New Player Trying Out "Budget" CoC Comet Oracle Build. Would Like Some Help and Advice. 600 Div Already Spent!!

Hi, this is my first time posting here. I'm new to POE2, got the game last month and already 300 hours in. Played the entire campagin like 6 times already across 6 different characters and decided to try the CoC Comet Oracle.

So, I saw this video on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI5lYKCraqY&t=112s

mobalytics link as well: https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/9ec39c0b-21b7-4676-9b8c-24dffd39e166/builds/21ea2a77-76a2-427f-8e92-37d01547934c?weaponSet=set2#equipment-0

The build looked fun so I decided to try it out. Long story short, I've copied the build almost exactly and to the best of my abilities (which isn't a lot) and I just can't seem to get it to work. The build works sometimes but more often than not my spark isn't proccing elemental weakness and comet.

I think the biggest problem is my wand, it just isn't good enough, but I'm not so sure so before I sink an obscene amount of divs on a wand, I'd like to know first if the wand really is the problem (among other things) and what kind of wand I should look for exactly. Also if someone could dumb things down and help explain the build better to me that would be great too!

I don't want to make a novel out of this post so I'll just post my build links here and please ask me questions if you'd like to know more.

My Build

mobalytics: https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/0e864544-4513-456a-8d20-16c5ebb2f987/builds/7f28ed12-f012-425c-b63c-87ca1f159831

PoB: https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a29b

Again, I'm new to POE2 and this community so if I've done something wrong or if im uninformed please let me know. Thank you for any help!

Comments

lols1295•4 months ago•2

Your Spark damage is currently too low to consistently proc anything. You’ll need roughly 30k tooltip damage before the build really starts to work. My first version with around 2k divs felt decent, but the build only became truly enjoyable after I upgraded to a mirrored wand. I’d recommend upgrading your wand, amulet, rings, gloves and jewels. If your vertey doesnt have at least +3 Levels dont use it. Right now, focusing on cold damage doesn’t help much because your Spark damage isn’t high enough to reliably trigger the comets.

gatsu01•4 months ago•1

600div is budget? I guess I should stay away from comet altogether.

oldglassofmilk•4 months ago•1

Ok so you have everything mashed around in the wrong way

Swap what's in cast on crit and cast on ailment

The helm is only good with+3 to all skills, without that mod a rare one is better

I use spark and a cold spell wand so spark gets 0 bonus from that, either get a +4 all spell or manually cast ele weakness with deodres to trigger coc, cold spell lvl count towards ele weakness

Those gloves are useless if you already have lifetap in all your skills, swap for a high es rare ones or atziris gloves

WyrmKin•4 months ago•1

You're missing bloodletting in CoC, that's one thing. Will have a better look when I'm home and not on mobile

CoverYourSafeHand•4 months ago•1

This league is wild. 600D budget build.

verylargesoup•4 months ago•1

Get a rare sceptre with 200+ spirit, mana and int, rare E/S gloves, a +3 skills amulet (you can probably get rid of the spirit on it and compensate with the sceptre), a +3/4 vertex

I can give you a +5 cold wand if you want, shit is not selling this late in the league

why aren't you mana stacking?

get the Arcane Intensity tree node, increased % mana on rings and amulet

You can have a look at my oracle

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/deadsoup-5293/character/soupedepipi

PoE_Acronym_Bot•4 months ago•0

I noticed some Path of Exile keywords in this post:

CoC - Cast on Critical Strike (trigger mechanic, commonly used with Comet and other spells) (Wiki)
PoB - Path of Building, an external tool used to simulate and plan character builds

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