[0.2] Cold Chronomancer Megathread. Nerfed to the ground.
What is icicle when referenced, I am not seeing that skill anywhere?
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" Can this be done with comet on freeze? Right now ive been using your build but basically using walls to control the field and then using frost bombs to pop and freeze comet |
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" icicle is a teir2 support gem. click on "show all gems". it gives "ice crystals" 50% less life. https://poe2db.tw/us/Icicle |
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" yes, you can just go comet. note, that frostwall is a .8s cast, so will cast on every freeze. 66 max energy, and gain 100 energy on freeze. comet is 1s+1s cast. 166 max energy. 2x.12=16.6 16.6x10. so, requires 2 freezes to cast. by default. at level 10 cast on freeze support gem, gain 18% energy, +2 per level above. so level 10 you actually get 118 energy. level 12 you get 122. a level 20 skill gem would be 138 energy on freeze. and all three passives in the trigger passive cluster would be +24% for 162. Impetus support gives +40%. so level 12 gem +impetus support=162. +8% passive in trigger passive cluster gives 170 energy per freeze. thus will cast comet on every freeze. level 14 Cast on freeze+impetus support, does not need the 8% passive. |
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" uh, I'm not avoiding frostwall, if anything I am going heavier on frostwall since Im doing that twice, instead of comet. if I wasn't going frostwall, I probably would be going full on xbow grenades. As, focusing on Comet..why aren't we just playing stormweavers at that point? for the record. The order for my build. 1 Breath of ice, 2 exploit the elements, 3 path of winter, 4 open mind, 5 endless blizard then glaciation/inescapable cold, 6 overexposure, 7 mental ala, 8 shattered crystal, 9 lucidity, 10 arcane blossom, 11 pliable flesh, 12 adverse growth, 13 all natural+breaking point, 14 aspirgin genuis+breaking point, 15 mental preservance, 16 enhanced barrier, 17 eldritch will. 18 maybe Eldritch battery. in chrono, CD talents, then recoup. |
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" FYI penetration cannot go below 0, so it cannot be a detriment here. For 1 more skill points, might even be worth taking and dropping some pen to pick up other damage nodes |
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" pen takes you to zero. Exposure and hypothermia's reduction can take you below zero. heavy frost would set you at zero, overwriting exposure and hypothermia. |
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" Do we know the order of operations here? My assumption would be pen is applied last and also not contributing then. If it's first tho, then that's huge damage. |
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This is how it works in poe 1. I am assuming its the same in poe 2. which, admittedly, is not a guarantee. recoup changed.
https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Resistance " " https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Resistance_penetration admittedly, this does mean cold pen is irrelevant. but the exposure/hypothermia issue still applies. if you are using them, heavy frost can be a detriment. Последняя редакция: Casia#1093. Время: 11 дек. 2024 г., 19:43:10
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The builds and insights you guys have been sharing on this thread have been a godsend so far.
In response to the comment above about Heavy Frost being detrimental, I did a few tests to verify that the in-game text of the passive is correct and it makes damage ignore both negative and positive resistances, not just positive. I used a unique mob in the acts as a dummy and recorded the damage numbers my Cold Snap with Controlled Destruction (remove the random crits out of the data) deals with/without the passive and with/without negative res from curse and exposure. I can confirm that the text is correct and taking this passive, assuming you use both the curse and Frost Bomb on a rare or a boss AND the mob has 0 base resist, makes me do 72% (!!!) less damage to that mob. There are mobs out there with 50%+ cold resists (gold icon) and some of them don't go into negative (red icon) for me even with the debuffs applied. If you have any pen picked from the tree, usually the easily available 45% from Glaciation and Breath of Ice cluster, with the curse and exposure you can still get the mobs effective cold resist to 0, so you're not missing out on any damage my not taking the passive. |
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