Frost bolt/wall CoC Varashta Questions

Hello all! Apologies for the wall of text.

I am new to POE this season (played Diablo 3 a lot).

I have been building a sorceress and started with mobalytics stormweaver starter build but ended up trying out my current frost bolt build.

I have used poe ninja to try and optimize by current build as much as possible and it seems like I am getting to the point where I want to move on from Maligaros and start getting some crit damage.

One issue I have is getting build information can be very difficult as there seems to be a lot issues using Poe ninja: skills just there for dps padding, no check for the required amount of spirit needed etc. I only get to play on console and have trouble accessing POB cool on mobile to try different things.

I don’t get to play very often (working dad) and I have saved up around 200 div to try and buy new gloves, and new sapphires. I wanted to make sure that was the best use of my divs and see if there is anything else I should change. A couple things I have thought about:

Taking off elemental equilibrium and socketing living bomb into my CoC.

Adding archmage, but this would require a new amulet with spirit. (I didnt need it at the time and to top it off didn’t know I couldn’t allocate on sanctified.) Looking at the trade site these would be way over budget to not be an overall downgrade.

I have a headhunter, but I would have to make a few gear changes to get back up to capped resistances.

Mr breach ring could also be upgraded but low priority.

Here is my current build:

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Altomatum2-2850/character/Glorfindalt

I need to swap the rune on my focus and currently don’t have enough spirit to actually use convalescence.

Sorry for the wall of text!

Comments

thejiang•5 months ago•1

You don't need to move on from maligaro, you should try adonia's ego wand. It's an absurd amount of damage and you'll never look back.

It works a lot better on stormweaver however. It's much better to look at a guide than to look at poeninja though. The mechanics are a bit extra.

jkurash•5 months ago•1

Don't get off maligaros. Sure u could get above 250 crit damage. But to do so, u sacrifice a ton of passive points and mods on gear. Keeping it lets u get more defense, resistances, other damage types, etc

PaladinWiz•5 months ago•1

I would drop Potent Incantations and instead use those points for arcane remnants. If you’re triggering living bomb then you’ll always be gaining remnants since infusions count as remnants, this gives a big boost to mana recovery.

I would for sure add living bomb into your trigger setup. It’s the highest damage increase you can get until you have a way to trigger Living Bomb outside of your Comet setup.

Spellslinger wand is a much higher cost, but gives amazing QoL for triggering Living Bomb and Snap so you don’t have to waste damage slots for them.

You have Frost Wall + Verglass but didn’t socket in the support to increase Ice Crystal life, I would highly recommend doing so by dropping fortress.

Drop the self-cast comet, I can’t see any situations in which you’d actually do that due to the slow cast. You can probably trigger several with frost bolts in that same amount of time.

Add Mana tempest into your skill slots. You can pair it with Advancing Storm support so it doesn’t drain all your mana. Be careful about adding quality since that increases the duration that you’re affected by the storm, which will also drain your mana even though the storm isn’t on you. It should be a higher damage increase than Archmage at your current mana without increasing your mana costs.

sobercrossfitter•5 months ago•1

Your tree could use a look- add effecient inscriptions to give yourself some spirit breathing room. The crit nodes right below it are also some of the best on the tree

Osteinum•5 months ago•1

Your build looks really advanced for a "working dad" - kudos!

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