Sorceress Class

Yesterday I tried to make a freezing build using the Sorceress, upto lvl 20 it worked I was easilly killing everything but low level skills only work for a small amount of time to the point where they are no longer effective (level 20 ).I crafted a staff that should have been more than enough to kill and tried to add Herald of ice but for some reason it said wrong weapon type, I tried switching weapons and found most weapons available were wrong weapon type, so I found the one thing that could possibly boost my damage ( The Heralds ) do not work with the Sorceress assendency which I found to be kind of odd as you would have thought of any class that should have them available it would be the Sorceress.
Then I thought ok I will upgrade the skills to another cold attack to gain higher level of damage and found there arent any. So I created a build that I think should in an ideal world be devestating, freeze alot of things on hit but I cant use it because the game doesnt possess the weapons or skills to accomodate it.
You would have thought that since the release of the Huntress you wouldnt have treated this like a new league because lets face it that was never your intent but it seems you still going on the standard POE 3 month roll out and if thats the case this game wont be full ready for release untill middle of 2027 if we are lucky that is.
I played POE1 for a very long time because every 3 months there was a new league, most of the time they worked because everything that was meant to be in the game was there but do you really think people are going to want to wait 2 more years with weapons and skills missing from the game and classes missing as I dont think my patience is goin to last that long and I dont think their's is either.
You keep saying this is not like POE1 then stop treating the rollout of this game like it is.

Heralds affect attack skills, not spells. Pretty sure it's the same in PoE1.

Yes but as they have pointed out a thousand times this isnt POE1 but time and again they prove that it really is.

This game is still beta, and the spellcasters sure seems to be lacking in the spellcasting department so far.

I played Ice Sorceror Monk last Patch (Monk with Sorceress Cold Spells) and I can bring in some insight here.

The problem with Cold Spells early on is that you lack a burst damage mechanic to finish things off.

You can freeze things relatively easily with Frostbolt+Ice Nova and you can squeze some extra damage by launching said Bolts through a Flamewall.

The only burst mechanic Cold spells have at that level is Cold Snap, which is quite terrible as it requires enemies to already be frozen for it to work.

For this season, I retired my Ice Sorceror Monk and turned him into a Chaos Sorceror because Contagion + Essence Drain are really awesome this patch and if you add Ice Nova to freeze enemies while the Dots continue doing all the work, it works even better for the campaign.

Stack Firewall for good measure against single target enemies and all is good.

Contrary to the meta, I went Acolyte of Chayule for the Darkness nodes because most caster orientated Spirit Gems feels meh and I appreciate having more skills to use.

Hopefully this bit of information helps. I am hopeful for casters with the arrival of the Primal Skill Line in what I hope to be early June.

I was playing a Cold Sorc just earlier today up to level 18 and it was actually relatively easy to freeze campaign mobs (at least up to that level).

I used Frost Bolt then Ice Nova (with Unleash and Glaciation, I think, adds freeze buildup). Use Ice Nova to explode the Bolts and it was enough to freeze I think all the white mobs except Gargoyles, they seem to have a very high Cold Resist.

Bossing is just lame but at least we can keep the boss chilled, and Mad Wolf was mostly a walk in the park, including the add phase.

Honestly Lightning is just better in every way with Arc+Spark, but Cold is playable up until you run into Cold Resist mod on rare mobs. They are practically invulnerable to Cold damage for some reason. My Flame Wall ticks did more damage than my Frost Bolt.

I'd say Lightning Sorc leveling is great efficiency, while Frost Sorc leveling is comfy and safe. Will probably try Fire leveling for my next Sorc.

The important thing is to not forget that Cold Snap and Ice Nova both can be used to explode Frost Bolt projectiles.

Which reminds me. I feel Frost Bolt is really lame. It feels so weak and incapable of actually freezing anything reliably. This way of forcing combo gameplay by castrating certain skills (another example is Arc not being able to Shock) is just lame. Lazy and lame design. I'm really disappointed at GGG for doing it this way.

I made a feedback post about stormweaver early in the patch that's pretty much been 100% ignored in every way. I don't expect them to give sorc much love at this point to be honest.

None of the things in my post have been addressed at all. I also had a lighting conversion freeze on hit sorc build i tried.
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3750730/page/6#p26155145

All gameplay with frost skills revolves around nova, frost bomb and cold snap. Place bomb, cast nova and explode frozen enemies by snap. Survivors die from bomb. It plays very quick against trash mobs.
Against bosses dps is low but they are slowed which makes killing them pretty safe.

Frost bolt surely needs damage buff because it's very low. I prefer skill from staff for spamming because it has higher dps and dont consume mana.

In general you need +2 cold skills staff from act I and +3 cold skills for act II.

I think this league, Elemental skills are really bad in general. Spark was strong last league, so every elemental skill got nerfed to the ground.

Honestly I would just roll a different class.