Diablo 4 Sorcerer BuildCrit Hydra - Hawk Tuah

Quite frankly I ran out of skill points, and was unwilling to sacrifice Inferno CDR, or survivability nodes to grab Ice Blade Enchant or Frost Nova Enchant on a few setups. I know it doesn't scale with the build that well. But it's better than nothing.

I speak extensively about how to get rid of the enchant. But nobody reads. except you. Hi :)

Here is a 104 with horrendous Masterworks, using Sword Focus, and the old fire damage tempers. It's fine. I am not triple master working or resetting a ton, gloves were luck. I hate pushing.

104 Crit Tuah 13:32

The smoldering ember infusion lets you run cold or lightning enchantments and get fire damage [x] out of the enchantment master legendary node with it. Remember that Familiar Enchant has all 3 elemental tags.

• Shock + Shock = 69% Fire Damage • Cold + Cold = 69% Fire Damage • Shock/Cold + Familiar Enchant = 63% Damage • Any combination of Fire + Fire/Familiar = 68%[x] Fire Damage WITH OR WITHOUT the infusion

• Charged Glyph seemed to provide a lot of fire damage with its lightning[x] alone. Not sure. Too busy to test further

Serpentine Staff is more damage. wand/sword focus is snappier and not a massive loss. I like the Cooldown on the focus for Inferno uptime.

Drop Storm Swell if you want to run a Staff • Int • Life • Lucky Hit restore • Hydra Damage • Extra Hydra Heads

• Ophidian Iris Amulet- Andariel/Duriel/Harbringer • Verglas Helmet/Tal Rasha Ring - Urivar • Verglas Helmet/Axial Pants - Grigoire

Drop Familiar Enchant for Teleport Enchant. That's all. Easy.

You can really just get away with pressing Hydra and evade and a few cooldowns when farming. Your damage is so overkill.

You can Blink with floaty bobble as many times as you can cast Hydra until the Anomaly explodes. You can blink 2-3 times.

Every now and again the Anomaly won't find a target or get stuck in a while and you can cast Hydra endlessly to blink around.

Ice Shard Setups Only

Catalyst • Cosmic Anomaly's because they let me blink every 5 seconds with Floaty bobble and line up with Tranquil Stones 5 seconds of unstoppable. Propulsion has a lower cooldown, but it blasts enemies away from you.

Infusion • Smoldering Ember - Pyro build so Fire Infusion <3

Arcana's • Tranquil for 5 seconds of unstoppable • Floaty Bobble so we can Blink every 5 seconds when we cast Hydra • Fractured Core to destroy DR aura champs because Hydra cant handle them well • We start with Reactive Ooze over core for resource gen. You can drop Core for bloody charm executes if you want

Gems - Uncut Jams • Scornful Light for 20% elemental damage • Idol from Below for some nice main stat/life, permanent unhindered, and extra elites in the pit • Reverie Horn for 50% Hydra damage when mobbing and on bosses who spawn mobs

For High Tier pits you may want to swap Anomaly's for Disintegrate and Fractured Core for Bloody Charm for big Executes

Axial Conduit Increases our Damage by 62.5% and juices our Resource Generation to the Max because it can get upwards of 87.8% Max Resource and Resource Generation • Resource = Mana

The Serpentine Aspect consumes our Mana when we cast Hydra. It Scales our Hydra Damage by 1.5% per Mana Consumed.

With Axial Conduit we have 318 Mana in Wand Focus setup. Multiplied by 1.5% is 477% Damage. • 5.77x Damage with Axial

Without Axial we have 168 Mana in Wand Focus setup. Multiplied by 1.5% is 255% Damage • 3.55x Damage without Axial

Axial Gives us 62.5% Damage as 5.77/3.55 = 1.625

These pants are goated. The damage is even Higher if running a staff!

• 40% from Esu's Ferocity • 20% from Invoked Hydra • 15% from Conjurer Glpyh • 15% from Searing Heat Grant Total = 90% • The other 10% is just handled for free from Dexterity from the Paragon (Dex = Crit Chance)

CEH RUNE to summon spiritwolves to freeze, apply vulnerable, and ensure we have 10 stacks of Summons/Conjurations for Primordial Binding

KRY RUNE to group enemies for us. Big Pulls.

Early variants use LUM over KRY to ensure our resource is handled

Inferno Variants use ZEC over KRY to help reset Inferno for it's enemy grouping and 50% damage buff

Burn will most likely eventually out scale Crit because of the Tyrant's Bane Horadric Gem. This gem lets your Damage over Time stack up to over 300%[x] damage, given a few minutes (Pit Bosses Anyone)

However it is not favorable for farming or speed farming, and the damage gain will most likely be a pit tier or 2 at best.

7/2/25 - Build Created for Season 9 7/3/25 - Build tweaks and Mythic Shako Version Created. Consolidated all versions to wand focus 7/4/25 - Ice Shards PIT version added

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7/7/25 - Fire Damage Tempers dropped for Hydra Damage. Firestarter dropped for Storm Swell. The infusion is either bugged, or how it was described to me was wrong during the PTR when I prodded. It doesn't act like Old Enlightenment. They lied. • Fire Damage Tempers are OK - Hydra is just a little bit more damage

I prodded so hard, with very technical explanations to arrive at where I arrived with how the infusion worked. and it just doesn't work like that. I am so pissed, you have no idea. How do i know more about the damage scaling in this game, then the people telling me how shit works. Happy monday

7/8/25 - Mythic Staff added. Went a bit more Meta with this one some variants base enchantments changed to ice blades