Huge amount of respect for linking to Mekuna and for having the humility to share that his is capable of higher tier content. Not many people would do that. I love both your builds.
Big respect on knowing why there's a difference between the 2 and how his scales a bit higher than yours. Great work sir. A lot of knowledge and it shows
For you to admit and tell the truth that another built is better at end game shows you really are a good person and a good content creator. Thanks for keeping it real brother. Y’all both made some impressive builds! Couldn’t have done it myself
This video is why I go to you for all my sorcerer builds. You break down the build so it's easy to understand. Let's be realistic. Not many people are going to be able to make mekunas build. Yours however, is more for the realistic player such as myself. I'm not getting shako, probably not getting tyrels. I just want a build I don't have to sweat to try and get and still slaps. This is it.
gonna switch to mekund now that i'm at the end game pretty much but your guide pretty much allowed me to not only farm hordes efficently but to go solo tormented bosses and lillith so thank you so much
Seems like I learn something new every time I watch one of your vids. I had no idea there were 2 conj caps. Now I have to move ice blades off my enchantment slot. Thanks
another way to help sustain mana is putting life on hit on some gear and using the starlight aspect as it helps replenish mana for life healed and if also running chain lightning (hybrid) then recharge aspect also helps
The way you break down exactly what causes your interactions in the build is a lot better than a lot of the videos I've seen on Diablo 4. I probably subscribed after this video :)
Personally I started with this version and used it to farm the gear need for the lightning spear variant because that one needs top tier gear to start working smoothly. Your version is far friendlier to get into. Enjoyed both builds. Thanks gents
Thank you so much for this guide and build, I just got a winterglass drop and was wondering how and when to transition and this video is so clear and easy to understand
I was literally just wondering this, your build is amazing, playing the starter one and I've moved from just about managing Tier 3 to easily doing tier 5 of Hordes
For everyone comparing the both, there isn't a better or not as its all gear dependent, I would say its part of the journey. This season I played these in order: Firewall Hydra - Nicktew Fireball endless rage (carpet bomb) Chain lightning Fractured glass Frozen orb from this guide Lightning Speak Mekuna goldfarmingGuide frozen orb build has helped me get through content to build into Mekunas build, getting the gear and materials to craft into Mekunas build takes time. All builds are important, but as mentioned in this video, Mekunas build can help you push into later content, but its not easy to complete and will not work unless you have everything required (even mentioned by Mekuna himself in his video, it is very gear heavy) If you are casual, this build gets you through most content easily and is fairly easy to build without having all the mythics.
Thanks for your content. I really appreciate the explanations for why to make certain gear/affix/stat choices. I've learned a great deal about various mechanics, mana management, etc, from your vids. So thanks!
Hey man, I'm using the Rage Gaming build, which is very similar. I've been having mana issues so switched out the helm with +mana regen, and got the Axial Conduit and now my mana is solved. Thanks so much for breaking it down so it's easy to understand, you're a godsend. Also, f*ck all the haters out there, it's usually the stupid ones that throw around false accusations because they're too stupid to realize game streamers can come up with similar builds.
Dude, I’m probably going to keep an eye on this channel just for your breakdowns. You are a godsend. Thank you for your idiot proof guide. I’m actually starting to understand some mechanics 😊
Wow this explains sooooo much to newbie like me!! My conjurations jump in a wild fashion ... Jump you to maybe 39 and then reset all time - leaves me bloody confused. Not using starskies ring, but purple head and chest with tal ring
I love that you gave shockunas build a shout i like both of yall builds i use some of his tec/your tech and i love it for farming hordes ty for the fun times you both are sorc goats
That nice finally some original not-copied thoughts. Actually i didn't see Makuna video, but was following Northwar's (the Sorc main from Maxroll) theory crafting since season start. And would love if you evaluated any major differences and their reasons. NOT because i want to know which is better, to copy. But i want to learn how builds are built and thought of. And from my experience, i learn ALOT when two versions and evaluated together and explained. Thanks!
I agree ive been using northwars as a guide ive made some changes nothing major but dipping my toes into trying to understand the thought process on building builds the way they do, id love to get to a point where im making builds myself
i started with your build without Uber and it slapped hard, i changed to mekunas the moment i had all Uber i needed, even without MW at around 40% CDR i could play it just fine, it just has quite some ramp up time before enough lightnings spears are out. oh and i couldnt handle the constant FO + LS spam anymore ^^
Thank you for the faq! 2h staff version is pretty much unplayable without 50% cooldown minimum so you need 2-3 hits of cdr on your shako and tal ring. If you don’t have Ubers at all don’t even dream about using 2H staff. I was capping out at like 8-10 conjuration stacks max with a 2H lol.
Yeah I have Shako and ring both MW twice in CDR, sits around 48% total CDR (for some reason) and it’s hard to constantly spam lightning spear. I just swapped to focus and dagger, then I was immediately able to spam lightning spear because CDR was now around 55%. So breaking point for build seems to be around there and content creators need to tell people t
I also liked this build more than Mekuna’s, because as he also states, you need really good gear and I don’t have it. I did make a few changes though, and I’m playing it with chance for light spear twice on weapons now after I found shako and also with tibualts pants and snowveiled on my chest to get almost a 50% combined DR with permanent ice armor. Honestly the build is super flexible, I might try to run it with orange herald again, but when I did before my shako, I had some struggles with survivability to be honest
After testing both Two handed and Wand the thing that ACTUALLY makes a difference to the cooldown is the Aspect "Frozen orbit" that makes orbs explode 2 extra times on target. THAT, made ALL the difference on the cooldown. Now it's as in the video.
@@GoldfarmingGuide didnt want to come off wrong. Sorry. Just felt it was missing in the expaination in the video :-) i was pulling my hair. I make crazy dmg with two handed. less with dual but i like the speed!
Because the item has some masterwork the mana per second has been adjusted by a percentage. 5/12 masterwork equals 25% increase to mana per second. So if you have 5 mana per second with 25% increase then it goes to 6.25. If you 2 items then they combine to 12.5, which rnds to 13. The decimal points are counted and rounded, but not visible.
5/12 is 20% increase. the base is also 4 not 5. so with 5/12 its 4.8 which gets rounded up to 5. blizzard math is rather working with breakpoint and some strange rules when it comes to those „whole number“ affixes. they dont have hidden decimals.
@@GoldfarmingGuide I just gave examples. I didn't zoom in and inspect your sheet. I was hoping you'd see the point. I believe it's 5% increase per hit to all affixes with the 4th hit being a crit of 25% on one of them. So, 25% of 4 is 1 plus 4 is 5, and 5+5 is 10, and 10 plus the base is a total of 20. I'm betting somewhere in your gear, or Paragon board there is a small percent raising it up to 21. Possibly the other item is 5 mana per second? Or maybe you have some resource Regen somewhere else. There is nothing wrong with the math, there is something we are missing, that's all. Computers don't mess up math. There is also Regen added due to willpower, although I haven't taken the time to see where it calculates. I don't think there is any break points in mana Regen at that rate, but I haven't studied it. I'm sure if you look into your character sheet a little deeper you'll see what you missed. And they most definitely count decimals everywhere, it's just not recorded in the sheet. Edit; if I remember correctly, you need. 71.3% attack speed to perfectly utilize starless skies..in order to burst 5 casts in 3 seconds. For example.
I think frozen orb is pretty good all around, even at lower levels. I usually die a fair amount when I move up the tiers, at least until I get a few pieces of gear. With this build, I haven't had any problems. I even did ten levels in tier 4 using only sacred gear
Every tuber posting a broken build. Seriously this can't be for next season too. This reminds me of ball lightning build as meta....enjoy it while it's here less than 2 months
Why people saying he stole this build! This guy has been making frozen orb builds since last season smh 🤦🏻♂️ For anyone wondering if you should follow his build or not, I made the same build, def used his as a guide for parts I couldn’t figure out. I specked more into frozen orb than lightning spear. With out any mythical easily cleared t6. With mythics - shako, Star, and tyrael- cleared t8. I don’t use the fist of fate and I don’t use a 2h staff I use sword, with focus and ref gloves. This guys build is as good as Mekunas but I believe not as fast!
@@GoldfarmingGuide it makes everything work way better for me, except my fingers haha! Gonna try setting lightning spear and ice blades to self cast via old num lock trick.
I prefer your build because I don't like to rely on ubers and uniques, because my luck is terrible. I only got frozen orbit aspect at lvl 75, that's how bad my luck is 😂
I am still looking for a maxed splintering energy :D I have clear T8 infernal hordes pulling 5 stash tabs of legendaries from the item chest about 10-12 times now and I am still looking for it haha. Just mind blowing ;)
i know the meta is now the Two Handed, since wand clears 120, and two handed clears 140. But im not switching, i enjoy the wand PEW PEW PEW FROST ORBS way more, even tho its smaller single target. This is the build ill end this season with.
Mana problems is simply a problem with bad gear (0.5+ conjuration reduction on amulet is good here, and general cdr). With good gear you basically almost never cast frozen orb. Only on single targets once a second basically. With your build with starless you are incentivized to do it, but I feel this variant is not so great to play, even if perhaps a bit more dps on single target, but you lose a temper for spear cdr. I like that with that temper i can basically do content with just pressing the spear and running forward. Casting frozen orb makes you stop for a split second every time.
i played both builds with great gear on both and yeah mekunas is more dps and gfs is more enjoyable, you feel faster, against andariel where you need to kill the pilars gfs is better cause the orbs do damage...lightning spears got destroyed against shields, its doable but gfs is definetely more confortable.
by chanse do u know if replacing storm swell with fist of fate for more stager or is it just fine to play it without fist. ty again for the lovely videos keep up the good work ❤
It is completely useless information what the build can do with insane full uberunique gear with 4x mastercraft on the right stat and 2-3 * on each items with good mastercrafts. Completely useless information that anyone watching this build guide will not take in or use in any way. It is only for clickbaits. What the build can do with a single * on some items and without uber uniques should be the focus on content creators. This video is solid.
I wouldnt call it useless. It's more about the target audience. Also referring to mekunas build guide and video. He says at the very beginning and also writes in his planners: This requires very high end gear and is not for everyone. The same I do. I made an uber version of the gear, and at the beginning I say use the lower version if you dont have these crazy items. Roughly 95% of the players will probably never get uber uniques, so I feel like it's important to include this audience in your guides
Disagree...this is literally the video i needed. The build is great been using it since lvl 70 and just now got a 2GA shako as my first uber uniq at lvl 100...i was literally using this since 70 just stacked mana regen aspects..fun as hell and was clearing t70 pit at lvl 70 lol
The build guide says to always cast Ice Blades when on cooldown but it’s not on your action bar. I use it as my second enchantment slot instead of FZ. Teleport cooldown goes down Uber fast.
The fact you have to tell people that you didn't steal it and stuff like that is BS that people do that. I'm sorry there's trash people out there. Your builds awesome. I'm no pro and I'm not trying to be God's gift. Your build gets me through everything pretty much so I'm good. I can hunt ubers and stuff so I'm good.
Hey. I have a small question about the fractured winterglass. I was lucky and found 2 this season, BUT the first one with decent overall stats (0.3 on cooldown for example) and the other with pretty low rolls everywhere (0.1 for cooldown) except the conjuration mastery affix (it is GA 😅). Which one is better? Btw: thanks for this video
can you explain when to use ice blade enchant and when to use frozen orb enchant? Is it lightning spear focused = ice blade and frozen orb focused = frozen orb?
Something I missed out on? I play frozen ord/lightning spear. But how do you cast ice blades when its not on your action bar? I see you have an ultimate skill unstable current.
Doombringer improve the build or nah using starless doom shako and tyraels might easily doing tier 7 hordes also use temerity and just face tank everything
How critical is +FO on gloves? I have a 2GA for Attack Speed and Critical Chance on gloves, but I can't seem to roll + FO. My other gloves is just regular +3 FO, Int, and Crit Chance (I could re-roll crit chance to Attack Speed if better due to Esu Heirloom raising crit chance?).
@@GoldfarmingGuide I have a pair of gloves with +3 F= and Intelligence. What would you rolls for the third, AS or CHD? So I can start making your build, I like the idea of wand and focus to cast FO instead of lightning spear from other builds like mekuna's.
sorc has pretty much always capped resistances no matter what you do. Esus boots give all res and int does the rest, also tal rasha ring gives stacks to potent warding. Sorc reall doesnt have to care about resistances anymore at all.
I dont have any mana issues anymore but i feel like my conjurations cant get above 14 or 15. What could be the issue? Chance for frozen orbs to case twice?
many issues. Impossible to tell without knowing gear. Most likely lucky hit roll and cooldown reduction roll on amulet, your cooldown reduction in general or slow attack speed :D
I love and hate the winter glass amulet... love its enables to spamm conjurations. but... I hat that its so overpowered that you can play any skill with it just spamm orb to stack conjurations to get like 90% more damage and then press anything else. makes my desire to try other skills of sorcerer pretty mutch 0.
but how do you get the spec online . . . without a stronger versions of the uniques. you have a .6s winterglass. Every one that has dropped for me has been .1. Even masterworking it won't go over that .1, i've tried. So my conjurations are basically hard capped at 6-8. No esu's either (also hasn't dropped for me yet). so my crit is much much lower. making boss damage nearly non existant and cdr on summons also very long. orbs reduce it alot when cast, even at .1 . . but it's only .1. Each orb alone is only .3 seconds off, compared to your 1.8.
A lot of people were looking at these interactions before the patch even dropped. People trying to claim builds (especially in this game where build craft is so shallow) is kind of a meme. I appreciate your hard work on fleshing out the build and presenting it to people.
@@nycionx8328 I believe northwar, but technically he always focusing on Theorycrafting mainly. I remember he mentioned it as a potential theory idea in a stream a while back. But in the final version, he stood by his optimal paragonboard saying it's the most optimized in the world. XD Would love to watch a discussion between the guys on it. lot's to be learned.
I'm running orb/spear from 56 just hit 70 on hardcore... It's doable and I sacrifice a lot for defense (praise temerity and Warmth combo) Really need crit chance for splintering to even work and I'm sitting at 18%... With 4 pieces of crit I'd get to around 50-60% and then Esus would take me to 100%. Excited to level from 70 to 80 and hopefully take on lvl 95 mobs for the 925 gear
Masterworking is not required at all. But sure, Once you get to level 100, you will start masterworking your gear, thats the point of gear progression in D4
Mana problems? Basically don't be a newb lol...im running chain lightning with axious or what ever they're called and still have damn near full mana at all times lol
Huge amount of respect for linking to Mekuna and for having the humility to share that his is capable of higher tier content. Not many people would do that. I love both your builds.
Two content creators producing quality builds that are similar. Nobody should be slamming you or Mekuna.
Cheers!
Big respect on knowing why there's a difference between the 2 and how his scales a bit higher than yours. Great work sir. A lot of knowledge and it shows
For you to admit and tell the truth that another built is better at end game shows you really are a good person and a good content creator. Thanks for keeping it real brother. Y’all both made some impressive builds! Couldn’t have done it myself
This is an amazingly detailed video! I’ll definitely sub and try and follow one of your builds in s6. Been using lurkin or northwar mostly.
This video is why I go to you for all my sorcerer builds. You break down the build so it's easy to understand. Let's be realistic. Not many people are going to be able to make mekunas build. Yours however, is more for the realistic player such as myself. I'm not getting shako, probably not getting tyrels. I just want a build I don't have to sweat to try and get and still slaps. This is it.
gonna switch to mekund now that i'm at the end game pretty much but your guide pretty much allowed me to not only farm hordes efficently but to go solo tormented bosses and lillith so thank you so much
I was starting to play this build and had trouble understanding all the intricacies of how it all came together, this video helped tremendously
Seems like I learn something new every time I watch one of your vids. I had no idea there were 2 conj caps. Now I have to move ice blades off my enchantment slot. Thanks
another way to help sustain mana is putting life on hit on some gear and using the starlight aspect as it helps replenish mana for life healed and if also running chain lightning (hybrid) then recharge aspect also helps
Outstanding video addressing questions that many people have and explaining it in a simple way! Very few CC do that. Thank you so much!
The way you break down exactly what causes your interactions in the build is a lot better than a lot of the videos I've seen on Diablo 4. I probably subscribed after this video :)
Thank you for explaining how the build works properly
Only thing important for me is: you deliver quality!
Personally I started with this version and used it to farm the gear need for the lightning spear variant because that one needs top tier gear to start working smoothly. Your version is far friendlier to get into. Enjoyed both builds. Thanks gents
Thank you so much for this guide and build, I just got a winterglass drop and was wondering how and when to transition and this video is so clear and easy to understand
basically I would say when you have ~40% cooldown reduction you can go from Early to Midgame
I was literally just wondering this, your build is amazing, playing the starter one and I've moved from just about managing Tier 3 to easily doing tier 5 of Hordes
For everyone comparing the both, there isn't a better or not as its all gear dependent, I would say its part of the journey.
This season I played these in order:
Firewall Hydra - Nicktew
Fireball endless rage (carpet bomb)
Chain lightning Fractured glass
Frozen orb from this guide
Lightning Speak Mekuna
goldfarmingGuide frozen orb build has helped me get through content to build into Mekunas build, getting the gear and materials to craft into Mekunas build takes time.
All builds are important, but as mentioned in this video, Mekunas build can help you push into later content, but its not easy to complete and will not work unless you have everything required (even mentioned by Mekuna himself in his video, it is very gear heavy) If you are casual, this build gets you through most content easily and is fairly easy to build without having all the mythics.
As someone who just started last season, this is a fantastic video that explains this build. Helped me a lot.
Thank you ❤
Thanks for your content. I really appreciate the explanations for why to make certain gear/affix/stat choices. I've learned a great deal about various mechanics, mana management, etc, from your vids. So thanks!
Thank you Sir, I needed this vod so much to fix mana problems. A sub given 🎉
Ive been struggling with this game for a long time now. Last Diablo I played was D2. Your explanations are fantastic.
Hey man, I'm using the Rage Gaming build, which is very similar. I've been having mana issues so switched out the helm with +mana regen, and got the Axial Conduit and now my mana is solved. Thanks so much for breaking it down so it's easy to understand, you're a godsend. Also, f*ck all the haters out there, it's usually the stupid ones that throw around false accusations because they're too stupid to realize game streamers can come up with similar builds.
Dude, I’m probably going to keep an eye on this channel just for your breakdowns. You are a godsend. Thank you for your idiot proof guide. I’m actually starting to understand some mechanics 😊
Wow this explains sooooo much to newbie like me!! My conjurations jump in a wild fashion ... Jump you to maybe 39 and then reset all time - leaves me bloody confused.
Not using starskies ring, but purple head and chest with tal ring
if you enter a portal or a boss room the conjurations get removed
Thanks for the detailed explanation !
Thanks so much for explaining this!!!!!!! Your demonstration of the mechanics was outstanding!
Don't care about Melina's build since your guides are so detailed and well explained. Thanks for sharing the build man
I love that you gave shockunas build a shout i like both of yall builds i use some of his tec/your tech and i love it for farming hordes ty for the fun times you both are sorc goats
For the sake of anyone reading this, use punctuation. Thanks.
That nice finally some original not-copied thoughts.
Actually i didn't see Makuna video, but was following Northwar's (the Sorc main from Maxroll) theory crafting since season start. And would love if you evaluated any major differences and their reasons.
NOT because i want to know which is better, to copy. But i want to learn how builds are built and thought of. And from my experience, i learn ALOT when two versions and evaluated together and explained.
Thanks!
I agree ive been using northwars as a guide ive made some changes nothing major but dipping my toes into trying to understand the thought process on building builds the way they do, id love to get to a point where im making builds myself
Thank you for this video and your build guide. This was very helpful and well done. Blessings to you.
Subscribed..great video bro. Made my sorc fun to play. Had mekunas build but its very hard to use his build without being geared up like him.
Amazing guide , thank you very much !
i started with your build without Uber and it slapped hard, i changed to mekunas the moment i had all Uber i needed, even without MW at around 40% CDR i could play it just fine, it just has quite some ramp up time before enough lightnings spears are out. oh and i couldnt handle the constant FO + LS spam anymore ^^
yeah if 2HAND you need like 50-55% cdr to get it going properly
Your build feels much better to play due to it being reminiscent of FO of Diablo 2 - Good work man keep it up!
With good gear Mekunas build slaps their both really good
Thank you for the faq! 2h staff version is pretty much unplayable without 50% cooldown minimum so you need 2-3 hits of cdr on your shako and tal ring. If you don’t have Ubers at all don’t even dream about using 2H staff. I was capping out at like 8-10 conjuration stacks max with a 2H lol.
yes it needs very high cdr to work properly
Yeah I have Shako and ring both MW twice in CDR, sits around 48% total CDR (for some reason) and it’s hard to constantly spam lightning spear. I just swapped to focus and dagger, then I was immediately able to spam lightning spear because CDR was now around 55%. So breaking point for build seems to be around there and content creators need to tell people t
@@tylerj3855 that’s awesome man! Maybe e can pick up some ga focus on the cheap since everyone wants staff for now
@@youngwang5546 👍 good idea!
@@tylerj3855 picked up a focus with ga cdr and 7.5 crit rate for 300m , not too bad !
I also liked this build more than Mekuna’s, because as he also states, you need really good gear and I don’t have it. I did make a few changes though, and I’m playing it with chance for light spear twice on weapons now after I found shako and also with tibualts pants and snowveiled on my chest to get almost a 50% combined DR with permanent ice armor. Honestly the build is super flexible, I might try to run it with orange herald again, but when I did before my shako, I had some struggles with survivability to be honest
You did a good job, definitely a good option.
After testing both Two handed and Wand the thing that ACTUALLY makes a difference to the cooldown is the Aspect "Frozen orbit" that makes orbs explode 2 extra times on target. THAT, made ALL the difference on the cooldown. Now it's as in the video.
of course you need frozen orbit 😅 it triples the cdr on the spears
@@GoldfarmingGuide didnt want to come off wrong. Sorry. Just felt it was missing in the expaination in the video :-) i was pulling my hair. I make crazy dmg with two handed. less with dual but i like the speed!
i dont have any ubers btw
Nice QA video, Thank you.
Because the item has some masterwork the mana per second has been adjusted by a percentage. 5/12 masterwork equals 25% increase to mana per second. So if you have 5 mana per second with 25% increase then it goes to 6.25. If you 2 items then they combine to 12.5, which rnds to 13. The decimal points are counted and rounded, but not visible.
5/12 is 20% increase. the base is also 4 not 5. so with 5/12 its 4.8 which gets rounded up to 5. blizzard math is rather working with breakpoint and some strange rules when it comes to those „whole number“ affixes. they dont have hidden decimals.
@@GoldfarmingGuide I just gave examples. I didn't zoom in and inspect your sheet. I was hoping you'd see the point. I believe it's 5% increase per hit to all affixes with the 4th hit being a crit of 25% on one of them. So, 25% of 4 is 1 plus 4 is 5, and 5+5 is 10, and 10 plus the base is a total of 20. I'm betting somewhere in your gear, or Paragon board there is a small percent raising it up to 21. Possibly the other item is 5 mana per second? Or maybe you have some resource Regen somewhere else. There is nothing wrong with the math, there is something we are missing, that's all. Computers don't mess up math. There is also Regen added due to willpower, although I haven't taken the time to see where it calculates. I don't think there is any break points in mana Regen at that rate, but I haven't studied it. I'm sure if you look into your character sheet a little deeper you'll see what you missed. And they most definitely count decimals everywhere, it's just not recorded in the sheet. Edit; if I remember correctly, you need. 71.3% attack speed to perfectly utilize starless skies..in order to burst 5 casts in 3 seconds. For example.
@@realitycheck1018 attack speed has decimals 😂 the stuff you say makes no sense
@@GoldfarmingGuide well, your missing point of mana is quite frankly, a trivial thing. You'll figure it out eventually.
thanks great video as always you are a great sorc,
I think frozen orb is pretty good all around, even at lower levels. I usually die a fair amount when I move up the tiers, at least until I get a few pieces of gear. With this build, I haven't had any problems. I even did ten levels in tier 4 using only sacred gear
Every tuber posting a broken build. Seriously this can't be for next season too. This reminds me of ball lightning build as meta....enjoy it while it's here less than 2 months
why broken? Its super fun build to play. It's ok to crush endgame with almost maxed gear. Broken is something completely different.
@GoldfarmingGuide ok let's see next season. Did you play ball lightning sorcerer? Nerfed!
Why people saying he stole this build! This guy has been making frozen orb builds since last season smh 🤦🏻♂️ For anyone wondering if you should follow his build or not, I made the same build, def used his as a guide for parts I couldn’t figure out. I specked more into frozen orb than lightning spear. With out any mythical easily cleared t6. With mythics - shako, Star, and tyrael- cleared t8. I don’t use the fist of fate and I don’t use a 2h staff I use sword, with focus and ref gloves. This guys build is as good as Mekunas but I believe not as fast!
I’m still manually casting the ice blades because I think we can self cast 3 and have the amulet cast 3 for a total of 6 conjurations!
yes of course. Thats why there 2 caps :D Self cast and non self cast
@@GoldfarmingGuide it makes everything work way better for me, except my fingers haha! Gonna try setting lightning spear and ice blades to self cast via old num lock trick.
you are a teacher thank you
I prefer your build because I don't like to rely on ubers and uniques, because my luck is terrible. I only got frozen orbit aspect at lvl 75, that's how bad my luck is 😂
I am still looking for a maxed splintering energy :D I have clear T8 infernal hordes pulling 5 stash tabs of legendaries from the item chest about 10-12 times now and I am still looking for it haha. Just mind blowing ;)
i know the meta is now the Two Handed, since wand clears 120, and two handed clears 140.
But im not switching, i enjoy the wand PEW PEW PEW FROST ORBS way more, even tho its smaller single target.
This is the build ill end this season with.
I think meteor enchantment proc rate is just way too low even with fists of fate. But i kinda want to revisit the old fireball meteor one :D
Great vid. 👍👍🔥
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thanks for the explanation GFG
Mana problems is simply a problem with bad gear (0.5+ conjuration reduction on amulet is good here, and general cdr). With good gear you basically almost never cast frozen orb. Only on single targets once a second basically. With your build with starless you are incentivized to do it, but I feel this variant is not so great to play, even if perhaps a bit more dps on single target, but you lose a temper for spear cdr. I like that with that temper i can basically do content with just pressing the spear and running forward. Casting frozen orb makes you stop for a split second every time.
i played both builds with great gear on both and yeah mekunas is more dps and gfs is more enjoyable, you feel faster, against andariel where you need to kill the pilars gfs is better cause the orbs do damage...lightning spears got destroyed against shields, its doable but gfs is definetely more confortable.
by chanse do u know if replacing storm swell with fist of fate for more stager or is it just fine to play it without fist. ty again for the lovely videos keep up the good work ❤
has nothing to do with stager. Its about the lucky hit getting more cooldown reset through frozen orbs
It is completely useless information what the build can do with insane full uberunique gear with 4x mastercraft on the right stat and 2-3 * on each items with good mastercrafts. Completely useless information that anyone watching this build guide will not take in or use in any way. It is only for clickbaits. What the build can do with a single * on some items and without uber uniques should be the focus on content creators. This video is solid.
I wouldnt call it useless. It's more about the target audience. Also referring to mekunas build guide and video. He says at the very beginning and also writes in his planners: This requires very high end gear and is not for everyone. The same I do. I made an uber version of the gear, and at the beginning I say use the lower version if you dont have these crazy items.
Roughly 95% of the players will probably never get uber uniques, so I feel like it's important to include this audience in your guides
Disagree...this is literally the video i needed. The build is great been using it since lvl 70 and just now got a 2GA shako as my first uber uniq at lvl 100...i was literally using this since 70 just stacked mana regen aspects..fun as hell and was clearing t70 pit at lvl 70 lol
The build guide says to always cast Ice Blades when on cooldown but it’s not on your action bar. I use it as my second enchantment slot instead of FZ. Teleport cooldown goes down Uber fast.
there is the early game version with ice blades on bar in the planner
@@GoldfarmingGuide thank you!
ok I did subscribe! Any idea how the recent server issue nerf is changing this build now?
not really so important. It's a very slight nerf
The fact you have to tell people that you didn't steal it and stuff like that is BS that people do that. I'm sorry there's trash people out there. Your builds awesome. I'm no pro and I'm not trying to be God's gift. Your build gets me through everything pretty much so I'm good. I can hunt ubers and stuff so I'm good.
Hey. I have a small question about the fractured winterglass. I was lucky and found 2 this season, BUT the first one with decent overall stats (0.3 on cooldown for example) and the other with pretty low rolls everywhere (0.1 for cooldown) except the conjuration mastery affix (it is GA 😅). Which one is better? Btw: thanks for this video
the 0.3 is the most important stat.
@@GoldfarmingGuide Thanks for the answer. I will trade the GA fractured winterglass.
can you explain when to use ice blade enchant and when to use frozen orb enchant? Is it lightning spear focused = ice blade and frozen orb focused = frozen orb?
basically, use ice blade enchant if you are not casting frozen orbs.
use frozen orb enchant if you are casting frozen orbs.
So actually it'd be even stronger than it is in the planner , if we choosed a dagger for this build , instead of a sword ? Due to the AS differences
Something I missed out on? I play frozen ord/lightning spear. But how do you cast ice blades when its not on your action bar? I see you have an ultimate skill unstable current.
winterglass spawns them
Hey, in your mid-game setup guide, you say to cast Ice Blades on cooldown but there is isn't Ice Blades on your skill list. Can you check that?
please ignore those text nodes, they were copied over from the early game build
Sooooooo yens blessing boots? Also I have the gloves that proc over 100 lucky hit soooo im lookn forward to that lucky build.
no you never play yens blessing. Esus boots are mandatory for the crit chance unless you got crazy all GA gear.
what build do you recommend for sorcerer lv 58?
uff fire wall :D
Why this build aims for high critical strike damage? What about vulnerable damage? Which one should we prioritize?
Splintering aspect damage directly scales from CD
@@LastAphelion that means I have to enchant all other vulnerable damage to crits dmg? Or should I leave some for vulnerable dmg?
you want to have all crit damage
Doombringer improve the build or nah using starless doom shako and tyraels might easily doing tier 7 hordes also use temerity and just face tank everything
youll lose like half of your damage so i wouldn’t do it. rather spec extra hp and DR in paragon
How critical is +FO on gloves? I have a 2GA for Attack Speed and Critical Chance on gloves, but I can't seem to roll + FO. My other gloves is just regular +3 FO, Int, and Crit Chance (I could re-roll crit chance to Attack Speed if better due to Esu Heirloom raising crit chance?).
CHD scales with lightning spear damage so arguably better or equal to +FO. Use the 2 GA gloves.
yeah its not super critical
@@GoldfarmingGuide I have a pair of gloves with +3 F= and Intelligence. What would you rolls for the third, AS or CHD? So I can start making your build, I like the idea of wand and focus to cast FO instead of lightning spear from other builds like mekuna's.
@@RubenAlamina attack speed any time
How do we cap Resistances?
sorc has pretty much always capped resistances no matter what you do. Esus boots give all res and int does the rest, also tal rasha ring gives stacks to potent warding. Sorc reall doesnt have to care about resistances anymore at all.
@@GoldfarmingGuide thanks . Did not know that. Was main Rogue. Was wondering how the f .. no one has affix for it.
I dont have any mana issues anymore but i feel like my conjurations cant get above 14 or 15. What could be the issue? Chance for frozen orbs to case twice?
many issues. Impossible to tell without knowing gear.
Most likely lucky hit roll and cooldown reduction roll on amulet, your cooldown reduction in general or slow attack speed :D
@@GoldfarmingGuide Must be cooldown reduction. All my attack speed rolls are GA's.
For now i stick with your build because i have no mythical and without the 45 CDR of Shako, forget about not pressing Frozen Orb...
This is the best way! Play this build until you find the mythical then decide if you want to change.
It took me 51 runs on tormented bosses and 51 Stygian stines snd only now got my girst mythic ti drop. Too bad it was a doombringer
I have 39 CDR on Shako (MW twice on cooldown and also MW twice CDR on ring) and I still have to spam frozen orb using Mekunas build. I don’t get it.
@@tylerj3855you need a better amulet (lucky hit and conj cdr on frozen orb explosion). Shako only matter for unstable currents uptime.
@@BaldDaddyCoolrip I play hardcore with a buddy and we did about 10 torm bosses, then did 20 duriels and I got lycander kekw
I have a 3MW Conjuration Mastery winterglass but has the lowest chance to proc fro orbs . Do i need a new one?
not at all. if you want to cast frozen orbs like my build guides no problem.
Hi I do not have hydra in my enchantments, why am I getting the hydra enchament though?
winterglass spawns hydras
Don’t we need to cast ice blades too?
I love and hate the winter glass amulet... love its enables to spamm conjurations. but... I hat that its so overpowered that you can play any skill with it just spamm orb to stack conjurations to get like 90% more damage and then press anything else. makes my desire to try other skills of sorcerer pretty mutch 0.
but how do you get the spec online . . . without a stronger versions of the uniques.
you have a .6s winterglass. Every one that has dropped for me has been .1. Even masterworking it won't go over that .1, i've tried. So my conjurations are basically hard capped at 6-8. No esu's either (also hasn't dropped for me yet). so my crit is much much lower. making boss damage nearly non existant and cdr on summons also very long. orbs reduce it alot when cast, even at .1 . . but it's only .1. Each orb alone is only .3 seconds off, compared to your 1.8.
the short answer. Get a better winterglass with .3 base
Builds need gear investments, thats the nature of ARPGs.
why on builder for mid-game version you using 1H sword but in this video you use wand.... ???
it was an error its wand/dagger
Mekuna wasn't even the first to do the build '-'
I couldnt tell you. I started using it on wednesday morning when i dropped the amulet :D
A lot of people were looking at these interactions before the patch even dropped. People trying to claim builds (especially in this game where build craft is so shallow) is kind of a meme. I appreciate your hard work on fleshing out the build and presenting it to people.
maybe northwar?
@@nycionx8328 I believe northwar, but technically he always focusing on Theorycrafting mainly. I remember he mentioned it as a potential theory idea in a stream a while back. But in the final version, he stood by his optimal paragonboard saying it's the most optimized in the world. XD
Would love to watch a discussion between the guys on it. lot's to be learned.
So mastwerwork everything or don't play the build? What was the point of even mentioning early game?
I'm running orb/spear from 56 just hit 70 on hardcore... It's doable and I sacrifice a lot for defense (praise temerity and Warmth combo)
Really need crit chance for splintering to even work and I'm sitting at 18%... With 4 pieces of crit I'd get to around 50-60% and then Esus would take me to 100%.
Excited to level from 70 to 80 and hopefully take on lvl 95 mobs for the 925 gear
Masterworking is not required at all. But sure, Once you get to level 100, you will start masterworking your gear, thats the point of gear progression in D4
Mana problems? Basically don't be a newb lol...im running chain lightning with axious or what ever they're called and still have damn near full mana at all times lol