Strongest Sorcerer Build In The Game RN - D4 Cold Sorcerer

hey guys welcome back it's lucky here and today we're gonna go over my favorite build of this season so far this is the ice Shard sorcerer this thing absolutely melts enemies we're taking advantage of a lot of cool interactions tucked into the game here to make it so that when we engage our enemies we keep them Frozen until they're dead and this thing melts huge packs of enemies it melts bosses and it does so almost instantly anytime we approach them so if we take a look at the build in action right here you can kind of see how it operates you leap into the middle of some enemies it sucks the enemies in stuns them we freeze them and before they have a chance to unfreeze they explode into a million pieces and then we go to the next pack rinse and repeat and we get to just keep on doing this this thing has phenomenal clear speed and then when we finally get to a boss we absolutely melt the boss down because ice shards has such great single Target potential like I said this is my favorite build so far this season it's got the single Target damage it's got the AOE damage and it's got them both on the same build without having to respect for a boss fight or something like that like some of the other builds might have to do so let's talk about how this build ticks let's talk about how we put it together all the skills you're going to need gear to look out for passives to grab and all of that good stuff as always I've got a written guide to accompany this where I show you all the aspects you want and where they're located where I show you what order to invest your skill points so maybe take a look at that while you're listening to this video I have a really good idea of how to put this build together you can find the link to that guide in the description down below okay let's go over the skills that make this build tick the first one is going to be Firebolt we're going to grab this to set enemies on fire there's some really powerful passives in the sorcerer scale line that we have to take advantage of that basically enhance the damage we do to burning enemies by a massive amount and we'll talk about that when we get there but just know we're grabbing this mainly so that we can set things on fire and then there's some really nice Buffs that we can take advantage of when we're fighting against enemies that are on fire or that are burning in other words and we're gonna get enhanced Firebolt this is just so that we can get to the next section here which is our core skills now we've unlocked our core skills we're going to grab ice shards ice shards is going to launch Five shards of ice that deal damage to the the enemy and it's a massive damage it's great for single Target damage and then we're going to soup it up with ricochets and things like that to make it an absolute force to be reckoned with in terms of AOE damage as well then we've got enhanced size shards and says ice shards has a 40 chance to Ricochet to another enemy and if the enemy is frozen it goes up to 100 chance to Ricochet and then we've got greater ice shards which says while we have a barrier active which we always do cast of Ice shards will treat enemies as if they are frozen so basically we're always going to be getting this Ricochet effect because we are always going to have a barrier so our eye shards is always going to treat enemies like they are frozen we're going to get all those benefits that come with that we are going to end up grabbing Devastation and Elemental dominance but much later in the build These are nice passives to have later on so definitely refer to the written guide to find out when in your skill point order you grab these because I have listed all the skills you grab and in what order on there next we have our defensive skill section which is one of the most important sections of the sorcerer skill tree for this entire build we're going to be putting a lot of work in this section for good reason the first thing we're going to grab is our Frost Nova Frost Nova is going to allow us to freeze enemies and lock them in place and we're going to take the first passive which says that killing enemies with frostinova reduces the cooldown by up to four seconds every enemy we kill removes the cooldown by one second up to four seconds total which takes its cooldown from 24 seconds down to 20 seconds right and then we're going to use more cooldown reduction and things like that to take it even lower still because one of the main things you want to do with this build is get as low of a cooldown for your Frost and over as possible because so much of your damage is tied to this ability so we're gonna cast Frost Nova and then pop a group of enemies we're going to cast Frost Nova and pop the next group of enemies and So the faster this cooldown comes up the faster we can pop groups of enemies final passive we're gonna grab is Mystic Frost Nova Mystic Frost Nova makes enemies vulnerable for 4 seconds increase to 6 seconds against bosses so vulnerable is a massive damage buff for us it's one of the strongest damage Buffs in the game by default it's going to increase your damage to the Enemy by 20 and you can get lots of thing things that are going to stack that well beyond 20 as well so you can take that 20 and turn it into a ninety percent increase damage buff if you invest in it on your gear right which we will absolutely do the other skills we're gonna grab is we're going to take lame Shield flame Shield's really nice to have one it's damage immunity so you can't be hurt while this is up it lasts a whopping two seconds when you grab it not very long but plenty long to save your life its first passive also gives it 25 increase move speed which feels really good and then finally shimmering flame Shield is going to make it heal you for 50 of your missing life so this makes for a great panic button you end up in the middle of a group of enemies they don't die quite as fast as you thought or you see your health Spike down low boom you slam this it's gonna heal you for half of your missing health and it's going to make you invulnerable to damage for two seconds just to give you time to recompose yourself on the battlefield maybe get a better vantage point before continuing your assault on the enemies we're gonna grab teleport teleport is going to be used offensively in this build but you can also find yourself using it defensive if you have to but usually you're going to use this to LEAP into the middle of a group of enemies and we've got a couple of reasons for this we've got a unique that modifies the way teleport works it adds a vacuum to it which sucks all the enemies to you when you land which feels really good so we're going to take advantage of that and we're going to pair it with this to kind of leap into the middle of enemies to group them up before exploding them before popping that group of enemies we're going to take enhanced teleport to reduce the cooldown by 0.5 seconds for each enemy hit we're always going to hit a bunch of enemies with it because we're Landing right in the middle of them and then we're going to take shimmering teleport which is going to reduce the damage we take for three seconds by 30 percent that's really nice because we are thrusting ourselves into the middle of danger so anything we can do to increase our damage mitigation when we land feels really good this is going to help Keep Us Alive long enough for us to cast our Frost Novo which we are doing the second we land because if we don't you're dead finally we're gonna grab ice armor ice armor is going to give us a nice barrier and we can keep this barrier up for a while by doing damage with ice abilities while this barrier is up as it says five percent of your damage dealt is added to the barrier so we can keep kind of fueling it while we fight an enemy by doing massive damage we're not going to take any passives for this ability there's a few reasons we just wanted one is we get a shield every time we use it from this ability and then we have a passive that we're grabbing that also gives us a shield every time we use an ability with a cooldown and this has no cost to it and this is important one of the main reasons we're using all these defensive abilities is because they cost zero Mana which means we can focus on spending our mana on our ice shards we can keep launching those ice shards at the enemy which is going to be very very important to making sure that they die sustain is going to be the hardest part about this build early on like that's the hardest part killing enemies when you have Mana is so easy but it can be really easy to run out of Mana early on none of these abilities costing anything definitely helps prevent us from running out of Mana quite so quickly in the conjuration line we're not actually going to grab any skills no summons for us this time but we are going to take align the elements simply so that we can get to the next two passives that are attached to it Mana Shield is one every time you spend 100 Mana you get 15 damage reduction for five seconds that's huge we are always going to be spending 100 Mana you will be amazed at how much Mana you go through on this build and how well it sustains it thanks to some of the interactions that we're taking advantage of here so basically when you get into combat you'll have 100 uptime on this 15 damage reduction but be careful before the battle starts is when you're at your weakest it's as you're running up to the enemies before you've started attacking anything before you've got one of your legendary aspects of Prague before you've got the defensive damage mitigation from this passive right there's a lot of things that you get once the battle starts and you've started unloading on the enemy and so you are at your weakest the moment before you touch your enemy so if they hit you before you hit them it can be fatal so be careful about that next we've got protection using a cooldown grant thirty percent of your maximum Life as a barrier for two seconds so this is where I was talking about all these defensive abilities we're gonna grab right every time you use one of these you get a barrier for 30 of your life which is really important for keeping you alive then when we get down to the Mastery section we're going to take inner Flames inner Flames we're only grabbing right we don't need this because it's just buffing pyromancy skills which we're not using we are taking this simply to get to devouring Blaze devouring Blaze is going to cause us to deal 30 increased Critical Strike damage against enemies if they're burning which is why we took this Firebolt way up here right so that we can set things on fire but we're not going to do this manually because that would be annoying to have to manually set everything on fire with our basic attack no we're going to set it as an enchant so that every time we hit our enemy with ice shards it sets them on fire passively right so very easy for us very easy for us so that's going to make sure that everything's burning because every form of direct damage we do sets things on fire which means we're always getting this 30 increase grid strike damage for burning enemies and if they're immobilized this bonus is increased to 75 and we are going to be immobilizing our enemies because when we teleport into the group of our enemies with our unique item on our chest it's gonna suck them in and it's gonna stun them for a few seconds which is immobilizing them and running them from moving which means for that duration we have 75 increased crit damage and we have another item on us that's basically giving us 100 crit chance on enemies so we are always getting crits that are doing 75 increased damage just from this passive plus any increased crit damage we get from our gear which we are absolutely going to do so you can easily have over 100 damage increase right for every crit massive massive damage thanks to this thanks to the fact that we are starting things on fire then we're going to get down to our ultimate and we're going to take deep freeze deep freeze is great for a few reasons one of which is it's going to freeze enemies and we do Insane damage to anything that's frozen like when something's Frozen that's when we really shine our ricochets are happening at 100 of the time our damage is amped up because we've got all these modifiers that apply to things that are immobilized and Frozen and all that right so rows and enemies take massive amounts of damage and we really want things to freeze so this basically the way we're going to use deep freezes we're going to cast our eye shards and eventually if the fight drags on long enough we're gonna run out of Mana or all of the mobs around us are gonna unfreeze and our Frost move is gonna be down this is a great time to use your deep freeze as another form of a panic button but it's more of a planned strategic panic button you can go into this and while you're in this your man is going to slowly go up your health will go up if you need to heal you can heal right you can still do a lot of things while you're Frozen here and all the enemies freeze just before you come out of it setting you up perfectly to unload on them again once you come out of your deep freeze it feels really good and I'm showing it to you here on screen kind of how that works and how well it works for this build then we're going to grab the first passive when deep freeze ends gain 10 of your base Life as a barrier for six seconds another barrier for us for each enemy that we free so a lot of times we're gonna freeze a lot of enemies with this which means massive barrier then finally we're gonna grab Supreme deep freeze which says when deep freeze ends your non-ultimate cooldowns are reduced by 50 the whole reason we used our deep freeze is because we used our Frost Nova then we were unloading on the enemies and the enemy he's for some reason they didn't die right away maybe we were low on Mana maybe we just got really unlucky with crits who knows maybe it was a particularly thick set of mobs right and they didn't die so our Frost novel wasn't up yet so we had to use our deep phrase and then our deep freeze Cuts our Frost Noble cool down in half which means when our deep freeze ends our Frost Nova is going to be available for us to use again right away because this reduced the cooldown of it you're gonna be able to go Frost Nova deep freeze Frost Nova and you're going to kind of permanently freeze your enemies a little bit there like it just works really well for you we are gonna definitely take advantage of the cold passives in the ultimate section they're really powerful Frost skills deal 15 increased damage to Elites you deal nine percent increase damage to chilled enemies and 18 increased damage to Frozen enemies huge we're going to deal 12 increased cold damage to vulnerable enemies and because of fridge a breeze lucky hit cold damage against vulnerable enemies has a 20 chance to generate 15 Mana this kind of sets up conversation where one of the hardest things about this build like I mentioned is the sustain and there's a few ways to go about improving your sustain on this build one is to invest in resource regeneration and use pieces of gear that are going to give you Mana back or various things right so you're going to want to take advantage of those you can also choose to if you're feeling lucky try to take advantage of this right and invest in your lucky hit chance and really pump up your lucky hit numbers right that way when you're attacking vulnerable enemies you're getting lots of Mana back but this is subject to the whims of RNG sometimes lucky hit rocks and sometimes it doesn't sometimes it can feel amazing and sometimes it doesn't it just kind of depends on how much lucky hit you can manage to get on your gear before it starts feeling worth it if you do decide to go that route feel free to spec out of Elemental dominance a little bit and spec into lucky hit chance right because then you know you've got 15 more lucky hit chance for this item to proc for you then we're going to go down here to our key passive and we're going to take Avalanche Avalanche is going to cause our Frost skills to have a 10 chance to make the next cast consume no mana and deal 40 more damage and so this is another reason why specking into lucky hit a bit on this build can feel pretty good now this is a passive we're taking solely to help with our magic of sustain and all of the footage you're seeing on screen is me using this passive so don't feel like if you're taking Avalanche your damage isn't going to be good and you're not going to be able to destroy big packs of enemies all of the footage that you're seeing on this screen right now is while I was using Avalanche when your gear gets a little better and you get more sustain more than you need right then you can spec into shatter and this is going to make it so that when freeze expires enemies explode so you freeze your enemies you do a bunch of damage to them and based on how much damage you did to them they're gonna explode for 25 percent of that damage so the more damage you do the more damage they explode for and ultimately die I found that I didn't really need shatter like ever really I jumped into groups they died I jump into groups they died because of how much ricocheting is going on with my shards it was easier to just take the infinite sustain from Avalanche and just go from group to group popping them going and you know not really needing shatter frankly now let's talk about your gear that's going to support this and really make it possible so I chose to kind of spec into lucky hit to try and see how it felt and it felt pretty good with the extra lucky hit my sustain was feeling pretty good I was getting more of those lucky hit procs on my Mana generation and the free cast of my abilities so this felt pretty good using luck uh this helmet right here your lucky hit chance has increased by 17 percent while your barrier is active we always have a barrier active which means our lucky hit chances always increased by 17 one of the items for this build that really brings the whole thing together it feels great before you get this but then when you get this it all clicks into place and it feels so good and that's the Raymond of infinite this unique item here that you can get I got it in uh pretty soon after I started trying to farm for it it's a rare drop but it's not like crazy rare like if you want it and you're gonna get it on your sorcerer right I have no doubt about it it doesn't feel like one of those things where you're going to be farming for weeks for it maybe a day maybe two and then it's gonna be yours okay it didn't take that long I got it like the second day I was working on it but the reason this feels so good is because after you teleport into the enemies it pulls the enemies to you and sends them for 2.6 seconds I gotta firmly mediocre roll here I got 2.6 it could have been two it could have been three I landed right in the middle with that roll this is going to increase the cooldown of teleport by 20 but that's not going to matter because teleport's more or less going to be waiting on Frost Nova anyway right so that increase of 20 on the cooldown doesn't affect us at all on the gloves here I have when you hit a crowd controlled enemy there is up to a 40 chance for that crowd control effect to spread to another enemy and that's why when you see me jumping into packs here you can see the footage on screen I start shooting my abilities at crowd control enemies and even as more enemies are spawning on screen the crowd control effect of them being frozen is spreading to them and everything stays Frozen and as I mentioned anything that's frozen takes insane damage from us right because the The Ice shards Ricochet back and forth from the different enemies that are frozen and so you just melt everything on the screen as long as they are frozen thanks to this item that's happening even more then on my pants I've got another item that's freezing enemies notice a trend here we are freezing everything and as long as they're frozen we're melting them and it feels really good this is by no means a mandatory unique this is more of one that I got and so I used it because uh it's gonna increase my damage to Frozen enemies it's going to increase my damage to Injured enemies which helps make sure they die when they're getting close to dying there you know that's 35 and Below they're gonna take more damage and then nine percent freeze duration increase which is nice I got a bad rolled on that and then enemies that die while Frozen have a 15 chance to unleash a frost Nova so we're unleashing Frost novas on enemies thanks to this ability here it's spreading Frost Novo from one to the next and so is this one on my weapon I have an aspect that increases my crit chance on my core ability or my eye shards whenever I cast my eye shards above 100 Mana which is important we're going to try to keep our eye shards above 100 Mana especially on lung fights so for packs of enemies we're gonna leap into them and we're just gonna unload and if our Mana dips a little bit low that's okay we're just trying to cast our ice shards as fast as possible to make sure everything dies before it's unfrozen but in a boss fight where it's easier to run out of Mana we're going to slow our cast down a little bit to make sure that we keep our Mana above a hundred that way we have this increased crit chance that way every cast of our eye shards is a basically right because we have our bass crit chance plus we have the crit chance we get from this which is taking us to close to a hundred percent crit chance anytime we're above 100 Mana right and if I had uh put a better role of this aspect on this weapon it would be a hundred percent but I didn't want to waste the good one I had on this weapon because I'm hoping to replace this with a uh wand and an offhand here so that I can can get some cool down reduction on the offhand that's the main reason I want an offhand and if you end up finding a really good wand and often take advantage of that and get lots of cooldown on that offhand you want cool down on the top line right which it comes with and then somewhere in the stats so you'll have two different lines of cooldown on your offhand if you do it right which means you'll have somewhere between 15 and 20 cooldown reduction just on your off hand alone which feels really good on the amulet I am using one of the most important aspects in the game right now right now armor is busted like it's broken strong compared to like any other form of Defense resistances are kind of a dead stat right now there's almost no reason to focus on having any Elemental resistance on any of your gear just because the way that the formula breaks down damage right now so that's why we've got skulls in each piece of gear for more armor and that's why we're keeping this aspect here you gain up to 75 armor increase from this aspect really good aspect to have can't recommend it enough uh you don't have to have this on your amulet but if you do you know you get 50 more effect out of it which is nice on the ring here I've got ice shards pierce three times dealing 25 less damage this is an essential one for this build it's gonna allow your ice shards to pierce so they'll go through enemies and they'll hit more enemies in the process this is really nice to have and it's gonna really amp up your damage when you're fighting big groups of enemies restore four of your primary resource when you crowd control an enemy like I said we're constantly phrasing things so that's four of our mind and back every time we do that plus we've got our chance to return Mana whenever we're doing stuff I've also got Max Mana here to help keep me above 100 Mana I've got Max mana on a few different pieces of gear so if you see Max mana and it's on a piece of gear that's not bad it sounds a little boring but it's actually nice because it helps make sure that we have almost 100 crit chance all the time because we're keeping our Mana above 100 right so feels good and so those are the aspects that I'm using on the build and they feel really good and it performs just as you see on the screen here with this build I've been running nightmare dungeons like uh with enemies that are 10 to 20 levels higher than my own level it decimates enemies that are my level and it still dominates enemies that are 20 levels higher than me it's very effective in the Overworld that's very effective in Nightmare dungeons it's effective against bosses it's effective against large packs of enemies this is just a it can do everything kind of builds and that makes it an absolute blast to play because you never have that moment where you're feeling like oh man I hate doing this one thing on this build like some other builds have where they're like oh it's great for exploding packs of enemies but it's awful at single Target or vice versa if you've got any questions about this build like what order to invest your skill points if you want to know where the aspects are located and which dungeons in each Zone you should run for your codex aspects so that you can apply them to this build easily and just check out the written guide Linked In the description below I have all that information and more laid out in a nice easy to read format for you we put a lot of work into those builds so check them out and if you have any questions about the build be sure to swing by my stream over at twitch.tv slash lucky ghost I'm probably live there playing Diablo right now thanks for watching if you're not sure what to do next check out one of the videos popping up on screen right now or swing by my twitch stream see ya [Music] [Music] wow

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Length: 21min 23sec (1283 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 15 2023