Sorceress — Queen of Limits

My main idea is setup always cold-infused Sparks and support it with over-buffed Firestorms.

Also GGG surprised us with new Sorceress Ascendancy — Disciple of Varashta. It doesn't really synergize with my build idea, but we can respec into it at some point and try something new and intresting.

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My plan:

Early leveling on Ember Fusillade + Orb of Storms

Note: I do some math and Embers Fusillade + Orb of Storms deal more damage than cold-infused Sparks in early setups. So I will do respec on maps (but if you want do it as soon as possible – PoB here).

Respec into ES version of Cast on Crit Sparks with Firestorms (not ready yet)

Recpec into Life&Mana setup OR try new Disciple of Varashta Ascendancy (not ready yet)

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How to setup Sparks:

• Overabundance support, Secrets of the Orb node and Multiplying Squalls ascendancy make Orb of Storms limit equal 5.
• It allows us to spam Orb of Storms (as our regular spell) and it will cycle itself. So we deal a lot of hits and get a lot of infusions.
• Because our max infusions stock is 3, Refracted Infusion doesn't work well. So we need to spend them.
• Elemental Equilibrium transform Lightning remnants into Cold.
• Cast on Critical setup with Sparks will proc often and spend our Cold Infusions.
• Every time this happens we will immediately pick up new remnant and trigger Refracted Infusion.

As result — we trigger a lot of cold-infused Sparks and always have a full stock of all infusions for Firestorms.

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Firestorm buffs:

• Refracted Infusion will now guaranteed to give us another different Elemental Infusion.
• Multiplying Squalls now grants +2 to Limit of Elemental Skills.
• Firestorm got a huge buffs in patch edits from 11-12-2025: 100% more base damage, 100% increased damage but 33% less frequency when infused.

The only thing – we need all 4 Ascendancy nodes for it (what mean that we can't take Double Shock, Arcane Surge or 20% MoM).

Hey do you know whether Tempest Caller where you Trigger Elemental Storm on Critical Hit with Spells with the buff to Multiplying Squalls for +2 Limit any good during the campaign?

Seems like getting 3-4 elemental storms will be difficult as it has a cooldown and duration. Is this bypassed by spell echo and spell cascade supports?

I have never played Stormweaver before so I am planning to league start as it. Thinking of ice nova but generating infusions using frost bomb seems like a problem due to its cd so have to invest in infusion nodes and cdr which I am unsure whether it is wise during the campaign!

Elemental Storm damage is quite underwhelming. It's least bad than Elemental Expression from Invoker as we can still scale the damage "naturally" but don't expect crazy number out of it. Not that it's "wrong" as it's basically a "free" CoC trigger.

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shunaway72#1365 wrote:

Hey do you know whether Tempest Caller where you Trigger Elemental Storm on Critical Hit with Spells with the buff to Multiplying Squalls for +2 Limit any good during the campaign?

Seems like getting 3-4 elemental storms will be difficult as it has a cooldown and duration. Is this bypassed by spell echo and spell cascade supports?

I have never played Stormweaver before so I am planning to league start as it. Thinking of ice nova but generating infusions using frost bomb seems like a problem due to its cd so have to invest in infusion nodes and cdr which I am unsure whether it is wise during the campaign!

Hey I tested it from t15 maps. You can compare dps of 2 Elemental Storms with dps of non-infused Arc. It's ok but nothing special.

You can easily get 3 storms (Prolonged Duration + Cooldown Recovery + 20-30% crit chance) but getting 4 will be difficult. Echo doesn't work, Cascade work but its bad.

Also I tested it as extra boss damage cause storms are stationary. But with new Advancing Storm support it could be fun.

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About cold infusions – as I say in topic you can use Orb of Storm with Elemental Equilibrium.

Before EE:
Frost Bomb + Overabundance + Secrets of the Orb + Spell Cascade

After EE:
Orb of Storm + Overabundance + Secrets of the Orb + Unleash

But be ready to hard fight with A1 boss if you will be cold damage xd

Thanks for the reply! yup i keep thinking it's the old EE! new EE is more consistent now which is nice for cold spells!

HAHAS yeah A1 boss! I think I'm gonna do a run to test it out a little before the league starts.

Great post btw!

Idk with these Firestorm buffs...
I've almost decided that I would play without it but GGG said, "No you have to".

So we need both Refracted Infusion and Storm's Recollection to generate a lot of different Infusions.
Then we need Multiplying Squalls to triple Firestom damage.
This mean that we cant get Double Shock or free Arcane Surge.

Also Ice Nova becomes a good option cause they remove 0.5 cast speed penalty (but I think that Spark is still much better).

Ball Lightning + Lightning Warp is another way to generate a lot of Infusions which we can spend for Firestorms. It already generates too much Infusions so we don't need Recollection and can take Double Shock instead.

And now we got another Sorceress Ascendacy...
Idk GGG realy want force us to play it.

Disciple of Varashta doesn't really synergize with my build, but we can recpec into it at some point to try.

have you looked at the new Thunder storm？
stormweaver can always rain 3 of it easily and it is really convenient.
causing enemies easier to shock and freeze,and automatic shots,and no need to aim.

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DonbeShy#2335 wrote:

have you looked at the new Thunder storm？
stormweaver can always rain 3 of it easily and it is really convenient.
causing enemies easier to shock and freeze,and automatic shots,and no need to aim.

Yes I keep it in mind.

For now my setup:

1. Orb of Storms as main spell
2. Cast on Crit Sparks
3. Firestorms
4. Ele Weakness and Frost Bomb for bossing.

But I will test Thunder Storm for sure.