What is the general best sorc build? After experimenting, fireball doesn’t feel good to play at all, constantly starving for mana and no single target damage. Chain lightning felt better than fb, but still not good. Now I’m on a blizzard sorc, and it’s better than the other two, but I’m curious is there anything better? I’m bleeding gold doing all these respecs so ty in advance with the advice
Blizzard is best for Uber Lilith.
Ice Shards is the best overall but you have to be high enough level to have all the required skills and aspects. It does occasionally run OOM (out of Mana) against bosses over longer fights. It also has bugs where it won’t hit short enemies sometimes (such as scorpions or blood blisters). Wraiths also have wonky hit boxes with this spell. It also can’t hit enemies you are directly on top of.
Chain Lightning is very close to Ice Shards. Ice Shards is more consistent, but quite a bit weaker against single target than Chain Lightning. Chain Lightning has no issues with short enemies but bugs out with purple barrier enemies as it treats the barrier like a wall and disappears if it tries to re-enter. Again you need the skills and aspects to make it sustainable. My chain lightning build uses 7 boards in the Paragon. This build requires the aspect for mana on bounce.
Third is probably the conjuration build. This is a combo of all 3 conjuration abilities. Good boss damage, no issues with small enemies or hit boxes. Decent wave clearing, no mana issues. This one probably has the most requirements on level as most of it’s damage comes from the Paragon board and Hydra aspects. I find this build to be a bit boring to play as it’s cast summons, then just walk around until the screen is dead, occasionally recasting hydras to try to proc frozen orbs. The conjurations are a bit slower at killing as the damage ramps up.
Fireball is next in line after the buffs but it requires near perfect gear to not run OOM, and even then it’s still weaker against bosses and has mana issues against them.
5th in line is probably the lightning bomb build. It’s lightning orbs paired with teleport and Raiment. Great lower tier clear time, possibly the fastest. Weaker against bosses.
After running chain lightning, it’s horrendous to go against and supressor affix since u don’t get bounces. Feels terrible and an absolute tilter
As sad as it is to admit, the only decent build in the game for a sorcerer is to create a druid. When playing as a druid, you can make a lot of mistakes, it doesn’t make a huge difference what equipment falls out - it still works better.
There are really bugs with controls (often the mouse either does not aim, or does not come off the target). As I understand it, due to the increase in the size of the mob models, so that when pointing at the edge of the mob image, the mouse does not catch it, the same thing when you want to run away, it does not perceive the command past the target, considering the pointing to be held.
You got it wrong. The best sorcerer build is Necro.
Joking aside, this is really subjective. I have seen some good Fireball builds clearing NM 100 but requires certain playstyle and of course some uniques.
I had a good time with Ice Shard in Eternal until the nerf patch 1.1.0 came, though it was still subpar compare to other classes
Right now I prefer Conjuration build because Hydra is strong at NM 100. It scales whether it’s a bug or feature. Also Conjuration is good during the leveling phase in the open world and hitting the capstone even though Hydra doesn’t scale in these modes. Mana is not an issue. When my new Sorc in S1 was level 50, I was already doing World Tier 4 with little issues at all (man, I miss those moments when I was running with a group of level 80s and they were wondering how the heck I am surviving solo lol)
At level 52, I was doing Helltides in WT4 already
That’s Conjuration.
The best Sorcs in order are.
Blizzshards - Hybrid.
Conjurer - Hydra.
Ice shards
Fireball
Insert any lightning builds here.
Blizzard for Lilith
When it comes to speed Blizzshard hybrid also takes the top spot but with Raiment. 
I’m running blizzard and ice shards. No complaints. It’s a strong build and performs well in most scenarios.
I’d like to try swapping shards for hydra just for fun. See if I can make something work.
Can you possibly link some guides to any of these? Just respec’d to ice shards from blizz, and gotta say it feels the best so far. Never run out of mana, and everything detonates
Yeah blizzard is a vibe for sure. Takes a bit to get going but then everything just explodes. Single target damage could be better though.
Conjuration is amazing when you get creative with it. Been trying different varieties, and right now I have a conjuration with MS ammy with the ghostwalker aspect, Esu’s, Raiment, and Oculus. CL and UC, and I get so much CE that I can just zip around nigh endlessly killing in a sort of random path (between random Oculus and conjurations pulling from off screen it’s hectic).
I found it very effective but boring with no mana spender besides hydras, and removed all but teleport from my defensives to add UC and CL. FO enchant for ranged vulnerable and chill (which itself opens up so much). Terrific vulnerable time on single target with IB as well. Looking for enough paragon points to grab the enchantment legendary node. I think conjuration builds have the most varied and useful enchants (and you don’t need the ever so boring fire bolt enchant) - FO, all 3 conjuration skills, and FN are all very useful depending on exact skill and gear loadout.
no man. You use chain lightning with Frozen Orb Ice Blades Enchants with the Occy and attack speed on the conjuration sorc. You’re blazing CL’s at 90% IAS.
Hands down the best build.
That’s how my Blizzard and Firewalls variant started. As someone coming from Ice Shard, it feels weird I am not spamming any skills.
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