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[0.4] 100% Crit Comet Disciple of Varashta

0.4 TLotD

Sorceress

Disciple of Varashta

Starter

End Game

Creator

By PaintMasterPoE

Updated on Jan 22, 2026

Jan 22, 2026

Build Overview

This is basically variation of my Cold Chronomancer

Low Budget Gear Crafting Guide

https://pobb.in/u/paintmaster%232396/fe0Dj7m7BfRH - PoB of my current character that's in video. It costed me under 3 Div, considering i crafted most of gear myself.

Upsides and downsides of Disciple of Varashta over Chrono

Ability to use Staff with Focus, simply meaning Varashta will have more damage.
Quick ES Recharge Start.
Ability to reach near 100% Crit Chance with Effigy of Cruelty while having over 500% Crit Damage
In campaign all non-Djinn passives are between useless and very weak, so Chrono is better early game.
Harder to sustain Mana on single target, while it's good enough because boss fights won't last long.

Dec 26 (For all setups):

For CoA/CoC Comet, swap Spell Cascade to Living Bomb for pinnacle bosses or citadels. This will basically generate Fire Infusion to all Comets you will trigger.
You can swap Spell Cascade to Living Bomb for clearing as well, but it feels better to trigger 3 regular Comets than 1 Fire Infused Comet.
If you feel like you need more Mana Regeneration, try Nightscale that grant 150% Mana Regeneration.

Quest Rewards:

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

Strengths and Weaknesses

Ability to use Staff with Focus
Quick ES Recharge start
Decent amount of Armor considering its caster
Huge AoE with Ice Nova in campaign and early mapping
Chill 1-2 button clearing and single target with Frostbolt + Frost Wall at a bit higher budget
Near 100% Crit Chance on low budget with Effigy of Cruelty

Build has many buttons on low budget setup
While build doesn't have good mana sustain on bosses, Mana Remnants and Mana Flask do decent enough job even for Tier 3 Pinnacle Bosses

Build Variants

Leveling

CoA Comet (Ice Nova)

CoA/CoC Comet (Frostbolt)

CoA/CoC Comet (Baryanic Leylines)

This Leveling tab has leveling tree, which is different from Early Mapping tree

LEVELING:

With first Uncut Skill Gems take Ice Nova and Frost Bomb.
With first Uncut Support Gems take Magnified Area I and Considered Casting or optinally Spell Cascade for Ice Nova.
For Frost Bomb take Magnified Area I and Potent Exposure or Short Fuse I
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, and just as another spell that sit there and does some damage.
Then get Snap with Considered Casting, Harmonic Remnants I, later Cooldown Recovery I. Snap generate infusions used on mobs with ailments, allowing to have high uptime of Cold Infused Ice Nova.
Then get Elemental Weakness.
Once you unlock Comet, use it instead of Frost Darts on single target, can also drop Flame Wall and Orb of Storms.
Highly recommend having Fire Extra Damage on Staff, so Comet will ignite consistently so you can use Snap to get Fire Infusion for Comet and repeat that cycle.
Later use Eye of Winter instead of Frost Darts
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.
- Once at 100 Spirit, can try Cast on Elemental Ailment with Comet, i'm yet to try it early in campaign.

Equipment

Leveling

CoA Comet (Ice Nova)

CoA/CoC Comet (Frostbolt)

CoA/CoC Comet (Baryanic Leylines)

Set 1

Set 2

Equipment Priority

+11

Main Hand:

Staff: +# to All/Cold Spells, %Extra Lightning/Fire/Cold Damage, %Spell Damage, %Crit Chance to Spells, %Cast Speed, %Crit Spell Damage.
Focus: Effigy of Cruelty, i underestimated how strong it is.

Weapon set 2:

Chiming Staff with +# to All Spells to use Sigil of Power.
How to get it cheap:
- Buy Chiming Staff with Level 19+ , make it Rare, use Perfect Essence of Sorcery to get +5 to All Spells, done.

Armor:

Helmet/Gloves/Boots: ES, Mana, Resists, Int. For Boots also Movespeed.
Body Armor: Waveshaper should be really good option for this build.

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.
Amulet Instil: Aspiring Genius to get Arcane Surge for more Mana Regeneration.

Jewels:

IMPORTANT: For better Mana sustain during Maps, highly recommend having Jewels with 1-2% Mana on Kill, 3-4% in total seems good enough.
For other Jewel mods: Crit Damage bonus, Spell Crit Chance, Spell Damage, Cold Damage, Triggered Spell Damage, Meta Skills gain Energy, Increased Energy Shield, Elemental Damage and couple less useful mods.

Charms:

Thawing Charm against Freeze, or Nascent Hope
Forsaken Bangle against Chaos Damage

Skill Gems

Leveling

CoA Comet (Ice Nova)

CoA/CoC Comet (Frostbolt)

CoA/CoC Comet (Baryanic Leylines)

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 25

Dex 20

Int 80

Expand all

Ice Nova

Frost Bomb

Frost Darts

Flame Wall

Snap

Orb of Storms

Elemental Weakness

Comet

Arctic Armour

Siphon Elements

Eye of Winter

Gem Priority

+25

Notes:

For Comet if you find Spell Echo too slow, try Rapid Casting II instead
Replace Frost Darts with Eye of Winter, manually casted Comet might not be needed
A bit later try using Cast on Elemental Ailment with Comet when you get 100 base spirit
You might get less infusions without Siphon Elements, but Snap does really good job spawning lots of infusions if used on frozen mob packs
Orb of Storms is optional while it adds more damage for Eye of Winter just by itself, but also for Rising Tempest support.

Passive Tree

Leveling

CoA Comet (Ice Nova)

CoA/CoC Comet (Frostbolt)

CoA/CoC Comet (Baryanic Leylines)

main:

123

set 1:

set 2:

Early you take Spell/Cold Damage, Crit stuff closer to end of campaign.
ES nodes once you get decent amount of ES from gear, lets say 100-150es helmet/boots/gloves, and 350-400 es body armor

How it Plays

Clearing:

Early you use Frost Bomb that generate Cold Infusion for Ice Nova
Then once you unlock Snap, use it on frozen mobs to generate multiple Cold Infusions and have high uptime of Cold Infused Ice Nova
Keep Frost Bomb as it applies exposure
In maps you simply use Ice Nova with Snap, rarely Frost Bomb, Frost Wall or Eye of Winter if you want to.

Single target:

Early campaign you use Frost Darts with Flame Wall
A bit later you add Elemental Weakness to cast before Frost Darts
Close to end of campaign change Frost Darts to Eye of Winter
CoA Comet: Sigil of Power, Elemental Weakness, Frost Bomb, then use Flame Wall and use Eye of Winter on cooldown with Ice Nova inbetween
Self-Cast Comet: Sigil of Power, Elemental Weakness, Frost Bomb, then use Comet on cooldown, don't use Snap if boss frozen.

Frostbolt setup:

Spam Frostbolt when clearing, sometimes Snap to get remnants and Frost Wall when see rares or big packs
On boss: Sigil of Power, Elemental Weakness, Frost Bomb, then Frost Wall and Frostbolt

Changelog

Dec 12, 2025: Build created
Dec 13, 2025: Updated leveling slightly, Comet with Snap is really good for single target.
Dec 16, 2025: Added Frostbolt setup.