Ice Shards - Shard Blaster

Welcome to Ice Shards Shard Blaster. Ice Shards is a solid build that feels a little wild wild westy as you gun-sling around railing Ice Shards into enemies, watching em' richochet around. 10/10 good time.

All Variants besides Starter

• Greater Ice Shards is your main damage dealer and will ricochet off all enemies
• Unstable Currents is really just used as an attack speed steroid with Prime Unstable Currents. In addition Supreme Unstable Currents lets us not lose our crackling charges for Convulsions damage. Aspect of the Orange Herald makes sure we have permanent uptime on this.
• Invoked Ice Blades is used whenever off cooldown for 60% attack speed
• Invoked Familiar is used off cooldown for 10% damage
• Lightning Spear for a Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop stack
• Fire Bolt is casted once to get a Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop stack, then only ever casted again if all your stacks fall off

General Overview

Ice Shards is a Frost Core skill that shoots 5 icicles out like a machine gun. The Hail of Verglas unique helmet greatly increases your damage, and it now fires 7 ice shards out in a fan/cone shape. This fan tightens or widens depending on where your cursor is (MnK) or Target is (controller).

It's a relatively simply build. You just slang Ice Shards around and try to keep barriers up by spamming cooldowns to not die. There ain't much to it, welcome to Sorcerer.

The new shiny unique mace Orsivane

In the past the build used Azurewrath as it's main damage source, but Ice Shards itself is looking decent due to recent buffs to Avalanche, Aspect of Frozen Memories, Aspect of Piercing Cold, and the addition of Orsivane.

The new mace this season Orsivane provides 40% damage for each defensive not on your skill bar, and also grants the missing defensive's enchantment for free.

Free Enchantments from Orsivane

• Mystical Frost Nova enchant that procs off any Lucky hit for 15% damage
• Mystical Ice Armor for a 6 second 56% max life barrier on potion press that grants damage to Frozen enemies
• Shimmering Teleport enchant gives a teleport evade every 3.5 seconds with enchantment master that lets us make 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.

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 Hail of Verglas or Temerity

Elixir/Incense

• Elixir of Advantage
• Sage's Whisper
• Reddamine Buzz
• Soothing Spices

12/5/25 - Build created for S11