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PoE 2 Build

[0.4] 100% Crit/Recoup Chronomancer

End Game
Starter
Verified
SSF
0.4 TLotD
presentationSorceress
presentationChronomancer
By PaintMasterPoE
Updated on Dec 26, 2025
Dec 26, 2025

Build Overview

IMPORTANT UPDATE ABOUT RECOUP SETUP (Dec 26)!

  • First of all, change Arctic Armour to Mana Remnants.
  • I never realized it before, damage you take from Scold's Bridle is Physical, and build has a bit of Armor from Sacrosanctum, so that Physical Damage is reduced by Armor.
  • This means you take smaller part of Manacost as Damage, so you need more Mana Recoup to sustain it. But we had no problems before 0.4 because Zenith II had Recoup of 25% of Manacost.
  • For now, easy and cheap solution is replacing Arctic Armour with Mana Remnants.
  • More expensive is getting Amulet with Mana Recoup instead of Life Recoup, build will have enough Life Recoup still, because of buff to Sacrosanctum that roll up to 20%.
  • And now i'm back to recommending to have Megalomaniac with Heart Tissue or Infused Flesh, or Regenerative Flesh(a bit worse).
  • Also probably good option will be getting Endured Suffering in case you need more recovery from self damage.
  • Sorry everyone who already playing Recoup and had Mana issues, didn't have time for this and was busy with other builds/setups.

Disciple of Varashta variation of this build - link. Good alternative to Chronomancer.

Gear Crafting Guide for Casters - Include Staff/Wand, Armor, Belt and Ring crafting.

POBs:

Endgame Recoup setup from 0.3, looks mostly same in 0.4

Dec 19:

  • Did some testing for Recoup, basically minimal Life Recoup needed to fully recover damage from Scold's Bridle is 76%, or 56% Life Recoup + 20% Phys Recoup from Taut Flesh.
    While getting more will make you recover faster and allow to run Less Recovery mod Maps.
  • For Recoup Setup removed required Megalomaniac with Infused Flesh, build get enough Recoup without that. So you Instil Adverse Growth on Amulet and you good to go.
  • While you still can use Megalomaniac, with one of many options you can find below in Equipment section.
  • Added breakdown on how Recoup Setup get it's Life/Mana/ES recoup. Scroll down to Build Variants to check.

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Very flexible build, have many ways to play early
  • Clearing with Cast on Elemental Ailment and Comet is crazy
  • At level 90 with decent gear you should have 5-8k ES
  • Can farm Pinnacle Bosses at max difficulty, especially Recoup Setup that can just facetank them
  • True offmeta!
  • Not fastest build you can play if you only care about clearing speed
  • If you play regular setup with Cast on Elemental Ailment and Comet with decent gear, it might cause fps drops because how many Comets you trigger :D
  • Only downside of Recoup, maps with high %Less Recovery mod will be hard

Build Variants

LEVELING:

  • With first Uncut Skill Gems take Ice Nova and Frost Bomb.
  • With first Uncut Support Gems take Spell Cascade(Optional) and Magnified Area II for Ice Nova.
  • For Frost Bomb take Magnified Area II and Potent Exposure.
  • Then get Frost Darts whenever you can, with Multishot I, Considered Casting and later Concentrated Area.
  • Also get Flame Wall for Frost Darts. For Flame Wall use Prolonged Duration I and Spell Cascade.
  • Optionally: get Orb of Storms to get Lightning Infusion for Flame Wall.
  • Then get Snap, with Magnified Area I and Harmonic Remnants I. Useful for clearing frozen mobs after Ice Nova, as well as generate lots of Cold Infusions.
  • Then get Elemental Weakness, later you might replace it.
  • Get Eye of Winter as soon as you can, with Concentrated Area, Considered Casting and Inevitable Critical. Use it instead of Frost Darts.
  • As alternative for single target, try Comet, it feels strong with Snap because you can use Comet - Snap in cycle to get Fire Infusions.
  • For Spirit Skills:
    - Arctic Armour with Frost Nexus, Encroaching Ground and later Persistent Ground III.
    - Siphon Elements with Harmonic Remnants II and Remnant Potency I.

This is how i leveled myself was decent, but ofc you can change it however you like!

Venom Draught: Stun Threshold.
Halls of the Dead: 5% Fire/Lightning/Cold Resists.
Qimah: 15% ES, if needed 5% Resists.

Equipment

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Equipment Priority
+9

Mods sorted by priority!

  • Wand with Focus/Omen Scepter or Staff in Main Hand:
    - Wand/Staff: +# to All/Cold Spells, %Extra Lightning/Fire/Cold Damage, %Spell Damage, %Crit Chance to Spells, %Cast Speed, %Crit Spell Damage.
    - For Focus (If you have good Wand): +2-3 to All Spells, %Spell Damage, %Crit Chance, +# Mana, any good amount of ES, Resists, Int. Or Effigy of Cruelty.
  • Armor:
    - Helmet/Gloves/Boots: ES, Mana, Resists, Int. For Boots also Movespeed.
    - Body Armor: ES, Resists, Int. If you can find high ES with Spirit its good, otherwise not bother.
  • Jewellery:
    - Rings: Resists, Mana, Int, Mana Regen. Can be Dex or Str too, you need a bit.
    - Belt: Resists, Mana, Str if needed. Some Armor on belt is decent too but not important.
    - Amulet: +# to All Spells, %ES, ES, Mana, Cast Speed, Mana Regen, Attributes or Resists if needed.
    - Instil: Stormcharged, Aspiring Genius, etc.
  • Jewels:
    - Rare jewels with 1-2% Mana on Kill, Crit Damage.

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 10

Dex 25

Int 80

Expand all
1

Ice Nova

Ice Nova
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supportdeliberationplayer
2

Snap

Snap
supportmagnifiedareaplayertwo
supportcooldownrecoveryplayertwo
3

Frost Darts

Frost Darts
supportconsideredcastingplayer
supportmultishotplayertwo
supportconcentratedareaplayer
4

Frost Bomb

Frost Bomb
supportmagnifiedareaplayer
supportpotentexposureplayer
5

Flame Wall

Flame Wall
prolongeddurationsupportplayer
supportspellcascadeplayer
6

Arctic Armour

Arctic Armour
supportchillingiceplayer
supportencroachinggroundplayer
7

Elemental Weakness

Elemental Weakness
8

Siphon Elements

Siphon Elements
supportfleetingremnantsplayertwo
supportinterludeplayer
9

Eye of Winter

Eye of Winter
supportconsideredcastingplayer
supportcooldownrecoveryplayertwo
supporttempestuoustempoplayer
supportdeliberationplayer
10

Comet

Comet
supportconsideredcastingplayer
supportconcentratedareaplayer
supportspellechoplayer
Gem Priority
+21

Passive Tree

main:
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123
set 1:
20
20
set 2:
20
20

Ignore that priority line, first you allocated %Spell/Cold/Elemental Damage, and AoE, later Crit, and then Energy Shield once you start getting decent ES gear.

There's some bug with tree, it shows Stormweaver ascendancy tree instead of Chronomancer.

  • Anyway, first i took Quicksand Hourglass, it's big boost to clearing, you either get lost of Cast Speed or AoE, or both.
  • Then i went Now and Again for cooldowns since i want to try Eye of Winter with Second Wind II and Time Snap.
  • Then i'll take Time Snap.
  • And lastly i'll probably take Apex of the Moment. Or maybe Temporal Rift, since using lots of Eye of Winters at once cost some mana.

How it Plays

Clearing:

  • Early you use Frost Bomb that generate Cold Infusion for Ice Nova
  • Then once you get Snap, your main cycle for clearing is Ice Nova - Snap, has high uptime of Cold Infused Ice Nova
  • Keep using Frost Bomb as debuff skill on bosses

Single Target:

  • Early its Flame Wall with Frost Darts on chilled/frozen target
  • Then you have choice between Frost Darts, Eye of Winter or Comet.

Changelog

September 6, 2025: Updated new MAIN setup with Cast on Elemental Ailment + Comet, insane clearing and even bossing is good!
September 8, 2025: Added setup with Maligaro's Virtuosity.
September 11, 2025: Added final version of Cold Chronomancer based around Recoup, build is done. Some small tweaks might happen if they improve the build.
September 17, 2025: Improved tree for Main Recoup Setup.

Nov 7, 2025: Improved tree for Early Mapping, CoA Comet and CoA/CoC (Maligaro) setups, weapon set 2 passives were use on Reverberation, which was meh, now they used on Lingering Whispers and Master of Hexes, so more curse effect for Elemental Weakness, and more damage as result.

Dec 6, 2025: Added changes to build in 0.4.
Dec 13, 2025: Updated leveling slightly
Dec 16, 2025: Added CoA Comet/Frostbolt setup.
Dec 26, 2025: Updated Recoup Setup.

Video Guide

Table of Contents

1. Build Overview IMPORTANT UPDATE ABOUT RECOUP SETUP (Dec 26)! Disciple of Varashta variation of this build - link. Good alternative to Chronomancer. Gear Crafting Guide for Casters - Include Staff/Wand, Armor, Belt and Ring crafting. Endgame Recoup setup from 0.3, looks mostly same in 0.42. Strengths and Weaknesses3. Build Variants4. Equipment5. Skill Gems6. Passive Tree7. How it Plays8. Changelog

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