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Diablo 4has significantly buffed Sorcerers in Season of the Infernal Hordes.
Needless to say, Sorcerers are finally in a good spot for endgame content.
This guide covers everything it’s crucial that you know about the Infernal Hordes game mode in Diablo 4.
The build isn’t possible withoutFractured Winterglass, a fairly common Unique amulet you cantarget farm from Lord Zir.
Our strongest conjuration isLightning Spear, so we’ll be casting it whenever it leaves cooldown.
We useFrozen OrbandFire Boltfor our enchantment slots.
Frozen Orb can trigger offanyskill you cast, including Frozen Orb itself and Lightning Spear.
Your last slot is dealer’s choice.
We suggest usingIce Bladeswhen starting out to help with your cooldownsit reduces all skill cooldowns through the Summoned upgrade.
Throw on the Orange Herald Aspect to give your Unstable Currents 100% uptime in boss fights.
A leveling board can be found in ourMobalytics guide.
The more Glyphs you’re able to squeeze into your board, the better.
Conjurations ramp up the Conjuration Mastery passive, which is where most of your damage is coming from.
It’s worth using.Controlsimply gives a massive 20% damage multiplier while targets are stunned.
This greatly improves our DPS against Elites and staggered bosses.
This lets us comfortably run five Topaz Gems on our gear for a major damage boost.
Considering we aren’t using Ruby Gems, that’s fairly high.
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Recommended Gear
Helmet
Amulet
Concentration
Casting a conjuration grants you 25% DR for 5 seconds.
Fractured Winterglass
Frozen Orb’s initial explosion has a 65% chance of spawning a conjuration.
Conjurations can spawn Frozen Orbs through Lucky Hits (90% chance).
Caps at 80%.
Dealing any damage refreshes all stacks.
Gloves
Ring #2
Accelerating
Critical hits with Core skills grant +25% attack speed for 5 seconds.
Ancient Flame
While both effects of Esu’s Ferocity are active, gain +50% attack speed.
Pants
Boots
Snowveiled
Casting Ice Armor grants Unstoppable and 25% DR for 5 seconds.
Esu’s Heirloom
Your critical strike chance is increased by 40% of your movement speed.
This damage scales with your critical damage bonus.
Frozen Orbit
Frozen Orb explodes two additional times, dealing 60% of its initial damage.
How To Fix Your Mana Sustain
Arguably the biggest issue with Frozen Orb builds is mana sustain.
That’s wheremana per second affixescome into play.
That mana regeneration stacksmultiplicativelywith Conjuration Mastery.
If you have ten conjurations out, you aren’t regenerating 17 mana per second.
You’re regenerating37 manaper second.
Elixirs can help as well if you’re really struggling.
Mythic Uniques
Once you get Ring of Starless Skies, you no longer need mana regeneration on your gear.
This frees up your helmet and chest slots for Harlequin Crest and Tyrael’s Might, respectively.
You’ll wantattack speed affixes on your gloves and secondary ring.
Conjuration Mastery ensures that you’ll be at capped movement speed at all times.
Lightning Spear covers the last 15% for you.
Your primary goal is to get Fractured Winterglass.The seasonal reward track has a chance of dropping one for you.
Player trading is also an option if you’re flush with Gold.
Once you get the amulet and have some mana regeneration gear, go ahead and swap to the build.
Finish up leveling in Helltideand T3 Infernal Hordes, T4 if you could handle it.
Be sure to run a few Nightmare Dungeons while leveling.
They’re a great source of XP and your only method of leveling Glyphs.
Once you hit Level 100, respec your Paragon Board to the endgame variant.
If you haven’t already, start farming Nightmare Dungeons to get your Glyphs to Level 15.
You should be able to start running T5 Infernal Compass at this point.
The resource chest will give you common Pit materials, allowing you to masterwork your armor.
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