Fireball Sorcerer Endgame Guide - D4 Maxroll.gg (2024)

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Skill Tree & Gameplay

Enchantment Slots

Sorcerers can choose two skills to put into Enchantment Slots, where they provide powerful passive bonuses. Fireball Sorcerer uses the following Enchantments:

• Fireball Enchantment adds a ton of of AoE damage, plain and simple.
• Fire Bolt is our choice for the second Enchantment. It gives us access to various Burning-related bonuses such as Devouring Blaze, Flamefeeder, and Damage Reduction From Burning Enemies on gear and Paragon boards.

Resource & Cooldown Management

This build can be very Mana-hungry, as we constantly spam Fireballs. Luckily, we have a lot of different tools to tackle this problem.

Prodigy’s Resource Aspect

This is our main Mana engine in the early game. Apart from Fireball, all of our skills have a Cooldown and give us some Mana when activated.

• Always start by casting a Fireball or two before using your other skills, so that the Mana is not wasted
• Don't use your Cooldowns all at once for the same reason

Supreme Inferno

This upgrade to our Ultimate Skill simply makes our Fireballs free for 8 seconds. In the early game this is very helpful, although long cooldown makes it somewhat unreliable.

Lucky Hit Procs

Another way to get Mana is through various Lucky Hit procs:

• Incendiary Aspect
• "Lucky Hit: Chance to Regain Resource" rolls on Ancestral Gloves and Focuses

These work really well against multiple enemies, but still struggle against the Bosses even when we stack Lucky Hit Chance and use Gloves of the Illuminator to make each Fireball hit multiple times per cast. Incendiary Aspect is about as strong as a single roll on gear so we only use it in the early game before we can get gear with the right stats.

Stats on Gear

And finally we come to the real way of solving all our Mana problems: just find good gear. The only stat we really need is Mana Per Second. It can appear on Chests, Helmets, and Boots and we want at least 2 rolls of it. Resource Cost Reduction and Resource Generation are much weaker in comparison so we only get these stats when we have no other choice (Utility Temper and guaranteed rolls on Uniques).

Paragon Board

Carefully check your Paragon Boards to ensure correct board rotation. Glyphs go from a radius of 3 to 4 when they reach level 15!

Glyphs

We need to level up our Glyphs to activate their Additional Bonus with surrounding nodes. For some Glyphs, we max our bonuses by allocating every relevant node in range, while on others we take the minimum required for the Additional Bonus only. Because Glyphs at level 15 increase their radius, we need to prioritize leveling them by completing Nightmare Dungeons. After that, we prioritize leveling our strongest glyphs to level 21.

Note that there are some Glyph position swaps and a few adjustments to surrounding Paragon nodes once they reach level 15. See the first three steps in the Paragon progression above for details. The setup displayed by default is the final version of the build.

Glyph Leveling Priorities

For maximum efficiency, follow the order outlined below. First, level your Glyphs to level 15 and then do a second pass to get them all to 21.

Endgame Gear & Skill Progression

When you start diving into the Endgame, you don't have all the tools available to achieve the final build versions. Let us guide you through different progression points to give you a smooth transition from our Leveling Guides to the final build version.

Progression Goals

Many of your Skill choices depend on what Legendary Aspects and Unique items are available to you. While we can guarantee, that everyone has access to the same Codex of Power Aspects, the progression might be different for everyone!

1. Unlock the following Aspects in your Codex of Power:
   • Prodigy’s in Witchwater (Hawezar)
   • Incendiary in Tomb of the Saints (Kehjistan)
   • Control in Sunken Library (Kehjistan)
   • Disobedience in Halls of the Damned (Kehjistan)
   • Storm Swell in Onyx Hold (Dry Steppes)
   • Elementalist's in Pallid Delve (Dry Steppes)
   • Three Curses in Serpent's Lair (Hawezar)
   • Bounding Conduit in Komdor Temple (Dry Steppes)
   • Snowveiled in Sarat's Lair (Scosglen)
2. Find the following Legendary Aspects either as a random drop or by gambling with Obols:
   • Conceited: Gamble Focuses
   • Shredding Blades: Gamble Focuses
     • Replaces Incendiary
   • Concentration: Gamble Chests
     • Replaces Disobedience when we start using Ice Blades
   • Everliving: Gamble Pants
     • Replaces Snowveiled
   • Concussive Strikes: Gamble Boots
3. Acquire the following Unique items either as a random drop or by farming specific Boss drops.
   Note: You cannot gamble Unique items with Obols!
   • Gloves of the Illuminator (Grigoire, The Beast in Ice)
     • Replaces Elementalist's
   • Tibault's Will (Duriel, Andariel)
     • Replaces Bounding Conduit
   • Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop (Varshan)
     • Replaces Prodigy’s
4. If you're lucky enough to obtain the following Uber Uniques, they're useful for the build.
   • Harlequin Crest is your BiS helmet. It provides about as much defense as normal Helmet with Everliving and also gives damage and utility.
   • Ring of Starless Skies can replace Shredding Blades. It provides more damage and 40% cost reduction on top!

Progression Setups

Hardcore Adjustments

Hardcore requires you to build into more defenses. Here are some tips to successfully navigate this build through potentially dangerous situations:

• Prioritize Maximum Life over Intelligence on your Gear.
• Replace Tibault's Will with Protecting Pants.
• Replace Flamefeeder or Exploit with Territorial.
• Take Skill Points out of Glass Cannon and put them into Align the Elements and Elemental Attunement.
• Only farm Nightmare Dungeons with monsters that are about your character level until you have near optimal gear.

Build Scaling & Stat Priorities

Learn about the important build scaling mechanics and stat weights.

Stat Priorities

To enable your build to perform optimally, you need to reach certain Stat "Breakpoints". Some examples are reaching 100% to Critically Strike, or 20 Resource per second. Since there are many values of these stats on different pieces of gear, read the checklist below and refer to the recommended Tempered Affixes and Masterwork Crits ↑. Desirable Greater Affixes will always be the top three recommended Affixes.

This build benefits a lot from the following Consumables:

• Elixirs: Elixir of Advantage II, Elixir of Fortitude II, Elixir of Precision II
• Incense: Reddamine Buzz, Chorus of War, Spirit Dance

FAQ & Mechanics

Once a guide is released, many players have questions on why and how we are approaching certain choices. In this section you can find the answers to the questions that have been asked the most.

Mechanics

This skill is not very complex, okay?

Summary

The Fireball Sorcerer is a fun and powerful build for all the explosion aficionados out there. Throw Great Balls of Fire everywhere and watch your enemies explode in huge chain reactions.

• Spam Fireballs
• Teleport forward to find more enemies to spam Fireballs at
• Use Prodigy’s and Incendiary Aspects to generate Mana to spam Fireballs
• Stack Mana Cost Reduction, Resource Generation and Lucky Hit: Chance to Restore Mana to spam even more Fireballs
• Use Inferno to spam Fireballs for free!
• Find Gloves of the Illuminator to spam bouncing Fireballs

Credits

Written by Northwar
Reviewed by DarkHumility