Sorcerers are masters of the arcane arts in Diablo 4. They can manipulate the four elements to rain devastating attacks on their enemies with effects and to varying degrees. However, the skill a Sorcerer can use largely depends on the Sorcerer’s build—Ice Magic Sorcerers will have a natural affinity for Ice Magic skills, and so would Fire Magic Sorcerers with Fire Magic.
The Sorcerer class in Diablo 4 has a myriad of skills for players to use in combat to defeat their enemies. Depending on the situation, they can choose from Defensive, Mastery, Conjuration, or even Ultimate skills to cast a spell that would enable them to win their fights.
10 Meteor
Meteor is a Mastery fire skill that Sorcerers can use to summon a meteor to strike an enemy’s location. The meteor deals between 80% to 112% damage and burns the ground for 35% to 49% damage for 3 seconds. This skill would cost a Sorcerer 40 Mana to cast.
When a player casts the Enhanced Meteor skill, if it hits 3 or more enemies there is a 30% likelihood that another meteor will strike the same target location. Fire skills deal a lot of damage to enemies and summoning a meteor greatly improves the chances of winning for fragile Sorcerers.
9 Firewall
The Firewall skill allows players to create walls of flames that burn enemies and inflicts 160% to 224% damage for over 8 seconds. Enemies will continue to burn for 3 seconds after they leave the Firewall when players cast Mage’s Firewall. This is a Sorcerer Mastery skill that costs a player 30 Mana to cast.
Players can also gain an increased 5% Mana regeneration for each active Firewall for a maximum of 25% with Wizard’s Firewall. The Enchantment Effect of this spell gives players a 5% chance to generate 2 Firewalls under the enemies anytime they take burning damage.
8 Arc Lash
The Arc Lash is a Basic Lightning Sorcerer skill that unleashes a bolt of Arcing Lightning inflicting between 42% to 59% damage on the enemy in front of a player. Arc Lash stuns enemies it hits for 2 seconds for every 10 strikes of Arc Lash.
When players cast the Flickering Arc Lash, they get an increased 6% movement speed for 5 seconds up to 18 percent for every enemy struck with this skill. Its Enchantment Effect stuns enemies around players for 0.5 to 0.7 seconds when they use a Cooldown.
7 Frozen Orb
This is a Core Ice Magic skill that releases an orb that freezes and shoots piercing shards inflicting damages of 32% to 44% on the enemy. When the duration for this skill elapses, the Frozen Orb explodes dealing between 29% to 41% damage to nearby enemies.
Casting this spell will cost players 40 Mana but if a player with over 50 Mana casts this skill the explosion damage increases by 30%. When a player casts the Greater Frozen Orb skill, the Frozen Orb’s explosion will return 5 Mana to the player upon hit on a frozen enemy.
6 Ice Shards
Players are able to launch 5 Ice Shards that inflict 25% to 35% damage each to the enemy and the damage to frozen enemies is increased by x25%. This skill costs 30 Mana and the Enchantment Effect automatically conjures Ice Shards and attacks frozen enemies.
Destructive Ice Shards make enemies vulnerable for 2 seconds when they get hit with 5 Ice Shards in one cast of this skill and with Enhanced Ice Shards there is a 40% chance Ice Shards can ricochet to other enemies. Players can upgrade this skill to Greater Ice Shards where cast Ice Shards treat the enemy as if it is frozen when players have an active barrier.
5 Deep Freeze
Players shroud themselves in ice, and they become immune to the enemy’s attack for 4 seconds while simultaneously dealing 25% damage to them. When this skill expires it deals another 100% damage to the enemy and requires a 60 Cooldown before it can be cast again.
Upon the expiration of this skill, Prime Deep Freeze allows players to gain 10% of their base life as a barrier for every enemy frozen when the skill was active and Supreme Deep Freeze reduces a player’s non-ultimate Cooldowns by 50 Percent.
4 Frost Nova
This Defensive ice magic skill unleashes a torrent of frost that freezes the enemies around a player for 3 seconds. With the Enchantment Effect of this skill, a player’s Conjuration skill has a 30% likelihood of casting a Frost Nova when attacking the enemy.
Players can gain up to 4 seconds reduction in Cooldowns when they kill enemies with Frost Nova and Shimmering Frost Nova returns mana to players for each enemy hit. The Mystical Frost Nova is very useful as it makes enemies vulnerable, with boss-type enemies vulnerable for up to 6 seconds.
3 Teleport
A Defensive skill that has high attack potential, this skill transforms players into lightning, and they become unstoppable, zapping to the enemy location and dealing between 25% to 35% damage. This skill is very handy as players can evade difficult situations by teleporting and the Enchantment Effect replaces the Evade ability with a short-range teleport.
Casting a Mystical Teleport will cause cracking energy to hit 2 more enemies for 4 seconds after teleporting and players get a 30% damage reduction for 5 seconds after teleporting when they cast the Shimmering Teleport skill.
2 Hydra
This Conjuration skill costs 20 Mana and allows a player to temporarily summon a three-headed Hydra for 10 seconds. The Hydra shoots fire at enemies with each head inflicting between 12% to 17% damage and a player can only summon one Hydra at a time.
The Enchantment Effect spawns a five-headed Hydra when a player spends 300 mana in battle. Summoned Hydra burns enemies for another 12% of the base damage it inflicts on enemies and with Invoked Hydra a player’s Hydra gets a 30% chance for a critical strike.
1 Inferno
One of the Ultimate fire skills in Diablo 4, players can summon a fiery serpent that continues to tighten the target area while simultaneously inflicting 295% burn damage to the enemy for 8 seconds. It is a handy skill that deals a lot of damage to the enemy and increases the chance of victory.
When cast, the Prime Inferno skill will continue to pull the enemies toward the center of the inferno and while Inferno is active, Supreme Inferno allows a player to cast other fire skills at no Mana cost. Players can simply launch a barrage of fire skills during this time frame.
Diablo 4 is currently available on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.