Immortal Chronomancer - 13k ES CI, <2s recoup, one button map clear (180% rarity)

I made this build with Chronomancer. The focus was to get as much recoup as possible.

The character is Saiyan_EZ on poe ninja.


https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/abyss/character/SaiyanZ-3112/Saiyan_EZ


- The build currently has 173%-192% of damage taken recouped as ES which happens in less than 2 seconds. The recovery rate ends up being roughly equal to the damage taken over one second which stacks infinitely. eg. A 5k hit will make me recover about 5k ES per second which keeps stacking with each hit taken. It's basically an instant heal.

- Everything around you also moves in slow motion with Blasphemy+temp chains and the 20% Chronomancer slow.

- Initially I was hybrid life/ES which works fine. Hybrid has twice the recovery rate but is more susceptible to one-shots.

- However switching to CI had a few benefits. It eliminated two things that can damage the build (bleed and poison), and freed up modifiers since no chaos res or life was needed.

- So I was able to slot in rarity on all gear.

- CI also has much better one shot protection than a hybrid life/ES build. The max ES bypass you can get is 5% from skill tree and 12% from a corrupted Atziri's Disdain. But it's hard to get a life pool of much more than 1700Hp whilst also getting a ton of ES. So a 10k hit will one shot you on hybrid build, no matter how high your ES.

- Since it's easy to get good ES gear this league the CI version ends up a lot better.

- The build is also curse immune because why not.


The equipment and passive tree is mainly set up for defense with a lot of ES and recoup nodes. The skill I chose was ED/Contagion.

The reason I went with Contagion is because you can spread it for "free" using Unearth with the Brutus support which makes your minions immune to damage. So all I do in maps is cast Contagion on the first pack and then cast Unearth on corpses while following my minions and picking up loot.

The setup can be used as a template for other spells although I suspect non DoT spells will have to solve mana issues and/or invest in crit. Contagion is just too good for mapping with low damage investment compared to other options.

Typically you want a lvl1 Contagion with ED/Cont because the mana costs get too high to cast Contagion and ED on every pack. However because Contagion is hardly ever cast, it can be set up to actually do damage. It's currently doing about 84k dps, ignoring Wither/despair. This is enough to kill even rares but I cast ED on those to one shot them. Wither stacks up to 110% increased chaos damage taken and can be almost instantly stacked by casting Chaos bolt from wand.


The build can have a couple variations in the belt slot. Could go for 20% movement speed if you want to move faster or 80% wither effect for more damage vs bosses. I just went for recoup speed.


I haven't died since the setup was finished (lvl94-lvl97). All I do is run T15 delirious maps with breach and extra rares. Started this league just over 2 weeks ago.

The character hasn't died again and is midway to lvl98. Grinding maps with the build was fun and I have a lot of spare currency. However stopping leveling now and quitting the league. Was going to go for lvl100 but there are a few issues:

- performance issues. CPU bound during breaches and abyss where fps is dropping to like 15-20. I'm on a newish laptop with a RTX4070. Every other game plays well.

- lag when downloading shaders sometimes during maps. Especially during peak times (like in the evenings)

- leveling to lvl100 will take a lot of time. Seems to be around 40 hours of grinding T15 maps to get from lvl97-lvl98. And lvl98-lvl100 will take even longer. I'd rather play other games in that time. Especially with the performance issues.




There isn't really anything else I can do to improve the build except for sanctifying for +skills.

How is it on bosses? Have you done pinnacle bosses?

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minionax#0952 wrote:

How is it on bosses? Have you done pinnacle bosses?

I made recoup chronomancer in 0.2 and beated some pinacles with just thorns. If you stack ES high enough to not get oneshoted, you can practicaly facetank everything, only dps is abit lacking.

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minionax#0952 wrote:

How is it on bosses? Have you done pinnacle bosses?

I ran Xesht a few times (lvl82). The fight does take around 20-30 seconds. ED doesn't have a ton of ways to scale. However I could just ignore all his attacks and facetank everything.


Here's the final PoB link. I won't be making anymore changes. I sanctified the focus and amulet yesterday to see if I could get +1 skills. Didn't change much except the focus has a bit more ES.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/10719

Also looks like the Darkness Enthroned is not working in PoB. It's 233k ED DoT dps vs Xesht. Plus whatever else Dark Effigy, Contagion and Chaos Bolt contributes (they're all specced for max damage).

For a bit more boss damage, I could swap in a Darkness Enthroned with 80% increased wither effect. That's another 40% increased damage taken. The build currently has 110% wither which would go to 150%. So true damage increase would be 40%/210% = 19% which is still a decent bump for a quick belt swap. ED DoT would be 277k.


I think the best thing about this build was how easy/cheap it was to set up. Can put it together for a few divs and get at least 8k ES. The min-maxing part of it is just swapping out gear for those with more rarity and ES whilst keeping resistances capped. Last upgrade is getting double sockets on helm/gloves/boots. With all the currency I made it was easy to upgrade. Finished off with 13.3k ES and 228% rarity.

When you kill the first pack of mob using contagion, then you cast skill that spawn mouse thingy which iirc can also bring the contagion. So it will goes to next pack and inflict contagion and you spawn the new mouse. Is this the mechanic?

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vorschit#5092 wrote:

When you kill the first pack of mob using contagion, then you cast skill that spawn mouse thingy which iirc can also bring the contagion. So it will goes to next pack and inflict contagion and you spawn the new mouse. Is this the mechanic?

Yep, when something dies you have a few seconds to cast Unearth on the corpse so that they have the contagion and can spread it.

Then vs rares/bosses you can throw an Essence Drain and cast Chaos Bolt from wand. I rarely ever used the Despair curse or Dark Effigy when mapping. Also can throw an Essence Drain for clearing breaches too if the Contagion dps is not high yet.

Cool build - I have a werewolf with a temporal bubble, hits always shock and chill, and I want to add it to the build for extra slow. Have you experimented with blackflame covenant? Do you think it's viable?

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RestInPieces#6294 wrote:

Cool build - I have a werewolf with a temporal bubble, hits always shock and chill, and I want to add it to the build for extra slow. Have you experimented with blackflame covenant? Do you think it's viable?

I tried speccing one point into Blackflame Covenant yesterday and added a 6L Incinerate to the build. In PoB it seems like Incinerate would do a lot of damage (like 3mill dps after max stack) without changing anything else. However when I tested using Incinerate on Xesht, it did less than the Essence Drain.


So I don't think it's worth using Blackflame, especially with Contagion and Brutus support existing. No other spell will clear maps as fast with this low dps and mana investment.

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SaiyanZ#3112 wrote:

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RestInPieces#6294 wrote:

Cool build - I have a werewolf with a temporal bubble, hits always shock and chill, and I want to add it to the build for extra slow. Have you experimented with blackflame covenant? Do you think it's viable?

I tried speccing one point into Blackflame Covenant yesterday and added a 6L Incinerate to the build. In PoB it seems like Incinerate would do a lot of damage (like 3mill dps after max stack) without changing anything else. However when I tested using Incinerate on Xesht, it did less than the Essence Drain.


So I don't think it's worth using Blackflame, especially with Contagion and Brutus support existing. No other spell will clear maps as fast with this low dps and mana investment.

The only thing I hate with Unearth is that minion AI is not that great for following and they disappear when they go completely off-screen. Was thinking clear with living bomb or fucilade/fireball with multiple wildshard gems even if it's slower. But if incinerate much is worse for single target it's probably not worth it.