Class · Base game
Sorcerer
Fire, lightning and frost, with Enchantments. Resource: Mana. Core stat: Intelligence. Requires Base game.
Archetypes
The main ways this class is built today.
Fire
Firewall with the Ring of Fire variant, Meteor, Incinerate and Fireball.
Lightning
Ball Lightning, Chain Lightning and Charged Bolts; Blizzard with the Static Field variant plays like a lightning storm.
Cold
Ice Spikes, Ice Shards, Frozen Orb and Blizzard, buffed in Season 15.
Strengths
- Firewall Sorcerer sits at the top of Maxroll's push and endgame lists and Mobalytics' Tower list.
- Blizzard Sorcerer is a low-effort leveling and farming choice.
- Long range keeps you out of trouble.
Trade-offs
- Ball Lightning is rated very differently across sources (A at Icy Veins, D for pushing at Maxroll).
- Some builds stop working if you leave a specific area, such as the Firewall ring.
Season 15 and patch 3.2.1
Blizzard's own notes are marked Patch; community reports are marked Meta.
- Patch Blizzard's note: the Cold archetype was buffed because Lightning and Fire had dominated the past couple of seasons, with buffs to other areas that felt behind.
- Patch Damage per 10 Intelligence rose from 1.25% to 1.625%.
- Patch The 3.2.2 notes fix the Incinerate Enchantment not triggering the Tal rune.
Legacy Uniques usable by the Sorcerer: Henri's Perquisition (focus), In-Geom, plus the four every-class Uniques.
Uniques Blizzard changed in 3.2.1
Blue Rose, Shanar's Resonance. These are the Unique items listed for this class in the patch notes, not a ranking. Patch
Sorcerer builds we track
Each one shows where Maxroll, Mobalytics and Icy Veins place it.
- Firewall Ring of Fire burning
- Blizzard Static Field lightning storm
- Ball Lightning Orbital melee ring