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Diablo 4 Build

Frozen Orb - Jon Snow

presentationSorcerer
End Game
Season 11
Infernal Hordes
Speed Farm
Verified
Updated on Dec 6, 2025
Dec 6, 2025

Build Overview

Frozen Orb Jon Snow is the best damn Frozen Orb Diablo 4 build guide in all the land. I have yet to find a Diablo 4 build that matches the feel of this skill. All hail Fractured Winterglass.

Fractured Winterglass got a massive buff and now provides Frozen Orb with 8% damage per active summon. When you are decently min-maxed you get around 30 summons out at once for 240% damage. Summons include conjuration skills such as Ice Blades, Lightning Spear, Familiar, and Hydra. This also includes Ceh Spirit Wolf summons!

The name of the game is spam casting Frozen Orb's which have a 65% chance on CAST to make a random conjuration with Fractured Winterglass. These conjurations then make more Frozen Orbs! In addition, whenever a Frozen Orb explodes it reduces the cooldown of all your skill bar conjurations by 0.3 seconds. Things get real spammy, and it's a helluva time.

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Speed Farmer
  • Visually Appealing
  • Lotta Orbs
  • Still lacks the raw damage to be S tier

Build Variants

  • Heir of Perdition for damage
  • Shroud of False Death for damage and survivability
  • Ring of Starless Skies for damage and mana cost reduction

Assigned Skills

Primary
5
5
Secondary
1
1
1
1
Enchantments

Aspect & Uniques

HelmHeir of Perdition
Chest armorShroud of False Death
GlovesAspect of Frozen Orbit
PantsAspect of Mind's Awakening
BootsAspect of the Orange Herald
AmuletFractured Winterglass
Ring 1Ring of Starless Skies
Ring 2Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop
WeaponOrsivane
OffhandAspect of Frozen Memories

Cooldown reduction on your Aspect of Frozen Orbit Gloves can be Intelligence

Divine Gifts

Andariel
CorruptedEssence of Anguish
PurrifiedEssence of Screams
Azmodan
CorruptedEssence of Hellfire
PurrifiedEssence of Sin
Belial
CorruptedEssence of Lies
PurrifiedEssence of Shadows
Duriel
CorruptedEssence of Pain
PurrifiedEssence of Squalor

Skill Tree

Available0 (0)
Spent59 (12)

Paragon Board

Points Spent0

No Glyphs Installed

Stats

  • Str:99
  • Int:99
  • Dex:99
  • Will:99
  • Mercenary

    How it Plays

    Frozen Orb Main caster and damage
    Prime Unstable Currents Attack Speed Buff
    Lightning Spear Spam off CD for more conjurations
    Ice Blades Spam off CD for more conjurations
    Invoked Familiar Spam off CD for more conjurations
    Hydra Cast 2 every 10 seconds

    How it Works

    General Overview

    Frozen Orb is a super fun build with Fractured Winterglass. You cast Frozen Orb's and they make conjurations, then the conjurations make Frozen Orb's. Oprah is literally giving everyone in the audience Forbs. Tax Free this time though.

    New Unique Mace: Orsivane

    The new unique mace Orsivane is a brokenly strong item. By not having any defensive skills on the bar you get 160% increased damage and each of their enchantments for Free! Which is perfect for this build because we want a conjuration skill bar!

    Free Enchantments from Orsivane

    Mystical Frost Nova enchant that procs off any Lucky hit for 15% damage
    Mystical Ice Armor enchant gives you an ice armor every time you press your potion and gives extra damage to frozen enemies
    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.

    These Free Enchantments do NOT grant additional damage from the Enchantment Master legendary. Sorry folks.

    Fractured Winterglass Priority Affixes

    1. Aspect value of 8% on Fractured Winterglass
    2. Chance for Frozen Orb Projectiles to cast twice
    3. Ranks of Frozen Orb
    4. Non-Physical Damage
    5. Resistance to All Elements

    Conjuration Caps & Fractured Winterglass

    You can get 36 conjurations max at 8% damage per stack.
    In practice you will max around 30 for 3.4x damage

    Ice Blades = 6
    • 3 from casting off the skill bar
    • 3 from Fractured Winterglass spawns (Free Ice Blades Enchant

    Lightning Spear = 10
    • 10 total from casting and/or Fractured Winterglass spawns

    Invoked Familiar = 6
    • 6 total from casting and/or Fractured Winterglass spawns

    Hydra = 4
    • 2 from casting off the skill-bar
    • 2 from Fractured Winterglass spawns (Free Hydra Enchant)

    Ceh Rune - Spirit Wolves = 10
    • When you combine Nagu + Ceh you will have 100% uptime on 10 wolves

    Survivability

    • Max Life is the most important stat for overall survivability as it increases your effective health pool towards all damage. Max Life is king because it scales up by Max Life Percentage paragon nodes and then our Protection barriers scale up as well.
    • Armor is the next most important stat as it increases your damage reduction from everything
    • Barrier Gen is also important as it increases the size of our Protection barriers. This build relies heavily on spamming Ice Blades, Lightning Spear, and Familiar to grant these Protection barriers.
    • Aspect of Mind's Awakening grants a 3% Max Life Barrier for 5 seconds every time you cast a frost skill such as Frozen Orb, Ice Blades, or Familiar (when on Cold).

    Masterworking

    • Masterworking an item adds 2-5 Quality per upgrade, up to a max of +25 quality
    • Each quality point increases all affix values by 1%, so +25 quality = a 25% bump to all affixes
    • Fully Masterworking an item to +25 quality now gives a 50% upgrade to a random affix or temper
    • Masterworking will cost anywhere from 200-500 ish obducite to get to +25 quality

    Tempering

    • Tempering is done at the blacksmith and you manually add a single extra affix to an item from a list of temper manuals you obtain by killing monsters, completing activities, opening chests, or collecting whisper caches
    • Temper manuals have different classifications; offensive, weapon, defensive, resource, utility, and mobility and different item slots can only apply certain temper classifications. Ex. Weapons can only have Weapon tempers or Offensive tempers
    • The temper manuals themselves have a quality range from magic to rare to legendary, but it's not too difficult to acquire the max legendary manuals
    • Each temper manual has 3-4 affix choices, but you get to choose the exact one you want (ex. Chance for Frozen Orb to cast twice)
    • The temper affixes have a value range of say 25-30% Chance for Frozen Orb to cast twice for a legendary manual. The magic and rare manuals will have a lower value
    • When you temper it will randomly apply a value within the given range, and if you don't like the value you can re-temper the item to try and get a higher roll
    • If you apply a magic temper manual, when you get a rare or legendary manual you can re-apply the higher quality manual for a higher value
    • If you change your mind about a temper you can re-temper to a different affix from any available to that item, even if it's a different classification, such as swapping your Amulet from Offensive: Cold Damage, to Resource: Unstable Currents Cooldown Reduction
    • Tempering has a chance to apply as a greater affix which sets the value to the max in the range, then bumps that max value by 50%
    • An item gets 6 chances to temper, which is increased by 1 for each greater affix on the item. Additionally once you are out of chances, you can reset the chances back to max one time using a Scroll of Restoration acquired from a variety of sources, with the most consistent being opening the Item Chest in Infernal Hordes

    Seasonal Sanctification

    Process: Sanctification is a process where after your item if fully complete, you can slam it into a slot machine that transforms the item by adding something random to it.

    Finality: Once you sanctify, the item cannot be changed. You cannot imprint a new aspect, add additional sockets, re-temper, etc. The only thing you CAN do is change out the gems or runes.
    But remember, if you forgot to add the gem/rune sockets to the item, you are screwed.

    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 available aspects the item can have such as addingAspect of Shredding Blades to Orsivane (Low chance to occur)

    Elixir/Incense

    Elixir - Advantage II for 15% attack speed
    Incense 1 - Sages Whisper for 100 Intelligence. Use 60 All stats one if you need to hit paragon reqs
    Incense 2 - Reddamine Buzz for +750 max life or Song of the Mountain for +300 armor
    Incense 3 - Soothing Spices for all resistance, max all resistance, and some armor

    Changelog

    12/4/25 - build created for S11
    12/5/25 - updated