Gearing Priorities
Regardless of whether you farm gear or Path of Exile 2 Currency for shortcuts, these are the stats to look for.
Wand, Focus, or Staff
Look for:
+# to Cold/All Spell Skills
% Extra Cold/Lightning/Fire Damage
Spell Damage
Crit Chance & Crit Multi
Cast Speed
Energy Shield / Mana
Armor
Aim for:
High ES
Mana
Resistances
Intelligence
Jewelry
Rings: Mana, Resists, Energy Shield, Regen, Attributes
Belt: Resists, Mana, Strength if needed
Amulet: Spell Skill Levels, %ES, flat ES, cast speed, mana regen
Jewels
Mana on Kill
Crit Damage
Any strong spell-critical modifiers
Passive Tree and Ascendancy Path
Even though the in-game tool may occasionally display the wrong ascendancy (Stormweaver instead of Chronomancer), the recommended order remains:
1. Quicksand Hourglass - huge gains to AoE and cast speed
2. Now and Again - cooldown recovery for Eye of Winter setups
3. Time Snap - essential for rapid-cast spell setups
4. Apex of the Moment (or Temporal Rift, depending on mana needs)
Early in progression, take Spell Damage, Cold Damage, and Elemental Damage nodes before spec'ing fully into poe2 trade site Crit.