Cold Comet Stormweaver Build

This is a Cold Comet Stormweaver build for Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2). Check out the Cold Comet Stormweaver build, including its gear, socketables, skills, and playstyle!

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Cold Comet Stormweaver Build Summary

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Cold Comet Stormweaver Build

Build Setup
Cold Comet Stormweaver	High Burst Damage Crowd Control and Mob Clear Low Cooldowns Low Mobility and Defenses

This Cold Comet build deals high CC, burst damage, and AoE clear by freezing enemies with continuous Cold damage using Frostbolt and Frost Wall to spawn Comets with the Cast on Freeze Persistent Buff Skill.

Spam Frostbolt as your main projectile to build up cold damage and freeze enemies as a Comet rains down on them. Utilize Cold Snap to deal high burst damage against frozen enemies, Arctic Armour for defense, and Hypothermia for debuffs. Frost Wall is also a great utility spell for a mix of offense and defense.

Cold Comet Stormweaver Setup

Equipment and Modifiers

Keep an eye out for gear that provides Spirit as it is highly imporant to be able to activate the Cast on Freeze Persistent Buff Skill for this build to maximize its potential.

Important offensive modifiers for the Cold Comet build at any stage of the game includes Increased Spell Damage, Increased Cast Speed, Increased Level to Cold Spells, and Increased Cold Damage since it relies on quickly freezing enemies with Frostbolt to burst them down.

This Stormweaver build requires increasing Intelligence attributes. It is recommended to stack up on Movement Speed, Life, Energy Shield, and Resistances modifiers to counteract the Stormweaver's low HP, defense, and mobility.

For your socketables, try to find Silver Charms which are helpful in negating slows to the Stormweaver to survive waves of enemies. For your runes, try to allocate them in your gear to accomodate your resistances.

Cold Comet Stormweaver Skills and Passive Tree

Active Skills

Skill	Support Gems
Frostbolt	Scattershot Glaciation
Frost Bomb	Magnified Effect Strip Away
Cold Snap	Unleash Concentrated Effect
Hypothermia	Heightened Curse Persistence
Frost Wall	Ingenuity Spell Echo Icicle
Cast on Freeze	Comet Impetus Spell Cascade
Arctic Armour	Clarity Blind

The Cold Comet Stormweaver's most important skills are Frostbolt, Cast on Freeze, Frost Wall, and Comet. It is recommended to prioritize improving the first three skills with Support Gems. The ultimate goal is to equip Comet to Cast on Freeze.

Early to Mid Game

In the early to mid game, Frostbolt and Cold Snap are mostly utilized together. Cold Snap deals a high amount of burst damage to Bosses that get frozen. Activate the Arctic Armour Persistent Skill first before Cast on Freeze is acquired later on.

Once acquired, Cast on Freeze allows the user to automatically cast an Active Skill that is equipped on it. Equip Cold Snap on it for the mean time before the Comet skill is acquired. Active skills such as Hypothermia and Frost Bomb will also apply debuffs to enemies.

Mid Game to Late Game

During the late game, equip Comet to Cast on Freeze and utilize Frost Wall to block enemies' paths or make the walls explode to deal additional cold damage. Combining these with Frostbolt outputs a lot of CC, AoE clear, and high burst damage.

Passive Skill Tree

Ascendancy Tree
Ascendancy Group Node
Passive Nodes
1.	Raw Power and Path of Winter	2.	Overexposure
3.	Endless Blizzards and Glaciation	4.	Adverse Growth and Touch the Arcane
5.	Breaking Point and Mental Perseverance	6.	Ingenuity and Arcane Intensity
7.	Mental Alacrity and Lucidity	8.	-

This Cold Comet Stormweaver build relies on increasing anything Spell Damage, Elemental Ailment, Cast Speed, Intelligence, and anything Cold or Freeze related.

It is recommended to first unlock the upper nodes to acquire Raw Power, Overexposure, and up to Endless Blizzards. Afterwards, focus on the upper left nodes to unlock Adverse Growth up to Mental Perseverance. Last, unlock the upper right nodes accordingly.

Once Ascendancy has been achieved, focus on unlocking the Constant Gale and Force of Will nodes to gain Arcane Surge. This gives the Stormweaver a buff that increases Cast Speed and Mana Regenaration, which helps improve freeze buildup.

Cold Comet Stormweaver Playstyle and Skill Rotation

Skill Rotation

The goal of the Cold Comet Stormweaver's playstyle is to use Frostbolt and Frost Wall to freeze enemies and shatter them with high burst damage from Cold Snap or Comet being equipped to Cast on Freeze.

1. Spam Frostbolts.
2. Utilize Frost Wall to block enemies' paths or their attacks. Crystal walls destroyed will explode, dealing cold damage to enemies.
3. Once enemies are frozen, Cast on Freeze will automatically spawn Comets to deal heavy AoE cold damage.
4. If bosses or high HP enemies are still alive and frozen, use Cold Snap to deal an extra high burst of damage.

Frost Bomb and Hypothermia Debuffs

Maximize the skill kit by using Hypothermia and Frost Bomb to debuff enemies. Hypothermia applies a curse that lowers enemies' Cold Resistance. Frost Bomb on the otherhand is a 2-in-1 spell that summons a delayed pulsing explosion which lowers Cold Resistance and deals high damage.

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