How To Build Your Sorceress In Path Of Exile 2

Path of Exile 2 offers immense variety to players when it comes to how many builds you can make and what you can do in terms of power fantasy. While it takes some grinding before you can feel the overwhelming sense of power, the journey to achieve it is worth the effort.

The Sorceress is one of the most powerful classes in the game that can easily clear through mobs and bosses. If you are interested in playing the Sorceress, here’s a detailed build that will guide you through the leveling process.

Path of Exile 2 is an early access game. As it is developed, builds can get nerfed quite aggressively. In most cases, if your build gets nerfed, you have no option but to restart since refunding points costs a fortune, even for the most hardcore player.

Sorceress Overview In Path Of Exile 2

The Sorceress is all about control over elemental powers in the game. While playing this class, you get to use multiple spells that can be derived from three major elements: Fire, Ice, and Lightning. You can either mix and match the spells from these three elements or go heavy on one of them.

One of the most fun aspects about the Sorceress is that this class doesn’t feel weak, even in the early game. Your damage output is substantial, and you can melt through bosses and mobs as you go through the campaigns. The further you move, the stronger you get, and by the time you reach the endgame, the Sorceress is unstoppable.

Weaknesses

The only issue you might face as the Sorceress is that the class is extremely squishy. You’ll die in one or two hits at most and must be careful about a boss’s moves when clearing content. Additionally, you may run into mana problems in the early game if you try to spam your spells too much.

The Sorceress is also extremely dependent on good gear with stats that can boost spell damage, restore health, mana, and shields. These are key to the class’s performance as well as survivability, and you must use your various crafting orbs to look for good pieces of gear at the vendors whenever you level up.

Ascendancy

When it comes to Ascendancy, you have two options, namely Stormweaver and Chronomancer. Both of these are good in their respective areas, but the Stormweaver is more dominant in the current meta. The problem with the Chronomancer is that it lacks the explosive power that is a big requirement in a game such as Path of Exile 2, but Stormweaver, on the other hand, is made to destroy bosses.

It’s also important to mention that you get access to both Sorceress and Occult abilities in this class, but you won’t need the latter one. However, if you are struggling too much, you can always raise a few minions to get you through the early game, though you’ll need Spirit for that.

Sorceress Leveling Guide

Sorceress is pretty easy to level up, but with the sheer amount of resources available at your disposal, it can be daunting to select what is necessary in a given scenario. Here’s a detailed leveling guide for this class so that you don’t have to waste gems on spells you don’t need.

Act 1

The Sorceress feels powerful right from Act 1. Here’s a list of spells that you should get on your journey:

• Flame Wall: This is the first skill you will unlock in the game. It deals good damage and works both as a setup as well as a damage source. You will change it eventually, but it will carry you through both Act I and Act II.
• Frost Bomb: This is one of the most powerful skills, and you get it very early. All you do is place it on the ground, and it deals massive damage to bosses. This will be your main source of damage, and you should spam it as much as possible.
• Spark: This skill will also help you out in the early game, as it deals decent damage and helps deal with basic mobs. This skill synergizes pretty well with Flame Wall, as the Lightning Sparks will bounce off the wall of fire and deal additional damage.
• Use an Uncut Support Gem and get access to the Fortress skill from Flame Wall. Using this will create a circular Flame Wall and make it easier to bounce the Spark spell.
• Frostbolt: This is another useful skill that you’ll need in the early game, as it helps stack up Freeze on enemies and makes it easier to proc the explosions from Frost Bomb.
• After you defeat the King of the Mists boss, you’ll get access to an Uncut Spirit Gem. Use it to unlock Arctic Armor, which will provide protection against melee attacks.

Act 2

Once you reach Act 2, it’s time to increase the potency of the build even further and prepare for the endgame. Here’s what you’ll need to progress through this Act:

• Hypothermia: This is an extremely powerful skill that will curse all targets and reduce their Cold Resistance. You’ll need it to increase the DPS of your Frost Bomb, so you should get it as soon as possible.
• Ascendancy: Finish the Trials of Sekhemas and unlock Stormweaver. The first two points you get should go towards Elemental Damage and Scouring Winds. The second one is extremely important as it reduces 20 percent elemental resistance based on the exposure received. In this case, the exposure is provided by Frost Bomb, which means your cold spells will do massive damage.

Act 3

Once in Act 3, it’s time to finalize your build. Here’s what you should be focusing on as you start exploring this Act:

• Frost Wall: This is one of the key ingredients of your build, and you should unlock it as soon as you get your first Level IX Uncut Skill Gem. Replace Spark with this skill.
• Fireball: This is another essential part of your build, and you should replace Firewall with this skill. You can unlock it with a Level IX Uncut Skill Gem as well.
• Complete Trial of Chaos and get access to Mana and Constant Gale so that you can spam your spells better.
• Cast on Freeze: Even though this has been nerfed, Cast on Freeze can be made to work against bosses.
• Comet: Unlock it and stick it with Cast on Freeze, as it still does good damage whenever it procs.

Cruel Mode

Once in Cruel Mode, you don’t need to unlock any spells. Rather, you should focus on unlocking the passive tree for more power. Some of the skills you should be looking out for are:

• Shattered Crystal
• Energize
• Thin Ice

Passive Skill Tree

The Passive Skill Tree for this build will focus on increasing your Ice damage and freeze damage. Any node that can help you with those two must be unlocked as soon as possible. In the early game, you can unlock a few nodes, such as Path of Flames and Path of Storms, to increase the damage of your Flame Wall and Spark.

However, once you have access to Hypothermia and your Ice build starts taking shape, you should refund points from those passive skills and put them on anything that buffs your Ice damage. Additionally, the Overexposure skill is extremely important as your Frost Bomb will provide exposure, and you will receive a 30 percent buff from this passive.

Overview Of Endgame Sorceress Build

Once you reach endgame, these are skills, passives, and stats that you should have access to for optimal performance:

Key Skills

• Frost Wall
• Fireball
• Frost Bomb
• Hypothermia
• Cast on Freeze
• Comet

Key Passives

• Path of Winter
• Exploit the Elements
• Sudden Escalation
• Overexposure
• Glaciation
• Inescapable Cold
• Ice Walls
• Shattered Crystal

Key Items And Stats

• A Gelid Staff with Freezing Shards Skill
• Level boost to all spells
• Boost to Maximum Mana
• Life Regeneration
• Boost to Maximum Life
• Any form of Shield boosts
• Resistance to Cold, Fire, and Lightning

Tips To Play Sorceress Build

Playing as a Sorceress is pretty simple in Path of Exile 2. You start by using your Gelid Staff to throw out some Freezing Shards. This will freeze the enemies, and you can drop the Hypothermia on them followed by Frost Bomb to deal massive damage.

In the meantime, also drop your Frost Wall and then start spamming the Fireball. The reason to do this is that the Fireball will hit the Frost Wall and split into mini fireballs that will fly across the entire area and ricochet off other surfaces. This will lead to devastating damage and will be integral to how you play this build.

Finally, there will be moments when Cast on Freeze will proc, which will summon Comets from the sky and deal good damage to enemies. Since this has been nerfed heavily, the frequency of the Comet procs will be quite low, but it will still happen occasionally, and you should keep it as part of your build.