Diablo 2 Resurrected is a popular action role-playing game that has a new ladder season 6 start now. You can choose from seven different classes and customize your character with various skills and items. Some builds are easier to start with than others, depending on your gear, playstyle, and goals. This time, we introduce Blizzard Sorceress.
Blizzard Sorceress
This build focuses on casting powerful ice spells that deal massive areas of effect damage and slow down enemies. It requires little gear to be effective and can farm high-level D2R areas quickly.
Main Skills
The main skills of the Blizzard Sorceress are:
• Blizzard: A skill that creates a storm of ice shards that rain down on a large area, dealing cold damage and chilling enemies. This is your primary damage skill and the one you want to max out first.
• Ice Blast: A skill that shoots a ball of ice that explodes on impact, dealing cold damage and freezing enemies. This is your secondary damage skill and a good backup for single targets or cold immunes.
• Glacial Spike: A skill that fires a spike of ice that pierces through enemies, dealing cold damage and freezing them. This is your tertiary damage skill and a useful crowd-control tool.
• Cold Mastery: A passive skill that lowers the cold resistance of enemies, making them more vulnerable to your cold spells. This is your main support skill and a vital source of damage amplification.
• Ice Bolt: A skill that launches a bolt of ice that deals cold damage and chills enemies. This is a filler skill that you use to boost the damage of Blizzard and Ice Blast.
• Teleport: A skill that allows you to move to any location within your sight instantly. This is your mobility skill and a key component of your play style. You use it to position yourself, escape danger, and reach your farming spots faster.
• Static Field: A skill that creates a field of electricity that reduces the life of nearby enemies by a percentage. This is your utility skill and a great way to deal with bosses and tough enemies. You use it to lower their health before finishing them off with your cold spells.
• Warmth: A skill that increases your mana regeneration rate. This is your sustain skill and a helpful way to keep your mana pool full. You use it to cast your spells without running out of mana.
Stat Distribution
The stat distribution of the Blizzard Sorceress is:
• Strength: Enough to equip your gear. You don't need a lot of strength as a Sorceress, as most of your damage comes from your skills and weapon. The exact amount depends on the D2R items you use, but around 100-150 is generally enough.
• Dexterity: Enough to equip your gear and reach the max block with a shield if you choose to use one. Otherwise, you can leave it at the base or invest some points for more damage and attack rating. The exact amount depends on the items you use and your shield, but generally, around 100-200 is enough.
• Vitality: All remaining points. Vitality is essential for any build, increasing your life and stamina. More life means more survivability and less downtime. You want to have as much life as possible, especially since you are very squishy and vulnerable to physical attacks.
• Energy: None. The Blizzard Sorceress does not need energy, as you can sustain your mana with items, potions, and the Insight Runeword on your mercenary. You don't want to waste any points in energy, as they are better spent in vitality.
Gear Selection
The gear selection of the Blizzard Sorceress is:
• Weapon: A weapon with bonuses to skills, faster cast rate, cold damage, and mana regeneration. Some of the best options are Death Fathom, Heart of the Oak, Doom, and Eschuta's Temper.
• Shield: A shield with bonuses to skills, resistances, block rate, and faster block recovery. Spirit, Stormshield, Rhyme, and Lidless Wall are some of the best options.
• Helmet: A helmet with bonuses to skills, resistances, faster cast rate, and life. Some of the best options are Harlequin Crest, Nightwing's Veil, Griffon's Eye, and Crown of Ages.
• Armor: An armor with bonuses to skills, resistances, faster cast rate, and life. Some of the best options are Chains of Honor, Enigma, Skin of the Vipermagi, and Ormus' Robes.
• Gloves: Gloves with bonuses to skills, attack speed, resistances, and life. Some of the best options are Magefist, Trang-Oul's Claws, Frostburn, and Chance Guards.
• Boots: Boots with bonuses to resistances, faster run/walk, life, and Magic Find. War Traveler, Gore Rider, Sandstorm Trek, and Waterwalk are some of the best options.
• Belt: A belt with bonuses to resistances, life, and Magic Find. Thundergod's Vigor, Arachnid Mesh, Goldwrap, and String of Ears are some of the best options.
• Amulet: An amulet with bonuses to skills, resistances, faster cast rate, and life. Mara's Kaleidoscope, Highlord's Wrath, The Cat's Eye, and The Eye of Etlich are some of the best options.
• Rings: Rings with bonuses to skills, resistances, faster cast rate, life, and Magic Find. Some of the best options are Stone of Jordan, Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band, Nagelring, and Raven Frost.
• Charms: Charms with bonuses to skills, resistances, life, and Magic Find. The best options are Annihilus, Hellfire Torch, and various Skiller and life charms.