Diablo 4’s Sorcerer is, among the game’s roster of classes available, one of the strongest when it comes to having a powerful kit with good tools as well, so it’s a good idea to know the best Sorcerer build.
Nothing goes better together with a world full of demons than old powerful and destructive magic. The ones who learn the way of magic in Diablo 4 can use elemental spells, having abilities that go from throwing deadly ice missiles to casting a giant meteor onto enemies.
All this power comes with a price and playing as a Sorcerer is not the easiest thing to be done in the game. Considering how important it is to work around skills that synergize well, we’ve prepared this article to explain the best Sorcerer build, which skills are essential, what are the best enchantments, as well as the gear, and gems you should look for in Diablo 4.
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Even though Diablo 4 in general is not a mechanically complex game and it’s focused on killing – a lot of – enemies, this simple idea becomes quite difficult to perform when you have large groups of demons throwing dangerously glowing things at you. This whole scenario can be a nightmare if you aren’t as beefy as a Druid or Barbarian, but it can become a fun time for Sorcerers. It all depends on how you play with the class.
The Sorcerer is not an easy class to play with and there are a few good reasons for that. First, it’s a very squishy class, which means you can die pretty easily since it doesn’t have a lot of health. Because of that, positioning becomes fundamental to survive in encounters against powerful enemies. In addition to that, movement is life, so, to stay alive and keep causing damage, you must learn how to kite enemies. To do so, you just need to walk between attacks. Besides that, Sorcerer’s skills use a lot of mana. Managing your mana is also a challenge when you begin playing the class and have no tools to help you regenerate it faster.
Because of these layers of micro-management of resources and positioning, getting used to the class and mastering it might take a while. But, with this build, which is great for the process of leveling your character, you have all the tools needed to reduce all the problems you might have while playing as a Sorcerer. The concept behind it is to take advantage of your crowd-control skills to create windows to deal as much damage as possible.
The core skills of this build are Chain Lightning and Hydra, while the rest of our choices have all been picked to increase the efficiency of these two. These two skills synergize well because Chain Lightning has a passive that increases your character’s Critical Strike Chance and the Hydra receive a Critical Strike Chance buff when you land a crit. This interaction may sound too simple, but it’s extremely effective. In addition to these two skills, you’ll also have Spark as your basic attack, Blizzard, Ice Armor, and your ultimate Inferno to help you.
So, when you engage enemies, you want to cast Hydra and use Chain Lightning. To keep enemies far from you and at Hydra’s range, cast Inferno which not only helps you group enemies and pull them but allows you to cast a new Hydra without spending Mana. If Inferno is on cooldown, use Blizzard in the region where the Hydras have spawned, which slows/freezes them. Remember to start kiting enemies either using Chain Lightning or Spark. And remember that Ice Armor should be popped if you get surrounded by enemies who either escaped from your crowd control skill or just appeared after that. Although you regenerate resources faster with Enhanced Ice Armor, popping it only to get your Mana back earlier is always risky.
Sorcerers have a pretty vast kit in terms of giving you multiple ways of causing damage and affecting enemies with detrimental effects in Diablo 4. At the same time, this is a very egocentric class, offering no way to help their group. But, considering what was explained in the previous section, there are some specific skills you must spend your Skill Points on for this build to work.
As a Sorcerer in Diablo 4, you should always run Fireball in one of your enchantment slots. With this skill, there’s the chance of an enemy exploding after they die, causing damage to other enemies around them.
Once you have reach Level 15 and Level 30, you unlock one slot of enchantment. You can, then, place any of the skills you have already unlocked into these two slots to have access to special passive abilities.
When using this Sorcerer build in Diablo 4, you want to run pieces of equipment with the following aspects: Elementanlist’s Aspect, Aspect of Control, Aspect of Efficiency, or Recharging Aspect. These are aspects that synergize well with your skills or improve in general the character’s kit, such as the Elementalist’s Aspect, which increases your Critical Strike Chance.
While there are aspects that come with specific items, most of the ones listed here can be earned as rewards for completing dungeons in the game. After they are in your Codex of Power, you can always print them to your rare pieces of gear.
Although this Diablo 4 Sorcerer build is completely dependent on skills, so the gear you have only improves its efficiency, there are always rolls of attributes you should prioritize. First, pieces that increase the Critical Strike Chance and Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies are pretty good for you. Consider giving priority to the equipment that comes with the Sorcerer’s core attributes: Willpower, Intelligence, and Dexterity.
To help this build be even more efficient, there are a few gems you can put into your armor and weapons. The first option is to use Sapphire in your weapons because it increases your Critical Strike Damage to enemies that are under the effect of crowd control abilities. Since we want to use Inferno and Blizzard whenever you are fighting, this gem considerably increases your damage output.
Diamonds are also a solid option for your armor, which increases your Barrier Generation, as well as for your weapons, increasing your Ultimate Skill Damage. Because Inferno is a consistent part of your rotation, and not only used when finding yourself in the ideal situation, it’s worth it to buff the damage of your ultimate.
A solid third option is to equip a Topaz to either your weapon or armor. While in the former it increases your Basic Skill Damage, if equipped in the latter the Topaz reduces the damage when you are affected by the enemy’s Crowd Control abilities. It isn’t, however, the perfect gem for this build.
Now you’re ready to go through hell playing as a Sorcerer in Diablo 4.
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