Diablo 4: Best Incinerate Sorcerer build

The Incinerate Sorcerer has taken hold in Diablo 4, melting even the most powerful enemies with massive blasts of flames. Though it does take at least one Unique to make this build work, you’ll likely also want a handful of Mythics to really get it going. It’s worth noting that this is an endgame build, so you’re going to want to be level 60 and have access to Torment 1 difficulty. Otherwise, you may have mixed results.

Perhaps the most important thing to make this all come together is the fantastic Unique, Tal Rasha’s Iridescent Loop. It enhances your damage, potentially providing 75% bonus damage if your rolls are high enough. If you want to play an Incinerate Sorcerer build for yourself, here’s what you need to know for Diablo 4 Season 7.

How the Diablo 4 Incinerate Sorcerer build works

While Incinerate Sorcerer isn’t quite the most powerful build in Diablo 4, it’s incredibly easy to play, and that’s a big selling point for players across the game. You only have one attack spell, and your other buttons serve to help trigger Tal Rasha’s Iridescent Loop’s ability, or to get you out of trouble.

Once you're level 60 and have Tal Rasha's, it's time to begin this build (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

Incinerate: Primary damage ability.
Frost Nova: To trigger Tal Rashas, freeze enemies, and activate Icefall.
Teleport: Shock skill for Tal Rasha, and for movement.
Flame Shield: Useful defensive cooldown.
Ice Armor: Another frost spell for Tal Rasha, and damage bonuses.
Inferno: Ultimate — pulls enemies in and hits them hard, as well as even more damage bonuses.

That’s what makes the Incinerate Sorcerer so great in Diablo 4 — you just have to hold down the Incinerate button of your choice — wherever you map it — and then trigger Ice Armor and Teleport essentially on cooldown to keep your Tal Rasha’s buff going. That’s it! You can also use Inferno to group enemies, making them easier to Incinerate. Below, you’ll find all the skills/talents we have picked up for this build.

Skill Name

Fire Bolt

Incinerate (Enhanced, Destructive)

Incinerate

Elemental Dominance

Flame Shield

Teleport (Enhanced, Shimmering)

Teleport

Ice Armor (Enhanced, Mystical)

Frost Nova (Enhanced, Mystical)

Glass Cannon

Align the Elements

Protection

Firewall (Enhanced)

Icy Veil

Inner Flames

Inferno (Prime, Supreme)

Inferno

Permafrost

Hoarfrost

Icy Touch

Elemental Synergies

Endless Pyre

Soulfire

Warmth

Evocation

Combustion

In addition, you’ll want to pick up a pair of Enchantments for your Incinerate Sorcerer in Diablo 4. We recommend the first being Teleport, and the second being Firewall.

You also want to focus on specific Glyphs in the Paragon Board — some to level 15 and others to level 46. We'll list those below so you know where to put your focus:

Level first to 15

Eliminator
Torch
Tactician
Pyromaniac
Exploit

Level order to 46

Torch
Eliminator
Tactician
Pyromaniac
Exploit

Ideal Witchcraft skills and gems for Diablo 4’s Incinerate Sorcerer

Taking the right Witchcraft Powers is key (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

Season 7, the Season of Witchcraft is built around having these amazing Witchcraft powers, and using them in your builds. However, this build also uses one of the Unique powers, which can be a pain to unlock. Thankfully, Blizzard made the process just a little bit easier in patch 2.1.2. As far as Witchcraft Gems go, you want Witching Hour, and Friend of the Bog, if at all possible.

Soul Harvest: Used to keep increasing your primary stat temporarily.
Decay Augmentation: Having the Witching Hour gem converts Incinerate into an Eldritch power, so you benefit from this.
Purging Touch: Same as above.
Hex of Whispers: More defenses/debuff removal is key for harder difficulties and Pit/Torment Bosses.
Shaken Soul: This will help trigger “Vulnerable” on your enemies, which you need for the Frigid Fate passive.
Doom Orb: Your final Eldritch Power for the Witching Hour gem, and because Doom Orb is incredible.

Best Runes for Incinerate Sorcerer in Diablo 4

The Rune System allows players to put together a combo of Ritual/Invocation Runes into their equipment, as long as it has two gem slots. There are two amazing Rune combos for Diablo 4 Incinerate Sorcerers, which we’ve revealed below.

Best picks

Lith+Wat: Damage reduction and execute. Also helps trigger the second Rune combo faster.
Xol+Kry: Reduces Ultimate cooldown, so you can group and slaughter foes more easily.

Ideal Mercenary for Incinerate Sorcerer in Diablo 4

If you're like me and aren't using Subo, it's time to grind him up! (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

If you have the Vessel of Hatred expansion, you also have access to Mercenaries — provided you’ve gone through the campaign. There are four picks, out of which you can have one primary and one reinforcement.

With this build, we go with Subo (Primary) and Raheir (Reinforcement). In general, Subo’s great for fire builds, so it’s not a shock that we’d take him as the go-to in this Incinerate Sorcerer build in Diablo 4.

Subo’s skills

Molotov
Scorched Earth
Snipe
Incendiary Bolt

Raheir picks

Bastion (Connected to Incinerate)

BiS gear and Legendary Aspects for Incinerate Sorcerer in Diablo 4

There’s one piece of gear you assuredly need to make this build work, and that’s Tal Rasha’s Iridescent Loop. It allows for a major buff to damage by having recently cast all three elements. On top of it, you'll require a pair of Mythic pieces — Heir of Perdition, and Shroud of False Death. You'll also want Exploiter’s and Everliving Legendary Aspects in those slots.

Gear Slot	Item	Ideal Stats	Legendary Aspect
Helm	Heir of Perdition	Ranks to Core Skills, Lucky Hit Chance, Movement Speed, Critical Strike Chance, Unique Effect	N/A
Chest	Shroud of False Death	All Stats, Damage on Next Attack After Entering Stealth, Maximum Life, Resource Generation, Unique Effect	N/A
Gloves		Ranks to Incinerate, Intelligence, DOT, Fire Damage, Chance to Stun for 2 seconds	Conflagaration
Pants		Armor, Intelligence, Maximum Life, Ice Armor Duration, Chance to Freeze for 2 seconds	Snowveiled
Boots		Intelligence, Maximum Life, Armor, Movement Speed, Freeze Duration	Orange Herald
Amulet		Intelligence, Ranks to Inner Flames, Ranks to Permafrost, Ranks to Endless Pyre, Ranks to Glass Cannon, Inferno Cooldown Reduction, Fire Damage	Overheating
Ring	Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop	Cooldown Reduction, Non-Physical Damage, Lucky Hit Chance, Ranks to POtent Warding, Unique Effect	N/A
Ring		Intelligence, DOT, Maximum Life, Inferno Cooldown Reduction, Fire Damage	Engulfing Flames
Weapon		Intelligence, DOT, Maximum Life, Chance for Incinerate to deal Double Damage, Fire Damage	Flamethrower

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Edited by Shraman Mitra