Fireball - Red Wedding

The Red Wedding Fireball Sorcerer Build Guide will take you from Torment 1 to smashing all content in Torment 4.

Fireball is a simple build that is relatively easy to gear. With just Gloves of the Illuminator the build is fully online as you get Mana back for each Fireball bounce. Throw in Staff of Endless Rage and Fireball starts to pack a punch. However, this season we drop Staff of Endless Rage for Orsivane when in the Pit because it's just that good!

This is one of my all time favorites, and I think the build is underrated. It excels in Infernal Hordes and is solid on bosses when you line up the Gloves of the Illuminator bounces to overlap Fireball explosions on bosses.

Mythic Pit with Orsivane

• Destructive Fireball is your main damage dealer. Spam this puppy
• Supreme Inferno should be casted whenever off cooldown on packs to group them, lower your fireball cost to zero, and apply vulnerable. Aspect of the Orange Herald helps reset it.
• Invoked Ice Blades spam off cooldown for attack speed bonuses
• Invoked Lightning Spear use off cooldown to stun and apply vulnerable
• Invoked Familiar use off Cooldown for 10% damage
• Fire Bolt is NEVER cast, it is just a bar space filler for Elemental Synergies

Free Orsivane Enchantments
• Mystical Frost Nova just procs naturally on lucky hits to freeze for Hoarfrost
• Ice Armor pop a potion for a 56% max life barrier
• Mystical Teleport Press evade to teleport and make 3 crackling energies
• Flame Shield pops when you take too much damage, goes on CD for 30s

All Staff of Endless Rage Setups

• Destructive Fireball is your main damage dealer. Spam this puppy
• Supreme Inferno should be casted whenever off cooldown on packs to group them, lower your fireball cost to zero, and apply vulnerable. Aspect of the Orange Herald helps reset it.
• Summoned Ice Blades should be cast off cooldown, they reduce all your cooldowns
• Mystical Teleport use for movement and to make crackling energy for Convulsions
- Either cast Teleport off the skill bar or press evade for Teleport enchant evade
• Shimmering Ice Armor cast for a large barrier
• Flame Shield to get out of sticky situations and dodge lethal damage

General Overview

Gloves of the Illuminator are really the only piece you want to get this build online. They triple your Fireball damage by enabling it to bounce along the ground. Gloves of the Illuminator make Fireball bounce in a straight line and explode 3 times on the ground. There is overlap, so dependent on the enemy hitbox you can get 2-3 explosions to hit one enemy.

The Esu's Ferocity Key Passive and the Searing Heat Legendary node provide us with 55% critical strike chance so we only need to hit 45% on the stat sheet.

Staff of Endless Rage is the cherry on top, providing up to 16 ranks to Fireball and triple cast that deals. Every third cast of Fireball will cast 3 Fireball's and deal 90% more damage.

Supreme Inferno has very good uptime with Aspect of the Orange Herald and the Inferno cooldown reduction temper. This is helpful to group enemies, apply vulnerable, and grant a large 50% damage increase to Fireball.

Pit setup with Orsivane

This setup is a little wonky, but the numbers don't lie. The problem with Staff of Endless Rage and the pit is you often can't utilize the triple cast because it fans out and your Fireball's get eaten by walls.

Orsivane is the new unique Mace for Sorcerer. By not having any defensive skills on the bar you get 160% increased damage and each of their enchantments for Free! Because you lose the Chance for Fireball to cast twice affix on Staff of Endless Rage you really want to try and get an Orsivane sanctified with chance to cast twice. Good luck.

Free Enchantments from Orsivane

• Mystical Frost Nova enchant that procs off any Lucky hit for 15% damage
• Ice Armor pop a potion for a 56% max life barrier
• Mystical Teleport enchant gives a teleport evade every 3.5 seconds with enchantment master that makes crackling energy for Convulsions damage
• Flame Shield enchant gives you some immunity frames when you take too much damage, which then goes on a 30 second cooldown.

The free enchantments from Orsivane do NOT grant additional damage from Enchantment Master. This node only looks at your manually equipped enchantments.

Critical Strike Chance

You only need 45% stat sheet critical strike chance because the Esu's Ferocity's key passive gives 40% and Searing Heat gives 15%

Survivability (Find Temerity)

• Max Life is the most important stat for overall survivability as it increases your effective health pool towards all damage and applies to our Barriers
• Armor is the next most important stat as it increases your damage reduction from everything
• Once you have Temerity, then you will just naturally make barriers by dealing damage with the LIFE ON HIT affix of your Focus.

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

Lair Boss Loot Tables (Uniques)

• How to farm Unique items like Staff of Endless Rage or Temerity

Elixir/Incense

• Elixir of Advantage in the Pit Setup
• Elixir of Fortitude for all other variants
• Sage's Whisper
• Reddamine Buzz
• Soothing Spices

12/5/25 - build created for S11