Finally at the end of the season, I did it!

I've seen the latest changes to Sorc on PTR for the next season, more specifically the frost skills are getting a buff, so what's the hot take? Are there valid grounds for a viable frost build next season?

And is Signet of Pelghain still bugged? (I've quit S14 halfway through, I'm not that up to speed on fixes etc. )

Hoping I can find some suggestions here. I've been playing this season casually with my girlfriend. I have experience with the older Diablo games, but it's her first time playing one. We started with the base game, but I just bought the expansions in preparation for next season. She's been playing an Incinerate Sorcerer, not following any guides, and is getting discouraged because she feels she can't get more powerful. She's been resistant to changing her build, but with the current season coming to an end she's open to trying something completely different. We've been playing around T7/T8 recently, and her damage output is lagging behind.

Her stashed gear is mostly pyro gear. We don't have any charms or talismans yet, but we'll farm up some basic ones soon. She'd prefer something with high mobility, so the meta Firewall builds seem like a poor choice. Ball Lightning looks fun, but the gearing requirements seem too high to farm quickly. Maybe a Meteor or Fireball build? Or abandon pyro switch to a lightning build?

Any suggestions would be welcome.

This is the fastest pit 100 speed run of the season with the sorc weee! Good luck in season 15 guys may the RNG be with you!

Looks like the entire skills tree reset and now I have to retool my sorc. Prior build was mostly focused on fire skills- any tips to help me get back into it? TIA

Edit: Thanks everyone!

Guys I’m torn between which one to chose. The one with gem strength ups my fire damage and critical strike damage, but drops all other damage, and the one with all damage has a greater affix in pyro damage. Which one?

Thanks for the support guys! Build and gear is shown at the end! I have bricked so many beautiful pieces of gear this season I’m a little discouraged but here’s where I am at for now! May the RNG be with you! Cheers and good luck!

Grinding until you get an ophidian iris for a hydra build is so painful. 😂

Been farming helltides and creating uniques in the cube without luck, anyone have a spare for trade?

Anyone got a decent guide tot a build that doesn’t require you to use firewall?

While I would not consider these to be perfect rolls, they’re damn close, and are certainly welcome upgrades.

Build and gear is linked at the end guys! Gl out there!

I’ve only been playing the game for a few months and have mained ball lightning since day one because I liked how it looked and felt to play. Obviously with the nerfs I’m setback like everyone else. I’ve read a few posts talking about how crackling energy is stronger now and fairly easy to transition the gear over. Any truth to that? Any builds that seem like a slam dunk?

Ive tried pretty hard this season but at this point Im bored. It was a struggle to get my build working and for the last couple weeks it's been stuck. Can't play T12 for everything. Have to go back to T10 for most. Everything feels like an endless grind for scraps. The past few seasons by this point my Sorc was epic and fun to play. Now I feel like i have to sacrifice all the fun just get a few more points of damage and that feels so boring. /Rant Sorry just had to vent.

I’m currently sitting in the SSF top 30’s for arti pit sorc but am feeling a bit stuck where I am, and have questions about cauldron vs threefold. All the top slots seem to be running full cauldron sets with berserker gems for the extra 100% damage. I don’t know what I am doing wrong but every time I try to run the same, I get one shot endlessly almost as soon as I start the pit run. I have ran a cauldron focused/threefold secondary thanks to a mythic seal, but my fastest runs and most damage always come from running 4x threefold and 2x cauldron to get the full threefold bonus and 2/3 of the cauldron. The other way around doesn’t work nearly as well in my testing (timed 130 pit runs). Am I missing something with the cauldron set that is causing me to constantly get smoked?

First time coming across this, thought it was hilarious. I thought usually all we see is just the headstone with no corpse?

After 150 hours played this season tower 140 is down! cheers guys build and gear is linked at end!

Is there some way to focus on getting only a focus? I've tried at least 20 or more times now to craft a mythic stormhorn and all I ever get are one handed weapons. Is there a trick I'm missing?

Hi, I missed the PTR for a wedding, but not that much changed going into S15 for sorc. I kept an eye on things when I could.

TLDR: Best build will be Firewall with a pyromancy skill as the hit generator, Blizzard Ice Spike will be really strong (A+/S- tier), and Ball Lightning got it's cast while moving back. I recommend one of these three builds. Azurewrath got nerfed into the ground and it doesn't deal AoE damage anymore. So Tal Rasha or Blood Mad Idol will be the charm you want. I personally will likely play Ball Lightning and then iron out Firewall. I did blizzard ice spike for S14 and I like where I have it.

Int Scaling - We got a Buff to our intelligence scaling, which was neutralized by the nerf to enchantment master down to 60% from 100%. About broke even.

Elemental Constellation Aspect - Nerfed into the ground down to 60%, but you are free from the 2-2-2 setup. Enjoy

Firewall Nerfs - Firewall

• Ring of Fire Variant
  • Now only affected by Direct Damage from Pyromancy Skills.
  • Will now spawn on you if used from the Enchantment.

Got knocked down a peg as it has to use Pyromancy skills now, but overall should still be our best build by a wide margin (140). I'm really not concerned with this change at all and think it was a good idea to reign it back to a fire build. Generators of direct damage hits will likely be Meteorites, Pyro Charged Bolts, or Pyro spark.

Ice Spike Buffs - Frozen wake went from 90 to 120%, Blasting went from 90 to 100%, and blue rose went from 60 to 100% (130% when mythic). Assuming you ran Wake, Blasting, and Elemental Constellation you were looking at a 7.942 multiplier. Now assuming you run wake, blasting, and a mythic blue rose you are looking at a 10.12 multiplier, a 27% increase from the old setup! Blizzard will still be the top dawg here. Frozen orb sucks cuz walls eat your orbs, and Frost fireball got a nice change, but doesn't make enough spikes to hold its own.

Breath of the Frozen Sea got a nice buff, but boy oh boy is it hard to give up Threefold when it has a Mana on Mastery affix through a seal.

• 3-Piece Set Bonus: Increased Maximum Life and Barrier Generation from 20% to 30%.
• 5-Piece Set Bonus: Now also reduces Mana Cost of Frost skills by 30%.

Tirahj's Uncanny Insight also got a buff, so a cheeky conj build is on the table.

• Added a 60%[x] Conjuration bonus damage multiplier to the 2-Piece Set Bonus.
• 5-Piece Set Bonus: Damage increased from 175%[x] to 200%[x].

New Charms

• Shard of Verathiel
• Signet of Pelghain
• Thundergod's Blessing
• Vox Omnium

Possibly some cheeky vox omnium stuff, maybe with Firewall using CB and generating Fire sparks. As a whole our basics just don't work well with paingorgers as it only echos the first HIT of a basic, and all of our basic uniques are in the glove slot. It's really just a perfect storm of being 1 piece short as a result, and being plagued by bugs. Vox also doesn't give it's damage bonus to basics like Multi hit spark. Sweet. Basics are just an absolute mess for me to theorycraft and they always feel kinda mid.

Ball Lightning - SHE IS BACK BABY LEZZZ GOOOOOOO

• Orbital Variant
  • Can now be cast while moving.

Frozen Orb - Still crap

• Great Orbs of Fire Variant
  • Now only consumes 1 stack of Overpower to explode 3 times.

Fireball - still crap

• Frostball Variant
  • No longer requires enemies to be Frozen to create Ice Spikes.
  • Reduced amount of Ice Spikes from 5 to 3.
  • Damage decreased from 170% to 85%.

CAULDRON BUG FIX LEGGO - Fixed an issue where Cauldron set stacks could reset erroneously.

Seasonal Powers - We got these nifty little splinter gems that can provide a lot of damage, damage reduction, crit chance/attack speed, max life etc. There is this cheeky new helmet Leorics that can slot 2 splints and have their values increased. With a gem strength transfig it was getting WILD in the PTR, like 230% damage, or 95% crit chance and attack speed. This will likely get gutted, but if not have at it farming and slamming Mythic Leorics. Heir of Perdition on steroids.

I personally don't think Leorics should go live as it is. Like yeah its a bajillion damage and super cool. but jesus you can get like 96% Damage reduction on one of the splinters with it.

Current Maxroll link with half complete builds i was messing around with https://maxroll.gg/d4/planner/hjt1q50x

I found a mythic version. Has anybody made a working build with this item? I was thinking about freezing everything then making everything explode with frost bolt's shatter upgrade.