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Diablo 4 Build

Lurkin's Blizzard Leveling Guide

presentationSorcerer
Season 11
Leveling
Updated on Dec 7, 2025
Dec 7, 2025

Build Overview

Blizzard Ice Spikes is one of the strongest leveling builds for the Sorcerer in Diablo 4. The glacial aspect makes ice spikes that are very strong early, the key is just finding one! You can certainly run Blizzard as pure cold damage over time until that point however.

For my endgame guide see Blizzard - King of the North

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Early Powerhouse
  • No required Unique Items
  • Really need Glacial Aspect

Build Variants

This guide requires Glacial Aspect, but you can use Blizzard without it.
Just slap a different Offensive aspect where Glacial Aspect would go.

Assigned Skills

Primary
5
1
Secondary
1
4
5
1
Enchantments

You will just need to wing it skill tree wise until you unlock Blizzard. That's when the guide really starts. If you have mana issues run Wizard's Blizzard, otherwise use Mage's Blizzard.

Aspect & Uniques

HelmAspect of Disobedience
Chest armorSnowguard's Aspect
GlovesAspect of the Frozen Tundra
PantsAspect of Mind's Awakening
BootsAspect of the Bounding Conduit
AmuletAspect of Frozen Memories
Ring 1Aspect of the Frozen Wake
Ring 2Aspect of Biting Cold
WeaponGlacial Aspect
OffhandEmpty
  • Glacial Aspect is crucial. It can go on your Amulet if you don't want to re-imprint every time you find a new Staff.
  • Glacial Aspect scales by 10% per rank to Blizzard
  • This includes ranks to core or mastery
  • Aspect of Frozen Memories is important for reducing our cast cost
  • Aspect of Biting Cold is for damage and vulnerable
  • Aspect of the Frozen Wake increase our Ice Spike damage by 90%
  • Aspect of the Frozen Tundra increases Ice Spike's radius by 50% which increases single target damage by a lot
  • Aspect of Disobedience grants additional armor for damage reduction
  • Snowguard's Aspect grants us damage reduction
  • Aspect of Mind's Awakening grants us barriers for 5 seconds after casting Blizzard
  • Aspect of the Bounding Conduit reduces our Teleport skill bar cooldown for going faster

Divine Gifts

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

Skill Tree

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Spent59 (12)

Paragon Board

Points Spent0

No Glyphs Installed

Stats

  • Str:99
  • Int:99
  • Dex:99
  • Will:99
  • For Max Damage you want to rush Legendary nodes as they each provide 60% damage. You will need to drop Fireball enchant for Ice Blades enchant when you reach the enchantment master legendary node to get any damage for Blizzard and the Glacial Aspect when you get there.

    Mercenary

    How it Plays

    • Blizzard is your main caster that deals most of it's damage through ice spikes created with the Glacial Aspect
    • Invoked Familiar is there to add 10% frost skill damage (Works for ice spikes)
    • Summoned Ice Blades provide cooldown reduction
    • Ice Armor provides barriers and Shimmering Ice Armor helps reduce it's cooldown by spending mana
    • Teleport is for movement and creating crackling for Convulsions
    • Flame Shield is a staple in survivability, granting you 2 seconds of immunity frames
    • Fireball enchant helps aid in killing trash mobs for XP farming efficiency
    • Teleport enchant adds some extra mobility on a 5 second cooldown (That cannot be lowered by any means besides lowering to 3.5 seconds with the Enchantment Master Legendary Node)

    How it Works

    Just spam cast Blizzard and hose enemies. I mainly like to level doing the seasonal activity or by opening chests in helltides which provide a lot of XP. The Essence of Squalor seasonal divine gift also makes maggots spawn in helltide that grant XP. In addition you can farm the new Azmodan Boss in Hawezar.

    Changelog

    12/5/25 - Leveling build created for S11

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