TIER 24 CLEARED! Sorcerer Build Guide and Analysis

[@Mekuna7]

Just saw the videos thanks 🙂 After some testing, I dont recommend unwavering 😅 We might clear t25 with glyph 130, we going with new shatter strats. Might make a quick video with t24 for that. But we cleared t25 duo sorc + barb with Rob 🥳

[@kadaj7269]

I really appreciate the thorough explanations. Often lacking in build overviews, at least to this extent, details matter, much more comprehensive.

[@RandomNumberGaming]

Thank you! More on the way!

[@TheLexiCat]

Reverse psychology, they did this on purpose to get a live PTR bug testing. It worked!

[@stevenbitecofer6831]

Great analysis of the build. You made the choices easy to understand and thoroughly explained the how and why of the choices. Although I will never aspire to min-maxing to this extent, you gave me many insights to consider on things that may improve my more general use builds for boss fights and NMD. Thanks for this video. I think I am going to have to subscribe to keep up with any other content you produce similar to this.

[@muldas]

What a nice video with nice explanations. Tahnk you.

[@1000dreams]

In his Destruction glyph board he made a mistake, he enters the glyph node using an Int node and skips the Dex node that's right there. But then further on he spends extra Int nodes to pick up additional Dex modifiers I noticed

[@RandomNumberGaming]

Great catch!

[@1000dreams]

Thanks! I spend a lot of time failing to make off meta builds work :')

[@RandomNumberGaming]

@@1000dreams Same. I want to hit T14 with Fireball then I'm going to make Meteor work in AOZ

[@1000dreams]

@@RandomNumberGaming Yeah I'm on a similar level, got a 14 done but it was with a Ball Lightning variant. I'd like to get something new to 15 but it's hard. I've been messing with Burn/Fire builds, tried a fire bolt burn build with Moonrise, tried many Blizzard variations, tried to put more focus on X'Fal's, tried full conjuration setups.. I don't want to mess with Injured DR or "snapshotting" or other bug abuses and I also don't really feel like grinding out this Tears of Blood thing either

[@RandomNumberGaming]

Fireball with Ball Lightning enchantment?

[@manfredhoudek2385]

I am playing rogue and my build centers around grenades and the best way to drop is coming out of Stealth. Stealth is like necro immortal skill than flameshield. Can't hit. Found the more I am in stealth the less damage I get. Even running over dot areas doesn't create damage. Need that 4 seconds to catch your breath and if you have passive get 12% healing.

[@charmilli0n]

You can definitely still be damaged in stealth.

[@thatmombielife]

I just got the melted heart. I’m going to try this build with it

[@RandomNumberGaming]

You can give it a shot but you'll lose about 50-70%x damage by using melted heart. I'm sure you can push pretty high but you will hit a dmg wall around T16-T19.

[@U-inverse369]

Nice find. I think lag management is awful in pushing difficulties. BL is very special because of the current bug but in general, this game is still like 10 years in the past, when it comes to pulls and damage numbers.

[@Dan-zm5ik]

Yeah. Lag is my main issue when pushing AOZ. Died a lot because of that.

[@RandomNumberGaming]

Definitely. Same here

[@overpowerrd]

i was running raiment before i knew snapshotting even existed, you dont need to snapshot to use that. just run low life setup and youll have more damage reduction than when you were using a defensive chest. without raiment our damage is super doodoo

[@RandomNumberGaming]

This is the exact point I was making in the video

[@overpowerrd]

Thar paragon board separates its self even further from burning instinct as the TOB levels up. The % damage gap will keep increasing.

[@RandomNumberGaming]

It really just depends if you need the DR. Damage while injured has luxury to go pure dmg.

[@overpowerrd]

yep, i wish i could do insinct board. but even at glyph 60 i lose 50% damage my puting it there.@@RandomNumberGaming

[@rakshaa8385]

Thanks for the excellent vid, your video shows skills on skill bar such as ice armour and slight difference in gear eg gravitational on the off hand vs the linked maxroll planner. Did Mekuna chnage this after you published?

[@RandomNumberGaming]

Rob was showcasing a slightly different build in his video but Mekuna's build is in the description

[@JGendron1983]

Please make the build link clickable in info. Ty 🙏

[@Pabula]

Hi, thanks for the breakdown of the leading build on Sorc. I have a question, you mention Devouring Blaze into another build, on the neck, what stats would make it your perfect neck ? i don't get the build dont have Damage while injured on the neck?

[@RandomNumberGaming]

Ranks Devouring Blaze, Mana cost Reduction, Ranks Mastery Skills. If playing low life, last stat is CDR and if not low life build, I would put Armor.

[@joakimlarsson8105]

I guess it was not the top of the potential since we now have a Sorc Ballightning thet done the T25. So... But its actually hard to say its ONE build. Since they change item and even Vamyric Powers alot to do it. So its more a combined build in one playtrough. So anyone sitting here thinking its One build that cleard it...Thats not the case. Watch the play through. (If they have not edit it before) And you see most top players change about a whole build in a playthrough and its allowed so no big deal at all. Just want everyone to understand(If they dont have seen it) that its not ONE build its "a build as a basline" then a boat load of changes on one singel playthrough.

[@RandomNumberGaming]

Do they use Ice Blades enchantment with +Conj mastery on the ammy?

[@m3s69ll]

great video. Question: your video is showing Rob2628's build, which one is it? Also can this build work without shako? what to use if you haven't gotten shako yet?

[@RandomNumberGaming]

Yea I was confused by that since in Rob's video he was showcasing this run, yet had differences in the build listed compared to Mekuna's build in the video. I figured there were some options, and in the least wanted to mention the combo with Unwavering aspect since there may be some further optimizations (maybe grab DR from paragon board to add in Unwavering, since Mekuna ran Everliving in his run). Shako is very important for the 20% DR so, you can likely run without it but have to add more DR from elsewhere and likely could not hit Tier 24 without Shako.

[@m3s69ll]

​@@RandomNumberGaming so you like unwavering better than everliving?

[@RandomNumberGaming]

On paper it seems higher damage with the combos with Ice Blade Enchantment but I can't comment on survivability loss since I haven't done Tier 24

[@rafaeldias3874]

thanks for the content! i really hate the snapshot idea, but i would like to try vyr mastery ... i play with Raymon with the oculus , whjat is very fun

[@RandomNumberGaming]

Yea I'm excited for them to fix snapshotting

[@JasonBush]

Looks interesting. Build planner?

[@jefforjo]

What applies Vulernable in this build? Is it only Ice Blade? I feel ice blade is not a reliable vulnerable. Are there any other vulnerable source?

[@RandomNumberGaming]

Accursed Touch+Prey on the weak

[@baldis12]

Sadly,. This is only possible with 80% pluss Dr when injured. I rly don't like playing like that, and getting that on 3 items will cost a fortune. That said, it works.

[@RandomNumberGaming]

Agreed. I'm seeing how high I can push non-DR injured.

[@AfricaTeacher]

What aspect should I drop if I am trying to integrate this with Selig?

[@Wrongusername2]

@RandomNumberGaming you're "still getting oneshot" at t14 while trying to snapshot vyr's mastery because snapshotting vyr's mastery in way descibed on build notes just doesn't work, its bs snake oil ritual performed by build author that does nothing, his build is just that immortal without it purely from while injured stat stacking on gear + resilience vamp power" you can easily check it on open world because mage-lord's dr is fully reflected in char sheet when you approach some mobs only kind of snapshot possible with vyr's is keeping mage-lord's aspect without having vyr's mastery key passive. you just respec vyr's inside insance to overflowing or esu and magelord aspect keeps working because it's not disabled on removal of key passive but you lose effect from vyr's itself (20% less damage taken x something if crit, inc dmg never worked) and obviously need to keep mage-lord's aspect itself on at least 1 gear slot (chest) so you can't use raiment, which sums up to you don't do that crap cause sorc can't spare losing raiment, it's too broken, and doesn't have aspect slot to spare well you can equip rare chest on seekers to do them safer

[@RandomNumberGaming]

yea not sure, it's complicated, I'll be hanging up my snapshot career since it will be fixed anyway no sense in practicing or data mining IMO. But thanks for the info. I have been having success without raiment by breaking LOS to group. I would actually say it's more important (Raiment) during the blood seekers since they space out so much.

[@RoseDorkbottom]

I have a question, I switched to this build to give it a try on lower tiers since I am not min/maxed on a few pieces of gear. My cooldown reduction needs work as I’m only at 33%. That being said, I’m still able to keep shields up with teleport and unstable currents added into the mix. However, my ice shield doesn’t hold up when I actually try a dungeon (as opposed to practicing my shield rotations in open world) …. Went into a T98 NMD and my ice shield kept getting popped at the first group of three enemies. So my question becomes, how do I overcome this? I’m probably misunderstanding something in the video.

[@davidgutnik]

It's it just me or is the diameter of his orbs bigger than mine? It's there an item that increases the total size of the ring?

[@RandomNumberGaming]

Adept Glyph

[@davidgutnik]

@@RandomNumberGaming oh it's a season thing. I'm still trying to get my toons to 100 in eternal.

[@RandomNumberGaming]

Adept Glyph is in eternal

[@dario9368]

WHY NOT USE INFUSE ARMOR???

[@sanjack8420]

i would say that there are lot of good sorceres builds that can push alot but problem is lag spikes, we keep dying just cos lag so thats why game is unplayable

[@PseudoNym100]

Sounds like you're talking about a different game or you haven't played D4 this season. I don't know if these lag issues. You might have bad Internet?

[@sanjack8420]

@@PseudoNym100 dont know what game are u playing go watch twitch every streamer and top player also complaining obout it, ur probably still noob playing campaign and dont even know difference betwene lag or no lag..

[@PseudoNym100]

There's some rubber banding here and there. I haven't had disconnect issues for a while now.

[@sanjack8420]

@@PseudoNym100 nobody mention dcs, learn to read

[@PseudoNym100]

@@sanjack8420 you're cute when you're angry. I like that I made you angry.

[@paulkasram]

You get one shot because of the domination vamp power bug

[@RandomNumberGaming]

Yea this bug is terrible. I dropped it permanently yesterday. The 25%x is so juicy but it's not worth the pain unless you're trying to set a record.

[@Handle14]

Yo where's HypeDD ?? we need our jungle back

[@RandomNumberGaming]

Haha! Ask Vic for my number I'll jump on just text me, always down for a league game.

[@ECS352]

Dont see unwavering in your build guide though

[@oicislv2939]

25 (Ice Blades) is NOT Infinite :)

[@lasellepigford3649]

Spoiler alert! 🚨 you will need shako 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@RandomNumberGaming]

For sure

[@airfigueruelo3644]

No HC no Glory

[@feckasaurus]

Watching the Gameplay Footage, His Life is at minimum and never changes. He is running the Melted Heart of Selig and using the "Immortal" Glitch...... This is not reflected in the Maxroll build guide you posted for this video. The Maxroll guide shows a standard Ammy with Stormswell aspect.....No way does that do what we are seeing in the video. Not saying the Build you are promoting wont work. Just saying that the Gameplay footage we are watching is not matching the build you are talking about. Being fundamentally Immortal (due to a GLITCH) will make ANY build look good.......

[@invoidker1049]

no

[@aphrorox]

This is no glitch and the build guide is correct. It’s a damage reduction while injured build. Heart of Selig does not have the damage output the Stormswell ammy has. 😂

[@feckasaurus]

My Bad. I looked into it and you are SORT OF correct, it is not a Glitch. However it IS an exploit that was never meant to be . However,,,,this is the Season of Glitches and Exploits, LOL and the Devs are just letting the Good Times Roll for this season so people dont whine about Nerfs. I feel like we are all un- payed employees (Interns) and this is PTR@@aphrorox

[@braxton666fly]

Maximum barrier up times with lots of DR is what makes this work. Being able to keep ice armour and flame shield up 100% of the time is why his health never gets touched. If he looses barrier for even a spilt second he gets 1 shot. Pay carfull attention to the green active bars above those two skills and you will understand...