Best Sorceress Stormweaver build in Path of Exile 2

Discover everything you need to know about the best Sorceress Stormweaver 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 Stormweaver build is crucial in the early stages because gameplay depends on it. Explore the Best Sorceress Stormweaver build in Path of Exile 2 and see how he redefines gameplay! In this guide, we’ll discuss the Best Stormweaver Build in Path of Exile 2 including the best gear and passive skills to use.

Stormweaver build in Path of Exile 2 Explored

The Stormweaver focuses on the Sorceress’ capabilities and elemental mastery. It enhances the frequency along with the potency of elemental effects and attacks. This is done through skills like Shaper of Storms, Tempest Caller, and Strike Twice. Stormweaver harnesses everything lightning. When she deals critical damage, she summons lightning swords and actually stacks up her shock effects on enemies. Her damage can amplify even further. This build focuses on increasing cold damage and Freeze Capability across the build while using curses. Forstbolt and Frost Bomb are the major active skills for this build because they deal high cold 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 highest damage possible, and much more.

This is a magic archetype that primarily uses elements to bring enemies to their knees. As a Sorceress, you should be able to use a variety of elements at your disposal to wreak havoc on everybody. Unlike the Warrior, it is more of a ranged class and probably wouldn’t excel in close combat situations. Use Ball Lightning for huge Shock Utility & Mobility during combat in the endgame and Hypothermia for mitigating enemies’ Cold Resistance.

Stormweaver Build Pros	Stormweaver Build Cons
High Burst Damage	Lack of Mobility
Enhanced Regeneration Utility	Fairly Squishy
Ailments

Best Stormweaver skills and support gems in Path of Exile 2

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

• Frostbolt
  • Scattershot (Support Gem)
  • Wildshards (Support Gem)
  • Glaciation (Support Gem)
  • Deceleration (Support Gem)
  • Cold Penetration (Support Gem)
• Frost Bomb
  • Considered Casting (Support Gem)
  • Inevitable Critical (Support Gem)
  • Second Wind (Support Gem)
• Hypothermia
  • Magnified Effect (Support Gem)
  • Persistence (Support Gem)
  • Cursed Ground (Support Gem)
  • Ritualistic Curse (Support Gem)
• Frost Wall
  • Spell Echo (Support Gem)
  • Icicle (Support Gem)
  • Ingenuity (Support Gem)
• Cast on Freeze
  • Ball Lightning (Support Gem)
  • Deceleration (Support Gem)
• Lightning Warp
  • Unleash (Support Gem)
  • Soul Drain (Support Gem)
  • Overcharge (Support Gem)
• Eye of Winter
  • Cold Exposure (Support Gem)
  • Considered Casting (Support Gem)
  • Pierce (Support Gem)
  • Acceleration (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)

Frostbolt

Fires a slow moving Piercing Projectile that leaves a wake of Chilled Ground, deals Cold damage and explodes on colliding with terrain.

• Deals (5-135) to (7-203) Cold Damage
• Projectiles Pierce all Targets
• 100% increased Magnitude of Chill inflicted
• Chilled Ground radius is 0.9 metres
• Chilled Ground duration is 4 seconds
• Explosion radius is 1.6 metres
• Explosion deals (2-68) to (4-101) Cold Damage

Additional effects from Quality:

• (0-20)% more projectile damage after piercing an enemy

Scattershot (Support Gem)

Supports projectile skills, making them fire extra projectiles. Also lowers attacks and cast speed of supported skills, as well as lessening their damage.

• Fires 2 additional projectiles
• Supported skills deal 20% less damage
• Supported skills have 20% less attacks and cast speed

Wildshards (Support Gem)

Supports spell skills that fire projectiles. Supported skills have a chance to fire many additional projectiles in a circle.

• Supported skills have a 20% chance to fire 8 additional projectiles in a circle

Glaciation (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that hits enemies, making it more effective at freezing enemies.

• Supported skills cause 50% more freeze buildup

Deceleration (Support Gem)

Supports projectile skills, making those projectiles travel more slowly.

• Supported skills have 30% less projectile speed

Cold Penetration (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy cold resistance.

• Penetrates 30% cold resistance

Frost Bomb

Creates a puising Orb of frost. Each pulse inflicts Cold Exposure on nearby enemies. When the Orb’s duration ends, it explodes, dealing Cold damage to surrounding enemies.

• Deals 21 to 32 Cold Damage
• Pulse and Explosion radius are 1.7 metres
• Orb duration is 3 seconds
• Exposure duration is 5 seconds

Additional Effects From Quality:

• 0(0-1)% More damage with Hits per 0.1 second duration

Considered Casting (Support Gem)

Supports spell skills hit enemies and you cast yourself, boosting damage at the cost of cast speed.

• Supported spell skills have 15% less cast speed
• Supported skills deal 40% more damage with spell hits

Inevitable Critical (Support Gem)

Supports any skill you use yourself that hits enemies, causing it to accumulate critical hit chance over time.

• Supported skills gain 25% increased critical hit chance each second, up to 100%. This critical hit chance is lost whenever a skill supported by inevitable critical critically hits

Second Wind (Support Gem)

Supports skills with cooldowns, giving them extra uses of that cooldown. Cannot support instant or triggered skills.

• Supported skills have twice as many cooldown uses
• Supported skills have 50% less cooldown recovery rate

Hypothermia

Curses all targets in an area after a short delay, lowering their cold resistance.

• Cruse applies after 1 second delay
• Curse duration is (6-7.4) seconds
• Curse radius is (1.5-2.1) metres

Additional effects from Quality:

• (0-10)% increased effect of curse

Magnified Effect (Support Gem)

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

• Supported skills have 40% more area of effect

Persistence (Support Gem)

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

• Supported skills have 40% more skill effect duration

Cursed Ground (Support Gem)

Supports curse skills. Supported curse skills no longer have an activation delay, instead creating areas which curse enemies so long they are within them.

• Supported skills create cursed ground enemies on the cursed ground from a supported skill are cursed while within it maximum 1 area of cursed ground

Ritualistic Curse (Support Gem)

Supports curse skills, causing them to cover a larger area but take longer to curse enemies.

• Cruse zones from supported skills erupt after 30% increased delay
• Supported skills have 50% increased area of effect

Frost Wall

Creates a wall of Ice Crystals which holds back enemies. The Crystals explode if sufficiently damaged, or if pushed hard enough, dealing damage nearby enemies.

• Deals 45 to 68 Cold Damage
• 50% more Freeze buildup
• Explosion radius is 2 metres
• Ice Crystal duration is 8 seconds
• Ice Crystal have 832 Maximum Life

 Additional Effects From Quality:

• 0(0-10)% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate

Spell Echo (Support Gem)

Supports spells that affect an area around you or a target location. Supported spells echo, causing their effects to happen again after a short delay. Cannot support channelling skills or remote skills.

• Supported skills have 30% less cast speed
• Supported spells echo once
• Echoes from supported spells have 30% more area of effect

Icicle (Support Gem)

Supports any skill which creates Ice Crystals, causing them to be created with lower Life.

• Ice Crystal created by supported skills have 50% less Life

Ingenuity (Support Gem)

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

• Supported skills have 30% increased cooldown recovery rate

Cast on Freeze

While active, gains energy when you freeze enemies and triggers socketed spells on reaching maximum energy.

• Meta skills gain (3-54)% increased energy

Additional Effects From Quality:

• Meta skills gain (0-15)% increased energy

Ball Lightning (Support Gem)

Fires a slow-moving projectile that repeatedly shoots bolts of Lightning at nearby enemies.

• 750% more chance to shock
• Fires beams at targets within 1.8 metres
• Hits enemies in range every 0.2 seconds
• Deals (1-3) to (2-60) Lightning damage

Additional Effects from Quality:

• Fires beams at targets within (0-0.4) metres

Deceleration (Support Gem)

Supports projectile skills, making those projectiles travel more slowly.

• Supported skills have 30% less projectile speed

Lightning Warp

Teleports you inside the target’s body, causing it to violently explode. Highlights enemies that can be Culled, and can only be used on these enemies or Ball Lightning Projectiles, The target is destroyed. and the explosion deals Lightning Damage to surrounding enemies and creates Shocked Ground.

• Deals 9 to 170 Lightning Damage
• Explosion and Shocked Ground radius are 4 metres
• Shocked Ground duration is 10 seconds

Additional Effects From Quality:

• (0–10)% increased Magnitude of Shock inflicted

Unleash (Support Gem)

Supports spells you cast yourself, making their effect reoccur when cast. Cannot support channelling skills or skills with a cooldown.

• Supported skills deal 50% less damage when reoccurring
• Supported spells gain a seal every 200% of cast time, to a maximum of 2 seals supported spells are unsealed when cast, and their effects reoccur for each seal lost

Soul Drain (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing you to recover mana when it culls an enemy.

• Recover 12% of Mana over four seconds when supported skills cull an enemy

Overcharge (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that hits enemies, making its shocks more effective but last for a shorter duration.

• Supports skills have 50% less shock duration
• 75% increased magnitude of shocks inflicted with supported skills

Eye of Winter

Fires a single Eye Projectile which does not hit enemies. The Eye constantly releases damaging shard Projectiles in a spiral as it flies, plus an extra burst of Shards at the end of its flight. If the Eye passes over an Elemental ground surface, it will take on that surface effect, applying it to nearby enemies and causing shards to deal more damage of the corresponding type.

• Deals 11 to 16 Cold Damage
• Fires 8 Shard Projectiles in a Spiral when Projectile ends
• Modifiers to number of Projectiles only apply to the final spiral
• Inflicts Critical Weakness on Hit

 Additional Effects From Quality:

• 0(0-30)% Increase Projectile Speed

Cold Exposure (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing it to inflict cold exposure when it critically hits an enemy.

• Supported skills inflict cold exposure for 8 seconds on critical hit with cold damage

Considered Casting (Support Gem)

Supports spell skills that hit enemies and you cast yourself, boosting damage at the cost of cast speed.

• Supported spell skills have 15% less cast speed
• Supported skills deal 40% more damage with spell hits

Pierce (Support Gem)

Supports projectile skills, making their projectile pierce an enemy but deal less damage after doing so.

• Projectiles from supported skills pierce an enemy
• Projectiles from supported skills deal 30% less damage if they’ve pierced an enemy

Acceleration (Support Gem)

Supports projectile skills, making those projectiles travel faster.

• Supported skills have 40% more projectile speed

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

Best Stormweaver 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 Stormweaver. 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 Stormweaver 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 Stormweaver Passive Skills

Path of Exile 2 offers passive skill nodes that we recommend grabbing when you can because they’re highly effective. The Stormweaver 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.

• Path of Storms- 18% increased lightning damage, 30% increased chance to shock.
• Mental Perseverance- 10% of damage is taken from mana before life.
• Touch the Arcane- 40% increased effect of Arcane Surge on you.
• Adverse Growth- 20% of damage taken recouped as mana. 20% reduced life regeneration rate.
• Overexposure- 30% increased lightning exposure effect. 30% increased cold exposure effect. 30% increased fire exposure effect.
• Patient Barrier- 60% increased maximum energy shield. 20% slower start of energy shield recharge.
• Echoing Thunder- 30% increased elemental damage if you’ve shocked an enemy recently.
• Potent Incantation- 30% increased spell damage. 5% reduced cast speed.
• Echoing Frost- 30% increased elemental damage if you’ve chilled an enemy recently.
• Path of Winter- 18% increased cold damage, 30% increased freeze buildup.

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 Stormweaver Gear

Gear in the Stormweaver 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 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	Viper Cap	38 level, 70 dex.	+(40-59) to maximum Life +(11-15)% to Fire resistance +(26-30)% to Cold resistance
Body Armour	Waxed Jacket	11 level, 14 int., 14 dex	+(40-59)% to maximum Life +(16-20)% to Cold resistance +(16-20)% 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
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
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	Topaz Ring	16 level	Armour: +(20-30) to lightning resistance +(15-20) to maximum energy shield +(16-20)% to cold resistance +(16-20) to lightning 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 Stormweaver 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.

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 Stormweaver Ascendancy in Path of Exile focuses on elemental damage, critical strikes, and status ailments. It can trigger stronger effects on shock, ignite, and critical strikes.

Best Best Sorceress Stormweaver Build in Path of Exile 2 Summary

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

How important is gear for my Stormweaver build?

Gear in Path of Exile 2 is crucial for any build, including your Stormweaver build. The Gears determine how strong and survivable your build will be in combat. Gear in the Stormweaver 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 Stormweaver’s new skills?

Yes, you can respec your Stormweaver 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 Stormweaver 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 and strengthen the effects of your primary skills.

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

The best way to level up the Sorceress Stormweaver 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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