Fireball - The Illuminator - Diablo 4 Sorcerer Build

As I mentioned before, we gain increased Critical Strike Damage from Destructive Fireball, an increase of 20% that is further increased to 30% if we hit 3 or more foes, which isn’t a hard task to accomplish, combined with our Aspect of Three Curses that further increases our Fireballs Critical Strike Damage by 20-40%, that is also doubled if the enemy is healthy gives us a naturally high Critical Strike Damage bonus.

We’ll be using all 4 of the Sorcerer's defensive abilities, allowing us the ability to survive most situations.

Teleport should be used mainly in my opinion to engage but can be used to retreat until you get used to the play style, this is also how you would commonly play when you don’t have the “Raiments of the Infinite”.

Ice Armour should be used when initiating, we don’t take any passives, but it’s an incredibly strong defence on its own. We do have the option of opting into its passive “Mystical Ice Armour” which increases barrier size when attacking vulnerable enemies, this can be effective if you have durability issues as we are always applying vulnerable.

Frost Nova is our source of vulnerability, it's a huge damage increase especially when we start getting modifiers that increase damage vs vulnerability enemies. Vulnerability is a multiplier, so it’s a huge spike in damage mid to late.

Flame Shield is our form of “Cleanse”, it allows us to skip out on control-impairing effects, and it also gives us a valuable boost of speed, I usually use it to break out of hard CCs or move out of ground effects that will CC me, it’s important to note here that Flame Shield also makes us “Immune”, it’s an incredibly powerful skill that gives us the ability to avoid getting one-shot.

Inferno is honestly my favourite ultimate, I use it in most builds as it really helps in grouping big packs of mobs into a neat pile.

It's only made better when using it in a Fire build, its passive "Supreme Inferno" puts the mana cost of Fireball to 0 during its duration, it's a great way to just let loose and spam out those Fireballs. Inferno also brings in reasonable damage itself and also counts as "burning damage".

There are a few ways we can tackle Mana on a Fireball build but most of them won't be solvable early, and depends a little on luck.

First, is the Aspect you'll see in most builds, Prodigy's Aspect, unfortunately, this won't completely solve the issues on Fireball as it does for other builds as Fireball does not have a reasonable way to recoup cost like Ice does with Avalanche, so we'll have to heavily rely on decent modifiers like Mana Reduction and Resource Generation.

That said, early on both our rings should likely be used with Resource Aspects, a notable one is Incendiary Aspect, I think it's actually worse after the change but every little helps early.

An alternative that is often overlooked is Aspect of the Umbral, although it does need a decent roll, it can still be used early with the base roll of "1", if we use the Enchantment, Frost Bolt, we apply crowd control to everything we hit with Fireball, and seeing as Fireball has a decent AoE, we'll gain at least one mana from every mob hit.

Fireball - Umbral Variant

The Umbral variant of Fireball works by utilising Umbral as it's soul generator taking away the need for the Legendary Node from Static Surge as Prodigy alone won't cut it. This requires us to have a max-rolled Umbral, but what it essentially gives us is massively increased damage while sacrificing the Teleport Enchantment for Chill, so that we can take advantage of Chill Glyphs.