Cold-Based Skills
Glacial Cascade: Hits in Path of Exile 2 Currency waves, high freeze potential

Ice Nova: Excellent for full-screen freeze

Frost Wall: Area denial and choke control

Lightning or Shock Skills
Lightning Trap / Arc: Chain-stunning large groups

Orb of Storms: Applies shock to boost damage and interrupt actions

Fire/Chaos Damage with Ignite
Fire Trap: Burn zones keep enemies locked down

Flame Wall: Area zoning

Scorching Ray: Forces movement, pierces through

Physical/Warrior Skills
Ground Slam: Stuns and slows

Earthshatter: Delayed explosions for area threat

Sunder: Clears linear paths with slow pulses

Support Gems & Modifiers
To maintain constant crowd control, use these key support gems and modifiers:

Stun Support – increases duration and threshold chance

Hypothermia Support – more damage to chilled enemies, boosts chill effect

Unbound Ailments – increases ailment effect and duration (freeze, chill, shock)

Controlled Destruction – reduces crit chance but increases spell damage (for CC consistency)

Elemental Proliferation – spreads status effects like chill, shock, ignite

Trap/Mine/Totem Support – for indirect CC while repositioning

Defensive Layering (The “Fortified” Part)
Crowd control won’t stop every hit. You need overlapping defenses to remain resilient:

Fortify – granted by many melee skills or support gems

Endurance Charges – 4–12% phys reduction per charge

Armor + Evasion Hybrids – mitigate both physical and ranged

Barrier Skills – like Molten Shell, Steelskin, or Frost Shield

Blind Support – lowers enemy hit chance, best when applied via traps or minions

Ward – temporary mitigation useful in cheap POE 2 Currency Orbs bursts between CC uptime