Best Diablo 4 Ice Shards Sorcerer endgame build guide

Diablo 4 offers an abundance of build combinations for all the five character classes present in the game. Exploring diverse character builds is a key highlight; among these builds, only a handful excel in defeating tougher enemies. One of them is the Sorcerer Ice Shards build. Although the Sorcerer class has gone through many nerfs after the release of the Season of the Malignant, this build can glorify all its abilities.

In this article, we will explore the Ice Shards Sorcerer build and provide you with a complete overview of all the Skills, Passives, Aspects, Malignant Hearts, and the Paragon Glyphs that goes best with it.

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Best Diablo 4 Shadow Summoner Necromancer endgame Skills and Passives

Skills to use for this build in Diablo 4 (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

The Ice Shards build of the Sorcerer will mainly focus on Skills, including Ice Shards and Frost Nova. Ice Shards will allow you to launch five shards, each dealing 35% damage and additional x25% damage to frozen enemies. Frost Nova will unleash a torrent of frost, freezing enemies for three seconds.

The following is a list of other Skills and Passives that you must focus on unlocking from the very beginning till level 50:

Skills	Points to Invest
Fire Bolt	2
Ice Shards, Enhanced, Destructive	5 / 1 / 1
Devastation	1
Elemental Dominance	3
Flame Shield, Enhanced, Shimmering	1 / 1 / 1
Teleport, Enhanced, Shimmering	1 / 1 / 1
Glass Cannon	3
Ice Armor, Enhanced	1 / 1
Frost Nova, Enhanced, Mystical	5 / 1 / 1
Precision Magic	3
Align the Elements	1
Protection	3
Inner Flames	1
Devouring Blaze	3
Deep Freeze, Prime, Supreme	1 / 1 / 1
Permafrost	3
Hoarfrost	3
Icy Touch	3
Frigid Breeze	3
Avalanche	1

Control Glyph socket in Diablo 4 (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

Paragon Boards are an essential part of the game mechanics, which are unlocked after your character reaches level 50 in Diablo 4. The Paragon Glyph you will use on your starting board will be Destruction. Continue increasing the boosts by unlocking the nodes around it. This will be extremely helpful in higher World Tiers.

Make sure to unlock Intelligence abilities for this build. The following are the Paragon Glyphs that you must focus on for this build:

Paragon Board	Glyphs
Starting Board	Destruction
Icefall	Frostbite
Burning Instinct	Exploit
Frigid Falls	Territorial
Enhancement Master	Control

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Best Diablo 4 Shadow Summoner Necromancer Legendary Aspects

The Aspect of Disobedience in Diablo 4 (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

Legendary Aspects are the most powerful enchantments you can get in Diablo 4. These can be embodied in specific items such as weapons, armor, or on your accessories to provide additional bonuses in the form of damage done and received or in the form of resources and utilities.

For this specific build, focus on getting hold of the following Aspects of the game:

Legendary Aspects

• Elementalist's Aspect (In Amulet): Pallid Delve, Dry Steppes
• Aspect of Frozen Memories (Ring 1): Legendary item drop
• Aspect of Control (Main Weapon): Sunken Library, Kehjistan
• Aspect of Piercing Cold (Offhand Weapon): Dead Man's Dredge, Fractured Peaks
• Aspect of Disobedience (Helm): Halls of the Damned, Kehjistan
• Everliving Aspect (Pants): Legendary item drop
• Aspect of Fortune (Boots): Legendary item drop
• Prodigy's Aspect (Ring 2): Witchwater, Hawezar

The Emerald Gem can be equipped with your weapon, providing you with 12% critical strike damage to vulnerable enemies. You may also use the Ruby gem in your armor piece to gain a 4% increased maximum life. Some other armor pieces you can use include the Raiment of the Infinite and the Frostburn gloves.

• Amulet: The Barber (Wrathful Heart): Critical strikes and all subsequent damage is absorbed by your target in two to four seconds, and the stored energy erupts into the surrounding enemies.
• Ring: Tal'Rasha (Vicious Heart): You will deal 7-12% increased damage for each unique element you deal with for a time period of six to 12 seconds.
• Ring: Revenge (Brutal Heart): 10-20% of the incoming damage is suppressed. When you use a defensive, subterfuge, or a macabre skill, all this suppressed damage is amplified by x250% and explodes up to x fire damage to nearby enemies.

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This was everything about the Ice Shards Sorcerer build in Diablo 4. You can also check out the Death Trap Rogue build, and the Bone Spear Necromancer build in the game.