D2R 2.4 New Sorceress Builds Guide | Best Diablo 2 Resurrected 2.4 Patch Builds

D2R 2.4 New Sorceress Builds Guide | Best Diablo 2 Resurrected 2.4 Patch Builds

1/28/2022 8:43:13 AM

In Diablo 2 Resurrected Patch 2.4, a lot of skills got improved and even some mechanics changed so we're going to break down the most powerful and the most improved Sorceress builds of the patch, which even could be a great starting character for the first Ladder Season.

D2R 2.4 New Builds

Top 1 - D2R 2.4 Hydra Orb Sorceress Build

In previous patches hydra dealt reasonable damage but always felt held back by the extremely long casting delay which often made the build feel far less mobile than other sorcerer's builds, with the major change being the removal of the hydrocastele as well as the addition of improved synergies in Patch 2.4, we are much more in line with the feel of a trap assassin, able to bring to bear a grand total of six three-headed hydras very quickly at any location we desire. As you can tell from the footage in the background at high levels, this Hybra Orb Sorc build completely melts bosses. While we still think blizzard will be the preferred tool for low geared magic finds specifically, hydra orb will win our recommendation for budget builds for beating the game, since it pretty much fills all the key points for that task such as being multi-elemental capable between orb and hydra, mobile thanks to the cooldown removal and has the ability to kind of safely fire from blind shots due to hydra's acting as turrets, and as you progress into the late game with end game gear, it becomes extremely face melting.

Skill Tree

20 Points to Hydra
20 Points to Fire Ball
20 Points to Fire Blot
20 Points to Fire Mastery
20 Points to Frozen Orb
1 Point to Cold Mastery
1 Point to Static Field
1 Point to Teleport

Fire Skills

Using max hydras as a long-range scout and murder machine, with 20 points in hydra, fireball, fire bolt, and fire mastery to maximize its damage, with all six hydras focusing on a single boss that will sit around 90 to 110 000 damage per volley before resists. We will generally be pushing very negative and amplifying the damage, even more, this is because the listed damage on hydra is per head and you get 3 heads per hydra for a total of 18 alive at any given time.

Cold Skills

As far as the other spells, we generally recommend using Frozen Orb as the support spell because it is the superior sub 30 point investment skill for a second element; and if you're questing in low gear, you'll actually max orb before doing the hydro synergies; but if you're respecting into hydra in the late game after completing all the quests, you'll want to max hydra first and then dump the spares into orbs since you get to choose your farming locations and won't have to worry as much about immunes blocking you. If you're not using Talrasha's gear, you will need this hardpoint of cold mastery for the frozen orb to be effective.

Lightning Skills

As far as the lightning tree, we just went with the one point wonders as usual, with one hardpoint of the static field for helping against certain rare dual immunes that are unbreakable by the mercenary and it's also handy whenever you're just going through your initial time if you want to do bosses since it will help out your damage then. But in endgame gear, since generally, you'll melt bosses and such before ever needing to use it, it's just kind of a nice to have versus the immunes to help your mercenary out a little bit. We did also put one hardpoint into teleport because mobility is always nice.

Equipment

Weapon: Tal Rasha's Lidless Eye - For its plus masteries by default and other bonuses of course but also its three-part bonus that gives negative 15 enemy fire resistance.
Helm: Flickering Flame Death Mask - Easily the preferred helmet for a number of fire builds in Diablo 2
Armor: Chains of Honor Archon Plate - For resistant plus skills since we already have teleport as a sorceress
Rings: Dual The Stone of Jordan - For plus skills that you can easily swap these out for magic fine rings if you need them or faster cast if you're looking for a more spam oriented build without the Tal Rasha gear
Stone of Jordan
Required Level: 29
+1 To All Skills
Increase Maximum Mana 25%*
Adds 1-12 Lightning Damage
+20 To Mana
(Spawns In Any Patch)
Gloves: Magefist - Default faster cast gloves give us a reasonable damage boost on top of the help with casting speed
Boosts: War Traveler - For the extra bit of magic find
Sheild: Phoenix Monarch Shield - Gor plus skills in rather than utility and utility on a hydro sorceress is very important since hydras are treated like spells in terms of mastery and resistance effects rather than summons like traps are
Monarch[4 Sockets & 10-14 ED]
Sale [4 Sockets]
Sale [10-14 EDef]

Monarch

Defense: 133-148
Durability: 86
Req Strength: 156
Req level: 54
Quality level: 72
Max sockets: 4
Weight: Light
Base block: 22
Class block: Pal: 52%
Ama/Asn/Bar: 47%
Dru/Nec/Sor: 42%
Paladin smite dmg: 12-34
Amulet: Tal Rasha's Adjudication - For skill levels and some nice resistance stats
Belt: Tal Rasha's Fine-Spun Cloth - For faster cast and magic find and a few stats

Top 2 - D2R 2.4 End-Game Hydra Fire Sorceress Build

With this fire build, you can cast hydras that passively do damage while you're spamming a very powerful meteor, and then you can put other points into like Enchant or Frozen Armor, there's a lot of freedom in how you want to invest your remaining extra amount of skill points, so it's a very powerful build. Here we are going to show you the high-end variant of this build, and if the budget variant without infinity and hellfire torch are still solid.

Attributes

Strength - 196
Dexterity - 85
Vitality - 431
Energy - 85

Max vitality set up, and have extra points and strength, as we plan on again removing the torch and infinity or the budget variant of this setup.

Skill Tree

20 Points to Fire Bolt
20 Points to Fire Ball
20 Points to Hydra
20 Points to Fire Mastery
1 Point to Frozen Armor
1 Point to Static Field
1 Point to Telekinesis
1 Point to Teleport

With this skill setup, you will have 6400 hydro bolt damage that you can cast six of them, so that's a lot of damage and then you can intermittently spam an 11,000 damage fireball. Go 20 points into Enchant just to buff your mercenary for some extra damage.

Equipment (Gear)

Weapon: Tal Rasha's Lidless Eye
Swap Weapon: Call To Arms Crystal Sword

Crystal Sword[5 Sockets & 15ED]
Sale [5 Sockets]
Sale [15 EDmg]
Crystal Sword
1H damage: 5-15
Base speed: [0]
Class speed: Ama, Asn, B, D, P, N - Fast
S - Normal
Adds range: 1
Durability: 20
Req Strength: 43
Quality level: 11
Treasure class: 12
Max sockets: 6
Sheild: Spirit Monarch Shield
Helm: Tal Rasha's Horadric Crest
Armor: Tal Rasha's Guardianship
Rings: Dual The Stone of Jordan
Gloves: Magefist
Boosts: Infernostride Demonhide Boots
Amulet: Tal Rasha's Adjudication
Belt: Tal Rasha's Fine-Spun Cloth
Charms: Hellfire Torch, Different Fire Skiller Charms (Chilling Grand Charm)

Mercenary Gears

Weapon: Infinity Giant Thresher
Helm: Vampire Gaze Grim Helm
Armor: Fortitude Balrog Skin

Top 3 - D2R 2.4 Budget Hydra Sorceress Build

This Hydra Sorc is going to be a great starting character for the first Ladder of Diablo 2 Resurrected, with which you are able to run Mephisto, Duriel, Eldritch, and new 85 level areas easily and fast, this is going to be straight slaughter for you.

Attributes (Stats)

Strength - 158
Dexterity - 47
Vitality - 328
Energy - 57

Skill Tree

20 Points to Hydra
20 Points to Fire Ball
20 Points to Fire Blot
20 Points to Fire Mastery
20 Points to Lighting Mastery
Rest Points to Warmth
1 Point to Frozen Armor
1 Point to Telekinesis
1 Point to Teleport
1 Point to Static Field

Equipment

Weapon: The Oculus
Swap Weapon: Call To Arms Crystal Sword
Helm: Harlequin Crest
Armor: Skin of the Vipermagi
Rings: Raven Frost, The Stone of Jordan
Gloves: Magefist
Boosts: Alduer's Advance
Sheild: Spirit Monarch Shield
Amulet: Tal Rasha's Adjudication
Belt: Arachnid Mesh

Arachnid Mesh

Defense: 119-138 (varies)(Base Defense: 55-62)
Required Level: 80
Required Strength: 50
Durability: 12
16 Boxes
+90-120% Enhanced Defense (varies)
Slows Target By 10%
+1 To All Skills
+20% Faster Cast Rate
Increases Maximum Mana 5%
Level 3 Venom (11 Charges)
(Only Spawns In Patch 1.10 or later)
Charms: Sparking Grand Charm of Sustenance, Different All-Round Small Charms

Top 4 - D2R Nova Thunderstorm Hybrid Sorceress Build

The new Nova Thunderstorm hybrid sorceress setup in patch 2.4 PTR is good for higher P levels, it just needs custom gear like hard damage point reductions and mana on kill with ES. Also, it might be worth it to aim for 200 FCR and take a hit in damage. It might get a double cast as the singer barb at 200fcr.

Attributes

Strength - 156
Dexterity - 80
Vitality - 432
Energy - 80

Skill Tree

20 Points to Static Field
20 Points to Nova
20 Points to Thunder Storm
20 Points to Lighting Mastery
1 Point to Frozen Armor
1 Point to Telekinesis
1 Point to Teleport
1 Point to Charge Bolt
1 Point to Lightning
1 Point to Chain Lightning

Static Field synergizes nova and thunderstorm, so it's a damage boost that way: thunderstorm does 774 damage with this current setup, nova is 5229 static field has a massive radius although something's bugged with it right now.

Equipment

Weapon: Tal Rasha's Lidless Eye
Swap Weapon: Call To Arms Crystal Sword

Crystal Sword[5 Sockets & 15ED]
Sale [5 Sockets]
Sale [15 EDmg]
Crystal Sword
1H damage: 5-15
Base speed: [0]
Class speed: Ama, Asn, B, D, P, N - Fast
S - Normal
Adds range: 1
Durability: 20
Req Strength: 43
Quality level: 11
Treasure class: 12
Max sockets: 6
Helm: Griffon's Eye socketed with Ist Rune
Armor: Chains of Honor Archon Plate
Rings: Dual The Stone of Jordan
Gloves: Magefist
Boosts: Demon Stalker
Sheild: Spirit Monarch Shield
Amulet: Tal Rasha's Adjudication
Belt: Tal Rasha's Fine-Spun Cloth
Charms: Hellfire Torch, Sparking Grand Charm of Life, Sparking Grand Charm, Different All-Round Small Charms

Mercenary Gears

Weapon: Infinity Thresher
Helm: Delirium Bone Visage

Bone Visage
Defense: 100-157
Durability: 40
Req Strength: 106
Req level: 63
Quality level: 84
Treasure class: 84
Max sockets: 3
Armor: Chains of Honor Dusk Shroud