Diablo 4 - NEW Best Leveling SORCERER FROST Build for Season 1! Level 1-50 FAST + Best Early Build

Welcome back to a new video. Today I want

to show you my really good Sorcerer build

using frost-based abilities. Leveling from

level 1 to 50 can be a very boring task,

and because of the new season, Season of

the Malignant, many of us had to make new

characters. And I came up with a really

good build for Sorcerer if you decided to

choose Sorcerer as your new Season 1

character. So the playstyle of this build

mainly revolves around spamming Frost

Bolts and Ice Shards and using the Ice

Armor for some protection and

survivability. It's kind of like a hybrid

build of damage slash protection and

survivability. So it's not going to be a

pure DPS build. I'll show you some of the

gameplay. So what you want to do is you

want to run up to the enemies, gather them

around a bit, and make sure you take out

these guys first. And then do a Frost Nova

to stun them and do some Frost Bolts. And

if they're tough, maybe do some Ice Shards

to do even more damage. And do a shield

and maybe another Frost Nova. Yep, we can

do 2 Frost Novas after each other with

our build and aspects and do like another

Frost Armor if you really need it,

another Frost Nova and some Ice Shards,

take down these big guys and finish them

off with some Frost Bolts. So as you can

see, it's pretty good build. You can just

run in here, do some damage, but you

really need Frost Nova because as you can

see, without Frost Nova whilst it's on

cooldown we are kind of limited to just

getting hit in the face and depending on

ice armor to keep us safe. And we also

have Teleport to get ourselves out of

stuns and get ourselves out of trouble if

we get into trouble, and Frost Nova there

to control the enemies. And we also have,

uh, what's it called, Unstable Currents.

You know, I chose Unstable Currents

because the other frost skill that freezes

you in a block of ice is kind of crap. It

makes you survive, it makes you immune for

a couple seconds, but I didn't really find

it to be very useful. And I found Unstable

Currents to be much more useful because,

like you can see, it increases your attack

speed by 25% and also spawns some random

lightning attacks. So I do like Unstable

Currents as my ultimate skill. And then as

for the key passive, we have the key

passive where when the enemy gets frozen

and then dies after being frozen, they

have like a chance of exploding for 25% of

the damage, which is very nice when you've

grouped them up like this and they will

start exploding and basically killing each

other, which is very useful.

Okay, so I showed you the gameplay

playstyle. Now I'll show you the points

you need to make this build. So obviously

you need 5 out of 5 Frostbolts and max

that out— Enhanced Frostbolt, Flickering

Frostbolt. Now Frostbolts make frozen

enemies vulnerable for extra damage And

then we max out Ice Shards. I found that

Ice Shards are much better than Frozen

Orb. I don't like Frozen Orb because it

makes like an orb appear and then it just

keeps moving forwards, going straight past

where the enemies are, and it just doesn't

really do much damage and then moves away

from where the action is happening, which

is kind of redundant. So I maxed out Ice

Shards, Enhanced Ice Shards, and Greater

Ice Shards. I really like Enhanced Ice

Shards because it has a 40% chance to make

the ice shards ricochet off the enemies

and create like an AoE effect. So for the

defensive skills, we have obviously Ice

Armor, max that out, and Enhanced Ice

Armor and Shimmering Ice Armor. Now I like

Shimmering Ice Armor over Mystical Ice

Armor because I think it's pretty cool

that whilst you have the ice armor on you

have 15% chance to make the enemies become

frozen for 3.15 seconds. So whilst they

are attacking you and you've got ice armor

on, they might accidentally freeze

themselves, which is very useful. And then

Frost Nova, basically very

self-explanatory. If you've ever played

World of Warcraft, it's basically exactly

the same as Frost Nova in World of

Warcraft. AoE freezes the enemies around

you for a few seconds, and frozen enemies

take extra damage whilst they're frozen

and vulnerable. As you can see, I skipped

everything in Conjuration because I'm not

really a fan of Conjuration skills. I've

tried out Ice Blades and Lightning Spear

and they just do kind of rubbish damage

compared to what you could do spending the

points elsewhere. So here in Mastery

skills, we didn't get anything in Mastery

either apart from these random stats which

increase your barriers, increase the

duration by 15%,

snap freeze. Frost skills have 9% chance

to instantly freeze and barrier buffs. So

basically it's just buffing your lucky

hits and freezing stuff. And I also got

all these stats here in the ultimate

section. I got all of the stats and

skills that give buffs to frozen and ice

damage. So frost skills deal 15% increased

damage to elites, deal 12% increased cold

damage to vulnerable enemies, deal 9%

increased damage to chilled enemies. I

think you get the point. And here, like I

said earlier, I skipped Deep Freeze

because it's kind of boring and rubbish,

and I find Unstable Currents to be much

more interesting and better for increasing

your DPS. And then for the key passive, I

got Shatter. After Freeze expires,

enemies explode for 25%. Now for the

aspects I have on my head, uh, 6% chance

to reset defensive cooldowns when you get

hit. So you can see sometimes the armor

and Frost Nova randomly resets the

cooldown just because you're getting

attacked, which I find very useful because

Frost Nova does have a pretty long

cooldown, it's like 20 seconds, and we do

get 2 charges of it. Um, but 20 seconds is

quite a long time to not have Frost Nova

available to you, and it might come—

become available again when you get hit.

So I have self-healing for 104

life per enemy around you. Explosions from

Shatter deal 40% increased damage if

enemies die whilst frozen. This is really

important for this build because basically

what it means is once the enemies are

frozen and you kill them whilst they're

frozen, they'll deal 40% of that damage to

everything around it. So it's even more

AoE damage. And this one's also really

important: Frost Nova gains additional

charge, but the cooldown is increased by

36%. So yeah, the cooldown is a bit

longer, but you can do Frost Nova 2 times

in a row I mean, let me show you what it

looks like. Boom, and then boom. That's 2

Frost Novas in a row. It's pretty good.

Next we have, uh, when there are at least

5 close enemies, stun them for 2 seconds.

This can occur every once 20 seconds. So

that's really cool because every 20

seconds you're going to be AoE stunning

everything for 2 seconds. On our staff we

have deal 50% more damage to immobilized

and stunned or frozen enemies. So imagine

you freeze them with Frost Nova, you're

automatically going to do 50% more damage

to them just because they're frozen and

stunned. And then on the amulet, we have—

oh, I have the same aspects as what's on

my— oh yeah, sorry again. So I need to

replace my amulet, but that's fine. You

can just replace that with something else

like a barrier buff, or I don't know,

it's up to you. And then for the Devious

Heart, I have the 2,296 fire damage

dealt whilst you escape crowd control.

And then for the ring, I have Unstable

Currents is not active, your shock skills

have 8% chance. That's kind of rubbish too

because we don't have shock skills. I

might have to replace that with something

else. And for the heart, we gain 12%

barrier generation and heal whilst we have

barrier on, which is pretty good. And then

for this one, core or mastery skills cast

at 100 mana or above gain 26% increased

critical strike chance. And as for the

Paragon board, we don't really have enough

points in the Paragon board at this stage

to be able to get the glyph socket. But if

I could get the glyph socket, I would get—

I'd probably get this one, Winter Rare

Glyph. I'd use this one because it says

whenever you chill an enemy, you deal 3%

increased cold damage up to 15%. So that's

15% bonus, bonus damage. Pretty good.

But as you can see, I need to level up a

few more times to to be able to get enough

Paragon points to get the first glyph

socket. So you can see the playstyle

again. I'll show you again. Against single

targets, it's pretty boring, but you can

see the burst damage you can do against

single targets when they get frozen or

vulnerable. It really shines— the build

really shines when you've got like a mob

of enemies. Like this mob of enemies, we

freeze them, blow this archer guy up, and

then they just blow each other up like

that. And Frost— I think Frostbolt does

like an AoE damage against frozen enemies.

So if they're frozen and you spam them

with Frostbolt, Frostbolt basically

becomes an AoE damage spell, which is

pretty nice. And if you get in real big

trouble, you can always just rely on the

shield like that and finish them off with

some Ice Shards. So we've got like a

little mini boss elite guy here. See how

much damage we do to this guy. So there's

quite a lot of damage in the first few

seconds, and then we can use Unstable

Currents like that and shield

up. Ice Shard spam them

down, and we've got a Frost Nova coming

up now. Frost Nova, and then finish them

off with Ice Shards and Shatter

Explosions.

And that's basically it really. I mean,

that's the playstyle in a nutshell.

Frostbolt can do some nice damage as well

when it crits,

but if you're not triggering those freeze

and vulnerability buffs