Blizzard Frozen Orb Sorceress Build for Diablo 2 Resurrected

The Blizzard Orb Sorceress is very similar to a pure Blizzard Sorceress but with 2.4 removing Global Cooldowns, it is now possible to mix Frozen Orb and Blizzard together for extra Damage output! While this Character cannot perfectly farm every area in the game, the areas that she does focus on such as the Ancient Tunnels she will absolutely crush. Additionally, many areas such as the Chaos Sanctuary are still plenty viable with a strong enough mercenary. Like other single-element characters, while still leveling or undergeared, she will be dominant in specific areas but struggle anywhere with Cold Immune Monsters.

You can check the viability of this build in PvM by consulting our PvM Tier List.

The following section shows the core skills for the Blizzard Orb Sorceress. For a detailed breakdown of all core and optional skills as well as the recommended order for allocating skill points, refer to the Skills page of this guide.

1. 1 point to all prerequisites
2. 20 points to Blizzard — invest immediately and max out immediately, required
3. 20 points to Frozen Orb — invest immediately and max out after Blizzard, required
4. 20 points to Cold Mastery
5. 20 points to Glacial Spike — Max out after maxing Blizzard and cold mastery is appropriate level
6. 20 points to Ice Blast — Max out after maxing Blizzard and cold mastery is appropriate level
7. 20 points to Ice Bolt — Max out after maxing Blizzard
8. 1 point to Frozen Armor — invest when starting to teleport, required
9. 1 point to Teleport — invest immediately at level 18, required
10. 1 point to Static Field — invested at level 6, let the addition of your plus skills increase its range, required

Since Cold Sorceress is not very effective until Level 24, it is recommended to use a standard build until Level 24. For more information, refer to the Early Leveling section of this guide.

Strength	Dexterity	Vitality	Energy
Enough for Gear	Enough for Gear	Everything Else	None

You can read more details about the Stats and Attribute requirements for this build on our Skills page.

The following section shows some of the most important Items for the Blizzard Orb Sorceress. For a detailed per-slot breakdown of all Items and alternative builds, refer to the Gear page of this guide.

• Weapon: Death's Fathom socketed with a Rainbow Facet
• Weapon Swap: Call to Arms and Spirit
• Shield: Spirit Monarch Shield with 35% Faster Cast Rate
• Body Armor: Chains of Honor
• Helm: Nightwing's Veil socketed with a Rainbow Facet
• Gloves: Trang-Oul's Claws or Magefist
• Boots: Ethereal Sandstorm Treks
• Belt: Arachnid Mesh
• Ring 1: The Stone of Jordan or Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band
• Ring 2: 10 Faster Cast Rate Ring for Breakpoint or The Stone of Jordan or Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band
• Amulet: Mara's Kaleidoscope
• Charm 1: Sorceress Hellfire Torch
• Charm 2: Annihilus
• Charm 3: 8x Cold Skiller Grand Charms with Life or Faster Hit Recovery to reach the 86% or 142% Faster Hit Recovery breakpoint
• Charm 4: 10 Small Charms with Life, Resistances, Mana, Faster Hit Recovery depending on needs
• Charm 5: 1x Cold Sunder Charm

In Diablo 2, stats that affect action speed (known as frames) for attacking, casting, blocking, and recovering from a hit can almost never be taken literally. For example, gaining 10% Increased Attack Speed from an item will not necessarily translate into 10% faster attacks. To achieve faster actions, certain breakpoints must be reached, which vary for every class. The tables below list how much of a given stat is required to actually improve the action speed of the class for the stated action.

Faster Hit Recovery Breakpoints
Frames to perform action	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5
Faster Hit Recovery required to reach frame	0%	5%	9%	14%	20%	30%	42%	60%	86%	142%	280%

Faster Cast Rate Breakpoints
Frames to perform action	13	12	11	10	9	8	7
Faster Cast Rate required to reach frame	0%	9%	20%	37%	63%	105%	200%

Faster Block Rate Breakpoints
Frames to perform action	9	8	7	6	5	4	3
Faster Block Rate required to reach frame	0%	7%	15%	27%	48%	86%	200%

You can either choose a Defensive ( Holy Freeze) or Offensive ( Might) Act 2 Nightmare Mercenary here depending on if you want a slower and safer pace, or want your Mercenary to have added damage to help take care of Cold Immunes. We prefer a Might mercenary.

• Weapon: Ethereal Insight or The Reaper's Toll
• Body Armor: Ethereal Fortitude
• Helm: Ethereal Andariel's Visage socketed with a Ral Rune

If wanting to get to Blizzard quickly, we recommend this build for early Leveling.

1. 5 points to Charged Bolt
2. 1 point to Static Field at level 6
3. 6 points to Charged Bolt at levels 6-11
4. All points to Nova from levels 12-16
5. 1 point to Telekinesis at level 17
6. 1 point to Teleport at level 18
7. All remaining points to Nova
8. Respec at level 24

For more comprehensive leveling advice, please refer to our Sorceress Fastest Leveling Build.