Diablo 4 Sorcerer BuildFrozen Orb - Jon Snow Tesla Edition

Starting off - Level with one of the leveling guides until you get a Fractured Winterglass in World Tier 4 from Lord Zir • You can now play the starter build

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How to Power Level XP - XP caps out at enemies 30 levels above you, keep this in mind • World Tier 1/2 = Helltides/Season Quests • World Tier 3 at Level 35 - Mix of Low tier Infernal Hordes and Nightmare Dungeons • World Tier 4 at Level 55 = Infernal Horde Spam or Nightmare Dungeons (hit or miss because of events)

Ways to regen mana • Prodigy & Umbral Aspect Rings • Warmth Tempers with Starlight aspect on a ring • Tibault's Will by proccing unstoppable through using Teleport or Flame Shield. Or Ice Armor if you opt to use Snowveiled Aspect • The more attack speed you have, the better your mana regen is because you make more conjurations and gain more mana regen from the Conjuration Mastery Passive. Just keep casting, it gets better, the build just needs to ramp up

Priority Uniques • Tal Rasha and Esu's Heirloom from Varshan • Tibault's Will from Duriel or Andariel

Priority Stats for Leveling • 9230 armor cap (don't be afraid to use Disobedience aspect to hit this if necessary) • Mana per second on helm and chest • Attack Speed!!!! • Crit Chance • Intelligence/Max Life

The main difference in these builds and variants is often not paragon or skill tree. All the variants use different pants and chest pieces to accomplish different things.

Tankiest --- Plow through everthing, ignore most ground effects or hellfire • Tyrael's Chest for massive DR • Snowveiled Pants for unstoppable and 25% DR

Tank Damage Hybrid 1 --- Tyrael's is just so good, you can often afford to take Tibault's purely for the damage • Tyrael's chest for massive DR • Tibault pants with Life masterworks

Tank Damage Hybrid 2 --- This is a slept on Combo. Chefs kiss • Snowveiled Chest for unstoppable and 25% DR • Tibault's Will with DR Unstoppable masterworks

Damage hybrid --- My favorite, but ground effects nuke you • Raiment chest with Glass cannon masterworks • Snowveiled Pants for unstoppable and 25% DR

Full Damage Pit Push --- Get hit and die :D it's like frogger • Raiment with glass cannon masterworks • Tibault's will with Max Life masterworks purely for 20% damage

How to Masterwork • Best case - Triple MW on Conjuration Mastery • Second best - 2 MW on Conjuration Mastery + 1 MW on Frozen Orb explosions reduce Conjuration Cooldown

Priority Lists in Order -- I personally will not touch a winterglass if it does not have max conjuration mastery ranks • Aspect Value/Ranks to Conj Mastery • Conjuration Cooldown Reduced (minimum 0.2) • Chance for Frozen Orb to cast twice • Non-Physical Damage

Which Amulet would I use? A or B? Amulet A • Max 65% Aspect Value • Minimum Roll on everything else

Amulet B • 55% Aspect Value • Near Max roll on everything other affix

I would use amulet B, despite the aspect value being a touch lower, because everything else is so good

Conjuration caps - 6 Ice blades, 2 Hydras, Unlimited Spears • 3 ice blades can be formed from casting off the skill bar • 3 additional ice blades can be made from amulet spawns OR the Ice Blade Enchantment • To get 6 out in the build you must be hard casting Ice blades off the skill bar, AND also spawning them from Winterglass by simply casting Frozen Orb • Winterlgass essentially makes Ice Blade enchantment useless here, as it functions as a free Ice Blade enchantment • In season 4, I think Winterglass shared the same 3 cap bucket as the skill bar casts, which is why I scuffed the build with Ice Blade enchantment for the first few weeks. I thought I needed the enchantment to get 6. I think they sneakily changed it. Now we know.

Chance for Frozen Orb Projectiles to Cast Twice • Hard cast can cast up to 4 frozen orbs, 2 from casts, and then each cast can proc Frozen Orb Enchantment for 4 total • Using a Cooldown can create Two Frozen Orbs from the Enchantment - Double cast tempers seem to affect these • Frozen Orb's created by the Amulet Unique Effect can create two at a time - Double cast tempers seem to affect these

Harlequin Crest hands down • 4 ranks to all skills, 20% Damage Reduction, solves armor, and has a fat chunk of max life

Second Priority is Starless Skies • Eases mana concerns, large damage increase, and large amount of attack speed, crit chance, lucky hit, and ranks to core

Last priority is Tyrael's Might • You can get similar Damage reduction using Tibault's Will Pants in conjunction with the Snowveiled Aspect on chest • Tibault's will can get a large roll of Damage Reduction while unstoppable • Snowveiled grants 25% damage reduction when using ice armor, and provides unstoppable for 5 seconds

Imgur Link of Breakpoints • There are two attack speed buckets, each can go to 100%

Bucket 1 • Attack Speed Affixes • Elixirs • Paragon Nodes • Ancient Flame aspect (not on this build)

Bucket 2 • Accelerating aspect grants 25% (No longer on this build's endgame variants) • Unstable Currents grants 25%

• Attack speed decreases the number of frames it takes to cast a skill. The less frames, the more attacks per second.

Aim to be just above one of these breakpoints (These are for WAND/FOCUS setups which are 1.2 Attacks per second • 22 Frames - 94.6% • 21 Frames - 104.2% • 20 Frames - 113.5% • 19 Frames - 127.5% • 18 Frames - 138.8%

Because you get 25% from Unstable currents, the ideal Attack speed to be at is just above 113.5 - 25 = 88.5 • This setup takes you to around 88.7% Attack Speed when using an Elixir of Advantage (15% attack speed) • You are just short of the 22 frame breakpoint normally, but during unstable you are just above 20 Frames

• You want as close to 60% as you can get • To see actual Crit Chance you need to take off Esu's Boots or evade in town with them while staring at the tooltip

• Esu's Heirloom grants the other 40%, without ever having to evade because we have more than enough conjurations out to max our movespeed to 200% with the movement speed from Conjuration Mastery

• Fists of Fate are a DPS loss on this build. We want Ranks to Frozen Orb, Attack Speed, and Critical Strike Damage tempers

• You can actually use Tal Rasha if you want with Starless Skies, It is a DPS loss, but not enough to cause for concern • If you use Starless + Tal Rasha, you could always use Andariel's Visage to bolster Attack Speed and Tal Rasha Damage • You would easily hit Bucket 1 attack speed cap of 100 or near it, and then drop attack speed of your Gloves for Critical Strike chance to make up losing crit chance off the legendary ring

Rubies if you find yourself dying a lot Full Topaz when using the Uber Variant

Bosses take stagger when you apply crowd control. After each stagger you apply less and less. This is why I rarely lean into crowd control damage • 1st stagger - 100% • 2nd stagger - 80% • 3rd stagger - 40% • 4th stagger onwards - 10%

4 buckets of Crowd Control for Staggering Bosses Video Courtesy of Ava - Head of GMS 1) Skills - Lightning Spear Stun, Frozen Orb Chill/Freeze 2) Aspects - Daze from Concussive Strikes 3) Lucky Hit tempers - Lucky Hit Chance to Freeze/Stun 4) Unique Item effects - Frostburns?

• Applying the same type of crowd control from specific buckets has diminishing returns if applied rapidly before the first crowd control would have ended • Diminishing Returns Examples - Lightning spears stunning a boss repeatedly, or Concussive Strikes applying daze multiple times a second. • But if a Lightning spear hits a boss (stuns) and a Lucky Hit Stun Temper goes off, there is no diminishing returns. Different buckets

Attack Speed, Armor, Ranks/Passive Masterworking

Temper Manual Guide

Enchanting Guide

Obol Gambliing

Boss Loot Tables

Storm Swell granting more Damage than intended • Grants 30% damage as stated, against Vulnerable enemies when you have a barrier • Grants another 30% damage, on ALL enemies when you have an active Ice Armor • Grants another 30% damage, on FROZEN enemies when you have an active Ice Armor

Vyr's Mastery • Does not appear to be working with Splintering Energy • Not 100% on this one

HYBRID WITH SPLINTERING

Raiment + Tibault's + Splintering • TBD if all 3 clump • TBD if Flame Boss

Raiment + Snowveiled + Splintering • TBD if all 3 Clump • TBD if Flame Boss

Tyraels + Tibaults + Splintering • 0:25 if all 3 clump • 0:45 if 2 clump and you get Flame Boss

PURE FROZEN ORB

Tyraels + Tibaults • 0:40 if bosses hangout near each other • 1:05 if all 3 bosses spread out and you have Flame Boss

Tyraels + Snowveiled • 0:50-1:00 if bosses hangout somewhat each other • 1:25 if all 3 bosses spread out and you have Flame Boss

Raiment + Orange Herald + Accelerating or Conceited on PURE Frozen Orb • 25 seconds kill if the bosses triple stack on top of each other

8/3/24 - Build Created for S5 8/8/24 - Unstable currents removed from the build for flame shield. Unstable currents is no longer needed and has bad uptime when doing infernal hordes 8/9/24 - Unstable currents put back on the build. replaces ice blade on the bar. its unneccessary and forb can keep unstable up from having 6 blades out always 8/9/24 - splintering added to the main frozen orb build over shredding blades. its just too good 8/11/24 - Ubers board updated, mistakenly did not take enchanter to hit frigid fate cap when upgrading from tal rasha to starless 8/14/24 - andariels version created, adjusted masterworks across the builds after sitting down and looking at breakpoints. fixed tempers on starter version to resource cost reduction. originally had unstable currents because later builds use it. Removed Andariels and tal rasha version, they felt worse 8/15/24 - updated in depth section. changed ice armor duration on endgame to warmth. ice armor duration actively fights against the gameplay loop of using snowveiled with tibault's will damage reduction while unstoppable because snowveiled only lasts for 5 seconds and ice armor lasts for 6 seconds 8/17/24 - Extensive damage testing performed. Accelerating dropped off builds for shredding blades, it is simply more DPS. Overflowing energy dropped off Max Damage version, it is Cheeks. Board changed to smooth out damage, control is very bad when its not active 90% of a council fight 8/18/24- swap to ice blade enchant removed, amulet shares same 3 cap as enchantment. ice blade taken on bar to get the other 3 to total 6 8/18/24 - Shimmering Ice Armor removed on dmg variant (dmg to frozen) for Mystical Ice Armor (reduces CD). Ice armor too important for storm swell bugged damage. Overflowing retaken on Pit variant, new Destructive Chain Lightning tech found to make reliable amounts of crackling to fuel overlfowing. Generate Chain Lightnings by teleporting or using lightning spear during unstable currents. 8/19/24 - Tibault's removed off the horde max damage. too squishy. replaced with Snowveiled. 8/20/24 - max damage pit board fixed always meet the frigid fate non physical req. had to give up 10 dex in destruction :(

8/21/24 - Uber builds have been consolidated. Kept the overflowing Pit pushing variant. Optimized masterworks more, but the old ones are totally fine. Board finalized to get a 49 dex destruction, and enough non physical to ensure that even minimum rolled winterglasses hit the 300% damage with cold for frigid fate. reinforced dropped for unleash. tyraels is enough, especially with snowveiled • Icy Veil taken because it acts as a Ice Armor Duration Temper

8/22/24 - Pit variant changed to orange herald pants, flame shield over ice blades on bar, and Vyr's mastery. was too squishy and needed to be able to immune myself for shade mechanics

8/27/24 - crit dmg removed off gloves and ring for Intelligence. if you have critical strike damage there it's totally fine. It's just higher damage with intelligence for anyone just making the build now. don't go looking for new rings unless you are giga bored. pre uber gloves changed to match the uber version so you aren't looking for two pairs. the crit chance is very nice pre starless however over intelligence on gloves.