Diablo 4 Sorcerer BuildKes' Incinerate Fire Sorc

1. Fire DoT / Damage Over Time - Biggest contributor to damage , your burning damage is increased by +90% (x1.9) via Burning Instinct legendary paragon.
2. Intelligence (main stat) - Scaled skill damage about x1.2 of the amount of your total INT (as a percentage value).
3. Fire Damage / Non-Physical Damage / Damage %
4. Vulnerable Damage - Extra +60% (x1.6) via the Frigid Gate legendary paragon.

Inferno gives us a +50%[x] buff and lasts for 4-5s, and also applies Vulnerable for 5s. Which is why we get the Cooldown to use it every 5s or so . Firewall adds a +25%[x] bump while enemy is burning in it. So we often start an encounter or re-engagement with Firewall or hope for the enchant proc.

Frozen enemies (or staggered boss) gets a big bump for this condition, 50%[x] from Icefall, 20%[x] from Control Glyph, 24%[x] from Hoarfrost, so the Wolves Chilled>Freeze and the Chance to Freeze tempers enable these.

Combustion passive adds a base +60%[x] damage, plus more from your other damage with burning bonuses. Currently this is adding from Burning Instinct, Conflagration, and your Torch paragon glyph Burning amount. So this can get near or exceed +324%[x].

Primordial Barding provides a buff to your movement speed and mana regen, as you get 8 Stacks from the Spirit Wolves.

Flip around your Gems as needed to meet paragon requirements or hit armor/resistance caps.

Earlier on, Diamonds (all-stats) in your Armor equipment is good for hitting the secondary requirements for some of the Rare nodes in the paragon board. Later when you get more stats or all-stats, can switch them to Topaz, etc.

Similarly for jewelry. Just use whichever config lets you get close to the armor cap or edge up your resists to cap or near. Most enemies near us are stunned, frozen, etc... so early on I prioritize the resistances over armor if there is a choice to be made.

• Early game, use helm with Wildbolt aspect (more damage) or Everliving aspect (more defense) before you get Harlequin Crest.
• On second Ring, use Control, Edgemaster, Inner-Calm, or Creeping Death aspects, or Umbral/Prodigy etc if you have mana issues before you get Starless Skies. Can use the Inferno Cooldown temper to help CDR, or the Familiar Duration; either works.
• Late-game, can move on from the +Defense legendary chest to Shroud of False Death; this has a large damage bump from all the passives +1.
• Once you have Starless Skies mythic, you can switch in Elementalist paragon glyph; replacing Unleash (will also free up an INT node, be sure to refund one). As your Mana-consumption gets lower, it takes longer (~5s) of channeling to activate Unleash's 8% buff. So we opt for Elementalist, which will give +10% (+5 from Fire, and +5 from Lightning familiar proc) without any build-up.
• Rune combinations can vary depending on playstyle prefs. Using Zec (Igni/Nagu-Zec) means the Inferno buffs is always up. Using Ohm (Warcry) will give a +15% buff, but then you have gaps in the Inferno buff. If you prefer to pile on more defensive, can use Decrepify for enemy damage down and execute.

Early on, the movement speed on Yen's helps us. Once into mid-late game, teleport becomes the bread and butter of our mobility as the Cooldown Reduction ramps up. 3s on Teleport, 4-5s on Teleport enchant.

Evade with the Teleport enchantment is a short-range teleport (no unstoppable), so this for quick positioning (avoiding ground effects etc) or movement. It also counts as a cast, which can trigger Yen's Blessing (regular evade cannot).

Teleport, Flame Shield, and Rahier's bubble will remove and/or prevent any Crowd Control effect on us. One of these are always going off or available to use; so it is very rare to be affected my CC.

Flame Shield is our main defensive tool. We live in it. It will be up/on 90-95% of the time, so for the majority you're just not taking any damage at all. Then aside from that, the Damage Reduction stacking we have is to account for the 1-2 seconds of downtime where we may get hit in an in-between gap.

This revolves around getting our Flame Shield duration to around 3-4s at least (with the Legendary Chest, you can get 4.5-5s). It will create a loop of Flame Shield active use and free-procs so that immunity almost always on us. Because it cannot proc or be used while it is active (due to the cooldown starting only after it wears off) this creates a great synergy with Yen's Blessing so the free-proc only happens when the cooldown begins; so the proc is never wasted.

• Use Flame Shield actively from skill bar (and re-use whenever it's available; don't hold it)
• As we play, when it wears off and goes on CD, a skill use will proc Yen's Blessing free cast, every 8s (Decrepify triggering every 1s will also activate it automatically so don't need to monitor it really)
• If we take a bunch of Damage, the free proc from Firebird (free Flame Shield Enchantment) will kick in per 30s
• Sly Steps will also proc a free defensive cast when we take damage once per 30s. This is why we don't use Ice Armor, so Flame Shield is the only proc. Both this and Yen's will not proc a mobility skill; so Teleport will not be proc'd.
• Everliving aspect adds another immunity window for 4s on a per 20s CD

So this loop basically automatically rotates as we play. And the build moves into late game where we get more Damage Reduction and Cooldown Reduction, dropping Everliving and Sly Steps aspects becomes possible as your Flame Shield duration and lower CD is enough to sustain the loop and survive damage taken in the gaps.

Damage Reduction: We have a TON of damage taken reduction and enemy damage dealt reduction sources in this build; in addition to the standard 85% Physical reduction (Armor) and 70% Elemental reduction (Resistances). Our HP is not that high (5-7k), but enough with all this DR to withstand any hits until FS is back on. Not to mention very good HP regain while enemies burn.

• -30% Enemy Damage dealt while burning from Incinerate (Skill passive)
• -20% Enemy Damage dealt (from Decrepify/Wat rune AoE)
• -20% Damage Reduction while channeling Incinerate (Skill passive)
• -20 Damage Reduction (Harlequin Crest)
• -25% Damage Reduction (Paragon)
• -48% Damage Reduction vs While Healthy (Paragon)
• -42% Damage Reduction vs Vulnerable enemies (Paragon)
• -40% Damage Reduction vs Chilled enemies (Paragon)
• -40-70% Damage Reduction vs Elites (Paragon + Skill Tree passive)
• -30% Damage Reduction for 3s after Teleport (Skill passive)
• -6-8% Damage Reduction while Barrier (Skill Tree passive)
• -10% Damage Reduction for 5s after spending 100 mana (Skill Tree passive)

The one danger: Our one Achilles heel, and threat to your life is the ground poison explosions from enchanted elites. These detonations don't seem to care about your resistances or DR. So keep an eye our for that in higher level pits and teleport/move to avoid standing in them if unsure about your remaining Flame Shield effect. Outside of that, it is very very hard to die to anything else.

My latest/live Incinerate Config (Season 7 - Updated Feb 20, 2025)

• Uber Lilith without moving/dodging (~2 mins) - Torment IV
• T100 Pit of the Artificer (~11 mins) - Torment IV