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Melee Chronomancer (Old setup)

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Sorceress

Chronomancer

0.1 Early Access

End Game

Starter

Speed Leveling

SSF

By PaintMasterPoE

Updated on Jan 4, 2026

Jan 4, 2026

Build Overview

Refer to this page: 0.4 Updated Melee Chrono

Build Variants

Leveling setup in case its your first character.

Otherwise, use whatever to reach level 12, then just get Polcirkeln and Herald of Ice at level 12, slap Cold Infusion onto default attack and it will be good to clear whole campaign.

Ofc use Perfect Strike for single target and later Hammer of the Gods.

Equipment

Set 1

Set 2

Equipment Priority

Do not use exalts on your leveling gear if you playing on Trade mode, because you can simply buy good gear piece for 1-2 Exalts.

I would suggest buying good weapon for your level, every 15 or so levels during campaign, so 4 times. Don't spend much on them.

Official trade site: pathofexile.com/trade2

What to look for on gear during campaign:

2Handed Mace:
- Highest Physical DPS.
Armour:
- Life, Resists, Strength.
Jewellery:
- Same as Armour.
Leveling Uniques:
- Goldrim.
- Hrimnor's Hymn will be good for first ~25 Levels.
- Wanderlust 20% Movespeed.
- Blackheart very good Level 1 Ring.
- Meginord's Girdle that roll up to 50 Strength.
*You don't have to use all this, but you can. Replace with rare items if they're better.

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 75

Dex 10

Int 0

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Earthquake

Boneshatter

Shockwave Totem

Infernal Cry

Perfect Strike

Leap Slam

Sunder

Seismic Cry

Stampede

Hammer of the Gods

Gem Priority

+17

This is old leveling, which should work fine i hope.

I didn't level this Chronomancer in 0.4 with Melee, so i'm not sure if The Hammer of Faith will be good right from level 65.

Above is just list of gems and support for them, supports ordered by priority and by when you can get them, below is what and when to get.

First Lesser Jeweller's Orbs you get use for main skills: Hammer of the Gods, Stampede.

Gems:

Level 1 Gems: Boneshatter, Earthquake and Rolling Slam(after few level you will drop it for better skills).
Level 3 Gems: Shockwave Totem, Infernal Cry(do not level infernal cry), Shield Charge.
Level 5 Gems: Perfect Strike(main single target ability until Hammer of the Gods).
Level 7 Gems: Leap Slam(optional, instead of Shield Charge or use both).
Level 9 Gems: Sunder.
Level 11 Gems: Seismic Cry and Stampede.
At Level 13 you finally getting Hammer of the Gods.

Passive Tree

main:

123

set 1:

set 2:

If you can, use Giant's Blood, not hard if its not first character so you can buy good cheap leveling stuff.

Use recoup stuff until you get Hammer of the Gods, then if you will not have enough damage for bosses in acts, change recoup stuff to Time Snap.

How it Plays

Clearing:

Stampede, sometimes Perfect Strike or Hammer of the Gods for rares.

Single Target:

Since Hammer of the Gods does Bleed Damage, there's no reason to spam all of them at once.
Drop Solar Orb to generate Rage.
Infernal Cry then Hammer of the Gods, then Temporal Rift to get back to full life. Keep Solar Orb up.
Once boss heavy stunned use both Infernal Cry and Seismic Cry before next Hammer of the Gods.

How it Works

Basically explained above.

Changelog

Dec 11, 2024: Updated gear section with some tips for buying gear.
Dec 13, 2024: Skills updated, less buttons basically. Just press Stampede for clearing. Also added some info about jewels in gear section, totally forgot about it.
Dec 15, 2024: Changed tree slightly by taking recoup passives. Replaced Earthquake and Overwhelming Presence with Leap Slam and Ancestral Warrior Totem.
Dec 17, 2024: Updated bleed setup with Beetlebite.
Dec 20, 2024: New video up. Removed Beetlebite as it doesn't work well with melee.
Jan 17, 2025: Big update, now using Herald of Ice with Polcirkeln for clearing. Tree with weapon sets, all bleeding on set 2 for HotG.
Feb 4, 2025: Tree improvements.
Feb 5, 2025: Use Shield Charge because it has no cooldown with Now and Again which is a bug.
Feb 16, 2025: Updated build page, less text (removed nonsense).