Diablo 4 Ice Shards Sorcerer Build
This Ice shards Sorcerer Build is the most powerful and fun build I’ve tried so far. You might think ice is more defensive, but this is the most offensive bursting build I’ve played on sorcerer and I’m destroying nightmare dungeons with it. So let’s talk about it. Also have a full video of this if you want to check it out in action.
Ice Sorcerer Gameplay and Playstyle
The ice shards sorcerer build focuses around grouping up packs of enemies, using frost nova to freeze them. And then using ice shards to melt the entire pack of frozen enemies. Sorcerers unlock their class specific ability at 15, that lets you enhance a skill and we enhance ice shard. This lets ice shard automatically conjure and attack frozen enemies.
Combine this with the aspect of the piercing cold and you can delete the entire pack in seconds, including elites. Other aspects increase damage and other benefits, but this is the core of it.
So this is the play, you pop ice shield, teleport into the middle of a pack, use inferno to collect everything together, frost nova and spam ice shard and every single thing will fall. This is pretty much the same on bosses, where you pop frost nova and spam ice shards like a little turret.
Stats and Enchantments
For this build to work you want to be doing as much ice nova and as much ice shard as possible. So every single item you want to be hunting for cooldown reduction or mana reduction after that, ice damage, intelligence, ranks of frost nova, vulnerable damage all those things will increase your damage.
Therefore the priority would be:
- Cooldown reduction
- mana/resource reduction
- damage/ice damage/frost damage/vulnerable damage
- intelligence
- ranks of frost nova/ice shards
Legendary Aspects
In order to perform this Ice shards Sorcerer build at its strongest, you want to get all the following aspects as a priority:
1. Aspect of Control – Complete the sunken Library
2. Aspect of Piercing Cold – Complete Dead Man’s Dreadge
3. Conceited Aspect – Random Legendary Drop
4. prodigies Aspect – Random Legendary Drop
Unique Items
For this build to work, you need 2 key unique items. They are the Iceheart Brais; this allows frozen enemies to trigger frost nova, which leads to insane AoE damage.
Then you want raiment of the infinite, this will allow us to suck in enemies, and with this we can drop the snake inferno spell for something more useful like deep freeze.
Ice Shards Sorcerer Build Skill Tree
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Fire Bolt
Enhanced Fire Bolt
Flicker Fire Bolt
Ice Shards
Enhanced Ice Shards
Destructive Ice Shards
Flame Shield
Teleport
Enhanced Teleport
Shimmering Teleport
Glass Cannon
Ice Armour
Enhanced Ice Armour
Mystic Ice Armour
Frost Nova
Enhanced Frost Nova
Mystical Frost Nova
Align the elements
Protection
Mana Shield
Inner Flames
Devouring Blaze
Perfmafrost
Icy Touch
Hoarfrost
Frigid Breeze
Deep Freeze
Enhanced Deep Freeze
Shatter
Class Specific (Shift+C)
For our class specific sorcerer Enchantment we take Enchanted fire bolt to keep everything burning, which lets us crit more and regain mana. We also enchant Ice Shards to allow ice shards to passively fly out at frozen enemies.
Ice Shards Sorcerer Build - Paragon Board and Glyphs
For the paragon board we want to go into the following boards to fully fill out this build and get the most damage from out ice shard sorcerer build.
- Icefall
- Frigid Fate
- Burning Instinct
Glyphs:
- Control – 20% increased damage to frozen enemies
- Flamefeeder – Increases damage to burning enemies
- Territorial – Increases damage to close enemies
- Frostbite – More Damage to chilled/frozen enemies.
Hopefully this helps, if you’re looking for more builds check out our other Diablo 4 guides and builds.
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