PoE 2 Sorceress - Overview, Skills, and Ascendancies

Path of Exile 2 released the Sorceress on Early Access release back in Update 0.1.

The Sorceress is a new class that fulfills the elemental damage spellcasting role. In PoE 1, the Witch class covered both elemental and minion based builds. With PoE 2, those roles are splitting between the Witch and the Sorceress.

If you're interested in builds, check out the following pages:

• Sorceress Build Guides
• Stormweaver Build Guides
• Chronomancer Build Guides

Like the Witch, the Sorceress is an INT based class, starting near the top of the passive tree. This gives the class easy access to things like elemental damage, spell damage, energy shield, cast speed, and more.

The Sorceress doesn’t have a signature weapon like other classes, but her specialty will be Elemental Spells. In the gameplay showcase, we see the Sorceress using a Staff. However, we can expect other weapon types like Wands to be included as well.

There are some major changes coming to the spellcasting weapons from PoE 1, so let’s dive into that.

Implicit Spell

In Path of Exile 1, all weapons were able to do a basic attack. This basic attack was almost never used, but there are some changes coming to PoE 2. With PoE 2, caster weapons like wands or staffs will now come with a free to cast spell. This spell will cost no mana and will replace the basic auto attack for these weapons.

If you ever find yourself out of mana, there’s no need to walk up and smack monsters with your caster weapon now. You’ll be able to shoot fireballs from afar, sticking to the class fantasy of a Sorceress.

While these Skill Gems are not exclusive to the Sorceress, they match thematically and synergize with the starting position of the top side of the tree.

• Spark
• Ice Nova
• Flame Wall
• Frost Bomb
• Frost Darts
• Living Bomb
• Fireball
• Orb of Storms
• Arc
• Frostbolt
• Snap
• Ember Fusillade
• Elemental Weakness
• Mana Tempest
• Temporal Chains
• Incinerate
• Lightning Warp
• Frost Wall
• Ball Lightning
• Firestorm
• Comet
• Flameblast
• Eye of Winter
• Lightning Conduit

While every Class will have 3 Ascendancy Classes, the Early Access currently has 2 for the Sorceress. You can delve into more Elemental Damage with Stormweaver, or control time with Chronomancer.

Chronomancer

[See Chronomancer Ascendancy Page]

The Chronomancer is all about controlling time itself. You can reset your cooldowns, warp back in time, freeze enemies, and more. While the Chronomancer synergizes clearly with Spells, the utility surely can be combined with other Skills to make very unique builds.

Stormweaver

[See Stormweaver Ascendancy Page]

The Stormweaver is all about mastering the Elements. You can Shock enemies with any Elemental damage, Shock enemies twice, summon Elemental Storms on Crit, and more.