Blizzard - Hailstorm

The Blizzard Hailstorm Sorcerer build litters the screen with a massive area of icy devastation. Blizzard is a strong, sturdy, and reliable build with great boss damage.

You can pump out an incredible amount of damage by stacking Blizzard's in one location and hammering enemies with Glacial Aspect ice spikes. These spikes do all the damage of the build and are technically a Frost Skill. The build utilizes ice spike specific aspects such as Aspect of the Frozen Wake and Aspect of the Frozen Tundra to juice up the spike damage.

It's strength also creates a glaring weakness. Blizzard takes 12 seconds to reach max DPS by casting Mage's Blizzard in one location. This can be an issue in high tier pits if enemies want to move around. However for general content just a cast or two is enough to kill most enemies.

You can litter the screen with Blizzard's and keep moving. Your pet should pick up most materials left in your wake. Ancestral Legendary items that drop will appear on your mini map. If you happen to miss one or two, they will simply go to your stash after the activity completes.

All builds except Starter

• Blizzard Main caster and damage that deals damage with Glacial Aspect
• • To be efficient, do not overcast Mage's Blizzard on one enemy pack
  • Example: If an elite pack dies in 4 casts, cast 4-6 times then start casting onto another pack
• Unstable Currents is casted whenever of cooldown for an attack speed buff from Prime Unstable Currents.
• No frost build actually runs Deep Freeze because after 2.5 years it is still a hot piece of garbage.
• Lightning Spear is casted whenever off cooldown for a Protection barrier and to apply vulnerable
• Ice Blades is casted whenever off cooldown for Invoked Ice Blades attack speed
• Familiar is casted at least every 8 seconds for 10% damage from Invoked Familiar
• Frost Bolt is NOT cast, it is a bar space filler for damage from Elemental Synergies

Free Enchantments from Orsivane

• Teleport enchant for a Mystical Teleport evade on a 3.5 second cooldown with Enchantment Master that creates crackling energy for Convulsions
• Ice Armor enchant for a Mystical Ice Armor when you press potion
• Frost Nova enchant that will proc Mystical Frost Nova on lucky hits
• Flame Shield enchant that gives you a Flame Shield when you take 30% health damage within 2 seconds. The enchant then goes on cooldown for 30 seconds.

Starter Build

• Same general concept as the others
• Spam Blizzard
• UseUnstable Currents, Ice Blades, and Ice Armor whenever they are off cooldown
• Hard cast Teleport off the skill bar for movement. Evade with Teleport enchant for movement.
• • Both forms of Teleport grant move speed with Enhanced Teleport and create crackling energy with Mystical Teleport for Convulsions
• Flame Shield as needed for survivability

General Overview

• Blizzard uses the Glacial Aspect to make ice spikes
• Each Blizzard you cast will spawn 2 ice spikes a second
• Mage's Blizzard makes Blizzard last 12 seconds
• Your max DPS is how many Blizzard's you can cast in 12 seconds
• Aspect of the Frozen Wake increases your ice spike damage by 90%
• Aspect of the Frozen Tundra increases the area of each ice spikes explosion radius, which increases damage by 125% (Math)
• Aspect of Frozen Memories reduces the mana cost of Blizzard and increases damage by 60% by buffing the Avalanche key passive.
• Blizzard is very good on stationary targets as you can just keep casting on them and stacking up ice spike spawns. It is very bad against targets that move frequently.
• Blizzard excels in Infernal hordes where you can litter the arena with Mage's Blizzard casts
• Blizzard excels at bossing because you can pre-cast a ton of Mage's Blizzard's at their spawn location to ramp up to max DPS at the start of the encounter

Defense and Barriers

• For Sorcerer: Max Life > Armor > Barrier Generation > Resist All Elements
• Barriers created are a percentage of Max Life and you take Barrier Damage before Health Damage
• Sorcerer's goal is to constantly have a barrier up and keep re-applying it to offset damage taken
• Max Life is the strongest tool because it applies to our health pool and then also Temerity or Aspect of Mind's Awakening barriers

Orsivane, the new overpowered 1H weapon

Orsivane grants you 40% damage per defensive skill not on your skill bar and then grants you those enchantments for free. We are missing all 4 of the defensives so we get 160% damage or 2.6x damage.

These free enchantments do not count towards Enchantment Master, only your equipped ones do.

• Teleport enchant for a Mystical Teleport evade on a 3.5 second cooldown with Enchantment Master that creates crackling energy for Convulsions
• Ice Armor enchant for a Mystical Ice Armor when you press potion
• Frost Nova enchant that will proc Mystical Frost Nova on lucky hits
• Flame Shield enchant that gives you a Flame Shield when you take 30% health damage within 2 seconds. The enchant then goes on cooldown for 30 seconds.

Leveling Guides

• If you are not level 60 yet, check out our Sorcerer Leveling Guides
• How to level quickly

Masterworking & Tempering Guides

• Masterworking and Tempering Guide

Sanctifications (Seasonal)

• Season 11 Guide - Sanctifications
• Example Outcomes:
  • Adds 5-25 Quality Ranks (5%-25% bump to all affixes (Most frequent)
  • Replaces an affix with a curated list of affixes (Legendary Items only)
  • Adds an extra affix such as Cold Damage[x] or Intelligence[%]
  • Adds a random Legendary Aspect from the list of generic available aspects the item can have such as adding Conceited Aspect, Exploiter's Aspect, Vehement Brawler's Aspect, Aspect of Inner Calm, or Aspect of Shredding Blades
• Adds a mythic effect such as damage from The Grandfather

Lair Boss Loot Tables (Uniques)

• How to farm Unique items like Orsivane

12/4/25 - WIP for S11
12/5/25 - updated
2/17/25 - Mythic version updated, Aspect of Frozen Memories ring replaced with Blue Rose