I don’t think there is a decent build in D4 that can do higher difficulties that rely on a single skill only that you can call it purely by that skill, for example, FO. I think 100% of the time it requires a modification or addition with something else.
I was placing FO/LS Sorcerer to start the season. I got it working ok, but I couldn’t really do much against T4 bosses. I struggled to upgrade my gear and aspects, but wasn’t getting anywhere. So I started an SB, and within short order I was clobbering everything in T4 easily. The game is broken now if you want to play any other class.
I tried to get my Barb going again, but same issue. I can hunt and hunt for gear that never drops. I’m not sure what Blizzard was thinking here. It certianly wasn’t long term.
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CHECK YOUR PARAGON AFFIXES
If I can do T4 with INCINERATE, frozen orb can do way more.
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My rogue that did lvl 116 pits in hard core last season should be blasting its way through tier four with all the extra damage you can pick up from the paragon boards and lvled glyphs but it is not, it is totally sucking. damage was scaling up to lvl 55 glyphs, had a spirit born friend boost me to lvl 76 glyphs, no change in damage and it’s stuck at around lvl 65 pits and in tier three, can do tier four heltieds but it is a hard grind. i always play my rogue know it inside and out. never needed the most damage just good damage. I have the damage showing its to the point I cannot sometimes see the NPCs I’m attacking. Averaging 200k-450kx 16 with 3 combo points per hit on target with crits in the millions. and it is like I am using rubber bullets in tier 4. lol very sad, rogue being my favorite toon to play. just straight up rapid fire not the most powerful build I know, but I like it.
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FO/LS builds are dead, since Blizzard put 4-5 times the nerf hammer on these builds changing nearly every each good things on that builds.
After being so successful in S4/S5, they don’t want this build to be good at all.
I think the build is fine to play in torment 3.
For torment 4… try spiritborn.
Unfortunately it’s like always. Blizzard is just bad in balancing. They just overreact on these things. They completely destroy builds. And this is by far not the first time…
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I play a Fireball Sorc and I stay in T3, in T4 my hand starts to hurt, I’m doing to many clicks with my gaming mouse, like a lunatic lol She is paragon 250 with two mystic, masterwork all max. Glyphs to lvl is a horror show 
I hope the Dev team will buff all Sorc builds 
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Sorry to hear that. Game did get a little more difficult and Im loving the changes. Not seeing anything but massive power creep if every class and build can do top content. Hoping they balance it out come S7 (Nerf SB) instead of going full on d3 EZ Mode. Time will tell
So you want them to design a game with 100s of 1000s of players to accommodate a few people with limited playtime? What fun is that? Sounds easier than d3
LMAO!!! lol that was good!
My Fireball Sorcerer from last season works just fine in T4. Paragon 245 with Glyphs at 80. I do have Mythics and resistance are all close to 85% but still have to be very careful not standing in any fire or poison explosion. Don’t have much life. It is fun to still be the one killing more mobs at the Hellmaiden despite all the SB around. Did Pit 85 but lack damage to push higher. Bosses and Hordes are quite easy.
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It’s perfectly fine to just stay on T2. Same gear, and you can faceroll everything.
When you want to upgrade your build, you have to change your amulet, which means u have to leave FO.
FO is just something you use to get you through until you get to higher GA gear, because you can spam conjurations with F.Winterglass. So this is not like getting support from conjurations while casting fireball.
It is completely LS.
tldr; Simply bad class choice 
Frozen Orb doesn’t really work anymore, at least not in T4/Endgame.
Yet, I can do Pit 100 with my LS Sorc (the Maxroll.gg one with a few tweaks of my own) , obviously steamrolling any other content in T4.
So Sorc can still be decent and competitive with the other non bug-exploiting classes
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T4 = pit 65. FO sorc can easily clear this. No issues at all, even without the splintering engery, carry, aspect. Did it last night infact as I was sandoxing my setup and leveling up changed out glyphs. That said, splintering engery makes it so much easier. This is my build and I’m clearing pit 85 with glyphs at 80.
I’m waiting on my elusive almulet drop to switch out to the pure LS. I’m not a trader, and I accept my idiocy about not trading. I get a bigger rush seeing a drop than a click on a third party site. That’s for me, and not others for sure.
I can barelly do T2 with a melee Rogue, lol… flurry with tons of multipliers and aspects still do barelly scratches. THey really have nerfed everyclass except SB looks like, or maybe they don’t had time to leveling others classes for the new difficulties system.
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Best Sorc build is Fireball for the highest content.
CL is the best all around Sorc build, for cap around Pit 100-110 ish.
FO is worse than LS without CL.
FO has always been bad, besides the S4 PTR.
I had the same problem with my conjuration sorc. Made it to pit 50 and could no longer climb.