Diablo 4 Sorcerer Ice Shard Build
Diablo 4 Ice Sorcerer Playstyle
The Diablo 4 Ice Shard Sorcerer build focuses around the Sorcerers frost abilities. The build makes use of ice shard and how it works with both vulnerable and frozen targets. We can deal insanely high damage to frozen and vulnerable targets and then can pick up skills and aspects to help add piercing and spread to help up with AoE.
This build has insanely high single target damage, control and survivability. You’ll be destroying bosses and able to keep huge groups of mobs away from you at a time. So lets get into this Ice Share Sorcerer Build.
You’ll focus on freezing enemies, and blasting them down with splitting ice shards. You can shootso can pummel enemies, while applying vulnerable. You’ll focus on larger and boss mobs to apply these debuffs, and then the smaller adds will be killed from piercing and AoE damage.
We can also use Ice Armour and freeze for survivability and mana regeneration. Allowing us to spam out more ice shards and keep a healthy defensive barrier
This build was created in Beta – check out the full release updated Ice Shard Sorcerer Build build here
Diablo 4 Frost Sorcerer Strengths and Weakness
HUGE single target damage
Best Survivability of Sorcerer build
Great control
Other Sorcerer builds have better AoE
Slow and weak without the right aspects
Active Skills
Skill Type
Name
Modifiers
Basic Skill
Frost Bolt
Enhanced Frost Bolt
Glinting Frost Bolt
Core Skill
Ice Shards
Enhanced Ice Shards
Destructive Ice Shards
Defensive Skill
Ice Armour
Enhanced Ice Armour
Shimmering Ice Armour
Defensive Skill
Frost Nova
Enhanced Frost Nova
Shimmering Frost Armour
Mastery Skill
Blizzard
Enhanced Blizzard
Wizard’s Blizzard
Ultimate Skill
Deep Freeze
Prime Deep Freeze
Supreme Deep Freeze
Passives
Everything above covers your core skills and provide you with the main Diablo 4 Frost Sorcerer build. You then want to take any skills that complement freezing, vulnerability or barrier. We’d recommend the below:
- Main Passive: Avalanche
- Icy Veil -> Cold Front
- Permafrost -> Hoarfrost -> Frigid Breeze
Frost Sorcerer Aspects
Aspects are a HUGE part of this build as they turn a relatively weak build into one of the strongest Diablo 4 sorcerer builds out there. So focus on completing the dungeons and grabbing these abilities if you want to build this Diablo 4 Sorcerer build.
- Aspect of Biting Cold – 25% chance freeze will also deal vulnerable
- Aspect of Piercing Cold – Ice Shards pierce 3 times reducing damage each time
- Storm Swell Aspect – 11% damage to vulnerable enemies if you have a barrier
- Aspect of the Deflecting Barrier – 20% chance to ignore distance enemies while barrier is active
Still not sure what class to play in Diablo 4, then check out our Diablo 4 class guide. Or our full Diablo 4 guides. And if you’re still on the fence about trying the powerful sorcerer, check out some of the Diablo 4 Sorcerer armour.