus skills up and enough mana/mana regen to keep archmage on, as that is a crutch basically all sorceress' are leaning on atm.

I do Pierce, Elemental Focus, Considered Casting, and Inspiration as the primary gems for Eye of Winter. Inspiration is absolutely needed so you can spam down the EoW button. As the 5th gem I run elemental exposure on crit to save myself from having to press Frost Bomb when doing normal mapping so it was purely a convenience thing. If you don't need that convenience you can gem in Frost Mastery for even more damage.

Ascendancies are bonus to exposure, arcane surge, and the first nodes for elemental storm.

The exposure you generate is an insane DPS increase as it can push enemies into negative, with nodes/quality/Strip Away Gem Frost Bomb applies 90% exposure for bosses.

For mapping just put up a frost wall in front of you and spam EoW for a second or two and everything dies. If it's a stronger rare enemy you can fire a single frost bolt for the frozen ground and then EoW them to death. I have frost bold on slower projectiles and 2 additional projectiles so it sticks around forever leaving frozen ground

For bosses same thing drop Frost Bomb for the massive exposure, then spam Frost Walls on them until you are out of charges, hopefully freezing them for even easier clear. Then frost bolt once and spam EoW. DPS is about 750K on Pinnacle bosses with this setup. (I do have excellent gear though)

Stats to focus on are mostly Crit/Crit Damage which scales amazingly with EoW which applies crit weakness, increased skill levels, energy shield in that order.

If you have the divines to get a +20 gem and +7 on your weapon/focus (+5 on want, +2 on off hand) you are basically good to go already.

https://imgur.com/a/itljieA

Doesn't look like much but keep in mind that's per shard and shards can hit multiple enemies, it's +50% total damage going over a frostbolts frozen ground, your actual crit is MUCH higher than this due to how critical weakness works, and each cast fires off like 20+ shards. You're also basically doing true damage with the massive exposure.

Currently I mostly farm ultimatum with this build because you literally kill the bosses before they can get off a single attack and it's good money.

hey i'd be interested in knowing how to make it work with eye of winter, could you post some more info, like passive tree etc?

I googled it a bit, but don't find much helpful stuff on how to make it work, sorry im a new player XD

thanks!

Could really use some help with the passive tree as well, able to make Eye of Winter somewhat decent, but I can't clear anything past T13 - I just get off screened anything that hears me, or get rushed by something that instantly teleports on my position. Also, everything seems to instantly freeze me, regardless of what element they attack with?