Best Sorceress Beginner build in Path of Exile 2

Discover everything you need to know about Sorceress Beginner Build in Path of Exile 2 including skills, stats, and gear.

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 beginner Sorceress build is crucial at the early stages because gameplay depends on it. Explore the Sorceress Build in Path of Exile 2 and see how he redefines early-access gameplay! In this guide, we’ll discuss the Best Sorceress Build in Path of Exile 2 including the best gear and passive skills to use.

Sorceress 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. The sorceress excels in casting potent elemental spells and uses staves and wands to cast spells. Mace Strike, Hammer of the Gods, and Boneshatter are some active skills that we include in this build to dominate anything and make the progression quick. Expert Brigand Mace is your primary weapon that adds physical damage and attack speed. This build includes Chronomancer Ascendancy due to its unique passives that are useful in combat.

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 highest damage possible, and much more.

Sorceress Build Pros	Sorceress Build Cons
High Damage Output	Low Durability
AoE Abilities	High Mana Dependency
Ranged Combat Proficiency	Weakness in Close-Range Combat
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Best Sorceress skills and support gems in Path of Exile 2

Here are the best beginner skills and support gems for Sorceress build that you should use in the initial stages of Path of Exile 2.

• Mace Strike
  • Rupture (Support Gem)
  • Hammer of the Gods
  • Lacerate (Support Gem)
  • Close Combat (Support Gem)
  • Heavy Swing (Support Gem)
  • Deep Cuts (Support Gem)
  • Heft (Support Gem)
• Boneshatter
  • Impact Shockwave (Support Gem)
  • Devastate (Support Gem)
  • Armour Explosion (Support Gem)
  • Break Posture (Support Gem)
  • Culling Strike (Support Gem)
• Seismic Cry
  • Dazing Cry (Support Gem)
• Infernal Cry
  • Enraged Warcry (Support Gem)
  • Raging Cry (Support Gem)
  • Premeditation (Support Gem)
  • Inspiration (Support Gem)
• Leap Slam
  • Holy Descent (Support Gem)
  • Momentum (Support Gem)
  • Culling Strike (Support Gem)
• Earthquake
  • Fast Forward (Support Gem)
  • Magnified Effect (Support Gem)
  • Fist of War (Support Gem)
  • Fire Infusion (Support Gem)
• Sunder
  • Overpower (Support Gem)
  • Ruthless (Support Gem)
  • Brutality (Support Gem)
• Herald of Ash
  • Cannibalism (Support Gem)
  • Overwhelming Presence
  • Vitality (Support Gem)
  • Clarity (Support Gem)
• Scavenged Plating

Mace Strike

Strike with your Mace.

Rupture (Support Gem)

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

• Supported skills aggravate bleeding on hitting heavy stunned enemies

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

Lacerate (Support Gem)

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

• 30% chance to inflict bleeding on hit

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 meter of you, scaling down tono bonus at 3.5 meters of further

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

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

Boneshatter

Attacks enemies with a melee strike. The strike will cause a Heavy stun on enemies that are primed for stun. Upon causing a heavy stun it will also create a shockwave, dealing a large amount of damage in an area.

• +2 to melee strike range
• Cannot cause stun buildup
• While Dual Wielding, both weapons hit with -100% less damage

Impact Shockwave (Support Gem)

Supports melee strike skills, causing them to create an aftershock that damages enemies around the target when they heavy stun an enemy.

• Supported skills create an aftershock when they heavy stun an enemy, dealing the same damage to enemies within 1.4 meters

Devastate (Support Gem)

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

• Fully breaks 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

Break Posture (Support Gem)

Supported attacks, causing them to Daze enemies when they fully break armour.

• Supported skills apply Daze when fully breaking armour
• Daze lasts for 6 seconds

Culling Strike (Support Gem)

Supports attack skills, causing them to cull rare and unique enemies on hit.

• Supposed skills have culling strike against rare or unique enemies

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

Dazing Cry (Support Gem)

Supports warcries, causing them to daze enemies on use.

• Supported skills daze enemies
• Daze lasts for 4 seconds

Infernal Cry

Performs a warcry, empowering subsequent attacks. Consumes all endurance charges to empower additional attacks. Enemies in the warcry’s area are destroyed 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

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

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

Inspiration (Support Gem)

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

• Supported Skills have 40% less cost

Leap Slam

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

• 20% more stun buildup
• Cannot break armour
• +0.6 seconds to total attack time, plus up to +0.5 seconds based on distance travelled
• While Dual Wielding, both weapons hit with 30% less damage
• (30-39)% more stun buildup

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 meters during a single use of a Supported skill, the rest of that use deals 40% more damage

Culling Strike (Support Gem)

Support attack skills, causing them to cull rare and unique enemies on hit.

• Supported skills have culling strikes against rare or unique enemies

Earthquake

Smashes the ground, dealing damage in an area and leaving Jagged Ground that slows enemies. The Jagged Ground erupts in a powerful aftershock after a duration. Cannot create Jagged Ground on top of an existing patch, or if you already have the maximum number of active patches.

• Maximum 2 Jagged Ground patches
• Jagged Ground duration is 4 seconds
• 100% increased magnitude of Jagged Ground you create
• Impact radius is 1.8 meters
• Jagged Ground radius is 2.2 meters
• While Dual Wielding, both weapons hit with 30% less damage
• Maximum (2-4) Jagged Ground patches

Fast Forward (Support Gem)

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

• Supported Skills have 30% less skill effect duration

Magnified Effect (Support Gem)

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

• Supported Skills have 40% more area of effect.

Fist of War (Support Gem)

Supports slams you use yourself, providing a powerful Ascestral Boost every few seconds.

• Attacks with Supported skill are ancestrally Boosted, no more than once every 6 seconds

Fire Infusion (Support Gem)

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

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

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.

• Consumes Fully Broken armour on enemies to guarantee a critical hit
• Cannot break armour
• +0.2 meters to wave length for each wave in the sequence
• Wave causes shockwaves from up to 5 enemies in each area
• +1.4 seconds to total attack time
• 100% increased critical damage bonus
• Wave length is 0.9 meters
• While Dual Wielding, both weapons hit with 30% less damage

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

Ruthless (Support Gem)

Supports attacks repeated uses to be more effective at stunning enemies.

• Every fifth use of Supported attacks causes (1)% more stun buildup

Brutality (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that deals damage, boosting its physical damage at the expense of all other damage types.

• Deal no elemental damage
• Deal no chaos damage
• Supported skills deal 35% more physical damage

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.

Cannibalism (Support Gem)

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

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

Overwhelming Presence

While active, enemies in your presence are easier to stun and inflict Elemental Ailments upon.

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

Clarity (Support Gem)

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

• 30% increased Mana Regeneration Rate while a Supported skill is active

Scavenged Plating

Uses fragments of armour scavenged from enemies to bolster your own. Fully breaking an enemy’s armour grants you a stack of Scavenged Plating for a duration, and you gain armour and thorns per stack.

Best Sorceress 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 Sorceress. 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 Sorceress 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 Sorceress Passive Skills

We include the passive skills that enhance the capability of your Energy Shield and cast speed in combat. Some passive skills are crucial, increasing your fire damage, spell damage, cold damage, and lightning damage as well to dominate any enemy coming in your path. We also add some passives in this build that also enhance your regular stats (Intelligence and Dexterity).

• Flow Like Water- 8% increased attack and cast speed, +5 to dexterity and intelligence
• Pure Energy- 30% increased maximum energy shield, +10 to intelligence
• Practiced Signs- 6% increased cast speed
• Raw Power- 20% increased spell damage, +10 to intelligence
• Path of Flame- 18% increased fire damage, 30% increased chance to ignite
• Path of Winter- 18% increased cold damage, 30% increased freeze buildup
• Path of Storms- 18% increased lightning damage, 30% increased chance to shock
• Critical Overload- 15% increased critical hit chance for spells, 15% increased spell damage if you’ve dealt a critical hit recently
• Dampening Shield- 28% increased maximum energy shield, gain 12% of maximum energy shield as additional stun threshold
• Rapid Recharge- 25% increased energy shield recharge rate, 25% faster start of energy shield recharge

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. In extremely simple we have the intelligence section which 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 Sorceress Gear

Gear in Path of Exile 2 is crucial for any build, including your Sorceress build. The Gears determine how strong and survivable your build will be in combat. Gear in the Sorceress 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. Expert Brigand Mace is your primary main-handed weapon that grants additional physical damage and increased attack speed. Expert Stone Tower Shield provides additional fire resistance and physical damage reduction from enemies.

Gear Slot	Gear	Requirement	Effect
Main Hand Weapon	Expert Brigand Mace	77 level, 212 str.	Adds (26-39) to (44-66) physical damage (170-179)% increased physical damage (23-25)% increased attack speed
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
Shields	Expert Stone Tower Shield	75 level, 139 str.	+(100-119) to maximum Life +(41-45)% to fire resistance 8% additional physical damage reduction
Gloves	Expert Moulded Mitts	75 level, 122 str.	+(200-214) to maximum Life +(36-40) to fire resistance +(34-36) to Strength
Boots	Expert Stone Greaves	75 level, 131 str.	+(200-214) to a maximum Life 35% increased movement speed +(41-45)% to cold resistance
Belt	Fine Belt	61 level	Flasks gain 0.2 charges per second +(100-119) to maximum Life +(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 Sorceress 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.

Choose Chronomancer for utility and slowing 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. This has the power over time to be able to freeze time to give you time to attack your enemy, stopping everything around you. This build works well with the Chronomancer Ascendancy due to its ability to freeze enemies, reset cooldown, and rewind the location. The best passive skills from Chronomancer Ascendancy are:

• Unbound Encore- Grants the skill Time Snap. (Resets your Skill cooldowns). You will also be able to use time snap to instantly get your cooldowns back, giving you back access to your most powerful skills.
• Ultimate Command- Grants the skill, Time Freeze. (Stops all enemies for a short duration)
• Footprints in the Sand- Grants the skill, Temporal Rift. (Rewind your location, life, and mana). This ability can send you back to a prior location returning your life and Mana to where you were at the time.

Path of Exile 2 Best Sorceress Beginner Build Summary

FAQs about Best Sorceress Beginner build in Path of Exile 2 (POE 2)?

How important is gear for my Sorceress build?

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

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

Yes, you can respec your Sorceress 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.

How do I acquire Sorceress’s new skills?

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 Sorceress build quickly?

The best way to level up the Sorceress 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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