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Diablo 4 Build

Firewall Leveling Guide

Sorcerer

Leveling

Season 11

Lurkin

Verified

By Lurkin

Updated on Dec 9, 2025

Dec 9, 2025

Build Overview

Firewall is strong for leveling in diablo 4 and has no necessary unique items or aspects. Firewall is reliable every season with it's great area of effect damage, survivability, low mana costs, and high boss damage. Firewall has an A+ rating with the Monster Killing Bureau and is guaranteed to cook the competition (alive).

Strengths and Weaknesses

No required unique items
No required aspects
Simple to play

Burning damage takes time to ramp up
Slow cast animation can feel clunky

Build Variants

Leveling 1-60

Torment 1-3

Mythic

Wing the skill tree until you reach Firewall

I recommend using Incinerate and Fire Bolt Summoned Hydra until you reach Firewall in the mastery section
If you end up really liking Incinerate and drop aspects such as Flamethrower's Aspect or Aspect of Overheating or Aspect of Conflagration check out My Incinerate Leveling Guide

Assigned Skills

Leveling 1-60

Torment 1-3

Mythic

Primary

Secondary

Enchantments

Teleport enchant gives you a Teleport evade on a 5 second cooldown. Once you get Enchantment Master early in Torment 1 this will drop to 3.5 seconds. You also get the effects of Enhanced Teleport for movement speed, and Mystical Teleport to make crackling for Convulsions damage
Fireball enchant creates a Fireball explosion whenever a monster dies, which can create chain reactions and aid in leveling efficiency. Kill 1 monster and the rest usually just explode with it.

Equipment

Leveling 1-60

Torment 1-3

Mythic

HelmAspect of Disobedience

Chest armorAspect of Concentration

GlovesConceited Aspect

PantsEverliving Aspect

BootsAspect of the Bounding Conduit

AmuletAspect of Shredding Blades

Ring 1Edgemaster's Aspect

Ring 2Conceited Aspect

WeaponAspect of Engulfing Flames

OffhandEmpty

Use Amethyst or Sapphire in your weapon
Cir + Ceh is useful because the Spirit Wolves apply freeze for Hoarfrost and apply vulnerable to deal 20% more damage to enemies
Cem or Neo + Qua provides some much needed movement speed
Pyromancy Attack Speed Tempers are there to make Firewall's cast animation less clunky
Aspect of Shredding Blades is suggested because it grants 35% damage to all vulnerable targets
Aspect of Engulfing Flames is the best aspect for burning damage over time

Skill Tree

Leveling 1-60

Torment 1-3

Mythic

Available

0 (0)

Spent59 (12)

Leveling Path

Use Shimmering Teleport over Mystical Teleport until you reach Convulsions in the leveling path
The leveling path doesn't really start until you reach Firewall so sort of wing it until then, then respect to match what I have

Paragon Board

Leveling 1-60

Torment 1-3

Mythic

Points Spent0

No Glyphs Installed

Stats

Str:99

Int:99

Dex:99

Will:99

When you first get to the paragon it takes time to level up glyphs and for them to provide value. The best practice is to level up 1 glyph on the first board such as Adept, Torch, Flamefeeder, Tactician, or Pyromaniac and rush Legendary nodes for big damage bonuses.

Here we rush
• Enchantment Master to lower our Teleport enchant to 3.5 seconds and grant 40% damage because of our Fireball enchant
• Burning Instinct for upwards of 100% burning damage as you grab more Non-Physical damage in the paragon which counts towards your Fire Damage requirement. You can also temper Fire Damage on items over Pyromancy Attack Speed
• Fundamental Release for 50% damage just for hitting enemies with Firewall
• Frigid Fate for upwards of 60% damage to vulnerable enemies as you grab more non-physical damage in the paragon and on items like Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop or Orsivane which you should be trying to acquire at this point

Divine Gifts

Leveling 1-60

Torment 1-3

Mythic

Andariel

CorruptedEssence of Screams

PurrifiedEssence of Anguish

Azmodan

CorruptedEssence of Hellfire

PurrifiedEssence of Sin

Belial

CorruptedEssence of Lies

PurrifiedEssence of Shadows

Duriel

CorruptedEssence of Pain

PurrifiedEssence of Squalor

Swap these around as you see fit, they are not as impactful as previous seasonal powers
Essence of Anguish grants 30% movement speed
Essence of Sin grants 20% armor
Essence of Shadows can save you from dying while crowd controlled
Essence of Squalor makes leveling in Helltide faster by creating XP globes when you kill maggots. It also grants a healing potion every 20 seconds.

Mercenary

Leveling 1-60

Torment 1-3

Mythic

Subo grants us maphacks and provides us with a 25% damage buff to Firewall with his Scorched Earth Molotov's

Raheir gives us a cheeky protection dome when we are injured that grants damage reduction

How it Plays

Starter Build Level 1-60

Firewall is your main damage caster. Spam it
Fire Bolt is used sparingly on beefy single targets to help ramp up damage with Glinting Fire Bolt
Familiar is used off cooldown for 10% damage from Invoked Familiar
Ice Armor is used for a barrier. Shimmering Ice Armor will help reduce it's cooldown
Teleport is casted off the skill bar for movement. Teleport enchant gives you an evade teleport you can use every 5 seconds. These will both make crackling energy with Mystical Teleport which is used for damage when you reach Convulsions. Use Shimmering Teleport for elemental resistance prior to that point
Flame Shield is your get out of jail free card that provides 2 seconds of Immunity

Torment 1-3 and Mythic Setup

Firewall is your main damage caster. Spam it
Fire Bolt is used sparingly on beefy single targets to help ramp up damage with Glinting Fire Bolt
Inferno is used to pull enemies with Prime Inferno and grant 50% damage with Supreme Inferno
Familiar is used off cooldown for 10% damage from Invoked Familiar
Ice Blades are used for attack speed with Invoked Ice Blades
Lightning Spear is casted to apply vulnerable and for a barrier

Free Enchantments from the Orsivane Unique Mace

Mystical Teleport enchant for a Teleport evade on a 3.5 second cooldown that makes crackling for Convulsions
Mystical Ice Armor enchant for an Ice Armor on potion press that grants damage to frozen
Mystical Frost Nova enchant to freeze enemies with Frost Nova's generated by lucky hits on enemies (just happens naturally). Grants 15% damage and applies vulnerable for another 20%
Flame Shield enchant which provides a Flame Shield when you lose 30% life within 2 seconds. When it occurs it goes on cooldown for 30 seconds.

How it Works

Firewall is a pyromancy sorcerer skill which deal fire damage
Firewall's damage is burning damage over time, which cannot critically strike
Damage over time builds scale well early for leveling because they have higher multipliers to make up for them not being able to critically strike
Examples include Aspect of Engulfing Flames, Combustion, Endless Pyre, Enhanced Firewall, Glinting Fire Bolt, Burning Instinct, and Torch.