Best Sorceress Chronomancer build in Path of Exile 2

Discover everything you need to know about the best Sorceress Chronomancer build in Path of Exile 2 and what makes this build stronger.

Path of Exile 2 has received an initial release on December 6, 2024. There is a total of 12 distinct Classes, each granting its own uniqueness in the game. Unfortunately, the Classes in Path of Exile 2 are gender-locked, meaning you cannot choose the gender of a specific Class as it is predetermined. Selecting the best Chronomancer build is crucial in the early stages because gameplay depends on it. Explore the Chronomancer Build in Path of Exile 2 and see how he redefines gameplay! In this guide, we’ll discuss the Best Sorceress Chronomancer Build in Path of Exile 2 including the best gear and passive skills to use.

Chronomancer build in Path of Exile 2 Explored

The Sorceress is one of two intelligence starting classes in Path of Exile 2. This class is heavily focused on elemental damage, elemental ailments, mana, and energy shields, making it somewhat akin to the Elementalist of Path of Exile 1. Chronomancer offers a devastating playstyle, enabling reset cooldowns, freezing enemies, and rewinding their own state in the game. Players can adapt to various combat scenarios by resetting skill cooldowns and immobilizing enemies. We include skills like Hammer of the Gods, Stampede, and Seismic Cry to deal with any threat in combat as they boost your attacks and damage. Expert Leaden Greathammer is your primary weapon that increases your attack’s speed and physical damage.

In this full overview of the setup, we will explain what skill gems and links you should focus on. Then as well, we’ll see what is the best gear and how to get it for both the leveling and midgame. And then, finally, we will go over the passive skill tree, stats, and your skill rotations, so we can get the greatest damage possible and much more.

Chronomancer Build Pros	Chronomancer Build Cons
Increased Survivability	Complex Mechanics
Combat Control	Vulnerable to Burst Damage
Adaptability	Rely on Cooldowns
Unique Gameplay Experience
Enhanced Cooldown

Best Chronomancer skills and support gems in Path of Exile 2

Here are all the best active skills and Support Gems for Chronomancer build in Path of Exile 2.

• Hammer of the Gods
  • Heavy Swing (Support Gem)
  • Close Combat (Support Gem)
  • Lacerate (Support Gem)
  • Deep Cuts (Support Gem)
  • Heft (Support Gem)
• Stampede
  • Devastate (Support Gem)
  • Armour Explosion (Support Gem)
  • Magnified Effect (Support Gem)
  • Break Endurance (Support Gem)
• Seismic Cry
  • Enraged Warcry (Support Gem)
• Infernal Cry
  • Raging Cry (Support Gem)
  • Premeditation (Support Gem)
  • Dazing Cry (Support Gem)
  • Inspiration (Support Gem)
• Herald of Ash
• Time of Need
  • Vitality (Support Gem)
  • Cannibalism (Support Gem)
• Time Snap
  • Ingenuity (Support Gem)
• Sunder
  • Overpower (Support Gem)
  • Fire Infusion (Support Gem)
  • Fist of War (Support Gem)
• Leap Slam
  • Holy Descent (Support Gem)
  • Momentum (Support Gem)
  • Martial Tempo (Support Gem)
• Ancestral Warrior Totem
  • Armour Breaker (Support Gem)
  • Rupture (Support Gem)
  • Persistence (Support Gem)

Hammer of the Gods

Entreats the ancestors to crush your enemies, manifesting a massive hammer that falls from the sky onto your target, slamming into the ground after a short duration, and dealing immense damage based on your weapon.

• Your hits can’t be evaded
• While Dual Wielding, both weapons hit with 30% less damage
• Impact radius is 2.4 seconds
• Hammerfall duration is 2.5 seconds

Additional effects from quality:

• (0-20)% increased cooldown recovery rate

Heavy Swing (Support Gem)

Supports melee attacks, boosting their physical damage at the cost of attack speed.

• Supported skills deal 35% more melee physical damage
• Supported Skills have 10% less attack speed

Close Combat (Support Gem)

Supports attacks, causing them to deal more damage to enemies based on how close they are to you.

• Supported skills deal 25% more attack damage to enemies within 1 metre of you, scaling to no bonus at 3.5 metres or further

Lacerate (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that hits enemies, giving it a chance to inflict bleeding.

• Supported skills have 30% chance to inflict bleeding

Deep Cuts (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing it to deal less damage but inflict more potent bleeding.

• Supported skills deal 25% less damage with hits
• 75% more magnitude of bleeding inflicted with supported skills.

Heft (Support Gem)

Supports skills which deal damage, increasing the maximum physical damage of their hits.

• Supported skills have 30% more maximum physical damage

Stampede

Charges forward, cracking the earth and leaving a patch of Jagged Ground with every footstep. At the end of your charge, a massive leaping Slam damages enemies and causes all patches of Jagged Ground to erupt in Aftershocks.

• While Dual Wielding, both weapons deal 30% less damage
• Jagged Ground duration is 6 seconds
• Impact and Jagged  Ground radius is 1.2 metres
• While Dual Wielding, both weapons deal 30% less damage
• Impact radius is 3.2 metres
• Detonates Jagged Ground within 3.2 metres radius of Slam nad each patch of Jagged Ground detonated

Additional Effects From Quality:

• 0(0-30)% chance to cause Aftershocks

Devastate (Support Gem)

Supports any skill hits enemies, causing them to apply broken armour to enemies when causing a heavy stun to enemies.

• Supported skills fully break armour when inflicting a heavy stun

Armour Explosion (Support Gem)

Supports attacks, causing them to trigger a fiery explosion when they fully break an enemy’s armour.

• Supported skills trigger an explosion when they fully break an enemy’s armour

Magnified Effect (Support Gem)

Supports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger.

• Supports skills have 40% more area of effect

Break Endurance (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that hits enemies, giving it a chance to gain an endurance charge when it fully breaks an enemy’s armour.

• 20% chance to gain an endurance charge when supported skills fully break enemy armour

Seismic Cry

Performs a damaging warcry, Knocking back nearby enemies. If a heavy stunned enemy is hit, your next slam is empowered to perform an additional aftershock. If not, this skill’s cooldown is reset. Only counts heavily stunned enemies for purposes of counting power gained.

• Deals 6 to 9 physical damage
• Knocks enemies back on hit
• 200% increased knockback distance
• Hits ignore enemy monster physical damage reduction
• Empowers the next melee slam attack you perform, plus an additional attack per endurance charge consumed.
• 1% more stun buildup
• (2-38)% increased warcry speed
• Deals (6-157-) to (9-236) physical damage

Additional effects from quality:

• (0-40)% increased Warcry speed

Enraged Warcry (Support Gem)

Supports Warcries, causing them to consume rage to further boost empowered attacks.

• Supported warcries consume up to 10 Rage, causing attacks empowered by them to deal 30% more damage

Infernal Cry

Performs a warcry, empowering subsequent attacks. Consumes all endurance charges to empower additional attacks. Enemies in the warcry’s area are destablished and will combust on death.

• Empowered attacks gain 25% of damage as fire damage per 5 power of enemies range, up to 100%
• Empowers the next melee attack you perform, plus an additional attack per endurance charge consumed
• (2-38)% increased warcry speed
• Destablishes enemies for 8 seconds
• Warcry radius is 4 metres

Additional effects from quality:

• Empowered attacks gain (0-10)% of damage as fire damage per 5 power of enemies in range, up to (0-50)%

Raging Cry (Support Gem)

Supports warcry skills, causing them to grant you Rage on use depending on counted monster power.

• Supported skills grant 4 Rage per 5 power of counted enemies in range

Premeditation (Support Gem)

Supports skills that can empower skills other than themselves, causing skills they empower to deal more damage.

• Skills empowered by Supported skills deal 1515 more damage

Dazing Cry (Support Gem)

Supports warcries, causing them to daze enemies on use.

• Supported skills daze enemies
• Daze lasts for 4 seconds

Inspiration (Support Gem)

Supports any skill, making it cost less to use. Cannot support skills which reserve spirit

• Supported Skills have 40% less cost

Herald of Ash

While active, enemies you sufficiently overkill with attacks will cause an explosion that Ignites nearby enemies based on the overkill damage dealt.

• Explosion Radius is 1 Metre
• Ignite Duration is 3 Seconds
• Base Ignite Damage is 17.67% of Overkill Damage
• Ignite Surrounding enemies is overkill Damage is at least 20% of enemy’s maximum life

Additional Effects From Quality:

• Ignite surrounding enemies if Overkill damage is at least (0–2)% of enemy’s maximum Life

Time of Need

Invokes divine blessings, periodically healing you and removing Curses and Elemental Ailments from you.

• 11.1 Second Duration between Blessings
• Blessing Recovers 166 Life and Removes Curses and Elemental Ailments

Additional Effects from Quality:

• Blessing Recovers 0(0-40) Life and Removes Curses and Elemental Ailments

Vitality (Support Gem)

Supports persistent buff skills, causing you to gain Life Regeneration while the skill is active.

• Regenerate 1% of Life per second while a supported skill is active

Cannibalism (Support Gem)

Supports persistent buff skills, causing you to recover Life on kill while the skill is active.

• 4% of Life recovered on kill while a supported skill is active

Time Snap

Manipulates time, resetting the cooldowns of your other skills.

Additional effect from quality:

• (0-10)% increased cooldown recovery rate

Ingenuity (Support Gem)

Supports skills with cooldowns, increasing the rate at which those cooldowns recover.

• Supported skills have 30% increased cooldown recovery rate

Sunder

Slams the ground, creating a roiling fissure that damages enemies in a sequence of areas in front of you. A number of enemies hit by the wave will release a shockwave, damaging other enemies.

• +1.4 seconds to Attack Time
• +0.2 metres to wave length for each wave in the Sequence
• 100% increased Critical Damage Bonus
• While Dual Wielding, both weapons hit with 30% less damage
• Consumes Fully Broken Armour on enemies to guarentee a Critical Hit
• Wave length is 0.9 metres
• Wave causes Shockwaves from up to 5 Enemies in each Area
• Shockwave radius is 1.2 metres

Additional Effects From Quality:

• 0(0-30)% Reduced Accuracy Penalty based on distance

Overpower (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing it to build up stun more quickly.

• Hits with supported skills cause 50% more stun buildup

Fire Infusion (Support Gem)

Supports attacks, causing them to gain fire damage but deal less cold and lightning damage.

• Supported attacks gain 25% of damage as extra fire damage
• Supported attacks deal 50% less cold and lightning damage

Fist of War (Support Gem)

Supports slams you use yourself, providing ancestral boost every few seconds.

• Attacks with supported skill are ancestrally boosted, no more than once every 6 seconds

Leap Slam

Jump into the air, damaging and knocking back enemies with your mace where you lang. Enemies you would land on are pushed out of the way.

• +0.65 seconds to Total Attack Time, plus up to +0.35 seconds based on distance travelled
• When Dual Wielding, both weapons hit with 30% less damage
• 26% more stun buildup
• Impact radius is 2.5 metres
• Consumes Fully Broken Armour on Enemies to cause 500% more Stun buildup

Additional Effects From Quality:

• 0(0-15)% less damage with hits against enemies with Fully Broken Armour

Holy Descent (Support Gem)

Supports skills that leap into the air, causing them to create concentrated ground when you land.

• Supported skills create concentrated ground for 4 seconds on landing

Momentum (Support Gem)

Supports any damaging skill that you use yourself, causing it to deal more damage if you move a sufficient distance while using the skill. Teleportation does not count towards the distance travelled.

• After moving at least 2 metres during a single use of a supported skill, the rest of that use deals 40% more damage

Martial Tempo (Support Gem)

Supports attacks, causing them to attack faster.

• Supported Skills have 25% more attack speed

Ancestral Warrior Totem

Raises a Totem that uses socketed Mace skills. Cannot use skills with Cooldowns.

• Totem duration is 8 seconds
• Limit 1 Totem
• Totem base attack time is 1 second
• Totem uses its own weapon, dealing 59 to 89 Base Physical Damage

Additional Effects From Quality:

• Totem duration is 0(0-0.4) seconds

Armour Breaker (Support Gem)

Attack with a forceful blow, knocking enemies back and weakening their armour.

• Knock enemies back on hit
• +2 to melee strike range
• 40% more attack speed while dual wielding
• Hits break (4-5123) armour

Additional effects from Quality:

• Break (0-20)% increased armour

Rupture (Support Gem)

Supports skills that hit enemies. Supported skills aggravate bleeding on hitting heavily stunned enemies.

• Supported skills aggravate bleeding on hitting heavy stunned enemies

Persistence (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.

• Supported Skills have 40% more skill effect duration

Best Chronomancer Stat Priorities

Here are some stats that you should prioritize using your passive board and through gear as well.

Regular stats

• Intelligence
• Dexterity
• Strength

Intelligence is a crucial attribute to level up for the Chronomancer. Strength and Dexterity are also crucial to varying degrees based on the build. Intelligence stats boost Energy Shield, Mana, and spell damage. Strength increases Life, and auras, and enables the use of gear or gems. Dexterity increases accuracy and evasion.

Defensive Stats

• Energy shield
• Evasion
• Movement speed
• Cold/Fire resistance
• Maximum mana

Energy Shield is the most important defensive stat for Chronomnacer than the traditional armour stat. Energy Shield grants an extra layer of defense in tough battles. Evasion allows you to avoid taking damage and being hit by projectiles. Movement speed is also crucial for escaping from attacks and dodge quicker, allowing you to fight from a distance with flexibility. Invest points in cold or fire resistances to face bosses and foes that deal these damage types.

Offensive stats

• Spell damage
• Critical hit chance
• + level for elemental spell skills

Spell damage and critical hit chance are two important key stats for the offensive playstyle of your build. You want to deal massive damage supported by defensive skills, and additional mana. Find the weapons that enhance your defensive stats, mainly your spell damage and critical hit chance. Critical Strike Chance enhances the burst damage significantly.

Best Chronomancer Passive Skills

Path of Exile 2 offers passive skill nodes that we recommend grabbing when you can because they’re highly effective. The Chronomancer has stronger early options for the passive skill, enhancing the initial survivability. However, if you want to min-max more, they are easily respec-ed. You will get a massive boost to attack power and rate without depending on flasks. Consider picking notable passives in the star-shaped cluster from your starting point.

• Loose Flesh- 15% of elemental damage taken recouped as Life
• Vocal Empowerment- Warcries empower an additional attack
• Lasting Trauma- 30% increased Magnitude of Ailments you inflict. 20% increased duration of damaging Ailments on enemies. 5% reduced attack speed
• Heavy Armour- 100% of Strength requirements from boots, gloves, and helmets also added to armour
• Perforation- 20% chance for bleeding to be aggravated when inflicted against enemies on Jagged Ground. 40% increased Jagged Ground duration.
• Spike Pit- Enemies in Jagged Ground you create take 10% increased damage
• Aftershocks- 40% increased aftershock area of effect
• Bolstering Yell- Empowered attacks deal 30% increased damage. Warcry skills have a 30% increased area of effect
• Smash- 20% increased melee damage. 40% increased melee damage against heavy stunned enemies
• Relentless- +10 to Strength. 15% increased armour. Regenerate 0.5% of Life per second

How Skill Tree is Set in POE 2

For most new players, the passive skill tree is extremely daunting but actually, it’s quite simple. A character is granted one passive skill point every time they level up and are sometimes even granted more from completing certain quests. We have the intelligence section that focuses on spell damage, summoning, and elemental damage.

Next, we have the Dexterity section which is more focused on ranged combat, evasion, and speed. At the bottom left, we have the Strength section which is more melee and defense-oriented. Next, we’ve passive nodes and they are split into two categories. The small passives that grant minor bonuses such as a small increase in attack speed, spell damage, melee damage, or attributes.

Second, we’ve notable passives. These are larger passive points that grant greater bonuses than the smaller ones but they have stats on them that are often closely related to the small passives leading up to them. Think of these as checkpoints to work towards. On top of this, we have a third passive point but is not entirely compared to the two others. For the third one, we have the keystones which are build changing character defining that often provide a massive amount of power with a downside. However, these downsides can be reduced or worked towards.

Following a specific setup is extremely useful and understanding the passive skill tree can make or break your character. Investing more time in this specific section will definitely upgrade your knowledge of the game.

Best Chronomancer Gear

Gear in the Chronomancer build allows you to handle the tougher battle in Path of Exile 2. Armour reduces fire damage, lightning damage, and cold damage that you take in combat.

Gear Slot	Gear	Requirement	Effect
Main Hand Weapon	Expert Leaden Greathammer	77 level, 212str.	Adds (26-39) to (44-66) physical damage (170-179)% increased physical damage (75-79)% increased physical damage +(175-200) to accuracy rating (26-28)% increased attack speed +(31-33) to Strength
Helmet	Expert Elite Greathelm	75 level, 139 str.	+(200-214) to maximum Life +(34-36) to Strength +(17-18) to all elemental resistances
Body Armour	Expert Vaal Cuirass	45 level, 157 str.	(30-40)% increased Stun Threshold +(200-214) to maximum Life +(34-36) to Strength +(41-45)% to lightning resistance
Belt	Fine Belt	61 level	Flasks gain 0.2 charges per second +(100-119) to maximum Life +(41-45) to cold resistance
Boots	Expert Stone Greaves	75 level, 131 str.	+(200-214) to a maximum Life 35% increased movement speed +(41-45)% to cold resistance
Ring 1	Amethyst Ring	20 level	+(7-13)% to chaos resistance +(100-119) to maximum Life +(41-45)% to cold resistance +(41-45)% to fire resistance
Ring 2	Amethyst Ring	20 level	+(7-13)% to chaos resistance +(100-119) to maximum Life +(41-45)% to fire resistance +(41-45)% to fire resistance
Amulet	Amber Amulet	8 level	+(10-15) to Strength +(150-174) to maximum Life Adds (12-19) to (22-32) physical damage to attacks +(36-40) to fire resistance

How to Play Chronomancer in Path of Exile 2

Focus on elemental damage that boosts fire, cold, and lightning damage in combat. Use a staff and wand at the beginning that offer elemental spells. Try to find a weapon that favors your playstyle. Early skills like Spark and Flame Wall deal with crowd control and versatile damage. Invest your points in movement skills to dodge attacks. Use cold skills to freeze enemies and follow up with critical hits.

Chronomancer provides utility and slows enemies in combat. Equip the gear that grants bonuses and buffs to intelligence and spell damage along with the elemental damage. Positioning is crucial while playing as Sorceress, so stay at a safe distance to maximize spell range. Positioning and learning the timing is crucial for chain elemental effects. The Chronomancer ascendancy aims at the Sorceress’ ability to exploit time to her perk. It stops time and changes into a last state to gain useful effects like resetting skill cooldowns and crowd control tactics.

Best Sorceress Chronomancer Build in Path of Exile 2 Summary

FAQs about Best Sorceress Chronomancer Build in Path of Exile 2 (POE 2)?

How important is gear for my Chronomancer build?

Gear in Path of Exile 2 is crucial for any build, including your Chronomancer build. The Gears determine how strong and survivable your build will be in combat. Gear in the Chronomancer build allows you to handle the tougher battle in Path of Exile 2, so always focus on improving gear through crafting, buying, or farming.

How do I acquire Chronomancer’s new skills?

Yes, you can respec your Chronomancer build by refunding passive skill points through The Hooded One, an NPC located in the Clearfell Encampment. Complete the “Sorrow Among Stones” quest in Act 1, to unlock this feature. However, it will take you 2 to 5 hours, depending on your pace.

Can I respec my Chronomancer build if I make a mistake?

The Sorceress class in Path of Exile 2 has a wide variety of skills, primarily centered around elemental damage. Getting new skills involves obtaining skill gems that you can socket into the equipment to grant corresponding abilities. You can obtain the skill gems while progressing through the campaign or you can purchase the skill gems from the vendors. Use the support gems to increase the strengthen the effects of your primary skills.

What’s the best way to level up the Chronomancer build quickly?

The best way to level up the Sorceress Chronomancer build quickly is by selecting skills, ascendancies, and equipment, and employing synergistic combat techniques. Enhance your gear and equipment and optimize the skill gem selection.

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