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

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RestInPieces#6294 wrote:

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.

Yep, I resorted to just following the minions around for the most part to stop them disappearing. I keep casting Unearth as I move on corpses so there is always some minions around.


It's probably better this way that they're extremely aggressive. Like during a breach they spread out and kill stuff pretty fast. If there was a way to stop them disappearing offscreen it would be great though.


If I were to try other spells with this core setup I'd try:

- Incinerate with Cast on Ailment Living Bomb. Though finding 100 spirit for the Cast on Ailment is rough and the clear speed will probably be slow.

- Ice Nova + Frost Bolt. Not sure how much damage it would do without a lot of crit investment however.

- Other trigger builds might work too but will need more spirit once again. Also might require mana and crit investment.


The recoup feels good enough that Chronomancer is not 100% required. So can try it with other builds. Any Witch or Sorceress would be best as can keep the same skill tree where all the ES and Recoup nodes are.

Lich seems best overall. Just have to skip the "ES bypass node" so can still go CI. The other stuff like 33% explodes on death, 30% more damage when sacrificing ES and 40% more damage when using a power charge, plus the jewel slot are all good. Probably will have to do a cold/freeze build to get power charges with Combat Frenzy.

anything that uses Chaos Inoculation is full trash imho

That keystone is GGG's unofficial Baby Mode

I switched to a cold spec (Cast on Ailment) to see if it would work. Mainly same setup, except switched the chaos damage wand, focus and rings to cold versions. It's kind of trash as expected. Only good thing is Arctic Armour one shots anything that hits you.

Using Frostbolt to freeze, with Cast on Ailment linked to Comet. Also have a Comet linked to Spellslinger. The mana costs are just too high to sustain and that's with barely even proccing anything. Mana runs out in like 3 casts of Frostbolt. So it doesn't feel worth trying to solve.

Cold spec will be here once poe.ninja refreshes:

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


The final setup for the chaos version (contagion) which is infinitely better is here:

https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/10edc

Also realized that Zenith doesn't currently work in PoB. So the Essence Drain is actually doing 30% more.

In the current state of the game for spells, it seems like mana is going to be a problem for any direct damage spell build and it will require heavy investment to solve. Or will have to cast spells with life which is the Lich/Blood Mage meta. Investing in pure mana just to play the game doesn't feel worth. DoT builds like Contagion need zero mana investment, especially with Brutus support where you rarely ever need to cast Contagion.

Been looking at other options to make use of the recoup core and solve mana issues at the same time. An Infernalist with Pyromantic Pact seems like it would solve mana issues and recoup will actually heal us with enough recoup speed.

Other than that, Infernalist has a few options. The fire nodes are decent. However cast on ailment on its own seems kind of slow to trigger things. So I'm going with the life reservation nodes for more spirit and ES (no CI). Then will have enough spirit to use both cast on crit and cast on ailment without using a sceptre. Just need to switch to a bunch of crit nodes, use maligaros and pinpoint critical with cold spells to get close to 100% crit chance.

Will take a few days to level up a new character and test. Damage potential and tankiness seems like it might be higher than Lich builds using the life recovery tech to spam spells.

Only thing that might brick the build is the self ignites. How often and how strong they are. Because have to recoup the raw fire damage and also offset the ignites.