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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 Feb 17, 2026

Feb 17, 2026

Build Overview

This is basically variation of my Cold Chronomancer

Useful links

Low Budget Gear Crafting Guide
Making currency as New Player plus general recommendations and tips

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)

YOU USE EITHER CoA OR CoC, NOT BOTH AT ONCE.

JUST IN CASE THIS IS SETUP FROM VIDEO, IT COSTED ME 3 DIV MID DECEMBER OF 2025, AT THE TIME IT WAS 3 DIV, NOW IT MIGHT COST MORE TO GET SIMILAR SETUP.

Try each Cast on Critical and Cast on Elemental Ailment, and choose whichever feels better. For Cast on Elemental Ailment you should have some Extra Fire Damage to apply Ignite.

Require slightly higher budget because you need to use Snakepit, so you need to cap resists without one ring which slightly increased value of gear you need.

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.
Ideal mods:
- %Spell Damage
- Two %Extra Damage
- +# to Level of Cold/All Spells
- %Crit Chance for Spells
- %Cast Speed
Focus: Effigy of Cruelty, i underestimated how strong it is, it applies Critical Weakness which stack up to 20, and grant up to +10% Critical Chance, which then increased with all Increased Critical Chance you have. Very unlikely Rare Focus can ever beat it.

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 with atleast 30 Spirit is recommended, then ES roll, then Mana roll

Jewellery:

Rings: Resists, Mana, Int, Mana Regen. Can be Dex or Str too, you need a bit.
Snakepit in LEFT SLOT.
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 once you get good enough amulet, or one of weaker but cheaper options.

Jewels:

Rare jewels with 1-2% Mana on Kill, Crit Damage, Spell Damage, or other useful mods.

Charms:

Sanguis Heroum and Beira's Anguish against Ignite and Bleed which prevent recharge from starting
Thawing Charm against freeze, or Nascent Hope as upgrade

Skill Gems

Leveling

CoA Comet (Ice Nova)

CoA/CoC Comet (Frostbolt)

CoA/CoC Comet (Baryanic Leylines)

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 30

Dex 35

Int 150

Expand all

Cast on Elemental Ailment

Cast on Critical

Frostbolt

Set 1

Frost Wall

Set 1

Frost Bomb

Set 1

Elemental Weakness

Set 2

Sigil of Power

Set 2

Mana Remnants

Convalescence

Navira, the Last Mirage

Gem Priority

+41

Color of outline on skills above indicate which Weapon Set Skill allocated to: Pink - set 1, Green - set 2

This setup is much less of piano compare to Ice Nova

IMPORTANT Tip for Frostbolt: you move very slow when you hold Frostbolt button, to avoid it, you have to click it somewhat fast, which prevent you from slowing down, unless you click too fast.

Gameplay:

When clearing you just run and cast Frostbolt and sometimes Frost Wall when you see rare mob, and sometimes Snap to get remnants.
On boss, all you do is place Sigil of Power and Elemental Weakness, then Frost Bomb, and then place Frost Wall and hit them with Frostbolt

Passive Tree

Leveling

CoA Comet (Ice Nova)

CoA/CoC Comet (Frostbolt)

CoA/CoC Comet (Baryanic Leylines)

main:

123

set 1:

set 2:

Dec 18: Removed Baryanic Leylines, old tree was relying on good jewel too much, and spent too many points for that.

Now build doesn't need Time-Lost Jewel at all and overall tree is much better and your damage not rely on having good jewel that will be hard to get!

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.