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PoE 2 Build

Cold CoC Chronomancer (Budget friendly)

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Creator
End Game
By PaintMasterPoE
Updated on Jan 10, 2025
Jan 10, 2025

Build Overview

Shortly about build:

  • Very safe bossing with Time Freeze.
  • Very good to farm both Trials.
  • Good dps at low budget.
  • Clearing become better with more investment.
  • Fairly tanky with Temporal Chains and Apex of the Moment that make mobs around very slow.
  • Become fairly strong at relatively low budget, setup in video costed me ~6Div.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3592843

Forum thread about this build above, with a lot of discussions, different variations and other stuff! For any questions you can either ask in that forum thread, or join my discord and ask me.

Update: added leveling.

Initial idea was to make build around Apex of the Moment and Temporal Chains, so everything around is slow, plus Time Freeze for bosses. First i tried Fire Damage/Ignite, but it wasn't good. Then changed to cold damage as chill naturally better stacking with other slow effects. Then i found this forum thread and noticed couple things i missed, like using Soul Offering on swap.

So shortly about this build, this is one of possible variants, you can use different ways for clearing, or change tree.

Options for clearing:

  • Frostbolt with Snakepit, so when frostbolt hit enemies, it split into 2 projectiles, and then those two projectiles explode when hit next enemy.
  • Frostbolt with or without Snakepit plus swapping Comet on Cast on Critical with Frost Wall. So hitting enemies will build up energy for Cast on Crit, which will trigger Frostwalls. When Frostbolt destroy Frostwall it does trigger explosion.
  • More expensive option if you can get even more spirit. Is Cast on Freeze with Frost Wall. So you will have it for clearing, and Comet with Cast on Critical for single target.
  • Slightly different setup which you can find on pinned comment of video, or forum thread mentioned above. Is Ice Nova with stacking AoE, to do you you will have to move most of curse effect passives to weapon set 2. Plus you use that same Ice Nova to hit Frost wall on single target.

Options for single target:

  • Just one, its only and only Cast on Critical with Comet, except you can use different skills to destroy Frost Wall to trigger Comet, like Frostbolt, Ice Nova or Frost Bomb.


Build Variants

Normal setup.

When you search for gear on trade, always set price to Exalts in bottom left part in "Buyout price" section.

Controlled Metamorphosis Jewel in top middle socket with Medium-Small ring to take Inescapable Cold, Endless Blizzard, Master of Hexes, Lingering Whispers and optionally Stormbreaker.

https://i.imgur.com/94Vwm98.png - image of jewel.

This allow to save couple points and invest them into AoE.

Gear below is my current gear i used in video.
In total build costed me around 5-6 Divines, from which 2 Divines for The Everlasting Gaze with 30% roll. 29% roll goes for 0.5 to 1 Div.

You can get it working for even less, with a bit cheaper/worse gear.


Normal setup (Controlled Metamorphosis jewel) Variant

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Equipment

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List of items, and mod priority on them.

  • Wand:
    1. +#% to Cold/All skills, Crit Chance for spells and Mana.
    2. Spell damage, Mana regen and any other damage mods.
  • Scepter (Set 1):
    1. Malice on implicit, good amount of Spirit, like 170+, but more better.
    2. Mana and mana regen.
    3. Presence Area of Effect.
  • Scepter (Set 2):
    1. Skeletal Warrior on implicit, Mana and Mana regen. Spirit is not important.
  • Shield (Set 2):
    1. Either Arvil's Wheel for duration of Time Freeze or Crest of Ardura for lower cooldown of Time Freeze.
  • Helmet:
    1. Good amount of Mana, and resists.
    2. Highest possible amount of Energy Shield you can find for your budget.
    3. Item Rarity.
    4. Energy shield runes preferably.
  • Body Armour:
    1. As much spirit as possible with resists.
    2. Highest possible amount of Energy Shield you can find for your budget.
    3. Energy shield runes preferably.
  • Gloves:
    1. Slow Magnitude corrupted enchant, rolls up to 30%.
    2. Any good amount of mana you can find.
    3. Preferably pure Int base with energy shield.
    4. Any good mods, like int, resists, crit damage.
  • Boots:
    1. Good amount of Mana, Movement Speed, and resists.
    2. Highest possible amount of Energy Shield you can find for your budget.
  • Amulet:
    1. The Everlasting Gaze with good roll of last mod. Once again, when searching it on trade, set price to exalts, and set price limit to whatever you want and sort by roll of last mod clicking on that mod on trade page.
    Icebreaker for Instil.
  • Rings:
    1. High mana roll with mana regen.
    2. If needed strength, dex or int.
    3. Any good amount of resists.
    Make sure to use Neural Catalysts for Mana quality on rings and amulet.

    Snakepit (Left slot) for clearing, so preferably cap resists without one of rings.
  • Belt:
    1. Mana with Resists.
  • Jewels:

    Controlled Metamorphosis Jewel in top middle socket with Medium-Small ring to take Inescapable Cold, Endless Blizzard, Master of Hexes, Lingering Whispers and optionally Stormbreaker.

    1. 2-3 Jewels with "Recover 2% Mana on kill".
    2. Effect of Auras from your skills, it stacks with Effect of Curses, but roll up to 10%.
    3. Effect of Curses, roll only up to 5%, so priority on previous mod. Jewels with both are rare and expensive.
    4. Crit damage or/and Crit damage with spells.
    5. Any other type of damage that will work, spell, cold, etc.
    6. Cast speed, area of effect of curses or maximum energy shield.
    7. Few other less useful mods.
Normal setup (Controlled Metamorphosis jewel) Variant

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Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 20

Dex 25

Int 100

Time Freeze

Time Freeze
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Temporal Rift

Temporal Rift
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Frostbolt

Frostbolt
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Frost Wall

Frost Wall
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Cast on Critical

Cast on Critical
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Frost Bomb

Frost Bomb
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Archmage

Archmage
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Blasphemy

Blasphemy
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Grim Feast

Grim Feast

Conductivity

Conductivity
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Soul Offering

Soul Offering
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Supports for gems sorted by priority.

If you could get even more spirit from Scepter and Body armour, you can drop Grim Feast to use Cast on Freeze with Frost Wall instead of casting Frost Wall manually, or swapping with Comet for Cast on Crit.

Set all skills for weapon set 1 only, except Conductivity and Soul Offering, for those two set weapon set 2 only.

For other alternatives:

  • For mapping you can drop Conductivity and use Blink being set to Weapon Set 2, so you press block + space to blink. It makes clearing a bit faster, so try if you like it.
Normal setup (Controlled Metamorphosis jewel) Variant

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Passive Tree

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set 2:
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For ascendancy, either Quicksand Hourglass for clearing, or Now and Again for single target to have lower cooldown on Time Freeze and 33% chance for it to not go on cooldown.

Alternatively you can drop some of curse effect passives to get more AoE instead, like Reverberation and Roil.

Set 1 for damage, set all skills only for weapon set 1 except Conductivity and Soul Offering.

Set 2 for duration of Time Freeze, Soul Offering and Conductivity, have to swap manually on bosses.

Normal setup (Controlled Metamorphosis jewel) Variant

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Atlas Tree

How it Plays

Clearing options:

  • Frostbolt with Snakepit ring. Just spam Frostbolt.
  • Frostbolt with or without Snakepit, swap Comet on Cast on Critical with Frost Wall(Keep one you have already).
    So as you hit mobs, it trigger Frost wall, which you also hit and it trigger explosions on Frostbolt.
  • Higher budget option when you get more spirit is to use Cast on Freeze with Frost Wall instead of one you cast normally, same supports, Spell Cascade and Inevitable Critical.

Single target:

  1. Swap to set 2.
  2. When boss fight about to start, use Soul Offering, Conductivity and Time Freeze (Time Freeze when boss become targetable).
  3. Place Frost Walls and hit them with Frostbolt or Frost Bomb, whatever you will use to hit walls, make sure to Ambush for that skill.
  4. Hitting Frost Walls will trigger Comet, so once it triggered, it will consume a lot of mana, then quickly after that use Temporal Rift.
  5. Repeat 3 and 4 until boss dies.


Changelog

Jan 5, 2025: Guide published. Leveling added.
Jan 7, 2025: Updated tree, support gems, added second setup with Controlled Metamorphosis jewel.

Video Guide

Table of Content

  1. Build Overview
  2. Build Variants
  3. Equipment
  4. Skill Gems
  5. Passive Tree
  6. Atlas Tree
  7. How it Plays
  8. Changelog

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