The Sorceress in Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2) can ascend as a Stormweaver or Chronomancer. Read on for an overview of the Sorceress's ascendancies, skills, the best stats to increase, and how to play the Sorceress!

Sorceress Ascendancies

During the Early Access, you will have the choice to pick between 2 Ascendancy classes for the Sorceress:

Stormweaver

The Stormweaver Ascendancy focuses on the Sorceress's elemental mastery and capabilities. It significantly increases the frequency and potency of elemental effects and attacks through skills such as Tempest Caller, Strike Twice, and Shaper of Storms.

Stormweaver Ascendancy and Skills

Chronomancer

The Chronomancer Ascendancy focuses on the Sorceress's ability to manipulate time to her advantage. It allows her to stop time and rewind herself to a previous state to receive useful effects like deploying crowd control tactics and resetting skill cooldowns.

Some skills that allow her to do these include Ultimate Command, Footprints in the Sand, and Unbound Encore.

Chronomancer Ascendancy and Skills

Should You Pick Stormweaver or Chronomancer?

Stormweaver is Recommended

The Stormweaver is the recommended choice of Ascendancy for the Sorceress because it not only amplifies the damage and ailments applied by the Sorceress's skills, but it also synergizes with them much better. Ascendancy skills such as Constant Gale and Strike Twice are both amazing for meta builds like the Spark Stormweaver.

Most Elemental skills of the Sorceress have little to no cooldown, making the Chronomancer a redundant choice. That being said, the Chronomancer's Ascendancy skills are flexible enough to still work because of skills like Footprints in the Sand, therefore still making it a solid option to revolve builds around.

Sorceress Class Overview

Class Summary

The Sorceress
Attribute	Intelligence
Weapon	Staves

The Sorceress is an intelligence-based class that focuses on elemental magic, able to instantly kill enemy hordes or burst down bosses with one devastating ability.

Intelligence Focus

The Sorceress is an Intelligence-based class, focusing on applying elemental damage and ailments during combat. The Sorceress is a ranged caster that specializes in casting elemental skills for damage and crowd control.

Sorceress Skills

All Elemental Skills

Elemental skills are the Sorceress's main skill kit. There are Twenty-five active skills for the Elemental skills tab which the Sorceresss or other classes may use. Listed below are all the Elemental skills available as of Early Access:

Tier	Skills
1	Flame Wall			Ice Nova			Frost Bomb			Spark
3	Ember Fusillade				Frostbolt				Orb of Storms
5	Incinerate			Solar Orb			Cold Snap			Arc
7	Conductivity				Flammability				Hypothermia
9	Fireball			Frost Wall			Mana Tempest			Lightning Warp
11	Firestorm				Comet				Ball Lightning
13	Eye of Winter			Flameblast			Lightning Conduit			Temporal Chains

List of All Gems

All Sorceress Persistent Skills

Listed below are all the Sorceress's 9 Persistent Buff skills available as of Early Access:

Tier	Skills
4	Raging Spirits				Arctic Armour				Mana Remnants
8	Cast on Ignite				Cast on Freeze				Cast on Shock
14	Blink				Archmage				Elemental Conflux

List of Spirit Gems

Recommended Skills

Skill	Effect
Spark	Launches a spray of sparking projectiles that travel erratically along the ground until they hit an enemy or expire.
Archmage	While Active, causes your Non-Channelling Spells to cost additional mana and deal extra lightning damage, both based on your maximum mana.

Spark is the best Elemental skill for the Sorceress as it is the most consistent damaging tool for mobs and bosses. Spark synergizes with a lot of other Elemental skills, does great AoE damage, applies Shock, and scales very well into the late game.

Although it takes time to unlock, Archmage is a must have Persistent Buff Skill for the Sorceress as it exponentially boosts the damage of the Sorceress based on their mana.

How to Play Sorceress

Combine Skills Together To Maximize Damage

Maximize the Sorceress offensive potential by combining skills to deal heavy damage and constantly apply ailments to enemies.

Combos such as Spark and Flame Wall deal significant Burn and Shock damage that melts away enemy HP, while Frostbolt and Frost Wall freeze enemies and shatter them in place.

Stack on Spell Damage and Energy Shield

It is recommended to stack on Energy Shield as the main source of defense as Sorceresses are innately low in survivability. Although with a lot of luck and currency, the Sorceress can develop into a tank later in the game with the right equipment and passive nodess such as Mind Over Matter.

For offense, focus on Spell or Elemental Damage Modifiers when looting or crafting equipment.

Constantly Apply Elemental Ailments

The Sorceress's Elemental skills naturally apply Elemental Ailments. Applying these to enemies constantly will greatly help in clearing maps.

Shock increases enemies' damage taken, Burn does DoT damage, and Freeze will immobilize enemies in place.

Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2) Related Guides

List of Classes

List of Early Access Classes

List of Upcoming Classes