Temporalis: From Grind to Godhood
Alright, Wanderers! Dina here, and today weāre tackling the legendary Temporalis Silk Robe ā the holy grail for any PoE 2 build that wants to go absolutely bonkers with spell spam. This thing? Itās like Original Sin on steroids. Temporalis is cooler than Original Sin in PoE 2 because while Original Sin enables full elemental damage conversion, Temporalis outright removes cooldowns, letting you infinitely spam powerful skills for unmatched burst damage and mobility. (I covered all the details on damage conversion in my previous guide, so check it out for the full breakdown) Alas, as with all things truly epic, getting your hands on it is a nightmare. Strap in, because this is gonna be a wild ride.

Whatās the Deal with Temporalis in Poe 2?
Letās cut to the chase: Temporalis is busted. Itās a unique body armour that lets you dramatically reduce, or even completely remove, skill cooldowns. Imagine Blink turning you into a teleporting god, or Frost Wall becoming a boss-melting machine gun. Yeah, itās that good.
Temporalis Silk Robe Stats (Why Bother With All This Pain?)

These modifiers make it essential for cooldown-dependent builds in Path of Exile 2.
Stat | Value/Effect |
Base Energy Shield | 61 (can roll up to +150) |
Elemental Resistances | Up to +20% to all elemental resistances |
Life & Mana Recoup | 5ā30% of damage taken recouped as life and 5-30% of damage taken recouped as mana over 8 seconds |
Recharge Time | Reduces skill CD by 2ā4 seconds, enabling near-instant spell usage |
The Brutal Truth: How to Get Temporalis
Hereās the kicker: Zarokh doesnāt just drop Temporalis after a regular fight. Oh no, this is PoE 2, where they love to make you suffer. You need to activate The Last Flame Unique Relic during the fight.
Step 1: Farm The Last Flame Relic (Prepare to Grind)
If you want to speed up your grind for The Last Flame Relic, hereās what helps:
Requirement | Description |
---|---|
The Last Flame Relic | A super rare drop from the final boss Zarokh, the Eternal, complete standard Trial of the Sekhemas run. Sets maximum honor to 1. |
Area Level 75+ Djinn Baryas | Required for farming The Last Flame. Aligns with the 4th Ascendancy requirement. |
Relic Drop Boosters | Stack relics that increase Unique Relic drops and Quantity of Relics Dropped By Monsters. |
Enchanted Urn (Minor Boon) | Grants +30% effect on non-Unique Relics, further boosting your chances. |
Remember, this grind is real. The Last Flame is rare, and will require a significant amount of time and effort to obtain.
Step 2: Activate the āNo-Hitā Challenge (Welcome to Hell)
Once youāve got The Last Flame, place it in the Relic Altar at the start of the Trial. Then, add a Djinn Baryas (area level 80+). This triggers the challenge, and hereās where things getā¦ interesting.
Maximum Resolve = 1: One hit, and itās game over. Trial failed, relic deleted, youāre kicked out.
Step 3: Survive All Four Floors (Donāt Get Hit. Seriously.)
You have to clear all four floors of the Trial without taking any damage. One tiny mistake, and youāre back to farming The Last Flame.
Step 4: Defeat Zarokh Without Getting Hit (The Final Bossā¦ Of Pain)
If you somehow manage to survive the Trialās gauntlet of death, you then have to defeat Zarokh, an extremely difficult encounter, without taking a single hit. Yes, you read that right.
Best Builds for This Insanity (Because Youāll Need Them)
Since taking damage is a big no-no for this Trial, most players opt for these builds:
- Chayula Monk: Uses Darkness as a defense mechanism, making you nearly untouchable.
- Sorceress Spark Stormweaver: High DPS at range, turning fights into speedruns before enemies can touch you.
Both require serious skill and optimized gear.
One Of Many Possible Powerful Builds With Temporalis in PoE 2
This is a Temporalis build, a simple setup that revolves around just one item: the Temporalis Silk Robe. The key feature of this robe is its reduced skill recharge time, which is crucial for making Blink function properly. Normally, Blink has a 3.6-second CD, so to make it infinite, you need at least -3.6 seconds of CD reduction.
However, since Blink also has a 0.7-second cast time, the optimal cooldown is -3.53 seconds. Any less than that, and the build stops working. If the CD reduction goes too far beyond this, it wonāt chain Blinks properly, making the entire setup useless.
How to Meet the Spirit Requirement
This build requires 270 Spirit, but thatās not a problem since you can get everything from a single item. The campaign alone provides 100 Spirit, and the rest can come from a Scepter. These scepters, whether unique or rare, can be found for around 30 Exalted Orbs, and as long as they provide the needed Spirit, theyāll work just fine.
For gear, an Energy Shield helmet is idealāeither an Unholy Halo or a Workshop Chain Tiara. The chestpiece, naturally, is the Temporalis Robe, with maximum Energy Shield. Other important pieces include an Ingenuity Belt, which enhances ring bonuses, resistance gloves with Energy Shield and a āHoneycombā enchantment, and Flatfoot Boots, which provide extra damage.
Your main source of damage comes from the Choir of Storms amulet. Spark wonāt deal significant damage on its own, but its critical hits will trigger this amuletās effect, which then wipes out rivals. This means critical strike chance is the most important stat in the buildāall jewels should focus on crit chance and crit damage.
How the Build Works
Instead of using a dodge roll, this build spams Blink by binding it to the spacebar. Each time Blink is used, it triggers Spark, which bounces between enemies. Spark itself isnāt the damage sourceāit just ensures that something gets critically hit, which in turn triggers the Choir of Storms amulet to release a devastating lightning strike. Since Spark can chain and fork, each Blink can trigger multiple amulet procs per second. This creates a continuous feedback loop: you Blink, Spark hits, the amulet procs, and then it all repeats.
Thereās also an Ice Wall setup that comes in handy against bosses. The Ice Wall skill must be kept at level 13āgoing beyond level 15 or below level 10 can break the build. When cast correctly, Ice Wall helps set up additional Spark bounces, making boss fights ridiculously fast.
The passive skill tree follows the Monk Invoker path, with key focus areas being Whirlwind, Rage, Thunder, and Rending Foes. The most essential jewel youāll need grants 2% mana recovery on kill, while the rest should all boost Energy Shield and critical strike stats.
The beauty of this setup is in its simplicity. By just holding down the spacebar, you can complete entire maps effortlessly. No complicated combos, no excessive button pressesājust one skill triggering another in a perfect loop. The build is strong enough to handle all content, making it both effective and satisfying to play.
Why Flat Cooldown Reduction Is Broken
Skills get -2 to -4 seconds off their CD. This is huge because itās the only item in the game that reduces cooldowns flat-out. Normally, CD recovery rate works percentage-wiseāif a skill has a 4-second cooldown and you get +100% recovery, it just means it refreshes twice as fast, reducing it to 2 seconds. But you can never fully remove a CD that way.
With Temporalis, cooldowns get a direct time reduction, meaning if a abilityās base cooldown is 4 seconds or less, it can be completely removed. This allows for near-unlimited casting of powerful spells.
This opens up some insane interactions:
- Blink becomes fully spammable. Normally, this ability replaces your dodge roll and has a cooldown. But with a good Temporalis roll? You can teleport infinitely, only limited by your magic reserve and cast speed.
- Frost Wall turns into a machine gunāyou can just spam walls endlessly, trapping bosses and dealing massive damage, especially with Icicle Support and Shattered Crystal.
- Grenade builds get crazyāmost grenades will lose their cooldown, and since the Payload Support gem gives a 50% chance for double explosions but reduces cooldown recoveryā¦ guess what? Thereās no cooldown anymore. So you get double explosions for free.
And thatās just a few examples. Skills like Frost Bomb, certain Marks, and many others become completely busted with this armor.
How Hard Is It to Get a Perfect Roll?
Incredibly hard. The cooldown mod rolls in tiny 0.01-second increments, meaning getting the best possible stats across all mods is extremely unlikely. But if you do get that dream roll, itās game-changing.
Temporalis Silk Robe is A Powerful Unique Relic of Path of Exile 2
Temporalis Silk Robe is one of the most powerful unique items in Path of Exile 2, but most players will never obtain it due to itsā extremely difficult nature. If you manage to get it you must one of the most dedicated players, now youāll have an item that allows for nearly unlimited most powerful spell casting.
Temporalis is an S-tier item that will define some of the most expensive, high-end builds in PoE 2. Whether itās for mobility abuse (no-cooldown Blink) or just straight-up breaking skills, this thing is valuable. For those who donāt want to go through the suffering, both Temporalis and The Last Flame are tradeable on Path of Exile 2 trading siteābut expect to pay a fortune. However, the developer may change drop rates or encounter difficulty in future updates.
The question is: are you ready for the challenge, or are you just going to buy your way out?