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

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

frost bolt

Basic Skill

Frost Bolt

Enhanced Frost Bolt

Glinting Frost Bolt

ice shards

Core Skill

Ice Shards

Enhanced Ice Shards

Destructive Ice Shards

Ice Armour

Defensive Skill

Ice Armour

Enhanced Ice Armour

Shimmering Ice Armour

Defensive Skill

Frost Nova

Enhanced Frost Nova

Shimmering Frost Armour

blizzard

Mastery Skill

Blizzard

Enhanced Blizzard

Wizard’s Blizzard

deep freeze

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.