Sorcerers are the magic-slinging wizards of Sanctuary in Diablo 4. But with each element they can harness bringing its own unique effect, it can be easy to get overwhelmed when trying to design a Sorcerer build. That’s where we come in, with our suggestions of the best Sorcerer builds for Diablo 4 season 6.
Sorcerers are capable of harnessing lightning to deal with crowds, ice to keeps the hordes at bay, and fire to burn the demons of hell. But they’re also able to enchant their own spells with unique effects, intricately combining abilities for devastating results. Not to your taste? We also have builds for the Rogue, Barbarian, Druid, Spiritborn, and Necromancer classes
In this Diablo 4 guide, we’ve gathered and simplified the best Diablo 4 Sorcerer builds for season 6. If you need even more information on item affixes or other more complex ideas, we’ve been sure to link out to the more detailed versions of these builds, as well as where to find their original creators.
Best Sorcerer build for leveling in Diablo 4 season 6
This build is based off pandaglassjaw’s Sorcerer leveling guide at Maxroll.gg, and is purely for leveling (i.e., allocating your 71 skill points between levels 1 and 60) and early Torment I. If you want more detailed information about the item affixes you want to look for on your gear, or which other Legendary powers are great for your build, check out the original Maxroll.gg guide.
Best skills for leveling
This Sorcerer build guide is going to see you harness the awesome power of the Firewall Core skill to speed through the leveling process. In this build, you’ll also use Hydra, Teleport, Frost Nova, Familiar, and Ice Armor.
Here are the best skills for a Sorcerer leveling build, organized by the exact order you should purchase them in — bearing in mind that some skills require you to allocate a number of skill points in the tree in order to unlock them. As such, you’ll need to unlock new skills before enhancing existing ones:
- Fire Bolt / Enhanced Fire Bolt
- Fireball (rank 1-2) / Enhanced Fireball / Greater Fireball
- Teleport
- Ice Armor
- Frost Nova / Enhanced Frost Nova / Mystical Frost Nova
- Hydra / Enhanced Hydra / Summoned Hydra
- Familiar / Enhanced Familiar
- Align the Elements
- Protection (rank 1-3)
- Firewall / Enhanced Firewall / Mage’s Firewall
- Invoked Familiar
- Firewall (rank 2-3)
- Endless Pyre (rank 1-3)
- Fiery Surge
- Warmth (rank 1-3)
- Combustion
- Remove one rank from Fireball
- Glinting Fire Bolt
- Fireball (rank 2)
- Glass Cannon (rank 1-3)
- Conjuration Mastery (rank 1-3)
- Mana Shield (rank 1-3)
- Firewall (rank 4-5)
- Icy Veil (rank 1-3)
- Inner Flames (rank 1-3)
- Evocation (rank 1-3)
- Enhanced Teleport / Shimmering Teleport
- Enhanced Ice Armor / Shimmering Ice Armor
- Frost Nova (rank 2-5)
- Alight the Elements (rank 2)
- Remove two ranks of Warmth
- Permafrost
- Hoarfrost (rank 1-3)
- Elemental Synergies (rank 1-3)
- Soulfire (rank 1-3)
Best Enchantment setup for leveling
The Enchantment slot is key to a ton of your damage as a Sorcerer. You’ll gain two slots as you level, here’s which spell you want to put in each slot:
- Level 15: Fireball
- Level 30: Firewall
Best Legendary Aspects for Sorcerer leveling build
When you first start your new character, complete these four dungeons first in order to collect their Aspects. Then place them on a piece of gear (ideally jewelry and never weapons). The random drop Aspects are all nice to add to your Codex and your gear if you’re lucky enough to find them on your leveling journey.
- Snowveiled (Sarat’s Lair, Scosglen)
- Disobedience (Halls of the Damned, Kehjistan)
- Control (Sunken Library, Kehjistan)
Best Sorcerer build for endgame season 6
This build is based off of Northwar’s Fireball Sorcerer endgame guide at MaxRoll.gg, and is a general endgame guide capable of finding success in all activities. This guide assumes that you’re over level 60, have access to all 71 skill points, and are making progress on your Paragon Boards. If you want more detailed information about the item affixes you want to look for on your gear, or why these Legendary powers are great for your build, check out the original MaxRoll guide.
Best skill points for Fireball build for endgame
This build utilizes Fireball as its core skill. It also uses Familiar, Icy Blades, Teleport, Ice Armor, and Flame Shield.
Since you need all 71 points for this build, the order you select these skills in doesn’t matter as long as you have the pre-requisite points in the earlier skill tree tiers. Here is how you should spend your skill points for this build:
- Fire Bolt (rank 1-2)
- Fireball (rank 1-5) / Enhanced Fireball / Destructive Fireball
- Elemental Dominance (rank 1-3)
- Flame Shield
- Teleport (rank 1-5) / Enhanced Teleport / Shimmering Teleport
- Ice Armor / Enhanced Ice Armor / Shimmering Ice Armor
- Elemental Attunement
- Glass Cannon (rank 1-3)
- Energy Focus
- Dampen Layer (rank 1-3)
- Ice Blades / Enhanced Ice Blades / Summoned Ice Blades
- Familiar / Enhanced Familiar / Invoked Familiar
- Align the Elements (rank 1-3)
- Protection (rank 1-3)
- Conjuration Mastery (rank 1-3)
- Mana Shield (rank 1-3)
- Devouring Blaze (rank 1-3)
- Inner Flames (rank 1-3)
- Permafrost
- Hoarfrost (rank 1-3)
- Elemental Synergies (rank 1-3)
- Fiery Surge
- Soulfire (rank 1-3)
- Warmth
- Evocation (rank 1-3)
- Enlightenment
Sorcerer Enhancement setup for Fireball build
Here are the two skills you want to place in your Enhancement slots for this build:
- Fireball
- Ice Blades
Legendary Powers and Uniques for Fireball build
To make this build work, you’re going to need powerful Legendary Powers and Unique items to augment your build.
Northwar recommends these Aspects:
- Helm: Disobedience (dungeon)
- Chest: Concentration
- Gloves: Gloves of the Illuminator (Unique)
- Pants: Snowveiled (dungeon)
- Boots: Concussive Strikes
- Staff: Shredding Blades
- Amulet: Three Curses (dungeon)
- Ring 1: Conceited
- Ring 2: Storm Swell (dungeon)
If you want to get into the nitty gritty of stat priorities, refer to Northwar’s original guide.
Paragon Boards for Sorcerer Fireball build
The Paragon Board system is very complex, and you’ll want to carefully pair your Glyphs with specific boards for your class:
- Starter Board / Tactician
- Burning Instinct / Destruction
- Searing Heat / Elementalist
- Frigid Fate / Unleash
- Fundamental Release / Pyromaniac
You should level your Glyphs to 15 in this specific order:
- Tactician
- Destruction
- Elementalist
- Unleash
- Pyromaniac
You can path your own way through the Paragon Boards following these basic guidelines. However, for the best results, follow Northwar’s path exactly.
How to make a great Sorcerer build
Sorcerers are Diablo 4’s pure caster class, and use elemental magic to differentiate from the spells of the Druid and Necromancer. The Sorcerer has six Key Passives, but only three elements, which is what you’ll base your build around:
- Lightning
- Fire
- Ice
Lightning builds utilize Lightning skills to deal with large groups of enemies at once. When making a Lightning build, you’ll end up using the Overflowing Energy Key Passive or the Vyr’s Master Key Passive, depending on if you’re in melee range or not.
Ice builds specialize in slowing enemies down, making it easier to survive their attacks. Ice builds will take advantage of either the Avalanche Key Passive or the Shatter Key Passive, depending on how much your build relies on crowd control
Fire builds are all about big explosions and burning your enemies. For these builds, you’ll typically use either the Combustion Key Passive for burning enemies or the Esu’s Ferocity Key Passive for chunky critical strikes.
When making your own build for a Sorcerer, you’ll likely end up sticking to one element for your main damage sources. But that’s not the most important thing you need to remember. Sorcerers die very, very easily in Diablo 4, and they have the weakest defensive stats by far — however, they can deal a massive amount of damage when built correctly. If you don’t want to end up dead more often than not, make sure to invest heavily in defensive skills while making your way toward one of the six Key Passives we listed above.
Looking for other Diablo 4 builds? We have explainers on the Spiritborn, Barbarian, Rogue, Druid, and Necromancer classes.
