Best Sorceress Build Diablo 4 Season 1: Gear, Abilities, Paragon, Caged Hearts

The best Sorceress build for Diablo 4 Season 1 (Season of the Malignant) is up in the air after how popular the magic class was after launch. Most tier lists have seen popular builds like Arc Lash, Firewall and Blizzard fall down the order, but there’s still one that is top among the rest. Ice Shards is still pumping out good damage and just edges out most of the aforementioned builds currently. While Sorceress players ask for buffs to the class, try this Ice Shards Sorceress build from Northwar over on Maxroll.

We’ll detail the absolute level 100 endgame build for Nightmare Dungeon pushing, though Northwar’s guide covers multiple aspects of your character progression.

Best Sorceress Build Diablo 4 Season 1 Gear

• Helm – Ruby Gems
  • Cooldown Reduction
  • Crowd Control Duration
  • Lucky Hit Chance While You Have a Barrier
  • Maximum Mana
  • Aspect: You take less damage from Crowd Controlled or Vulnerable enemies
• Chest Armor – Ruby Gems
  • Unique – Raiment of the Infinite
• Gloves
  • Critical Strike Chance
  • Ranks of Ice Shards
  • Attack Speed
  • Lucky Hit Chance
  • Aspect: Deal increased damage while you have a Barrier active
• Pants – Ruby Gems
  • Unique – Iceheart Brais
• Boots
  • Max Evade Charges
  • Ranks of Frost Nova
  • Mana Cost Reduction
  • Ranks of Flame Shield
  • Movement Speed
  • When you hit a Crowd Controlled enemy, there is a chance that Crowd Control effect spreads to another enemy
• Wand – Emerald Gem
  • Core Skill Damage
  • Critical Strike Damage
  • Vulnerable Damage
  • Intelligence
  • Aspect: You deal increased damage to Vulnerable enemies while you have a Barrier active
• Focus – Emerald Gem
  • Cooldown Reduction
  • Lucky Hit: Chance to restore Primary Resource
  • Mana Cost Reduction
  • Resource Generation
  • Aspect: You deal more damage to Immobilized, Stunned and Frozen enemies
• Amulet – Caged Heart of Tal’Rasha
  • Ranks of Devouring Blaze Passive
  • Cooldown Reduction
  • Mana Cost Reduction
  • Crowd Control Duration
  • Aspect: Core or Mastery Skills cast at or above 100 mana gain additional Critical Strike Chance
• Ring 1 – Caged Heart of Tempting Fate
  • Critical Strike Chance
  • Critical Strike Damage
  • Vulnerable Damage
  • Resource Generation
  • Aspect: Distant enemies have a chance to be Stunned when they hit you. You deal increased damage to Stunned enemies
• Ring 2 – Caged Heart of Revenge
  • Critical Strike Chance
  • Critical Strike Damage
  • Vulnerable Damage
  • Resource Generation
  • Aspect: Ice Shards pierce dealing less damage per subsequent enemy hit

Best Sorceress Build Diablo 4 Season 1 Abilities

• Frost Bolt – 1 Point
• Fire Bolt – 1 Point
• Ice Shards – 5 Points
  • Enhanced Ice Shards – 1 Point
  • Destructive Ice Shards – 1 Point
• Devastation – 1 Point
• Elemental Dominance – 3 Points
• Flame Shield – 5 Points
  • Enhanced Flame Shield – 1 Point
• Teleport – 1 Point
  • Enhanced Teleport – 1 Point
• Ice Armor – 1 Point
  • Enhanced Ice Armor – 1 Point
• Frost Nova – 5 Points
  • Enhanced Frost Nova – 1 Point
  • Mystical Frost Nova – 1 Point
• Glass Cannon – 3 Points
• Elemental Attunement – 3 Points
• Align The Elements – 1 Point
• Protection 1 Point
• Inner Flames – 1 Point
• Devouring Blaze – 3 Points
• Deep Freeze – 1 Point
  • Prime Deep Freeze – 1 Point
  • Supreme Deep Freeze – 1 Point
• Permafrost – 3 Points
• Hoarfrost – 3 Points
• Frigid Breeze – 3 Points
• Icy Touch – 3 Points
• Shatter – 1 Point

Skill Bar

• Ice Shards
• Ice Armor
• Frost Nova
• Teleport
• Deep Freeze
• Flame Shield

Enchantments

• Ice Shards
• Fire Bolt

Best Sorceress Build Diablo 4 Season 1 Paragon Board

Best Sorceress Build Diablo 4 Season 1 Caged Hearts

These are the best-in-slot Caged Hearts:

• Caged Heart of Tal’Rasha
• Caged Heart of Tempting Fate
• Caged Heart of Revenge

Northwar also cites Caged Heart of The Barber for Revenge when pushing Nightmare Dungeons and the Pinnacle Boss.