Overview
His Foul Emergence, the slow 8-second-cooldown skill granted by the Unborn Lich staff, is normally too clunky to build around. This Chronomancer version fixes that with Time Snap: pairing it with Uthred’s Constellation (two extra uses, less cooldown recovery) means the cooldown effectively never matters because Time Snap resets everything.
The second pillar is area of effect — over 500% increased — so both His Foul Emergence and Inevitable Agony, a screen-wide cull from the ascendancy, cover the whole screen. The result is relaxed T16 mapping and surprisingly good boss damage for an off-meta chaos spell.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Screen-wide clear from stacked area of effect
- Time Snap + Uthred’s Constellation removes the cooldown bottleneck
- Inevitable Agony provides constant culling
- Consecrated ground from Disengage + Emergent Vigor rune makes crits deal no bonus damage to you
Cons
- Massive visual clutter — hard to read enemy attacks
- Long cast time; Unwavering Stance is mandatory to avoid stun interrupts
- The Grasping Mail body armour is extremely hard and expensive to roll
- Chaos resistance is hard to cap
Key Skills
- His Foul Emergence — main damage (Spell Echo, Vorana’s Siege, Pinpoint Critical, Considered Casting, Uthred’s Constellation)
- Time Snap — resets all cooldowns
- Inevitable Agony — screen-wide cull
- Blasphemy — Temporal Chains + Despair
- Disengage — mobility on weapon swap with Holy Descent
Gear & Anointments
- Unborn Lich staff (mandatory)
- Asenath’s Gentle Breeze helmet for AoE and Unwavering Stance, socketed with Bear Idols
- Darkness Enthroned belt for more idol sockets
- Grasping Mail body with ring mods; 60%-quality Breach Ring duplicated with Kalandra’s Touch
- Corona amulet with Mystic Avalanche anoint so the last echo cascades
- Jewels: Split Personality, From Nothing (Blood Magic) + Time-Lost jewel, Heart of the Well
Endgame Notes
Around 61k sheet damage with ~70% crit chance. Tested in T16 maps with four Ritual tablets; only a few deaths reported.
Credits & Source
Build credited to Troy Tesko. See the source video for the full tree and gameplay: His Foul Emergence Chronomancer | Path of Exile 2 (0.5).