Archmage Frostbolt Stormweaver Sorceress Build Guide - Post Comet Nerf - Path of Exile II / PoE 2

[@GoldfarmingGuide]

So after some more research I verified Call of the Brotherhood does not work with archmage and I removed it from the Build. Sorry for Confusion, still learning here ;)

[@fearmk]

we all learning together o/

[@captionjay904]

I just use 3 x cast on freez in my build. It works fine and showers enemys with meteors. Not as crazy as the new flamewall/flameskull build but its decent enough ❤

[@BunnyHoppin-]

​@@captionjay904 what do you mean by 3x cast on freeze?

[@captionjay904]

@@BunnyHoppin- U can use the Same Skill 3 Times or even more If u have enough Spirit

[@yannis838]

and so if u remove call of the brotherhood , does it meen archmage is useless now ? or i am missing something? ty

[@jeesdetriplek4588]

As I mentioned in your stream, cold exposure and cold curse (hypothermia) achieve the same thing; they *reduce the cold resistance of an enemy*. They stack additively, yes, (a better way of saying is that they "add up") and the negative resistance cap is estimated to be -200% (same as in PoE1), although it might be uncapped at the moment. This applies to both players and monsters probably (again same as PoE1). If you have cold penetration, that is a separate multiplier, but also adds up with other resistance reduction. Penetration applies first, but there is a twist. It only works to 0 (unlike in PoE1). So if you have 50% cold penetration and 50% cold resistance reduction (the sum of curse, exposure, whatever other sources) and the mob you are hitting has 25% cold resistance, that would result in the following. The penetration first reduces the mob's cold res to 0%, then your other forms of resistance reduction (non-penetration) makes it -50%. In other words, you would deal 50% more damage to it with cold skills. Actually a cold hit of 1000 damage would deal 1500 damage in this case instead of 750, which is double damage (...) do the other math yourself accordingly. This is important, since it means that while penetration is useful, resistance reduction is much more important to stack. Also, to clarify this once again, you can have resistance reduction from many sources (some of these exist in the game, some are examples taken from PoE1): - curses - exposure - "enemies in your presence have reduced X resistance" (gear) - "enemies you hit/freeze/etc have -y% to X resistance" (passive tree) - etc. All of this add up to your maximum resistance reduction, and it all happens after the penetration value had been subtracted from the mob's resistance, if it's higher than 0. Edit: One more note here... These separate mechanics do not stack. So if you have a hypothermia curse to reduce cold res of a mob, and your friend also has one, they will not stack... the stronger will apply. This is also true in the case of exposure. If you have exposure from your ascendancy for example, or a unique item, but your support gem Exposure is stronger in magnitude, only the stronger one will apply. However, these different mechanics do add up infinitely. That's only not the case if it's of the same type.

[@haydenmammen6079]

good info- a mid lvl ice sorc

[@GoldfarmingGuide]

hey thank you so much for that answer. Do you know by any chance how it works with Heavy Frost? It says "ignores targets resistance" - Does that mean it also ignores the negative resistance from exposure / curses? Or does it work like penetration and just sets the base resistance to 0?

[@TheLastEpiscopalian]

I like turtles

[@DavidFernandez-uy5oe]

The problem, from what I saw, is that if you throw frost bomb that has 20% exposure, and you have a 50% bonus for the tree, in the end you get 30% exposure on the monster, which makes getting numbers very low resistance by that method seems very inefficient to me. Penetration being more efficient for me

[@GoldfarmingGuide]

@@DavidFernandez-uy5oe nono because you get double the exposure from stormweaver ascendancy, so base exposure is 40% so currently my expore sures 78% minus res.

[@n0rthbandit352]

With that ring you can just use spark instead of frostbolt,, it'll freeze and likely clear significantly faster.

[@Technoane]

This sounds like a good plan. Anyone has experience with this?!?!

[@WookieeStomper808]

Unless im doing something wrong, cast on freeze doesn't support spell echo anymore. I can't slot it.

[@David-we3sb]

Hey nice build! Been following you since D4. do you post in any discords anymore? you always have the best builds

[@ILuvCookie479]

Would you say getting Arcane surge or scouring Winds is more important for your first trial?

[@Smakenzi]

Note the 'Inevitable critical' 100% increased crit chance applies to the skill base crit chance, so effectively gives +13%

[@GoldfarmingGuide]

Dont get the point. If you double base crit, and then come crit multipliers, it's even better? :D

[@Smakenzi]

@GoldfarmingGuide What I've meant is the 'Inevitable critical' text is same as the passive nodes (they don't multiply). You can check the final % chance to crit when expanding the gold arrow on the skill gem.. should be around 30% when the 'Inev crit' is fully charged to 100%

[@Saiperia]

idk try to make any skill work on sorc all seem to deal no damage. even if i stack all the damage gems on one skill the tooltip says like 4k... while some bow or crosbow guys ahve 60k dps in the campain.

[@efreitorhabibulin238]

Gems are not everything, you need to scale spell/cold damage + area + crit for spells and crit damage

[@GoldfarmingGuide]

so having the max level gem is definetly the most important by far. So it can really help your damage just buying the highest level gems you can equip from trade for like 1 exalt, depending where youre are at right now it can double or triple your damage, just upgrading to the highest possible gem level

[@chi1992]

Archmage and call of brotherhood could work together? I thought they don't? Isn't damage conversion and gain happen at the same 2 step process?

[@WInNKu]

It don't. The extra dmg from Call of Brotherhood applies Lightining dmg not cold.

[@GoldfarmingGuide]

I can just tell you if you put on call of brotherhood your damage gets significantly higher. But a lot of people say a lot of different things about this.

[@chi1992]

@@GoldfarmingGuide Thanks for clarifying. Maybe this is one of the mystery only GGG can answer. I hate that they don't make an example about this important interaction..

[@YusefNazzal-n9h]

Can you please test and see if archmage and call of the brotherhood ring really works?

[@pohtk2004]

How is the heavy frost? Does it let the resistance go below 0?

[@GoldfarmingGuide]

honestly, I cant figure it out I'm sorry. I basically see no difference in damage output, no matter if I pick the node or not.

[@katastrophicbtw]

Your call of the brotherhood does not convert the lightning damage from Archmage. Conversion is done different in poe2. This has been known before launch.

[@GoldfarmingGuide]

I can just tell you if you put on call of brotherhood your damage gets significantly higher. But a lot of people say a lot of different things about this.

[@emmas1366]

it is done differently yes but why would it not work on archmage?

[@scrum01]

im currently playing a sorceress with spark and flame wall at lvl 28. Witch point in the game should i convert to this build?

[@wowser4life]

i mean frostbolt just works the entire way

[@HatefulBread]

Spark is better endgame

[@arttizkappa2588]

So pretty much pure cold sorc is death either you convert to fire or shock with that unique item

[@GoldfarmingGuide]

no we don’t convert away from cold this build is pure cold

[@Menthol309]

How do u get ascendancy points?

[@djbekas5695]

Hi) How did you use 2 identical support stones at the same time?

[@GoldfarmingGuide]

I dont :D

[@aela8060]

Ok, with this build, your Frostbolt has a DPS of 4310, while mine, with the same build (level 15 Frostbolt), is only 810 DPS. For comparison, my Comet does 5300 DPS, whereas yours does 28,000. So, this build isn’t working for me because I’m experiencing a significant lack of DPS that I can’t seem to explain. Do you have any idea why?

[@GoldfarmingGuide]

your gem levels are just much lower

[@aela8060]

@GoldfarmingGuide I up my gems to lvl 19 and my frostbolt has now 1400 DPS. I really don't see the problem.

[@GoldfarmingGuide]

@@aela8060 level 19 gems is like character level 85? 😅

[@aela8060]

@@GoldfarmingGuide no with skill point on wand

[@GoldfarmingGuide]

@@aela8060 well thats quite normal. Your base gem level is for main part of your damage, so if your gems are just level 15 or 16, you are missing a lot. Also dps obviously includes all your other stats, my dps was at level 75ish.

[@sky14983]

so do we still use archmage?

[@scottwolforth8948]

Ignore when frozen is good because you can never make resistance negative in poe2. If you do exposure to reduce from 40 to 20 then this will take it to 0 regardless. If you use exposure to take it to -20 and ignore them the result is the same because -20 does not add damage like it would in poe1... This is also why doryani prototype is bad in poe2.

[@SLVYER1]

Sorry friend this isn't correct, when you hit -100% resistance, it turns into vulnerability instead of making you do extra damage, but the vulnerability stat itself is extra damage.

[@Smakenzi]

are you sure? afaik just penetrate can't go negative, exposure etc can. 1. monsters have no, red, silver, or gold snowflake icon (different icon for each element) on the right side of their health bar. When you hit them with exposure, the icon turns red, (or silver if it was gold before). Some monsters have e.g. red flame icon by default. Is the red color just visual with no meaning? 2. some monsters with no icon and red icon after exposure are easier to freeze (one frostbolt hit instead of two) - I think it is because they take more cold dmg, since their res is negative. 3. Invoker ascendancy has a skill with text "Critical Hits ignore non-negative Enemy Monster Elemental Resistances"

[@narcoleptic988]

I think the exposure value penetrates x amount qhich means ignores, and goes off same red icon regardless. I don't believe it reduces resistance like hypothermia. i could be wrong. Pretty hard to test on console. ​@Smakenzi

[@GoldfarmingGuide]

so -72% exposure and -20% exposure is a difference like night and day thats for sure.

[@narcoleptic988]

@@GoldfarmingGuide Absolutely

[@michaelprezioso1673]

I don’t even use comet and my ice sorceress still nukes everything I’m almost done with act 3 so idk how it’ll go with end game but it feels strong

[@nesronesro]

so.. is the heavy frost good or not?

[@GoldfarmingGuide]

honestly, I cant figure it out I'm sorry. I basically see no difference in damage output, no matter if I pick the node or not.

[@Ray_Gis]

ring not working

[@musiea]

LVL15 right now and switched to frost bolt its doing no damage lol

[@bolt6572]

oh u making vids for the better game now...

[@FistsOfSteelHeartOfGold]

not working my build same like this,fixed or what ?