yees that could work imo his sorc would be really nice even without pants/skirt, but would need to wear some knee high boots like waterwalks from d2

You don’t need to slot fire bolt to get the enchantment with any attack. I use the ultimate ice skill with my 6th skill slot.

I used to run Deep Freeze + Prime Deep Freeze + Supreme Deep Freeze but eventually, there was no point using this spell. So I swapped with extra points in Teleport for better cooldown.

You could eventually use it back especially if you want to run 60+ NM dungeons. You would have to decrease mobility and increase survivability in general.

Some of you asked me to share Paragon screenshots



Base Board
- Legendary Node : nil
- Rare Node : Elementalist, Elemental Balance
- Destruction Glyph

Burning Instinct Board
- Legendary Node : nil
- Rare Node : Smoldering Embers, Culler, Kindling, Cinders, Safeguard (low priority)
- Exploit Glyph

Elemental Summoner Board
- Legendary Node : nil
- Rare Node : Reservoir, Swift Conjurer
- No Glyph

Icefall Board
- Legendary Node : Icefall
- Rare Node : Frost, Icefall, Frigid, Cryomancy
- Control Glyph

Frigid Fate Board
- Legendary Node : Frigid Fate
- Rare Node : Oppressive, Chilling, Weakness, Advantage
- Flamefeeder Glyph



1 week ago the ranking was : Barb/Druid/Rogue S tier then Sorc A tier then Necro E tier.
I mean if you follow maxroll guide or average youtuber guide for sure Sorc will be shit lol.
Perhaps in between people realized how Ice Shard sorc was imba.
It's S tier I guarantee.



this pant is the only one you can see her legs when she's riding the horse but it's not enough blizz has to provide with better skins lol

This post was edited by deepend on Jun 24 2023 04:51am

Quick addition on how damage works (in case you didn't know)

All damage multipliers are additive so if you get +10% damage on an item it adds only 10% to a total damage multiplier of let's say 300% so 10% more is just 310% instead of 300%

Except vulnerable damage which is a multiplier on its own

Let me explain :

- if you have +20% damage to all, +20% damage to close enemies, +20% dmg to stunned, you do base damage x60% to a stunned, close enemy

- if you have +20% vulnerable on top, you do base damage x60% x20% which is 192% of base damage

Key learning 1 : vulnerable is op if you can proc it

You want to ensure you have a viable vulnerable proc which is really easy to get for Barb/Druid/Rogue there is a glyph to apply vulnerable on each enemy.
If you're a sorc, just use frost nova. For this build specifically, you also naturally proc vulnerable with Ice shards.
Necromancers have a poor access to vul as far as I know.

Critical strike is also multiplicative on top of total damage

- if you have +20% crit dmg on top you will do : base damage x 192% x crit dmg multiplier

Key learning 2 : crit dmg multiplier is good but you don't proc crit strike 100% of the time so it's priority 2

So you also want to have high critical strike proc to benefit from CSD multiplier.

In other words your priorities for high damage are (in the right order):

- Highest Item Power from weapon (base damage)
- Vulnerable damage
- Critical strike damage & Critical strike chance
- And then and only then other Dmg multipliers
- Alternatively main stat that increases base damage

Conclusion : +% damage is lower priority compared to VUL, CSD and CSC

Lmk if this post has value, lmk if it's unclear

This post was edited by deepend on Jun 24 2023 04:12pm

Ty alot for this guide! Been determined to play Ligh-sorc, but holy hell this is so much better! Dont even have all pieces but still melting!

Hey would you recommend dropping the ice heart pants for a necessary gear piece? Or is frost nova unique pants essential to the build?

Like, the only way I can get frost blitz and still use elementalist amulet is to drop the pants and move my "frost blitz" aspect from amulet to pants (I am currently using frost blitz as my amulet).

My glyphs are garbage right now otherwise I'd go speed items

This post was edited by Noob_Tactics on Jun 25 2023 06:35pm

if u need damage / survivability, ditch the mobility aspects and get offensive aspects. check a generic maxroll guide to find which offensive are the best for ice shard sorc.
you can switch back for speed later

thanks for the advice!

Build seems medium.

6/10

All multipliers are not additive lmao.