Firebolt Sorcerer Pit 168 | S5 Diablo IV

I definitely feel like I've finally hit my limit. I think further is barely possible but the amount that you need to go your way is just insanity inducing. This run already had incredibly rare RNG and I made very few mistakes.
Final Planner: Changes are for more survivability, maintaining ice armor uptime on trash became a problem sometimes and it's worth more dps due to storm swell double dip than just getting more additive, I probably would go for more additive if I had GA life on pants and had tempered max life instead of warmth. Also picked up 3/3 align elements, it helped a lot in the case that my barriers did break.
Had a lot of fun this season and thanks for the kind comments on all of my clears. ggs
maxroll.gg/d4/planner/z92xk0p3

[@constantinople2837]

your solo runs, on what I would call is "BAR NONE", the hardest build to clear with, is literally unprecedented, you are a living legend, mate! I' am happy for you, at the same time a little sad, with 200 gone in two weeks, I have to wonder how far away from 200 you possible could have been with a support zdps comp... but I digress and cheers on the greatest runs NO person will ever topple, this man is NOT human!

[@kylerichings3065]

Yep finding out the hard way hahaha

[@alexwoll4857]

Very impressive, looking forward to see what you do in s6!

[@shoguni78]

Nice one, have to try this build also, have tested lightning spear, hybrid LS/frozen orb and frozen orb sorc builds already and have items for this one also.. Ty from build and nice work in pit. GG

[@VicJang]

168 is insane. Great job.

[@0gnomer]

inevitably...those ä-hah zimmer moments in build-development reduce in magnitude and slow in pace, few and far between; and your final boss becomes chaos itself [as you mention]...this is the stratosphere of full optimization...a point where perhaps you may come down and enjoy an accomplishment well-deserved 🖤

[@truaggro]

Insane. best player of season 6

[@puggychuggy8652]

GOATED

[@breafe]

congrats bud🎉🐐

[@breafe]

good work on the planners and thank you so much for sharing💯

[@1ashbringer]

Ggs!

[@kylerichings3065]

Way to go! I literally just got GA attack speed Starless after a crazy crazy grind for it. Going to do some hordes and try to triple master work everything and will update to match your newest planner and see what happens 😁

[@sharozeJ]

u r a legend.

[@anupamakuchibhatla3378]

I want to see you do this with the infernal hordes

[@hotdog128]

Ggs King, see u in season 6

[@zdordai]

Well done! Why don't we use Control in the paragon board any longer? The 20x dmg boost seems too good to pass up...thanks for all the updates!

[@voidseerxd]

Control glyph is only active when enemies are CC'd so it doesn't affect shatter damage directly. It does work for when boss is staggered but they are too infrequent to get significant value out of. Also, because this build has low additive from gear, the additive on paragon board is pretty effective and you have to lose out on a lot of it. Losing out on elite damage which is super efficient and works on bosses as well as the extra survivability that I mentioned helps ice armor uptime (massive dps increase) is just too painful.

[@zdordai]

@@voidseerxd never would've thought of that. your theorycrafting is insanely well thought out and I'm very much looking forward to what you can cook up in S6. kudos to you and thx for the reply. gz again on this very impressive clear!

[@olivr_wtf]

this is so d3 talrasha m,eteor lmao and i love it

[@_nlcholas]

loved that build !!

[@constantinople2837]

Bro I"ve been studying your technique on Res Malice for close to a week, and for shiz and gigs I went back to watch mekuna play spirit on a 150 clear.... Bro... the damage you get out of her @10:04 in the video is literally tripple any amount I saw mekuna take off of spirit at a 150 clear, we're talking 18 LEVELS and you nearly chop off what almost appears to be a full inch of health pool to the naked eye. It isn't even comparable, i had to rewatch it so many times

[@voidseerxd]

It's difficult to get huge shatters until very high pits where mobs have enough HP to apply a full burn and spam fireball without them dying before CC timer ends. I think the first shatter was even bigger but for real those def had to be the biggest boss shatters I've ever hit, probably hit for like 7 or 8T

[@constantinople2837]

@@voidseerxd OMG I feel dumb! that makes perfect sense! more health pool, bigger capacity to pre load, and not short change the fireball spam, no wonder I was feeling myself that fighting a boss on 150 vs even 155 feels like a noticable difference, my brain wasnt wrapping up what was happening because it felt easier, and does hit harder, I just thought my comfort was tighter so I was ultimately performing tighter, but I def look back and it felt noticably different to me, even in that smaller sample size. Im no where near where you are, but that is such an odd paradigm shift for a build, it's kind of awesome.

[@constantinople2837]

@@voidseerxd and yeah dude, you were straight up dropping nukes on her, it's insane to watch so much health dissappear in one shot, just bonkers

[@dkgxd7709]

man i miss greater rifts.

[@dustybrown4599]

Nice!

[@dustybrown4599]

I'm playing the build, but I'm struggling with teleport sometimes not taking me where my mouse is. And I'm dying too much.

[@voidseerxd]

@@dustybrown4599 you don't see it in the clears but I struggle with the same things 😂

[@dustybrown4599]

@@voidseerxd TY, this is good to know!

[@qsdf83]

can have paragon board on other website plzzzz can't see on correctly on the planner :( btw GG !

[@jaythomas4712]

i wanna use ur build to carry my firend complete pit 150,its ok? my bro

[@voidseerxd]

if you have the skills and the gear sure it's great for pit

[@georgevesta1703]

Bruh why am i just now finding out about this buils 😢 wouldve played it over LS..

[@kylerichings3065]

How many total ranks do we need of glass cannon to push 140-150? I have a bad habit of dying so im a little worried about the tradeoff 😂

[@voidseerxd]

the bosses don't do much damage so it doesn't really matter there (unless you're eating shade stacks), and it will make you a bit squishier on trash but once you learn how to one shot them it's safer than not having ranks

[@kylerichings3065]

​@@voidseerxd Yeah I'm guessing shade stacks are my main problem. Not the best at dodging that crap

[@kylerichings3065]

Which elixir to use?

[@voidseerxd]

advantage II

[@aaaa-nj9ns]

In a boss fight, how many times should I shoot Firebolt before using Fireball?

[@voidseerxd]

My rule of thumb is applying burn is good but to make sure you always get around 3-4 fireballs minimum before they shatter. If the adds have very high health (156+ ish) you can start to apply full 6s burn and the remaining time on fireballs (can be upwards of 12 depending on how quickly you grouped them up).

[@kylerichings3065]

And the only boss we can kill is resurrected malice even at 140 etc?

[@voidseerxd]

170: Malice 169: Spiritcaller 165: Scourge 150: Hivemaster, Hag 148: Slither 146: Marauder, Bramble dont even bother: Mother's judgement, den mother, blood bishop my rough estimates of the max potential of each boss (good trash RNG+Shade RNG, optimal gear)

[@kylerichings3065]

​@@voidseerxd Ok that's good to know, not sure if you have said it before but can you explain the basic gameplay loop? Teleport in Fire wall up, spam fire bolt until frozen then spam a little more then spam fireball til explode?

[@voidseerxd]

@@kylerichings3065 Thats the basics of it, it's important to remember the following though: 1. CC timer for elites is 5s, for normal/champions 9s. You have to finish your rotation before this timer ends. 2. Generally you want to send at least 3-4 fireballs minimum to get a decent shatter. 3. If both of the previous conditions are going to be met then applying as much burn as possible will also add massively to your shatter.

[@kylerichings3065]

​@@voidseerxd Sounds good, I seem to be getting the hang of it not too bad on mobs etc but barely doing any damage on bosses

[@voidseerxd]

@@kylerichings3065 if you're at around 140 I would suggest spamming firewall while you group the adds up for your teleport resets until you're sure they'll all get cleaved by flameweaver firebolts. It's very easy to apply too much burn on one particular add if you only group with firebolt, this will make your shatter weak. Remember that the CC timer is 9s for boss adds so you have a lot of time to just group up with firewall. Boss adds have very low HP until very high pit tiers so make sure you're not killing them with the burn and you're able to use enough fireballs before they die.

[@CactuCactus]

I've tried to replicate this build, the damages are really really good but i often end up getting one shot by an enemy and dying. How do you manage to not die with this build ?

[@kylerichings3065]

I still die a lot but tons of CDR to keep ice armor up as much as possible is big one I think

[@voidseerxd]

@@kylerichings3065 It's a very squishy build, you basically have to know what can kill you and flame shield it or be evasive with teleports.

[@좋무새]

There was a moment where you hit the fireball repeatedly. Why? I don't know much about sorc and fire bolt build.

[@voidseerxd]

You must fireball to harvest the burn, also it double dips.

[@좋무새]

@@voidseerxd thx hey Could I know ur discord ? or I'd like to ask you a few questions, if you don't mind. Can I ask a question if you reply here?

[@좋무새]

@@voidseerxd It seems that there are specific bosses that can be beaten starting at upper 150++. Can you share information about them?

[@voidseerxd]

@@좋무새 I would only suggest malice, scourge, or spiritcaller for 150+

[@좋무새]

@@voidseerxd I'm also curious why topaz in the weapon instead of sapphire. Is there a theoretical basis? Or due to experience and feeling?

[@joaquinpangelinan9862]

Bro single-handedly ended Mekuna’s career lol

[@truaggro]

You honestly might have 170, still had almost a min

[@voidseerxd]

I think 170 is probably the theoretical cap, but at that point you would probably need about a 1 in 1k runs RNG and never make a mistake.

[@Zaramos666]

+2 Tiers is 1.1225^2 more HP => 26% more HP, so 1 Minute left is not enough :) With insane fishing it might be possible, but it is sooo frustrating to farm Runeshards these days that it is most likely not worth the time investment. Insane accomplishment though!

[@voidseerxd]

@@Zaramos666 With absolute giga RNG you could probably get a 12:30-12:20 enter boss room, then get malice with perfect shade rng(rare phase 2 no shade) and get optimal dps on every shatter haha. It's so hard to get perfect shatters every time though, raiment is fickle. 12:30 enter boss room is like 1 in 150 runs though, then 1 in 11 boss. Straight lottery before even mentioning perfect play lol.