Blizzard’s updated Season 11 patch notes revealed some of the biggest reworks that Sorcerer has seen in months, especially around Teleport and defensive scaling. If you are planning to play lightning or freeze next week, here is a breakdown of everything changing, from buffs, nerfs, mobility, to the new Unique you can get.
A Message From the Devs About Teleport
Blizzard directly addressed PTR feedback regarding the changes they had made to 
Teleport. A lot of players felt Teleport was being nerfed a bit too much. The devs made some slight additional changes to it now. They keep the new Enchantment behavior, but bring the mobility back through itemization and tempering.
So now Sorcerers have a choice:
- Invest into gear to keep Teleport on a near-zero cooldown
- Go lighter for a low-CD option
- Or skip the optimization entirely and rely on Enchantment for baseline movement
Teleport Enchantment
- Text updated to clarify that it invokes Teleport rather than casting it.
Teleport (the skill)
- Damage massively increased: 35% → 90%
- Mystical Teleport: now always generates 3 Crackling Energy charges
- Shimmering Teleport: now Dazes enemies for 1.5s instead of giving Damage Reduction, and on top you gain 25% to All Resistance for 3 seconds after Teleporting.
This is the start of Teleport being much more balanced than just a simple mobility skill.
Skill & Passive Adjustments
- Defensive/Healing Nerfs
Energy Focus: Max Barrier 30% → 20%
Protection: Barrier per rank 10% → 5%
Warmth: Healing 1% → 0.2% per rank - Boss healing 4% → 2%
Sorcerers were stacking too many layered defenses, and those changes now bring survivability back down to normal.
Frozen Orb Base Chill reduced from 9% → 5%- Enhanced Frozen Orb: now +50% explosion damage while Healthy
Shimmering Frost Nova: flat mana restoration (+20 per enemy, 200 to bosses)
Primordial Binding now simply grants Summon Damage (6/12/18%)
Legendary Aspect Updates
Mobility & Teleport
Aspect of the Bounding Conduit: Teleport CDR increased to 3-4.5s
Aspect of Tenuous Destruction → Tenuous Survival: now a Defensive Aspect with Armor + Healing- Aspect of Tenuous Agility: now gives 20-80% Movement Speed (penalty only when you cast a Defensive skill)
Frost / Conjuration Buffs
- Aspect of Biting Cold (reworked): Frost Skills now deal 20-30% more damage and have a 40% Vulnerable chance
Snowveiled Aspect: Ice Armor now gives 200-400 Armor instead of DR- Serpentine Aspect: Mana cap reverted to pre-Season 10 values
Ranking Increases
- Jolting Aspect and Winter Touch Aspect now have 21 ranks
Aspect of Mind’s Awakening
- Barrier generation halved
Overall direction for the sorcerer is less passive tankiness. This will, of course, impact some Sorcerer builds, however, it should still feel overall more balanced now!
Unique Item Reworks
The Oculus(major changes)
This one got the most significant changes. Now, each enemy hit by Teleport:
- Increases Teleport’s damage by 5-15% (x)
- Reduces Teleport’s CD by 0.5s
- Teleport also gains:
- Galvanization: +30-50% Teleport damage for 8s
- Still randomly teleports you when Injured
The inherent affix was also replaced with 55% Teleport Nova Size.
This pushes Oculus toward an offensive Teleport build instead of being a mandatory mobility thing.
Raiment of the Infinite
This one got another change since the PTR:
- Teleport pulls enemies inward
- Has 10-30% chance to reset per enemy killed
The old PTR version with Stun and long cooldown is now completely Gone.
Fractured Winterglass (reworked)
Now functions mainly as a Frozen Orb scaling item with summon synergy:
- Frozen Orbs deal 4-8% more damage per active Summon
- 65% chance to spawn a Conjuration on cast
- Summons have up to 90% chance to launch Frozen Orbs on Lucky Hit
This is much better and finally lets Frozen Orb builds lean into minions more effectively.
Enchantments (Major Revisions)
Ice Armor Enchantment: Potions apply Ice Armor and may refund themselves (25%)- Frost Nova Enchantment: Now a flat 10% chance on hit (no longer tied to Conjurations)
- Teleport Enchantment:
- Evade now becomes a Teleport on a 5s fixed cooldown
- Cooldown cannot be reduced
Blizzard is intentionally cutting the “runaway infinite-Teleport” loops, and they are trying to make it more balanced.
Bug Fixes
A couple of bugs related to Sorcerer have been fixed now as well:
- Teleport Enchantment tooltip cooldown corrected
- Fixed an issue where the Oculus could teleport players during healing
New Sorcerer Unique
The Sorcerer is also getting a new Unique! A One-Handed Mace called Orsivane that can only drop from Varshan.
Affixes:
- +99-113 Intelligence
- +424-457 Maximum Life
- +57-75% Non-Physical Damage
- +3-4 ranks to Core Skills
Unique Power:
For each Defensive Skill not on your bar, you:
- Deal 20-40% increased damage
- Gain that Defensive Skill’s Enchantment effect
This is going to be huge for players who skip defensive skill and focus on pure glass-cannon gameplay, especially Fire and Lightning push builds.
Sorcerer is definitely walking into Season 11 with more controlled mobility, a bit less defensive power, bigger offensive tools, and a bunch of item updates that actually matter. One thing is sure, Sorcerer will have a good time testing out the new updated skills and items!
Sorcerer Patch Notes
Sorcerer
Developer’s Note: We heard the feedback from PTR loud and clear, and decided to revisit the suite of Teleport changes for the start of the season. We decided to keep the overall changes to Teleport Enchantment, but we wanted to give more of the cooldown reduction power lost there and put it back into itemization. You should have a clearer choice to invest using item slots or tempering to get a fully reset cooldown Teleport, while also maintaining a middle-ground level of investment that gives you a low cooldown option.
Enchantments
Teleport Enchantment
- Adjusted the description to specify that it invokes Teleport and doesn’t Cast it.
Skills
Shimmering Teleport
- Previous (PTR): Teleport Dazes enemies at its end point for 1.5 seconds.
- Now: You gain 25%[+] All Resistance for 3 seconds after Teleporting.
Passives
Potent Warding
- Previous: Casting a Skill grants 3%[+] All Resistance and 2%[+] Maximum Resistance to that Skill’s Element for 9 seconds.
- Now: Casting a Skill grants 3%[+] All Resistance and 5%[+] Resistance to that Skill’s Element for 9 seconds.
Energy Focus
- Maximum Barrier reduced from 30% to 20% of Maximum Health.
Protection
- Barrier per Rank reduced from 10% to 5% of Maximum Health.
Warmth
- Healing reduced from 1% per Rank to .2% of Maximum Health.
- Healing from Bosses reduced from 4% to 2% of Maximum Health.
Legendary Aspects
Aspect of Mind’s Awakening
- Barrier reduced from 3-6% to 1.5-3% of Maximum Health.
Serpentine Aspect
- Reverted Mana cap from Season of Infernal Chaos.
Aspect of the Bounding Conduit
- Teleport’s Cooldown reduction increased from 1-2.5 to 3-4.5 seconds.
Aspect of Biting Cold
- Previous: When you Freeze an enemy there is a [25-45%] chance they become Vulnerable for 3 seconds.
- New: Frost Skills deal 20-30%x increased damage and have a 40% chance to apply Vulnerable for 4 seconds.
Unique Items
The Oculus
- Previous (PTR): Casting Teleport grants a stack of Galvanization, increasing its damage by 30-50% for 8 seconds. Becoming Injured Teleports you to a random location.
- Now: Each enemy hit by Teleport increases the damage by 5-15%|x| and reduces the Cooldown by 0.5 seconds of the next cast. Becoming Injured will Teleport you to a random location.
Raiment of the Infinite
- Power
- Previous (PTR): After Casting Teleport, Close enemies are Pulled Inwards and it has a 10-30% chance to reset from each enemy it kills.
- Now: Teleport pulls Close enemies to you and grants 10-30% Damage Reduction.
- Affixes
- Ranks to Elemental Attunement replaced with All Resistance.
- Ranks to Shocking Impact replaced with 30-40% Teleport CDR.
Tempering
Sorcerer Motion
- Affixes Removed:
- Ranks to Conduction
Frost Finesse
- Affixes Added:
- Frost Critical Strike Chance
Teleport
- Damage increased from 35% to 90%.
Mystical Teleport
- Previous: Teleport deals 500% increased damage. It also forms Crackling Energy for each enemy it hits, up to 3.
- Now: Teleport generates 3 Charges of Crackling Energy.
Shimmering Teleport
- Previous: After Teleporting, you gain 30% Damage Reduction for 4 seconds.
- Now: Teleport Dazes enemies at its end point for 1.5 seconds.
Frozen Orb
- Chill amount reduced from 9% to 5%.
Enhanced Frozen Orb
- Previous: While Healthy, the explosion of Frozen Orb deals 45% increased damage.
- Now: Frozen Orb’s explosion deals 50% more damage.
Shimmering Frost Nova
- Now restores 20 mana per enemy instead of 10% per enemy.
- Now restores 200 mana instead of fully restoring mana when hitting a boss.
Passives
Primordial Binding
- Previous: Gain a stacking bonus for each active Summon, up to 10 stacks: 2/4/6% Summon Damage, 2/4/6% Movement Speed, 4/8/12% Mana Regeneration.
- Now: Gain 6/12/18% Summon Damage.
Legendary Aspects
Aspect Of Tenuous Destruction
- Changed from an Offensive to a Defensive Aspect.
- Renamed to Aspect of Tenuous Survival.
- Previous: Deal 30-50% increased damage while you have no Defensive Skills on your Action Bar.
- Now: Gain 100-600 increased Armor and Heal 5% Maximum Life a second while you have no Defensive Skills on your Action Bar.
Aspect of Tenuous Agility
- Previous: Gain 5-20% Movement Speed. This bonus is tripled if you haven’t used a Defensive Skill in the last 8 seconds.
- Now: Gain 20-80% Movement Speed. This bonus is removed for 10 seconds after you Cast any Defensive Skill.
Developer’s Note: Free-casted Defensive Skills will no longer remove this Movement Speed bonus.
Snowveiled Aspect
- Previous: Casting Ice Armor makes you Unstoppable and grants 25% Damage Reduction for 3.5-5.5 seconds.
- Now: Ice Armor makes you Unstoppable and grants 200-400 Armor.
Developer’s Note: Free-casted Defensive Skills will now interact with this aspect.
Aspect of the Firebird
- Previous: Gain the Flame Shield Enchantment for free. When Flame Shield activates, Meteorites fall around you dealing Fire damage.
- Now: While Flame Shield is active, Meteorites cascade around you and deal Fire damage. Your Meteorites gain 2% Lucky Hit Chance.
Jolting Aspect
- Now has 21 ranks, up from 16.
Winter Touch Aspect
- Now has 21 ranks, up from 16.
Unique Items
The Oculus
- Inherent Affix
- Previous: Attacks reduce Evade’s Cooldown by 1 second. Gain 1 Evade Charge.
- Now: 55% Teleport Nova Size.
- Unique Power
- Previous: Gain the effect of the Teleport Enchantment for free. When you Evade using Teleport Enchantment you are taken to a random location.
- Now: Each enemy hit by Teleport increases the damage by 5-15%|x| and reduces the Cooldown by 0.5 seconds of the next cast.
Casting Teleport grants a stack of Galvanization, increasing its damage by 30-50% for 8 seconds.Becoming Injured Teleports you to a random location.
Developer’s Note: This option has been treated as mandatory for too long. We’re reducing the frequency of its procs and cutting away some of its synergies to allow the Teleport Skill to be your premiere source of mobility and utility.
Fractured Winterglass
- Ranks of Primordial Binding changed to 2-4 Skill Ranks of Frozen Orb.
- Previous: Casting Frozen Orb has a 35-65% chance to spawn a random Conjuration on your Action Bar when it explodes. Lucky Hit: Your Conjurations have up to a 50-90% chance to launch a Frozen Orb at Nearby enemies.
- Now: Frozen Orbs deal 4-8% more damage per active Summon and have a 65% chance to create a random Conjuration when Cast. Lucky Hit: Your Summons have up to a 90% chance to launch a Frozen Orb at a Nearby enemy.
Developer’s Note: We are making changes that will allow this Unique Item to, first and foremost, serve as a Frozen Orb Item for scaling its damage. We’ve also updated it to function better with Summons as a whole.
Raiment of the Infinite
- Previous: After using Teleport, Close enemies are Pulled to you and Stunned for 2-3 seconds, but Teleport’s Cooldown is increased by 20%.
- Now: After Casting Teleport, Close enemies are Pulled Inwards and it has a 10-30% chance to reset from each enemy it kills.
Axial Conduit
- Resource Generation and Maximum affix replaced with Resource Generation.
- Damage Reduction affix replaced with Intelligence affix.
Okun’s Catalyst
- Damage Reduction for each Active Ball Lightning affix replaced with Intelligence.
Esadora’s Overflowing Cameo
- Damage Reduction per Crackling Energy charge affix replaced with Cooldown Reduction affix.
Helm of Verglas
- Inherent Maximum Cold Resistance affix removed.
- Inherent Cold Resistance affix increased to 300.
Enchantments
Ice Armor Enchantment
- Previous: Upon getting hit, you have a 5% chance to apply Ice Armor.
- Now: Healing Potions apply Ice Armor and have a 25% chance to refund themselves.
Frost Nova Enchantment
- Previous: Lucky Hit: Your Conjuration Skills have up to a 35% chance to unleash a Frost Nova when hitting enemies.
- Now: Lucky Hit: Up to a 10% chance to unleash a Frost Nova after hitting an enemy.
Teleport Enchantment
- Previous: Evade is replaced with a short range Teleport on a 17 second Cooldown. This version does not make you Unstoppable.
- Now: Evade becomes a Teleport with a 5 second Cooldown that cannot be reduced.
Developer’s Note: This option has been treated as mandatory for too long. We’re reducing the frequency of its procs and cutting away some of its synergies to allow the Teleport Skill to be your premiere source of mobility and utility.
Frozen Orb Enchantment
- Previous: Whenever you Cast a non-Basic Skill, you have a 30% chance to launch a Frozen Orb at a Nearby enemy.
- Now: Casting a Skill has a 30% chance to launch a Frozen Orb at a Nearby enemy.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where the Teleport Enchantment tooltip was showing the wrong cooldown.
- Fixed an issue where the Oculus could randomly teleport the player while they are healing.
