INSANE SORCERER TANK Build ｜ Diablo 4 Best SORCERER DPS⧸TANK Build (Level 80+)

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing around with my

Sorcerer build and I've created the

ultimate tanking defensive build. I was

doing Nightmare Dungeons Tier 25 and I

managed to go up to Tier 50. I even beat a

Tier 51 Nightmare Dungeon by using this

build. So it's going to be a super ultra

tanky build, so don't expect crazy damage

numbers. So first of all, the most

important thing really about this build is

going to be the Paragon board. As you can

see, I've got 4 boards attached in

a 4x4 shape. But first, I'll quickly

explain the skill tree. It's not really

that interesting. We just got Arc Clash

for the melee basic attack. We got Ice

Armor, we've got Frost Nova and Teleport

to have defensive capabilities. Don't

really need to explain that stuff. And

then we got Balls of Lightning as our core

skill. And we've also got Unstable

Currents and Veer's Mastery. And I really

want to get into all little things like,

you know, I got Shocking Impact and Static

Discharge, and I maxed out defensive

capabilities like Mana Shield. Every time

you use 100 mana, you gain 21% damage

reduction. Using cooldown grants 30% of

your maximum life. I got all these

resistance buffs, so I took all the

defensive stuff that's available in the

skill tree. And for my aspects and gear,

I'll quickly show you those. I've got

increase your armor for 4 seconds when you

deal any form of damage, up to 36%.

Taking direct damage has 6% chance to

reset cooldown of one of your defensive

skills. So that's really good because

every time you're getting hit, it might

reset your shield or your Frost Nova. And

we've got Lucky Hits, up to 20% chance to

freeze enemies. And we got the barrier for

4k damage when you damage elites. And this

one's important for the build because we

are going to be using Chill. So I got

Penitent Greaves, leave behind a trail of

frost. As you can see when I'm moving

around, leaves behind a trail. And then we

have for the staff, ball of lightning

orbits around you. So when we do ball of

lightning, it spins around you like that,

and we're going to be using lots of them

to do AoE damage. And then for the

necklace, we have upon collecting

crackling energy, 15% chance to release

lightning nova dealing 4k damage. I would

like to replace that with something else,

but I don't have anything better. And when

you have a barrier up and the enemy is

vulnerable, you do 29% increased damage.

And core skill reduces— I mean,

returns 25% of the resource cost is

refunded when it hits 4 or more enemies,

which the Ball of Lightning will easily be

doing. And that's my gear and the skills.

Now let's go on to get on to the

interesting bit, which is the Paragon

board. So the focus of the Paragon board

is we're going to be getting these glyph

sockets, and we've got 3 Well, we got 4

glyph sockets, but 3 of them are ultra

defensive. And we're going to just pick—

we're just going to pick the boards that

have the glyph sockets that have enough

willpower around it that enables us to use

the glyph sockets. Because these 3

defensive glyphs, they all require 25

willpower. And the problem is with

Sorcerer, most of the boards mainly have

intelligence or dexterity, so the other

boards don't really work because they

don't have willpower around the glyph

socket. These are the only 3 boards I

found that have the willpower around the

glyph sockets, and I don't remember what

they're called. I think one of them is

called Icy Fall, one of the ice ones, and

then the other 2 conjuring ones. So we got

the conjuring, the conjuring and

enchantment boards, even though we're not

going to be doing any conjuring or

enchanting. You might think that's silly,

why are you getting the conjuring board

when you're not a conjurer? It's because

they're the only boards that have the

willpower. So for the first board, we

don't have enough willpower. You only have

Dexterity and Intelligence. So I picked a

glyph that gives us 10% damage to close

enemies and 15% damage reduction against

close enemies. So this is still defensive

even though it's Dexterity. And then I

went up to this one, and this first

defensive glyph socket gives us 25%

reduced damage when we have less mana.

And we're going to be spamming Balls of

Lightning all the time, so we're basically

going to be out of mana almost all the

time. So we always have that 25% damage

reduction. And then I just skipped all

this stuff here because I don't really

want I don't really want non-physical

damage or potion healing or enchantments.

And then we skip those, go to the next

board, and we get the next glyph socket

with Willpower again. And this one's going

to give us 15% damage reduction while we

have an active barrier. So that's more

damage reduction. We're focusing on damage

reduction and trying to stay alive and

maximize our health and armor. And we're

also going to get max— try and maximize

resistance to elements as well. So we're

going to get resistance to all elements,

and then we're going to skip everything in

this board as well because we don't really

want non-physical damage. And we go,

going to grab 16% mana, maximum mana,

and 4% maximum life, and then go down to

the next board, which will then give us

another 4th glyph socket, which is also

defensive, Needs Willpower. And this one's

going to give us 16% damage to chilled

enemies, but more importantly 13% reduced

damage to you after they are no longer

frozen for 5 seconds. And also grab the

ones nearby because we might as well get

the damage reduction from chilled enemies

and also damage bonus to chilled enemies

and also the 8% potion healing. So we got

damage reduction and damage reduction and

more damage reduction and more damage

reduction. We got 4 damage reduction

glyphs. And that's our Paragon board. It

might seem kind of weird, but trust me,

it works. I can do Tier 50 Nightmare

Dungeon now without dying. And I mean,

when you go up against enemies with a lot

of health, it takes forever to kill them,

especially the end boss. It takes ages to

whittle them down, but you don't have to

worry about dying because you're basically

invincible. And also on my vampiric

abilities, all defensive as well. So we

got casting skills heals you for 3% life.

We've got gain 1% damage reduction for

each 2.5% life missing. I don't know if

that's that good because we're not really

going to be missing a lot of health most

of the time, so I might replace that with

something else. Like, uh, maybe it'll

be useful, I don't know. And then next one

we've got when we kill an enemy, fortify

for 4.5% of your base life and also deal

18% increased damage to stunned,

immobilized, frozen, or feared, because

we're going to need some damage helping

boosts and buffs, otherwise we're going to

be here forever. So look at this build.

I'm in a tier 50 dungeon right now. Oh no,

it's the Sanguine Channeler. Channeler,

they heal themselves, don't they? So look

how long the fight lasts. I'm gonna put

all my buffs on. I got Unstable Currents,

Balls of Lightning. I'm taking no damage.

I'm doing quite good damage with all my

buffs, but when the buffs run out, it

really slows down. And I think this guy

heals himself as well, so we could be here

all day. So also I've got 10,000 life

and I've got like 4,000 armor, so we're

really not gonna be easy to take down.

The problem, like I said earlier, the

damage is terrible. He's not healed

himself yet. Let's see if I can stun him

before he heals himself. Grab some

Crackling Energy. It doesn't really do

much damage, does like 1,000. I don't

think he's gonna heal himself. Did they

nerf him? Because he used to heal himself.

Yeah, that was easy. Anyway, let's get rid

of these guys so

you can see how tough we are. I've got a

tier 54 sigil, so I might try popping into

one of those. And see if I can survive

that. But even without any buffs

on, um, I can do quite decent damage to

take down these guys.

So the whole point of the build is to be

super resilient.

Oh my God, I really need the toilet. This

is not a good time. Come on.

So I can take all this beating and my

health barely moves. I've got so many

barriers that I've got a fortify of

10,000. Look, my fortify is 10,000, my

barrier is like 4,000. And then just keep

spamming Ice Armor whenever you can.

Basically, you're just gonna keep spamming

your mouse buttons to spam Ball of

Lightning and then Arc Lightning, Arc Lash

whenever you can. See how easy that was?

Yeah, I'm probably just gonna have to die

here right now whilst I go to the toilet.

Okay, sorry about that. I don't know what

was wrong with my stomach, but we died,

but through no fault of my own. Let's try

and do a Tier 54 dungeon because this Tier

50 seems to be pretty Pretty easy for our

ultimate tanking build. Okay,

we are in a tier 54 Nightmare dungeon.

What do we have here? Plague Bearer,

Plague Maggot,

Suppressor with a shield.

I don't think tier 54 is going to be a big

problem. Look, I'm already just

destroying these things. They're doing

nothing to me. Look at my health.

10K health, 10K fortify, put up a shield,

5K barrier. Also that 4K barrier

on the chest or the legs. So we got

like 10K barriers, 10K fortify.

Whoops, Bandicam free trial, 10 minutes,

ran out of time, had to restart the video.

Anyway, we're still in Tier 54 dungeon.

This is also really easy.

I thought I couldn't do tier 54.

Now the thing is with this build, you do

have to be very patient because it's a

very slow build. But the good side is you

won't get one-shotted. I don't think

you're gonna get one-shot with this build.

And use Frost Nova, the vulnerability and

chill damage, you can do some okay damage.

When you've got stuff off cooldown.

Actually, I could just run past all this,

just wasting my time.

Group them all up.

Because we're so tanky, we can just run

past everything and they're not really

going to give us a problem.

Let's run past these guys.

Uh, maybe I could kill them now.

It's quite a lot.

Taking quite a lot of damage now, but we

can survive it. Also, we're getting hit so

much it's triggering the cooldown reset

aspect. How many times have I spammed

Frost Nova by now? And ice armor.

Now this is when it gets really boring,

when there's some kind of target that has

a lot of health, like the blood pile, the

spire things. Uh, it's not

Yeah, pretty good. So yeah, I can do tier

54 now,