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[0.5.5] Ky's Cold Caster Chronomancer - Leaguestart to Endgame

By Ky
Updated on Sep 29, 2026
Sep 29, 2026

Build Overview

This is my Leaguestarter for the 0.5 league. This build uses a slew of cold spells including Ice Nova, Frost Bomb, Frost Darts, and Frost Wall to freeze entire screens and bosses alike. As we move past into act 3/4 Frost Darts comes out and we become entirely Ice Nova and Frost Wall.

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Campaign:
Act 1: We use a standard Contagion Essence Drain and Bonestorm Combo as it is simply the strongest combination of spells you can use to get through act 1 while u have all generic spell damage. With your first spirit gem you pick up Mana Remnants.


Act 2: Once you have enough support gems for at least 2 each in Ice Nova Frost Bomb and Frost Darts We swap into our main setup of cold spells. Here we use Cold-Infused Ice Nova for clear combined with Snap and Frost Bomb to generate cold infusions. Frost Darts will be our primary single target along with Frost Bomb for exposure and Elemental Weakness.


Act 3 Onward: Here we socket Frost Wall into the mix which greatly boosts our single target potential. We continue clearing with our cold-infused Ice Nova same as before now with Siphon Elements for amazing QoL on our frost infusion generation.

For single target we now start by cursing with Elemental Weakness and Freezing Mark into a Frost Wall + Frost Bomb rotation to explode our Frost Wall for a massive damage. Using Frost Darts as filler.

Regex for Leveling Vendor Search: "(fi|co|li).+res|\d+% i.+mov|ell.*ge$|\d co.+da|^\+.*ills$|^\+.*l sp.*ls$|^\+.*ld sp.*ls$|\d.+life"

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Took down every pinnacle boss easily on less than 10div of gear
  • Freeze everything for as a great offensive and defensive layer
  • Beautiful Visual effects
  • Large AOE Clear
  • Frost walls can have weird behavior on a select few boss fights, doryani phase 2 / skeleton in the hole.

Build Variants

Equipment

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Equipment Priority
+10

Leveling:

For all Armor and Jewelry pieces in the campaign aim for Life / Resistances on ideally Armor/ES hybrid bases, energy shield bases are fine as well.

Amulet Priority:

- +# level of all spell skills.

Weapon Priority:

- +# Level of all Spell Skills / All Cold Spell Skills

- #% Increased Spell Damage / Cold Damage

- #% Increased Spell Critical Strike Chance

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 5

Dex 5

Int 15

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Contagion

Level 20

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Essence Drain

Level 20

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Bonestorm

Level 4

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Spark

Level 4

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Mana Remnants

Level 11

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Frost Bomb

Level 20

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Flame Wall

Gem Priority
+5

Passive Tree

main:
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set 1:
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set 2:
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Quest Rewards

Check which quests you’ve completed on your character
Clearfell — Beira of the Rotten Pack
+10% to Cold Resistance
Freythorn — The King in the Mists
+30 to Spirit
Ogham Manor — Candlemass, the Living Rite
+20 to maximum Life
The Spires of Deshar — Sisters of Garukhan
+10% to Lightning Resistance
Valley of the Titans — Medallion
30% increased Charm Charges gained
+1 Charm Slot
The Azak Bog — Ignagduk, the Bog Witch
+30 to Spirit
Jiquani's Machinarium — Blackjaw, the Remnant
+10% to Fire Resistance
The Venom Crypts — Venom Draught
25% increased Mana Regeneration Rate
Abandoned Prison — Goddess of Justice
30% increased Life Recovery from Flasks
Eye of Hinekora — Navali's Rest
5% increased Maximum Mana
Halls of the Dead — Ngamahu's Test
+5% to Fire Resistance
Halls of the Dead — Tasalio's Test
+5 to Intelligence
Halls of the Dead — Tawhoa's Test
+5% to Lightning Resistance
The Khari Crossing — Molten Shrine
5% increased Maximum Life
Qimah — Tabana's Pillar
12% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate
Kriar Village — Lythara, the Wayward Spear
+40 to Spirit

Comments

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Dagosta•17d ago

The PoB also includes an Explosive Transmutation aura. Is there a way I can fit that into my build?

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Echo•17d ago

warning to hcssf players trying to league start this, this is an extremely squishy build until you obtain certain uniques like the olroths flask. the skill tree specs into zero pure defenses. I'm basically stuck with a bricked character fresh off maps. Your damage will be absolutely amazing, but you will die in a split second if given the chance

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Links444•12d ago

Hi, Ive been playing this build in hardcore with trades. But I havent bought anything yet at lv 78 and I can still push up to tier 11 maps. The build works fine although it can be pretty squishy if rush head first into big groups just like most non tank builds. I also went to some of PathofKy streams and discussed the build with him and asked some questions and his opinions on using the build in Hc. Which he replied by saying this build is not made for Hc and is not labelled as a Hc build, it still is decently tanky but requires the flask and attention while playing.

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RustyFlame•18d ago

how did you get such good gear so early in the game i struggle finding anything close to what you are showing during the Acts


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IronSun•19d ago

Hi, been really enjoying the guide so far! Just got to endgame, is there a recommended loot filter for super early mapping? Or should we just be selling everything and getting upgrades through the market?

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BoldStorm•20d ago

Hi, For the endgame 3, Echoing Flames is taken—but how do we apply the Ignite needed for it?

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Kairozz1•20d ago

the Echoing Flames can be applied when you deal damage with the Heat-Infused Comet or by dealing extra fire damage via the staff modifier.

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FreshFlame•17d ago

Heart of the well with fire as extra

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Pips•24d ago

give me lootfilter?

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