Ice shards absolutely slaps. One of the most fun specs I have played and I played Bone Spear necro during Season 0.

Just a question, i looked at your build and you have several points into ice shards but you dont use it as an active skill on your actionbar? how does that work?
Might try it out, thats why i ask

you use ice shards as enchanment, not as an active skill

I clear Torment level 40, before i cant even clear level 1 dungeon, i guarantte i clear higher, didnt tried yet, its kinda confusing how this build works, i still dont know, what is doing damage, blizzard or wtf, i only crit about 20k, can you break down, how its works ? which skills or affixes does damage, there is so many things happening at once

This post was edited by Vkrs on Aug 5 2023 02:53pm

ice shards. fireball could be meta with new patch

you need 2 keys items for this build to do massive damage: Glacial aspect (pref +2k damage, but any +1500 will work + barber (shorter barber for speedfarm, 3-4secs barber for high end content)- this build DOESNT work without these 2 items.

The damage come only and only from glacial aspect combined with the barber (wrathful hearth). blizzard does 0 damage even if maxed out.

the way this build work is: flame shield > teleport close to mobs > blizzardx2 > nova (using flame shield is kind of overkill but 2 blizzards should kill any white mobs, use more for elites) - always cast blizzard at melee range

this is a showcase of my lvl 77 hc sorc clearing a 51 (rip main lvl 100 sorc) - i could have cleared higher but i dont see the point of it (75-80 maybe) but i dont really want to risk it yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0glweEgKwU&ab_channel=JuanmaPosada

the only "bis" stats on items are my dagger/chests. the rest is 3 out of 4 rolls, rings/amulet are trash.

helm: CDR > + mana > total armor > int

chest: raiments of the infinite

gloves: Crit > IAS > Crit vs injured > iceshards/damage vs injured

pants: triple dr (close, distant, dr while injured) > total armor

boots: teleport > ice nova > resource cost > MS/int/+50MS when using evade OR +3max evade if you swap flame shield enchantment with teleport)

weapon: crit > vul > int > close damage (Dagger only, wand are trash) (Weapon damage doesnt matter at all. make sure it's ancestral for maximum rolls)

amulet: CDR > resource generation > Resource cost > +3 permafrost/icy touch or any frost skill)

rings: Crit > crit damage > vul damage > resource generation (both rings)

off hand: CDR > Resource generation > resource cost > Crit chance (int maybe?)

This post was edited by Phyzick on Aug 6 2023 08:30am

Hey, I'm playing your build right now Phyz and it's really good and better then going ice shards as active ability. But what I am curious about is the no-dmg-effect From weapon dmg? Ice shards enchantment deals dmg based on skill combined with weapon/offhand dmg right? Since I experience that the ice shards enchancement combined with frost nova is quite a big damage boost. Not only the dmg from blizz-aspect and barber.

Or is everything purely based on fix-dmg attributes?

this build is based on attributes, not weapon damage like you said, ice shards enchanment does work well with the barber when you are freezing everything around you with blizzard (a maxed out cold front is a must as well) - so the barber explodes for ridicolous amount of damage when mobst are getting hit with glacial aspect and ice shards at the same time. highest crit recorded was 20m at lvl 95 - but i saw a 37m when i was lvl 100 doing nmd's. This build has the potential to do more damage but at the time i wasnt perfectly geared for it. Also keep in mind this is for HC, i have to sacrifice damage for more survivability.



This post was edited by Phyzick on Aug 6 2023 08:55am

I just run bliz/ firewall max out my cold dmg seems to work pretty well at lvl 76

Question for you - if damage is solely off of the aspect, why not go staff for 200% aspect bonus? Do the stats/extra weapon aspect truly make up for that 50% damage boost? Finally getting around to trying this out but still only have my single base 1464 glacial aspect (805 item power)